The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-06
RATE or sunscRIPTIoNs.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
st. VaIIandIgham and St. PendletOn
the Apostles OF Modern Denioeracy.
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the Apostles OF SIodern Denioeracy.
From Haype's Weekly.
If snakes could sing a Copperhead
might be very Lorelei. But Fate has
forbidden them the faculty of music.
They cannot escape themselves, nor
conceal their true character from hu-
man eyes.
Mr.. VaIlandigham,; who dictated the
policy of the Democratic party at the
last Presidential election, by preparing
the famous disgrace and surrenderplat-
form of the Chicago Convention, has
lust opened his arms fondly to embrace
the President at the Convention OF his
party in the State which spewed out
MIR. Vallandigham by "a hundred thous-
and majority three or four years ago.
During the war Mr.. V. was bland
apostle of peace, but now that peace
has descended he sounds the alarm he
talks vaIiantly of ''thrusting them
{Congress) from the Capitol" and of
using "the power of the purse and
sword" To use those powers TO save
the country from armed rebels seeking
to perpetuate human slavery shocked
the gospel-meekness of Saint Vallan-
digham; butto apply them 10 thrusting
out the representatives OF the people
legislating for the security of equal
rights-that joyfnlly commends itself
to his Democracy and Christian for
bearance.
The President of course understands
the offered embrace of Mr.. v. A kiss
was long ago the sign of betrayal.
When Andrew johnson falls into the
open arms OF Clement Nallandigham,
faithful citizens of the United States.
NAV well shudder. But while he re-
tains as his advisers those whom Mr.
Lincoln called to befriend him and the
country, the Copperhead charms in
vain.
II. Pendleeton also made Il speech
"praising the courage and statesman
ship of Mr.. Johnson" But Mr.. George
II. Pendleton. who extenuated and JUS
titled the rebels during the war, and
who was nominated at Chicago as the
distinctive candidate of the surrender
party, has also no mercy for Congress.
He denounced the "malignant councils
of the radical Central Directory, whose
Ieet were upon the throat of the Consti-
tuition even now, and who intended to
throttle it." He is of opinion that the
radical majority of congress hate the
Government and desire it's overthrow"
The same majority he also defines as
"blind ana bigoted Jacobins."
Mr., George FL. Pendleton was not al
ways of this Jealous turn. When it
was not question OF loyal representa-
tiyes legislating, but of armed rebels
striking at the heart of the nation, Mr.;
George II. Pendleton had no hard
words for them They were not malig
of the Constitution. They were lambs
who had no intentions of throttling.
THev did not hate the Government, nor
desire its overthrow. They were not
blind aud bigoted Jacobins! Oh no!
When in January, 1864, resolution
was introduced in Congress DrandinS
the rebellion which had already flooded
the land with blood TO destroy the Gov
ernment as '.desperate, wicked and
bloody" Mr.. George 81. Pendleton
voted against il. Three years before
when the conspirators were whettlpg
their swords, butter would not have
melted in the bland mouth of Mr..
George H. Pendleton when he spoke of
them. He acknowledged the right of
secession. He begged Congress, if the
rebellinE States could not be concilia-
ted, to let them depart in peace. He
had no rhetoric about malignant coun-
cils," and thrOttling the Constitution,
and hating Mnd oyerthrowing the COY
ernment. He did not roar and scold,
and stand with his fist clenched and
foot raised to help them go. No, no
far from lit He sighed, the tender Pen,
dleton! he sobbed, he wept. 1t was the
very ecstacy oi maudlin grief. III they
must leave the family mansion," he
wheezed and stammered, II would bid
them farewell so tenderIy that they
would forever be touched by the recol-
lection of it," arr -
Logan said /: 81 would as soon vote for
Jeff Davis as Pendleton ?"
Does Mr.. Pendleton suppose that the
loyal people of this country have for
gotten these things? Does he suppose
that they have forgotten how he de-
serted the country in its hour OF
EXTREMIST peril? Does he suppose that
they do not know that he was as radical
"a disunionist as jefferson Davis? Does
he not know that his opinion and adj
vice upon the Constitution and the re-
organization of The Union have exactly
the weight that Mr.. Robert Toombs',
or Mr.. Louis Wigfalps would have?
And If his party could not carry Mr..
George H. Pendleton while the event
Oft war was still uncertain, do they
suppose they can win a race with him
on one shoulder, and Vallandigham
on the other, now that the Union they
despised is safe, and the government
they spat upon is triumphant?