The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-21

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pelllon q toregone conclusion and an
inevitable snccess.n3 And then upon
these other points: 81 was assured OF It
1 because the DemocraticE leaders of the
North-npd amongst others, the Demo-
Ecratic Senator of Ohio, in his plnce in the
Capitol, before a gun was fired, made
northumberland was not challenged
to. account for it ut all4that. in the
event OF this conflict of arms between
the North and South, the Democracy. of
the North would stand by, the rebel
lion. What more evidence do you
RECORD OF DRMoCRACY IN CONGRESS. Z
IF You want any fnrthertestimony on
the subject ponder upon the Congress
stonal record OF the democratic party,
from the time of the firing of the first
/ gun4on Sumter until the disorCanized
/ battalltons of Lee fired their last gun in
the streets ofRtchmond, ,und be satisfied.
4 What measure did they ever pass or
4 attempt to pass, for the support of the
i cause fthe Union in Congress2 Itis
no answer to say that they had not the
majority. They had votes and If they
had been for their Country they might
have cast their votes ut least on the side
of their Country. What measure ESSEN
tial to the maintenance OF your armies
ever received the support OF the democra-
4 tic party, either in Congress or out ofit3
i Not oneI Nor ONEl H4ails itI=- ~ IN ID
When the attempt was made to raise
a loanl for the support of your army in
4 the field-the three hundred thousand.
called out by Honest Abraham Lincolus
your martyred patriotic President, in
participation of the then coming extra
session of Congress-this party opposed
,l itaS 3unconstitutionnl" and impractica-
BILE to pledge. the faith of this people
and all the untold wealth of this nation
to the support of these defenders and
tk1fa fENkn sNR
is the first record they make. ].
When the attempt was made to repeal
4 the Limitation of the act of 1893, which
l'declared that the service of volunteers
should not be called for for period
longer thnn d hundred days, who oppo-
sedit7 That immaculate champion OF
democracy, Clement l.. Vallandighani,
led the opposition. He thought it c0nHic!
ted NTH the rights Of the SeVeTdL States OF
this Union to dLLoIb Lhe people of the
United States 10 arm themselves for tie
defenSe Of THEIR OWN CoUETRYI-toarn
themselves. for the defense Of THEIR OWN
CONSTITUTION for the maintenance OF
their OlCn Ld,CS, and, finally, for Lhe pro-
toctiOn OF TIBIR OWN HOMES AND chill
DREN!
That is the kind of f"democracy" that
is to be reorganized in West Virginia.
1t became necessary to make forced
Il loan, MS tits called and which is under
j stood amongst all Intelligent citizens
by authorizing the issue Of what are
called "legal tender, notes, ultimately
redeemable in the gold and silver coin
4 of the United States and to the redemp-
tion ofwhich every rood Ofland and, II
bneed be, every bushel ofgrain and every
| yard of woven fabric,, for two genera
tions to come, was pledged. What said
these gentlemen 2l'Wliinihgi through
their noses like Dean SwifL's snfvellers,
from the Oldest to the youngest ofthem,
they yelped out "It's unconstituonal,,''
| lLRughter. ZE
say to you my fellow citizens, TINT
i when the vote pended in the House OF
| Representatives of the United Stnths on
the passage of that bill, the life oIthe
Nation trembled in fsbalance. /
know the truth of what assert, when
i sny that your, daily eXpendfttlre was
ut tint time not less than three millions
4 OF dollars day. No less thnn seven
hundred thousand men were on your
army rolls, Sand tile question was
whether tho American people should
4 keep faith with these brave men. That
! was oil the question that was involved :
them the arms and munitions of war
and the transportation and the shelter
| TO enable them to. carry on the great
conflict for the Union 2 Shall we furnish
the means necessary to dot the land NIL
over with hospitals essential to the
shelter of the tens ofthousandsofheroic
braves being carried from hundreds of
these stricken fields, where they might
receive at lenst the attention and care of
stranger hands, away from the serene
quiet, and the shelter and protection, of
i home. The roll was called. t'Shall tho
bill pass ?" Shall the loan be enforced? !?
Shall the Nations credit be pledged to
maintain thearmy, in the field, and the
wounded soldier in the hospital? And
et'e',y democrat, !UfthoWt a solitary erccr-
4 toni mean ofthose fellows TINT follow
/ ed the miserable old shattered flag of
"democracy''-re efusedto ut1oip dicdI thc
faded 1tnifoT,V Of party aud put on the
/ "tT'ue bthen uniform of the COuntI.U :
/ Without n single exception, they voted,
4 Need Iistand here TO argue with
full grown men that If that bill
had been lostl You could not COM
/ mand, to save the nation, over thirty
millions of dollars of the current mon
ley of the United States, without that
loan, and it would not have supported
| your army in the field for a longer peril
4 cd than tenydays. III ~
THE TRUE FRIENDS OF THE REPUDLIc
And yet this party attempts, after
such n record MS this, To come before the
I American people and ask them for their
Hrages, and to allow them again to
be entrusted with tho keeping of this
great nation! tell you u plain and
simple truth when say that THE SAPE-
\ TY OF THE REPUBLIC rs ALONE m THE
HANDS OF IT'S FRIENDS. do not caro-
with what party u man may have
mustered before the war began. All
wnnt to know is that through the four
i years OF trin1 he was with the great par
/ ityi that was for the country. IF all his
4 life before he was known as u tdemO-
crat,' j am for him. But If he comes up
one Of these miserable creatures who
have crept about through the grass and
dirt when his country was on trial for
/ Its ltfej bowling it was s"unconstitntion-
tal" TO cOerce these traitors and vote sup
l plies OF, meninnd money and arms to
carry on the war for the Unfon-then in
| the name of commons sense and Justice
away with that fellow;-then say
bic, ,contempt1ble parliament: "Be-
Gonel the Lord has no further use for
you." [Great laughter and applause
DRMoCRATIc CONsPIRAoIEs.
Yes, you will reprganize the demo-
cratic party, TINT organized treasonl-
the democratic party, that withheld
4 supplies from our armies 1.-The demo-
\ cratic party that organized immense
\ conspirucies all over this land, in every
State of the Union, in aid OF this rebel
lion, into which they mustered, in some
States at least, more than half the men
who have voted the democratic ticket
since this rebellion began. I'VE have
their names; they are registered; in
Ohio they numbered ninety thousand,
calling themselves one day the knights
of the Golden Circle, ;. tthat was Peter
Funk concern,1 tEaughter.1 Another
day the "American Sons of Liberty -
getting up Internal machines, which
they would carry into the houses OF
their neighbors and leave there to ex-