The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-17
pemoeratIe Arguments.
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Never were poor mortals more soLely
troubled than our Democratic editors
the orators as yet keep in the oack-
IRround-to find something 10 say
against General Grant. Ihelr s4 per
| tions provoke 5mile, even iTota tne
| compassionate beholderEas WIEN ~ u
| see a man in full chase after MS nat III
| n gale. ar suddenly reduced to hori-
zontaI position on the sidewalk oy
piece OF orange peel. ,,-, .v,,.s In
one journal saw direfnl things IN
| Grants letter of acceptance. Dlo ne ny os
say he would he guided by ths VIII WI ~, "
| the DeoDle. rather than exclusively "
the platform which he approved2 Sucn
! conduct is 'sexecrable," says our Dem
cratic contemporary Ot Vine street, u
| is. in fact, in danger OF drawing on
| Democratic votes. And why notE Is
not the Democratic party seriously
! Considering the nomination of another
man who Endorses the Chicago platform
OF 1865 also, and has a record much
more radical than Grant, Democratic
votes graViLate TO Grant much more
naturally than to Chase. -tt
Another journal affects 10 think Gen,
Grant Is "tyrant,D because when Ger.
tain papers distinctively known as OF
the Copperhead species were obstruct-
ing his milItsry action, he said he
would silence the mischief-makers II he
had the authority to do SO. He did not
suppress them, for he had not the
authority. Had he been tyrant he
would not have concerned himself
about his right to do the thing he
wished, but would have done it. This
Democrat notion of tyranny Is queer
ono. -f
We arc pointed, again, to nn order
excluding certain Jewish traders from
his lines, because they defied lawful
authority; and all American citisens of
Jewish descent are called upon to vote
against him. Now it Is clear that no
law-abiding citizen, of any nationality,
will object TO that order, except that II
was too sweeping and indiscriminRte
in its terms-issued as it was in the
heat of q stirring campaign. The fact
is, that the Objectionable order was
Issued in his absence from headquar-
tiers, and was promptly rescinded on
his return. Men of Hebrew extraction
are not fools, nor can they be misled by
such a paltry device.
A Democratic paper 10 New York is
doing heavy work at military criticism
of Grants campaign against Rich
mond. He is charged with losing more
men, fighting Lee within intrench-
meuts, than Lee did on the defensive.
This Is wonderful enough discovery;
but it is followed up by another more
brilliant, Grant, tits alleged, lost more
men in taking Richmond-fOr it is not
yet denied that Richmond was taken,
and Lees army along with 1t, after a
feeble attempt at hight-than McClel-
Ian lost in n destructive campaign hav-
ing the same objective point, without
taking anything but an immense sup
ply OF ChicRahominy fever. Nothing
is more to be desired FOR our candidate
than the fullest comparison of the two
campaigns.
The attempt to revive the long since
refuted calumnies about Gen. Grants
habits will not avail. Every man who
has known Gen. Grant during the last
| five years knows this story to be ma
| Iicious fabrication. He has been, du.
ring all this time at least, constantly
under the observation of IA great variety
OF ~ide-awake men of all classes and
of all shades of political opinion-meI
| Jealous of his advancement, men hos
tile in feeling, as well as friends Rnd
cordial supporters. Careful inquiry
has failed 10 elicit a particle OF reliable
testimony sustaining the slauder of the
Copperhead malignants. and Wendell
Phillips. We respectfully suggest tina
there are glass houses" in the case
and that it ill becomes Democratic
journals to try to revive pretense o
this sort, wholly unsustained by proof
Comparisons may be found unpleas
antly "odorous."
But II there Is any one thing eSpecl-
ally Imaginable in this line of business
it is the attempt to challenge the sound
ness OF Gen. Grants political princi-
pies The mostimpOrIant pages OF Oul
country's history are radiant with the
lrorks by which he has demonstrated
his faith. The ludicrousness of this at
tack on Grant, on the score of principle
is sufficiently striking, when 1T come.
from the organs of party so com
pletely at sea that 1t is to-day doubtful
which of the two opposite sides 1t vii
tHke at New York, on every living
issue OF the times.