The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-25
HOW SHALL IEV0TF?
ApplIcabIe TO tho Election
in West Virginia To-SIoFrow.
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elect1ons? Every honest man will asl
himself this question, and he will an.
swer it by determining to which party
in so important a national crisis as this
political power ought to be intrusted
For although no issue is as yet distinct.
ly made a very grave issue soon will
be; that of eorganization-and he mus
look to the anteeedents and compost.
ton of parties to infer what that proba.
bic action will be- -r,r,.--
The Union party comprises tho prent
body of enlightened American. citizens
1 who have always faithfully striyen foI
| greater Justice, for universal liberty
regulated by law, and for freedom 81
speech and the press, everywhere in tlIC
country. They have unfalterinply as.
serted the rights of tho whole people
against privilege and aristocr1cy in
every form, and have claimed fair 'play
loI alI men, rich and poor, foreigner OF
ndtlXei Whatever their complexion OF
conuitlon, anu to that end have been
constnntly y jealous for popular educn.
ton and every method OF enlirbtnn-
inent. They hold that tho Constitution
IS not compact between sOyereipn
goVernments,y but is n ,fundamenfnI
national law established by the people
OF the United States; and that the Union
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believe that this National ! 6 Governn
IS supreme; that the States are DrOperlv v
subord1nlted to IL, and that State rights
are purely local and secondary. There-
iore they have been steadily fnithfuI in
the great and successful struggle. They
have neyeriftnnpered with rebellion.
Ihey hnVe never justified treason nor
excused traitors; and in the death.rrnn-
pie with rebellion they havo wisely
used every power of the Government.
conscious that all extraordinary pOwcrS
were exercised by magistrates under
the Immediate supervision of the peol
pie, and whose acts merely recorded the
umphantly proved. l17
This is the faith, and these arc the
men Who compose the great Union par
". Have they forfeited the confidence
of the county? -
On tho other hand, the Democratic
party is composed of those who have
always excused tho most nDDnllin0
crime against human nature, nTlfi tho
most treason to the American principle
OF equal rights, under the pretense of
State rights; who perSistently conniyed
mt the extension and perpetnity of that
injustice which has soaked tho land in
blood, necessitated the debt. They
hnve been nssatlantS of FREQ speech and
free press, and have justified the muir
der and maltreatment of citizens who
claimed to exercise those rights in the
Southern States. Their influence has
been adverse to general education and
wise progress and reform; and their
predominnnce has be IN and is always
most marked among the most debnsed
part Of the population, and in the least
intelligent portion of the country.
Even now their conventions, vaguely
MS in Maine, distinctly and openly as in
Ohio, reattirm the Virginia and Ken
tuclSy resolutions of 17gS, which ALWAYS
have been. pleaded by the. rebels as JUS
t1hcation us they were by South Caro-
lima for notification in 1893, and which
will always afford ambush for treason
until they are utterly aud expressly
overthrown; or us in Pennsyivanin,
their conventions deliberately declare
that the practical recognition Of the
truths of the Declaration of Independ-
ence IS n high crime against the Consti-
tuition of the United States. They arc
those from whose ranks came tho ohfefs
OF the rebellion; who denounced the
! people of the loyal States as really re.
| sPonsible for the war; who incessantly
thWarted the Government in its efforts
TO subdue,tt; who incited, riots and di-
rected mobs; for whose success ut the
| polls, the rebel chiefs and editors open.
| ~ prayed IN the midst of theiwar; who
solicited through a foreign. Minister for.
eign interference incur contest; who q
a year ago, in a national convention
declared the soldiers conquered md the
war failure, and who sneered Mt Pres.
4 ldent Lincoln as helplessly weak, OF
denounced him as a murderer, .tyrnnt
and harlequin.
These ARE they who compose the Dem.
ocratlc party. They are now busily en-.
gagged in praising the soldiers, whom
last year they slandered, and in ceIe-
praung the gre-establ blishment of the
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pleasing process of eating the Chicago
PLATFORM. But what has this party, r.
whose Ohio Convention YOllandiT Thnl
was chief orator, in whose Pennsyl.
Vania Convention Judge Black was an
ipplauded teacher, who safd, as
buchanan's Attorney General, that thC
| war would legalize secession and dis.
solve the Unfon-what has this party
done to.be tntrusted with power by Tho
American people who condemned IL "a
overwhelmingly last NoYemberP We
speak OF n party not of f@individuals
We do not forget with wIint absolute
sacrifice, with what blood and money
many democrats stood by the country
But neitherdo we forget that as u party
the democrats voted against emanoipa.
ton, and that in the States which 'tiieX
controlled, the anendnent was tlefent.
ed. We do not forget tliat If the Dem,
ocratic party had maintained power in
LOW touO Iney Mpulu nave compromises the
honor OF the country without perinhi
nently avoiding the war; and we re.
memberS nor will all tile Americnr
people soon forget, that in 1864 tiiey
solemnly proposed aequiescence in ma
uonnl disgrace and ruin. I, .i.s;5i ~
There are two parties who now solicit
our votes. Let every man who loves 6
Union unobscrYed by the resolutions
OF '9S, who loves his country and be,
'tleVes thHt equal rights for all men be
fore the law nre essential to her perIilo
nent peace and prosperity, ask himseI
which of these parties ought to have hi.
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