The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-12
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The La Crosse (Wis.) Democrat boasts
the largest circulation OF any Demo-
cratic weekly in the land, running up
its list, as it claims to have some sixty
thousand. Judging by. this, the food
it furnishes Democrats must be of the
most Gongenial kind. They must like
it or they would not voluntarily take
it. We propose giving our readers a
specimen or two of it. In the issue OF
Nov. 9th, we find that paper replying
to Committee of the Methodist
Church who had been demonstrating
with it for its obscenity, by telling them
that:-
The La Crosse DemOdcrdt is not a
whining, canning, puritanical, long
fnced Church organ, having for its mis-
sion the clOaking over OF the sin, In
iquity, Righteousness, immortality,
beastly actions, gross indecencies, un-
christian performances and lus;ful
qualifications ofthe vast crowd of cler-
ical bloodhounds of Zion who are
leaders of the Church, e1pOunders OF
religion, dabblers in politics and raw
ishers OF weak minded sisters.
On the contrary, it is a Mirror Of
Fashion in which we give pictures OF
men and sentiments rs they exist, not
caring one whit for the good or ill opin-
ion of all the neutrality-suspicious.
canting hypocrites, pulpit prostituters,
clerical indiscretionists, or their ndvi-
sers and endorsers this or the other
side of-the home of the La:e Lament-
ed!
We print facts. 1t is our duty to un-
mask villainy, to expose corruption, to
uncover moral deformiJy, to rip open
the cotton batting, saw-dust filling,
which gives such piumpness TO the
sneaking, gaunt, rotten skeleton, which
"oh-ahs," and "yes-ahs," and "Oh-
Lord abs" and spends the hours OF set
ting day in talking nigger instead OF
Christ, and in leading sisters up dark
alleys rather than leading souls to sal
walton.
But this Democrat is not sated with
its abuse of religion and ministers but
shocks the patriotism of the country
with such expressions as these regard
ing Lieut.. Gen. Sherman, whom the
Louisville Courier had the temerity to
name as a probable candidate on the
Democratic ticket for the Presidency :
And such n candidatey Sherman
william lecOnSen oISEilhn-Nd duuhl
Shermnn-Shermnn of the torch and
axe-Sheruan, Prince OF band of
bummers, thieves, vagabonds and ruff
fians-Sherman, whose march to the
sea- would have damned TO all eterni-
ty n legion of pirates and freebooters-
Sherman, the lackey, tool, leftenant of
the Sangamon brother of the devil, the
obscene, brutal, and boorish Lincoln
Sherman, whose reputation WAS won
in victories over his cOuntrymen-
Sherman, whose hands are red with
the blood of thousands of American
freedmen-Sherman, whose most glo-
rious acts can be written in two words
-"Atlanta" and "Columbia"
This mushroom of civil war, blood
watered, rank with the corruption and
wick kedness engendered in the hellish
crusade for the enslavement and degra-
daIiOn of white men, and the triumph
of niggers-thls thing Democratic
candidate for the honors which. as n
party. we have conferred upon Jeffer-
son, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van
Buren,, Pierce. and Buchanan? Pro-
posed by a Kentuckian, from Sow
ereignty thousands of whose sons rest
in unhallowed graves. slain for the love
of liberty by Sheridan's minionsT
Great God, that Democrat should so
disgrace himself and humiliate that
grand old party!