The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-07
maintalned, and peace bless the whole coun,

1866. go 15e3 a5tas s-55a a.4I 8.
nEai9R9talned, ma y and peace bless the whole coun.
Here we have the whole Democratic
policy developed, which is that all the
states shall at once be restored to their
practical relations to the Union by the
immediate admission of their Senators
ana Representatives in Congress. Ev-
cry senator and Representative elected
In nine out of eleven rebel States is,
am informed, rebel. and wholly un-
able to take the test-oath. Many OF
them were leading rebels, and bore q
large part in precipitating the South
into rebellion. And Democratic Con-
gressmen demand their immediate and
unconditional restoration to power, and
proclaim that the failure to admit them
Tor seven months Is gross infFaction
OF their rights, and a Tanton violation
OF the Constitution, although these
rebel Representatives had for the pre-
ceding five years stRid out on their own
account, and during four years of the
time waged a most bloody war for the
destruction of the Government, And
mere mere must be allowed to suggest that
these democratic members of Congress
have tn one respect overreached them
serves. They have prescribed in adj
vance the terms upon which this Con-
yention must meet, and these constitute
the exact basis and platform of the
present "Copperhead" Democracy. So
that every man who goes into that Com
Vention is advised In advance. that
whatever change of name he may un-
dergo he must subscribe unconditiOn-
ally to the old "Copperhead" creed.
This "call" is addressed to rebels as
well as Union men; the loyal men who
sustained the country, are not speci-
to SNFF n IL
diers are invited to take their seats in
convention in Philadelphia for the
purpose of settling the questions and
consequences growing out of the rebel
lion In which they have just been de-
feated. FF.ere
This new party is to be dubbed the
National Union Party. AEaf-
But according to the doctrines enter
tanned by the men who propose to form
It, there is no nation, there Is no united,
1ndtVtsible, American, people. They and
their predecessors for forty years have
advocated the dogma that our Govern
ment is a mere compact, a mere confed-
eracy of States, of sovereign and inde-
pendent States, each of which accord
ing to the Kentucky and Virginia res
olutions, which have long formed the
corner stone of the Democratic creed,
have right to judge of the infraction
ofthe Constitution as well as the rem
edy, aud to remain in or withdraw
from the confederation according to the
deterIntnatiOn OF its own will. They
held that we were not one nation, but
as many nations as States, bound to-
gether In ncopartnership by articles call
edthe Constitution, and which might be
dissolved at pleasure. f,azI
AS to the Union, there would be none
If the Democratic party of the North
had not been defeated at the polls, and
the Dpn0nNPa mo RfU " nf tho Elnf1kh ha1
not been defeated upon the field of bat
tie, and it will bea curious sight to see
confederate officers and soldiers, mem-
bers of the rebel Congress, guerrillas,
Northern Democrats and "Sons of Lib
erty" Sit down together in council in
Philadelphia, and resolve that they
constitute the "National Union Party,o
devise measures for future protection,
ana make plasters for the wounds in
dicted by the rebelAon. llE
History records that lawless army
once resolved "that the earth and the
fulness thereof belonged to the Saints,
and then resolved that they were the
as HIGH TAXES. 4lse
Every Democratic orator and newspaper
agonlz8 upon the subject OF high taxes.
They dwell Pathetically upon the Oppression
the Democratic party has no responsibiIty In
the matter. But, how stands the great fact
These high taxes, one and all, were levied by
author and creator, absolutely, OF the great
dept which now rests upon the country, not,
indeed by direct legislation, but by bringing
upon the country The terrible necessities out
OF which 1t has grown. 'Hadit not been for
the assurances given by the Democratic party
OF the North, to the people oftha South, that
no resistance would be offered to secession,
and that the Government and the peonle OF
the North would be held still while the work
of establishing a southern confedsracy
snou4 ne perfecteds the rebellion never
would hRvebeen undertaken. This Is an his
torlcal truth that's as well established as the
1act that Washington lived, or that Colum-
bus discovered America. The blood, the vast
ed treasure, the happiness OF families deS.
troyed, the untold suffering OF this dreadfnI
war rest upon the party which deluded South.
ern rebels with the beller that they might
structton secure from all resistance.
ButsuppoSe that, after the war BEGAN, all
parties 1Sg hHd united In snpPortlng the Govern
the war to q successful conclusion, how long,
ask, could IL have lasted Certainly not
than one, Now that It Is over and the eter-
nal history of the rebellion Is laid bare, we
know that the nst two years OF the struggle
victory nom the success Of the Democratic
party In the North. They had friends and cor
hood. They were In receipt OF all our news
papers, and were thus perfectly informed of
every political movement in our midst, and
of the tendency Of public sentiment. They
were assured by every Democratic speaker of
sympathy and support, and strengthened by
the declaration that the Democracy every
where recognized the war as wicked and uf-
constitutional on our part, and would, when
1t came into power, withdraw our armiesRnd
The success of the Democratic party in, the
election in 1862 fllled the rebels with hiRh
tai felectiSn IN % Isi, and thus 81 give them t6e
victory; and when the Chicago Convention
declared the war a failure and demanded Inn
lIeyed that the hour OF their deliverancew was
But when Mr. Lincoln was reelected by m
overwhelming majority, and the Democratic
party was everywhere oYerthroWn, the hopes
upon which they had lived at once expired
lost.
Hence we say to the Democratic party, yon
nave levied these taxes; you have created
and IL you were placed in power this day you
have no remedy against the high taxes yon
have levied but repudIatiOn. -
When Democratic politician comesaround
yon clam0rlng about high taxes, 'you can
turn to hun and say, as Nathan did TO David,
you gave to rebels fiEst levied these taxes.
1he aSSistAnce you gaYeto rebellion contIn-
malice with which you traduoed the Govern
mens the army and the great cause for
which we struggled, swelled them TO what
by falsely ascribIng to Others the
direct consequences Of your own WiclZednesS.
DAMAGE TO RESULT FROM DRNocRATIc
.i SUCCESS.
And now let me invite your attention to
the danger which threatensth naIton should
the calamity happen, that the Democratic
party, or the party 70 be formed out of IL ct
Phtladelpnia comes into power. In that
case we are able 70 predict, with absolute GER
talntys their t1rst measures, and to survey In
advance the fatal line of policy which would
be pursued The right OF State secession
would be at once asserted as the fundamental
law OF the constitution. Every rebel clinRs
20 IL toaay "a with the tenacity with which he