The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-11
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Thurlow Weed has published n lettel
in reply TO Montgomery Blnir's reccnt
attacksin n aMaryland speech, on Messrs
Stanton, Seward and Holt. Mr.. Weed
"opens his letter with Chit Mt Mr.
Blair, whichis is fulliof genuine humor
and is one OF the best things that vete.
ran writer has ever put on paper. Hc
says: 56 u.rfall
There is somewhere in MARYLAND n
snpposltiuous IocalitNwherO Mr.. Blair
affects to find " fellow-citizens," on
%hom VINO, he intlicts imaginary speeches.
These hctions enable him to net long
winded Trades into the newspapers.
one of which, garnished with flaming.
head lines, appeared in the World, and
the Introductory expletives in the TT-i-
4 Mr.. Weed defends Mr., Seward and
Mr.. Stanton from the charges of Mr..
Blair, and briefly sketches some of the
incidents of the winter of ls6O-GI. We
quote: ID
The truth is, that the first and para
mount design of the secession lenders
i was to obtain before or Onthe fourth of
I March, by coup d'etOt, possession of the
Capital with the sanction of the Gov
ernment. That design was thwarted
by Mr.. Stanton. AS n member of Mr..
Buchanan's Cabinet, he became inform. I'm.
ed of the reasonable objects of his col
1 leagues, Cobb, Thompson and Toucey.
and of the imbecility, at least, of the
President. Placing himself in conf
Dental communication with Mr.. Sew
ard, Mr.. Stanton went to his watch and
work boldly and sagaciously. Traitors
We're by degrees weeded out of the Cab
met, and their vacant seats given to
General Dix and Judge Holt, who Co
operated with Mr.. Stanton and Mr.,
Seward in preserving the Government.
The fourth of March approached, amid
treAsons and conspiracies in the highest
| classes. Washington was, without
doubt, disloyal. A conspiracy to as
sassinate Mr., Lincoln at Baltimore, was
discovered and thwarted. On the oc-
casion of the inauguration, General
| Scott had scarcely more than 9, 600 troops
for the defense of the Capital. The
danger was imminent. But the chief
traitors had been elected from the Cab
met. Their plans were Disconnected.
Mr.. Lincoln was inaugurnted, and the
| Government prevailed For that Gov
ernmenps salvation the people of tho
Gu4ou are lnueDleu 10 the Roman Ytr-
tues of Edwin NJ. Stanton.
During the five or six weeks that Mr..
Stanton wns striving to preserve the
| Capital, 01onEh in constant commlIni-
cation through n trusty third party,
| AlesSrS. Stanton and Seward never met.
| w hen the danger was over md the day
l OF rejoicing came, MIR. Stanton sIIIDetl
with Mr.. Seward. L was present, meet
ing Mr.. Stanton then for the first time.
| Confidence had been established be-
tweenthese eminent men while engaged
as counsel, many years ago, in an inl=
portant and prOtracted trial, in Michi-
| gan, believe. But It was then and
there TINT 1 learned how large n debt of
Egratitude we owed to Edwin NJ. STAN
ton before the rebellion broke out.
A fuller revelation of the history of
tllnt winter is promised byaNIr. Weed,
who says: A. 5i1
Mr.. Seward has endured. MS is his
habit, much of misapprchensiOn and
4 obloquy, in reference to tho question,
without reply. I shall content myself
HOW, with saying that a fcw days will
entirely clear away the Inists which
have rendered it obscure, placing the
action, where 1t belongs. -g s.
Mr.. BIair's charge against Mr.. stan
ton, of his afiliation with tho secession
lists and the encouragement he gave to
Senator Brown, of Mississippi, is prac-
tically met by Mr.. Weed in the extract
we have made above. yti'}
Have We a Secession Party. Among us9
The New York correspondent of the
London Times excuses British hostility
to the Union cause during the war by
the existence of a secession. party in the
| North, and says:
\ ITO this very hour, there remains n
very large loyal northern party in the
United States, which constantly asserts.
in newspapers and in private life, that
the War was an unrighteous one ;.thnt Il
never ought to have been wnged; that
the principle of state rights gave the
constitution hns been violatedt and that
slavery is not abolished. "A very large
section of the party called democratic,
ana which aspireS to rule the next elec-
tions, and seems likely to do so, mnin-
tains these opinions.' - 5f.r 1Ega
These statements cannot well be de-
MED, after the record made by demo-
cratic conventions and newspapers du-
ring the last four years. Has the DEM
ocratic party abandoned this position 7
The South has not ot7only given up the
experiment of secession, but is renoun-
cling the doctrine itself, (which is more
than we have reason to demand or ex-
\ pect-- how is it with the Democracy oi
the North ? In the State Convention o.
Mississippi, the homeiof Davis, where
the southern idea of "state rights'' would
naturally be adhered to ms strongly as
anywhere in the South, a square issue
was smade onthe repudiation of. the doc.
trine ofsecession, and the repudiatior
was carried by a vote of 81 to PA ma,
ljority less only by three than that By
which the ordinance of secession wn,
repealed. Thus Mississippi has renoun
! ced both the act and doctrine of seces
sion. The only important controversy
, in the convention was on this point. A
minority report ON the matter of seces
sion advised the repeal Of the ordinance
without expressing any opinion as Z,
the doctrine shut A. r, Johnston, chair
: man of the committee, said * o, j.
We did not use the words null anC
{ void without due consideration. They
) had q Significance and an object, Whicl
] wRS simplYto make a direct attack upol
|; 1.-The doctrine of secession and destroy il
|. iPhe words 'abrogntei or repeal rwoulI
i recognise and confirm the right of seces
: sion. BY employing the phraseolog,
!, they had, the committee had fully eX
pected that it would bring on eontes
: in the convention, and had not sough