The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-22


equality before the law, and that no
honors or rewards shall be extended to
the one which are not equally bestowed
upon the other. In proof of this last
position, let me refer you to the notort-
Gus fact that, in their speeches and
Newspapers, they bestow brilliant and
glowing panegyrics upon the genius
and virtues of Gen. Lee, but are sig
nificantly silent about Grant, Sherman
and Sheridan. They weep copiously
over the memory of Stonewall Jackson,
but have not tear to shed for the rn-
timely deaths of Lyon, kearney, NC
Pherson and Hackleman. They mourn
from day to day over the fictitious sur
ferings of jeff. Davis, but have never
vet expressed regret for the murdered
thousands at Andersonville and Sails
bury.
These things point to their feelings
and their policy with the unerring Ger,
tainty of the needle to the pole, and
leave the rational mind without a
shadow of doubt as to what they would
do should they again come into control
of the Government. They are opposed
to equaliZing the representation North
and South, because it would diminish
the power of the rebels in the Govern
ment. They are opposed to prohlbltlnB
the assumption of the rebel war debt,
for that would be to prevent them from
doing Just whatthey intend todo should
they get the power.
We are able to predict with absolute
certainty what would be their first
measures should the great calamity
happen that they come into power,
They wOuld assume the rebel war debt,
and put the owners of it upon the same
footing with the holders of the stocks
of the United States; they would PEN
sion rebel soldiers and the families
of rebel soldiers, bestowing upon
them equal honors and emoluments
with those who belonged to the loyal
armies of the nation; they would as
nearly as possible reduce the freedmen
of the South back to the condition of
slavery, by depriving them of all pro-
lection and civil rights. They would
hnrass and oppress Union men both
North and South, by sublecting them
to Vindictive law suits, and to the bru-
tai vengeance of rebels whom they had
defeated in arms.
And most important of all, they
would proclaim the right of secession,
and bid the Southern States to go II
thew vet wished to do so, and tell the
States of the Northwest to so in peace
and form n Northwestern Confederacy,
if such was their desire. There is not
an active Democratic leader in the
Northwest to-day who has not from the
beginning of the war asserted that the
people of the North were the aggres-
sors, and that the people of the South
were standing justly in defense OF their
constitutional rights.
CoPPERHEAD INSULTS TO SOLDIERS.
While the war was in progress Cop
perhead politicians denounced Union
soldiers as 'eLincoln hirelings," as mer-
cenaries, and as fighting for pay and
plumber, and not for principle, and
their treatment of Union soldiers now
is precisely upon that theory. They
appear to believe that the adherence OF
soldiers to the Union party is for the
sole purpose of getting office and othci-
al rewards, and if it happens that a
soldier fails to receive n nomination
for an office, a hundred Copperheads
run after him and whisper treason in
his ear; assert that he has been be-
traved, and assure him that if he
will but desert to his enemies, and join
the ranks of those who fought against
him, they will not only forgive the fact
that he was Union soldier, but will
take him to their arms and cover him
with rewards, Just rs the Devil offered
our Savior all the Kingdoms of the
world if he would but fall down and
worship him, when in point of fact the
living old rascal was only n tenant at
will himself, and hadn't Il foot of land
to give. How the gallant soldier who
periled his life for his country, aud has
returned MANNED and shattered from
the battle, must feel dishonored and
humiliated when he finds himself treat
ed as a mere mercenary, and is ap-
preached by Copperheads with argu-
ments and temptations which stain his
manhood, and insult the memory of
THE dead who fell in battle by his side.
Themselves regarding office getting as
the sole business of life, and that gov
ernments were established only to pro-
vide hungry politicians with lucrative
places, they are unable to conceive the
| idea OF the patriot soldier, who loving
his country more than wealth, luxury
and the comforts of home, laid all these,
together with his life, as a cheerful
sacrifice upon the national altar.
A WORD TO YOUNG MEN.
And here let me address a word to
the young men of Indiana. You are
Just starting in life, with the world all
before you, where and how to choose.
Beware how you connect your fortunes
with decayed and dishonored party,
indelibly stained with treason, and
upon whose tombstone the historian
will write, "false to liberty, false to its
country, and false to the age in which
it lived." The Democratic party has
committed n crime for which history
has no pardon, and the memories of
men no forgetfulness whose colors
grow darker from age to age, and for
which the execrations of mankind be-
come more bitter from generation to
generation. 1t committed treason
against liberty in behalf of slavery )
against civilization in behalf of barbar-
ism; and its chronicles will be written
in the same volume which records the
most dangerous and malignant fac
tions that have ever afflicted govern
ment or retarded the progress of man
kind. The rebellion was born of the
Democratic party cradled in its lap,
nursed from its breast, and cherished
and sustained by it, until it Perished
by the avenging sword of the nation,
and it must soon be followed to the
tomb by its guilty parent.
The Federal party opposed the war
of 1872 and died from the effect of it in
few years. The Wing party opposed
the Mexican war in 1916, and lived
about six years longer; yet these par
ties meditated no treason, and when the
conflict began did not sympathiZe with
the enemy, or give him aid and COM
fort but gave their earnest and hearty
support to the Government and the
army. How, then, shall ii be with the
Democratic party-the parent OF the re-
beIlion, who, while the Southern wing
was in arms against the Government,
the Northern wing gave to it material
aid and comfort, and cheered it on in
the deadly contest?
A shower of Fresh LoBsters-
From the 1flWduEee Wisconsin, June IL.
| A correspondent says: "During the
| heavy shower yesterday, most singu-
| lar phenomenon took place here, being
| laGs, than of fresh lob