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

curing that winter to the talk of all
these men from Ohio, New York and
fennsylvanta, as we'll as from Virginia
ana the Carolinas, Georgia and Louis
lana, and they all uttered the same note:
that " was 'sunconstitutiona to
tcoercen seeding States. That was n
part OF their democracy then, and It is
now, and 1t has been part OF their de-
mocr4lcy from that hour to this, 1t re-
qulreS no Stntesman-no man skilled in
statecratt-it requires nothing but
common sense to understand that if nil
the Representatives. of the American peo-
pie had been Democrats after the
fashion ofJOhn Letcher, of Virginia, or
Clement l.. Nallandigham 'of Ohio, to-
day you would have no governmental and
no country. There would not have been
q regiment called out to defend your
hag-nor gun fired. The cry would
nave gone up everywhere thai it was
unconsttuttonal to coerce seeding
States.
II there Is any Democrat here who
adheres to the fortunes of this mfserh-
ble, disorganizfng party-this party of
treason-this party doomed and damn
ed before the tribunal of history and
before the tribunal OF God, as conspjrn-
tors against their common country. let.
him repent of his "DelnoeracVp in
sackcloth and ashes [applauseI and
join the men who, in spite Of all the en-
deavors of his party, and in spite of its
conspiracies and in spite of its treasoris,
nave saved that constitution which'is
the sheet anchor of the liberties of MS
all and which stretches the four-fold
shield of its protection all over the COM
mon habitations- of all the people of
this land. ry-sFEr :,
do not stand here this night to give
wanton ottense to any citizen! L hold
myself as humble us the very humblest
man within the hearing OF nv voice
Tonight. But stand here to speak
the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth, to the people who NAV give
their attention for the few minutes /
may crave it; and in all thnt 1 say I do
but spenk for the perpetuity of &meri-
SSs;.,I.st can lastltutlons, , nnd.warn the people
without regard to theirformer party as
sociations, against organizations thut
plot the destruction of their country
and consequently against the peace, and
quiet, and safety, of their own homes,
know exactly the truth of everything
ainrm here tonight; and defy con-
trau1ctlon now, or in the hereafter. either
In this life or in the life which is to
come. ls. - - =
WHO INAUGURATED THE REBEnLIoN.
/ repeat it, that the democratic party
of the United States, North and South
East and West, was responsible for that
great treason, which for the last four
years filled the land with the sorrow
and desolation which necessarily fol-
low in the wake of agreat armed con-
Ilct between contending Rrmies. [Great
Applause.l They inaugurated It in the
way have stated. 1 do not conceive-i It
needtul to recapitulate the whole histc..
ry, although it Is burned into nv ,brhin
and stands as vividly before my mind
this moment as the light of these burn
ing lamps; but refer to enough of it
to carry conviction homet0 the mind of
every honest man in the hearing. of my
voice and 1t isonly honest men, ut last,
that address. ~ lll''.9
.i'NNhen these States were organizing
Tor this work of secession and treason
and murder-because IL was the fouIest
Of murder to lift up the red hand of
treason, not only agninst the young
manhood of the nation, who went out
with the dew Oftheir youth upon their
brows, and witha fntheris andmother's
blessing on their heads, to lay down
their lives sacrifice for the life of tho
country-when they We're organizing, L
say, for this trenson,-for this secession,
and for this murder, this democracy met
in our own State of Ohio and resolved,
as early as january, 1861 before n gun
had yet been fired on your flag -thnt the
two hundred thousand "democrnts'' of
Ohio send greeting to their friends
North his we'll as South that wheneves
the North did justice othe rights ofthe
South, the democracy would consider
then and not before the Propriety of
coercing seeding Stntes. Canuny man
misunderstood that" 1t was telling
South Carolina: "Go onwith your trca-
son tear down the old flag; build up
your batteries about Eort Sumter; blow
into eternity by the Internal cnginery
of your treason AIaj. Anderson and his
braves, who stood under that flaS, de-
tarninn6 tn 1nfhnH If I'm tho lnSf. ,y,n
will keep back the regiments of the
North; we will permit no man to go to
their relief, no army to be raised for
their the North shall do
justice to the people of the South"
Standing above the graves of these
murdered patriots, i demand to know
of these democratic conSpiratOrs in the
North-nOw that the smoke of bnttle is
lifted from the field and the time has
come for counsel and deliberation,-
l demand to know what wrong the
North had done to the South that they
should send this greeting to them to go on
in this work ofidestructfou an nClimtfrtlerY
Applause. And demand an answer
from anybody nnd, from every body
who undertakes TO vindicate this de-
mocracy in urging on this conspiracy
THE TRUE AND FALSE 3DEMoCRAoY-
STEPHEN A. DouGLASAs A WITNESS.
uBut do you. want further witnesses in
support of what L have said, that this
organization was in this conspiracy
do not say that every man who calls
himself democrat was in it. God for
bid that 1 should cast such reproach
on that bandIof men whofhaYe borne
the banners of my country. They are
not that kind of democracy that plead
for the reorganization of the democratic
party. They are not the men who
swore by Jim Buchanan after he had
covered himself with perjury us with u
garment. Iknow there were democrats
came to the rescue of the country.
Know that Douglas, the chief of demo
crats-and from his grave this night
summon him to bear witness to the
truth of what j assert,-WeFes he living
could testify that the wing or the des
mocracy that struck hands day by day
with the rebellion, were the Organizers
of this rebellion, and organized it in
1860, beginning in the democratic con-
vention Mt Charleston. Now turn, if
you please, to the files of those ancient
democratic journals, the Richmond
ErdiHiileI. and Enquirer, of the State of
Virginia; turn to them in 1900 and
ponder upon the prophetic words of
that great democratic chief, Doug
las,-who loved his country, when
the hour of trial came, more than
he loved his party. Standing upon the
hills of Virginia- standing in the streets
Of NorEollS and of rfaicRfnonds before
the vote had been cast in the greRt COM
test of 1860, he declared to the people of
Tthht ancient Commonwealth that the
democracy organized under The lead of
iBreclSinridge was a conspiracy against
the country and meant disunion and
civil war. He knew it. How did he
know it2 1t had leaked out in Charles
ton, -the cr1dleY of this great crime
against the Union. In the struggle
there for the democratic nomination he