The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-24
GheG1lteIE1letter.
RATEs- OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Tho Doom OF thoT Democratic Party.

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The Democratic purEy is doomed
The Federal party fifty years ago op-
posed popular war and disappeared, /,
The Dem ocratic party opposed vital
and inevitable and glorious var. and it
is perishing before our eyes. IN the
State of New York it processes to hope
for n little longerli life. But itistho pro-
tession OF despair. No well-informcd
man believes for an instant in the re-
covery of SO exhausted and worthless a
fame; and its own hope is based upon
the fact that.it has formally recanted,
eaten its own, words, and confessed its
own disgrace and defeat. 4 1t is, only
right that, the rebellion having, l,eon do
fe'ited, its great plly should be ahIiihila-
ted; and the character OF the American
people is shown us proudly in their
steady union for the overthrow IIf n
false party as 1t was in the destruction
OF foul conspiracy.
Maine, Vermont, California, Pennsyl-
Eanta, Ohio, Iowa, and Indiana. are The
States that have thus far voted. anu.
IKE pntrtet soldiers when the roll Is
called they answer one after another 10
the Union call, and even louCer than
last year, eHerel here!' Even New
Jersey, hitheTto the perfect type of n
modern "Democraticn State. 6epins to
DIush that she has so long faltered in the
goou race; and in, the total Irout OF tho
Shicago platform party ut Newark giyes,
hopethat she will not much Longer bo
chained to the corpse of slavery N.
modern Democracy. : g,
The Democratic leaders aro receiving
the seyerest lesson of their lives. They
thought they could trffle with the M
Ll0nAI W fkNa-T1
get 1t. They thought they could OBJ
pose and thwart a war for national life.
and when the indOmitable patience and
power of the people conquered, could
turn round, throw up their hnts, shout
victory, declare that they had been
heart and hand in the war, and so bam-
booZle the people they had done their
best to ruin. -, ~ =
Dp they suppose tho people have re-
turned teom whipping rebels in tho
held to'be fooled by CopperheaGs on n
plattorm3 Do they imagine they cnn
deceive the popular intelligence by hid
1ng behind da,6eneral? They might re-
member me the experiment of last year.
1hey tried to- hide tho whole Chicago
platform behind II General: Butwheti-
er the platform We're too large or the
General too small the cltent eSVns illain
enough, and was heartily and contenip-
tuously rejected.
Inc eDenlocratic party was opposed to
the war. Individual Democrats, indeed.
boldly broke with their party to go with
their country; but the party was ruled
by Aoratio Seymour. Vallandigham,
the Woods, and men in sympathy with
them. Its votes int Congress, Its orators.
Its national convention pronounced
against the war. It Nvas not Only9 de-
stroyed Mt the election, it was despised,
and now the same old leaders ask the
confidence of the OnOnIa
This year makes a feeble show of
supporting the President. We say fee
ble, because although in the State of
New Y ork IL declares for him unreserv-.
edly, and like n desperate gamester.
John Van Buren, calls him his candi-.
date for the succession, vet in the other
States the support was conditional, and
In New York 1t is offered by Seymour,
Green, and his most malignant ira
ducers of last year. 1t is here only a
transparent trick to come into power.
But the times are too serious for
tricks: Every voter asks himself what
Will these men do if they come into
power. He finds the answer in John
van Buren's speech. That gentleman
throws the blame of tho war uDon the
North, upon the1oyal States. He shows
the same old trucking servility to the
late rebel chiefs that originally brought
us into trouble. But Mr.. Van Buren,
and all his associates upon the Chicago
platform will learn that the plantation
whip has lost its terrors. If the fate of
the party which opposed the war of
1Sl2 has not instructed them, the cleo
ton Of this autumn Will teach them
that the people of this country will not
trust n purity which played into the
hands of the national enemy, until it
has changed not merely its professions
but the leaders who have inspired uni
versal contempt. and distrust {. 2