The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-24
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Circleville, Ohio, one day last week:
.DRMocRATIo MPUDENoB.
Alas! there was an army that heard
no peaCe'march beat who saw no
bands home retUrning-thRt never felt
the blessed clasp of loving arms-but
remained as pledges of our fidelity to
free government. to sleep in death,
upon the hard fought fields of the South,
that saw our nationality yindicated
and our Government saved. Three
hundred Thousand loved ones, who
arms in the charge of battle. We have
seen these huge armies dissolve and
disappear in the busy avocations of
civil life, and now this Democratic par
ty, that during our desperate struggle
hid in swamps,, or fled to Canada, or
gathered'inda dark lodges by the light of
dark lanterns, and plotted treason,
comes out and vociferates that the Gov
ernment that did all this is an uneon-
stitutional government, a military des-
potism and not the government Of the
fathers.
The party uttering these cries is a
modest party. Its members wind up
charge OF q Government they were Will
ing to see destroyed. Let us admins
ter, say they, and turn out those bloody
Radicals who were SO crazy ss to fight
this fight, and waste such a quantity of
blood and money. Fearful evils are
prophesied, and terrible results threat
ened II this modest demand is not COM
piled with.
In the premeditated and well pre-
pared address of my honorable friend
occurs the following solemn assurance:
81 see the dangers that are before us.
I see a long and weary way. see q
long and exhausting struggle, In which
az
the other. / do not conceal for myself
that 1t may be a struggle of the sword.
Many of us may go down with harness
on In the midst OF the fight, but hope
fills my heart, and the magnitude Of
the prize nerves my arm.n
This is a terrible piece of business.
Methinks I see sin my minds eye, Ho-
ratio, /" the late Brigadier General Glenn
Yallandigham, the great commanderof
the Knights Of the Golden Circle and
Sons of Liberty, as once saw him, and
1 before described him TO his fellow
citizens in Dayton. That you may
know what to expect repeat TO you
that description. srI q = "a
do you remember, my fellow-cit-
zens, that previous to the late war this
Clement L. L.Vallandigham was Briga-
adler General3 / remember it, for
saw him. I happened TO be in Dayton
when the Governor of Ohio, on special
invitation, came here to Inspect and re-
view the naval and military forces of
Montgomery county. Oil you need
not laugh, It was . big thing may
say II was immense. An Independent
company of thirty men friZZed up like
wood-cocks, prepared for the spit, and
Brigadier Clement Ia. YallandighRm
and staff. Why 1t struck me that the
style and name should have been
Brgadier Clement LGi YallandiB-
teudenhamer and staff. Z This was the
military; as for the naval force, 1 cam
not say; suppose your .ragin'o ca
nawl" had gnnboats about as imposing
as the Brigadier General. was stand
ing on the balcony. of the Phillips
House when the General came sweep
ing round. 5F -. a-a
HIsaW him but moment; .r4dl
Methinks see him now, staa
With bomb-SheIIs worked upon hts tail,
And war upon hIs brow"
He was on tremendous charger, and
had his breast stuffed out like a wet
nurse, and his behind like a bushv
tailed rooster, Excessive laughter.1
HIs epanlets dazzled the eye, his fear
full sword bangled TO and fro, and wide
as your streets are, they wele not wide
enough for him. BE came on canter-
ing, carrocouing and cayortfng. he
scared a woman with q child in her
arms on one corner, he upset an apple
stand on the other, and 50 he swept by
out OF the present. believe, Into
glorious future. How secure our conn
try Is thought ], with such defenders.
Great Glenn, valiant Glen, cried, ride
on to glory.