The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-22
(From ne Baitin,ore .ADlerfean.l
The President ana tho Democrats.

The old adnge that ''vinegar neye
catches flies" aptly illustrates the ina
bility of the Democratic party to max,
n successful bid for the possession o
President Johnson. In order to appro
PIRATE thnt distinguished functionary L
exclusive party uses, the Democrat,
managers seem to be willing to stlltifN
themselves to any extent before thu
world. The very men, who called An
drew Johnson a renegade, and who
denounced with unqualified yirulencI
tho measures which he so unfiinchfnplJ
advocated, now that he is lnaster of tlit
situation, strive to tempt with all man
ner of political allurementS. To gniI
their point they are ready to make any
concession, TO yield any principle, tC
back down from any position assumed
to make any pledges in advance, and
to commit themselves to the support oil
whatever the President has done or nny
do: This suppleness, that thrift may
follow, Is not n new feature III theil
party management. The same Subser.
viency has been apparent in all their
concessions to the demands of the slave
power. Their crouchings 10 the inso.
lent requirements of the South durinp
the Pierce and Buchanan dynasties con.
stitute n record SO anti-democratic, Sc
anti American, so degrading and SC
despicable, that the cheeks Of the chill
dren will tingle with shame when they
review the officiating dOughfacery OF
the sires.
And what was their record during the
war; Instead of disclosing their in
tentions as did the rebels, with whom
they were acting in concert and sympa-
thy, they resorted TO the arts of con-
cealment and disguise. Gradually be-
coming emboldened, they came out in
open denunciation OF the efforts of the
Administration to prevent n dissolution
of the Union. All that could de done
to destroy the nation they did. They
denounced interference with state rights
as tyranny. They hampered recruit
Ing in every mode, even by running up
bOuntles to an enormous figure. They
stirred up seditious resistence 10 the
draft. They sent emisafies abroad to
invite European interference. They be-
Titled our successes and gavo fnlse ac-
counts OF ourprogresS, suppressing facts
and circulating damaging fabrications.
They heaped upon the President the
Yilest epithets. They clressed the Com
erals who showed by their masterly in
activity that the suppression of the re-
bellion wns mot the game" and Will
fed those who were in earnest. They
gambled in gold and deprecinted the
currency to point utterly unwarrant-
ed by our condition, aud proving one
of the most serious drawbacks to the
prosecution of the war. They tried in
every way to save slavery when thew
found its fate impending. They ridf-
culed the war as n failure, and shrieked
for peace ut II time when n disgraceful
peace would have consigned the North
TO everlasting infaIny. For peace they
were willing to submit to the dictation
of any terms from the South. To help
to build up n Southern Empire on d
cornerstone of slavery they were will
ling to sacrifice the last hope of Repub-
lican Government. Calling themselves
Democrats, they were ready to offer up
democratic institutions upon the altar
of an imperious and eNncting Oligar-
chy.
Incredible and incomprehensible as
this treachery in our own midst NAV
appear, IL is yet fresh in remembrance.
Its "reminiscences must be gall and
Wormwood to the dislOyalists of the
North. We need not envy them the
pangs they are now suffering. But.
IN respect 10 their efforts to retrieve the
character lost by their own folly and
insanity, they are not to be discouraged
or rebutled: On the contrary, we well
come their support OF the President.
Let him be as strongly entrenched in
his position as he may, the clamors Of
tnction Will resOund in his ears and
disturb his reposc. If those who have
added to the distraction of his official
cares by their relentless prosecutions
now voluntarily como forward and dis
arm themselves of the weapons of op-
position, we shall rejoice in the Doliti-
cnl Il tranquility that must result. But
1t is not in conformity with the pro-
gramme of the Union party to allow
them to appropriate the President to
their exclusive leadership, any more
than 1t would be to allow u self-appro-
printton of the principles for which the
Union party has been faithfully strug-
CLING, and against which the Democrats
have fought with the most enYen-
omed hostility. The bats which they
are throwing out for the President, we
regard us the grand climax of impu-
dence. The nature and the object of
this invitation are SO transparent as to
excite nothing but supreme disgust,
AS purity manpuyre 1t can only be
characterized us the blindest folly. So
FAR as 1t strengthens that combination
OF circumstances which is investing
the President with a degree of influence
TO which one man may rarely ASPIRE
we must applaud the effect, however
we condemn the cause. That those
who opposed everything advocated by
the Untonists OF the country should
now face to the right about and defend
the past measures and the present poll
icy of our leader, is certainly great
gain in politics, whatever may be said
of 1t in morals. If in this revolutions
ary or reorganizing process, the bogus
democracy of the past shall give way
to more genuine exposition in future,
we may we'll join in songs of exulta-
tiOn.
THE CONGRESSIONAL DIKE.-Senator
Sumner, in his speech Mt Worcester,
compared the safeguards to be erected
against the restoration of traitors to
power, to the dikes of Holland. Con-