The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-14

nc my ~ tins OeulOcEacy. OF the
North, in their attempt to save. their
name and old party organization, have
not only suffered defeat, but hare prOV-
ed their tTieNGRShip for The South 70 be
nothing more than a desire to use her as q
cars pau TO take Northern Democratic
chestnuts, of the Hoffman, Morrissey,
Wood, Yallandigham 81 Co., stamp out
The dissolution of the Democratic Par
ty IN 1850 at Charleston SDGS final. ucdM
1eUeT become a great national pdrtV
again. Like the old Wing PARTY. IL Is
numbered with the. things that were,
and all attempts Orevive 1t will end in
defeat. The friendship professed by
these old partisans of the North for the
South IS nothing more nor tess than q PO-
LltLedt farce, poorly played at that, aud
the sooner t0e make up our mind 20 this
fact the better 1t will be for all concern
ed: We have had enough of these pO-
liticaI BourbOns. They have ruined
themselves, the Conservative move
ment, and given the Radicals the reins
OF Government"
The Richmond papers, generally
speaking, take more sympathetic
view of the Northern Democracy
The Examiner processes to feel grateful
for their kind though fruitless efforts to
serve the South in the late campaigns.
1t thinks, perhaps, the party may live
to fight another day, but is not alto
gether sanguine. The Enquirer be-
lieves the proper policy to pursue rests
with the Southern people themselves,
and that is to ignore Northern politics
entirely, and let the Yankees do as they
please for the time being. 1t is coma
dent that the attitude OF the North to-
wards the South is 'tNational weak
ness" that Southern unrest" is gener-
al financial disorder, and that 'sSouth-
ern prostration is general disturbance
and DISTRESS" 1t relies, therefore, upon
failing credit, diminished resources,
&C., to compel the Radicals to
terms. All the South has to do
is to stand still and see their own saliva
ton. This is IA view somewhat similar
to that taken at the commencement of
the war, when Northern merchants
were all to become bankrupt, and grass
was to grow in Wall street, and general
anarchy and distress were to prevail,
because of king cotton's secession. We
know how all such prophecies turned
out, and we still know that the same
prophets arc to be largely discounted.
The Enquirer should read tho article
we published yesterday from the De-
trOit Post, and learn that the North do
not propose to wait forever on the
pleasure of the South in the matter of
reconstruction. The Congressional
amendment is before these editors and
fire eaters now, but it may not always
be before them.
And speaking OF that amendment,
we notice that series of articles favor
ing its adoption is now being pub
lished in the Huntsville (Ala.) Advo-
cate. They are all from the same
writer, and the Advocate states that the
letters have attracted larger shnre of
public attention in Alabama than any
similar letters since the celebrated series
in 1850, from the pen of Hon. John A.
Campbell, of Mobile, against secession.
The letters are addressed to the Ala
bama Legislature. From one relating
to the third section OF the amendment
we quote the following:
'"HistOry will declare that milder
ments was never presented to the lips
of rebellious community az correc-
tive for the body polite. 1t strikes at
the root of the disease, and eradicates
the prime cause of the morbid action.
Recognizing the former political lead
ers of the seeded States as the instiga-
tors of the great national calamity, It
disqunlities them from again holding
those positions of trust which were the
lever of their political power. It holds
them responsible tor that willy diploma
cy which, under seemingly patriotic
motives, disintegrated the great Demo-
cratic party, for the purpose of securing
the election of the chicago nominee as
the inauguration of the Secession pro-
grRmme. 1t brands them with that
criminal negatiOn ofthe duties Obstacles
men, which dismissed with studied
contempt the hope so dearly cherished
by Southern patriots of adjusting the
strumentality of National COnven-
ton.
1t commentaries by constitutional
punishment that wild and wicked am
bition, which held as nothing the SPLEEN
did prestige which our country held
among the nations of the earth, as well
as its security to liberty and property,
telitgence, its purity Of morals and re-
llgion, and its wonderful development.
It estimates at its proper worth that
empiriCism which deSolated the South,
bankrupted families who were surround
ed by everything that wealth could be-
stow, CLOSED up our schools and churches
for years, killed SO many hundreds of
thousands of her sons by the sword,
consigned so many OF her fathers and
mothers to a more bitter death by grief,
broke the hearts of her wives and sis
tiers with sorrow, demoralizing the
whole community, and debauched the
patriotism of the whole South. And it
holds the secession leaders especially
responsible for the two last dreadful
years of that war of rebellion, when
not hope of success against the Gov
eminent was honestly entertained by
any man in his proper senses and dur
ing which nothing was feasible but a
Postponement OF that day of reckoning
which had such terrors for them. That
destructive retrogade from ViCksburE
that funeral march from Chattanooga
to Marietta, every step OF which plant
cd hundred graves that carnival of
suicide which Hood rioted in from Pu-
laskt to Nashville; that flood of gore
which Lee poured out from tho Wilder
ness to his surrender; all so wantOn,
and SO unAvailing to 4 cause that was
lost at Donaldson, at Shiloh, and at
NicksburRh; these are among the wit
nesseS that testify that the country can
lose nothing by a disqualification for
office of men who advised and defend
ed the grandest and most useless
slaughter that the world ever Witness
ed.
THE METEORIO SHOWER.