The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-26

|4nteElneteu that plAIlorm 10 Ineanfe rev.
olution. The southern rebels who
madethe platform declared il to mean
that. in speeches which have been
printed and read at every Preside. AZ
.ter they had done so, Horatio Seymour
avowed that he stood upon the plat
form and was a party. to itsa terms.
Besides these official declarations which
the whole party are pledged to main
tain, we have the declarations. of their
representative men and newspapers,
North aud south.-We have the evil
dence o: the same purpose in the spirit
of the party leaders wherever we ind
then; in the current history of the
the events transpIring from day to day
in every rebel State; especially in the
condition of affairs in Kentucky, which
by virtue of its, falsely assumed 'neu-
trallly during the rebellion, escaped the
military coercion that yet restrains. the
other rebel States and where in conse-
quence1 rebellion is today more nm
trammeled and more virulent than it is
In South Carolina. We have it in the
conduct, the walk and conversation OF
the Pro-rebel party in the, Northern
States, now again putting forward as
their champions such partisans of the
rebellion as vallandigham. We have
1t in the boldly uttered threats of their
newspapers and their partisans in every
rank of life, in every State North and
South-threats that they will resist the
lawful declaration of the result of the
electoral vote-threals that they will
fight If the. States OF Texas, Missis-
sippi aud Virginia, which through
their own rebellious obstinaoy are
not yet restored TO practical rela-
lions with the Union and are
without civil government, shall not be
allowed to cast the votes of electors
chosen by rebel mob without form of
law-threats that if their party is sue
cessful they will break up the civil
governments in eight Southern States
by force, drive out the loyal people
from those States, with the alternative
ola halter if they remain, disfranchise
and re enslave the blacks, coerce the
Senate of the United States by bayonets,
and, in short. usurp the Government
and set up just snch a brutal despolism
as the Southern Confsderacy proposed
and was while it existed. "a
BE INSURED this is no mere sensational
appeal % your apprehensions. Con-
slider in the light of experience what
these men promise. and be your own
judges. Observe that the men who
make them are the men who Threatened
rebellion in 1850. Turn back to the
records of those times, and you will
find no threats more violent, more gen
oral and numerous, nothing more evil
IDENTIFY earnest, than the threats of the
rebel leaders and their Northern allies
to-day. The evidence, unhappily, is
SO overwhelming that we cannot mis-
take it's grave import. A reign Of
terror exists now in every Southern
State not protected by the military, and
In some parts of those thai ar The
negroes are being forced by threats OF
starvation to join the rebel party,
and the loyal whites are only allowed
temporary exemption from argu-
ments of force until The election OF
Seymour in November shsil make ii
safe 10 administer them. kentucky,
separated from our own soil only by q
narrow river anda range of mountains
is to-day but little better than France
under Robcspierre. She is subject to a
tyrrnny OF opinion almost as terrible to
her loyal citizens as any that existed in
that or any other part OF the South dur,
ing the armed rebellion. Read the let,
ter from there which We print else,
where, and doubt, IT, you can, that Ken.
lucky is virtually In rebellion to-day,
and needs only the spur OF national
Democratic victory TO inaugurate there
such open defiance of the laws OF the
United States, and such persecution o.
loyal citizens, as existed there during
the rebellion D s7s.les ---as.... go -.
Let no one delude, himself with the
belieI that it is impossible, after the
experience of the Southern people, that
they can contemplate another rebellion.
Remember that few hundred rebel
leaders are practically the Southern
people, for they easily control them.
The mass of the people there always
have been and still will be manipulated
by the comparatively small number OF
intelligent, influential, reckless men
whe inaugurated the rebellion before.
and who now, 10 TT them more than ev-
er for such IA scheme, are utterly des-
perste and have everything to win and
nothing to lose by the venture.
With Seymour in the Presidential
chair, backed by the prestige of the vote
that put him there. these Southern