The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-19

THAT gallant soldier and great cav
alryman, General Fitzpatrick, is now
stumping New Jersey-his native State
for the Union ticket. He made n
scathing speech, a few nights since, to
an immense audience, in which lie
spoke with all the candor and earnest
ness SO characteristic of first class sol
diers, and also in a strain OF most fer.
Sid and telling orntory. We quote a
few sentences from his speech, as fol-
lows: a. taE
7 have come to my native State to
talk to Jerseymen simply because be-
lteve 1t to be my duty. did not wish
TO see those principles DESTROYED forever
for which we have struggled the pnst
four years and triumphnntly main
tained on the blOodiest bnttIeiiclds- the
world ever saw. am not willing to
see the rebels of the South, whose hands
are yet red with the blood OF our fallen
braves, restored to their old rights and
privileges; and that, too, before they
nave shed one penitential tear for tile
great crimes they hive committed. /
Will not stand tamely by and see the
triumph of that band of pitinble tfai-
tors in my native State who, while pro
Tossing loyalty to the Union and the
Constitution, have ever gloried i'll the
progress OF treasOn-men who now call
themselves Democrats! Great God!
In whnt consists their Democracy? In
that Democratic school in which | was
raised, was taught to stand by the
Government in all times of war, whe-
ther foreign or domestic; 10 honor and
respect the Constitution ns my Bible:
ana to maintain law and order through
out the length and breadth of theInTid.
Ana yet, these men who call themselves
to- .r,V1ny -, a..
suits of the Presidential contest of lSiln.
aud declared that the South was iusti
fled i'll its reasonable course uOLwith-
standing that their great leader, John
c. BreclinTidge, from his seat in the
Senate, had declared that MIR. Lincoln
had been constitntionnlly elected Pres
idcnt OF the United States. And when
the last traitor had made his last trca-
sonable speech, and polluted our ma
tiOnal halls for the last time with his
foul presence, these men extended the
hand of friendship, and bade them God
speed in their reasonable course.
eve have not forgotten the record of
this so-called, selt-styled democracy
during the war. We know how totnkc
their pretended liking now for soldiers.
Their plaudits are disthsteful to me. /
do not desire them. We fought the
great fight on the battlefield without
eANlhf anu 81 Isl as i am GOuttTiltG, l
desire to fight the fight out on the same
line. We of the army remember well.
the principles and the practices of this
diSloyal, would-be-called democracy
We are familiar with their record in
Congress, in New Jersey, in their news
papers. We know their yalIandig-
hnms, their Voorhees,, their Longs,
their SeymOurs, and we distrust them
all. We sec still in their platforms
ominous words about State rights, and
we have learned dearly enough to
abominate such phrases. We see too
how they squint at repudiating the
money OF the government, after having
done so much to depreciatc it-after
having voted against ga man or dol
lar" They are the same men now that
they We're then-only the soldiers have
votes to give. They do not call us
"hirelings" now. We are no longer
Abe LincOln's mercenaries. And vet
we have not changed at all. Nor in
deed have they, for "RuIe or RUM is
still their motto.''