The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-08

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gefous and wide spread conspiracy first
known as the "Knights of the Golden
Circle" and afterwards as the "Sons of
Liberty,o which had for its purpose the
overthrow of the State and National
Governments. Not all of them, It is
true, belonged formerly to this infam-
GUS order, but such as stood on the out
side had knowledge of its existence,
purposes and plans, and carefully con-
cealtng their knowledge was ready to
accept its work.
To accomplish the hellish work OF
this conspiracy, military officers were
appointed, military organizations Gre
ated, arms and ammunition purchased in
immense quantities and smpggled into
the State, Correspondence opened with
rebel commanders, and military COM
binations agreed upon, rebel officers and
agents introduced into the capital and
concealed in hotels and boarding hous-
es, and II was deliberately planned and
agreed that upon a day fixed, they
would suddenly luprise and murder the
Executive, seize the arsenal and Its
arms and ammunition, and releasing g.
600 rebel prisoners in Camp Morton, put
arms into their hands, and. with. their
combined forces effect military and
bloody revolution in the State. This
dreadful scheme necessarily involved
murder, conflagration, robbery, and the
makes black the chronicles of civil
war, and yet It's authors and abettors,
with the proofs of their guilt piled
mountain high. are again struggling for
power and asking the people to put into
their guilty hands the government and
prosperity OF the State. Some of these
men who are high in favor and author
ity Inc their party and are largely en-
trusted with its management, have
heretofore occupied offices of great trust
and responsibility in-which they prov
ed to be recreant and corrupt.
They are the men who, in the. Legis-
lature of Indiana, bitterly opposed and
denounced every effort to confer the
right of suffrage upon soldiers in the
field who could not come home to vote.
They are the men who wrote letters
to soldiers In the army urging them to
desert, and assuring them of support
and protection if they did.
They are the men who labored with
devlish zeal to destroy the ability of the
Government to carry on the war by
depreciating its financial credit. They
assured the people that "greenbacksn
would die on their hands, and warned
them solemnly against government
bonds, rs a wicked device to rob them
of their money.
They are the men who refused to con-
tribute to the Sanitary Commission for
the relief of sick and wounded soldiers,
upon the lying and hypocritical pre-
tence that the contributions were con-
sumed by the officers of the army.
They are the men who excused them
selves from contributing for the relief
of soldiers families at home by the in
famous slander that they were living
better than they had ever done, and by
foul tmputations on the chastity ofsol-
diers' wives.
They are the men who declared in
speeches. resolutions, and by, their
votes in Congress, that not another
man nor another dollar should be voted
to carry on a cruel war against their
Southern brethrens sI5 fIr
They are the men who in the midst of
the last great campaign of 1854, at the
time when Sherman was fighting his
way, step by step, from Chattanooga to
Atlanta, and Grant was forcing Lee
back into thedefenses of Richmond, in
desperate and bloody battles from day
to day; when. the fate of the nation
hung in the balance, and the world
watched with hreathless interest the
gigantic struggle which was to settle
the question of Republican Governs
ment, assembled, in Convention in Chi
cago and resolved that the war was a
failure; that our cause was unjust, and
that we ought to lay down, our arms
and sue for peace. 1trwas throwing a
mountain into the Confederate scale to
make the Union kick the beam. 1t
was a bold and desperate interference
in behalf of the rebellion, at the very
crisis of the fight. 1t was an insult to
the loyalIarmies of the nation, nsOivast,
malignant and deadly that Language
can convey no adequate idea of It's
wtckedness. And in future times the
historian will. recofd the fact with as
tonishment that the Government, atthe
most critical moment Of its life when a
few hours, ora few days atthe farthest,
must determine whether it should live
or die, could permit large body of its
enemies to meet upon its soil in peace
and security, and publish d fragrant
manifesto in behalf ofthe rebellion.
NowrI do mot, mean, to say, that all
the, ADemoeratic leaders have done all
these things, but what 1 dc, say is, this,
that the men who have done these
things, are combined together, and cons
stitute the real leaders of the ,Detno=
cratic parity The few.moderate men of
the party have been stripped of all
power and influence, and are carried
along with it merely for numbers and
policy while the living and aggressive
element which controls It are the "Sons
of Liberty" and those who acted in
sympathy and concert with them.et
They are the men who have per-
verted the word Democracy, from its
once honorable meaning, to be a shield
and cover for rebellion, and for every
crime that attaches to a causeless and
atrocious civil war.
wHocALH FHEMsELvRsDE DEIocRATs.
Every nnregeneFate, rebel, lately in
arms against his Government calls
himself a Democrat. 2is7isH.
Every bounty jumper" every ssde-
setter, j" every stsneaS,o y who ran away
from the dgaft, calls himself ia Democrat.
Bowles, Milligan, Walker, Dodd, Hor-
seg and Hump phreys call hefnseIves
Democrats. Every "Son OF Liberty''
arsenals, and release rebel prisoners,
calls himself Democrat John Nor
gan, Sue Mundy, Champ Ferguson,
Wir4z, Payne and Booth, proclaimed
themselves Democrats Every man
who labored for the rebellion in the
field, who murdered Union prisoners
by cruelty and starvation! who con-
spired to bring about civil war in the
loyal States; who, invented dangerous
compounds to burn steamboatS and
Northern oitiesSS who contfived hellish
schemes to introdu into Northern
cities the wasting pestilence of yellow
fever, calls himseifsll Democrat Every
victed OF. detran ding the Government
every dishonest paymaster or disburs-
ing officer whoehR been convicted of
squandering the public money at the
gaming table or in gold gambling op-
eratieqs every efEicerl in the arrnYgygflo
atty, calls himself q Democrat. Every
wolf in sheep's cloth hing, who pretends
to prnaeh the gqB pei .l1ut pgoefnius the
rig gllteoh business Of man ling and slaVes
Fy-every one who shoots down negroes
in the streets, burns negro school
ders women and children by the light
NJ their. nNyI1 fianaineS flJ1aIlFsa0a ,NSIIs,