The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-20
Mr. Pendleton's speech.
from he cgncinnaa eazetls.

we publish the speech of Mr.. PendIe-
ton at Grafton, W. Va, on the 10th,
which We suppose may be called the
opening gun or note OF the campaign.
He went to show that he had swallowed
his personal disappointment, that he
had taken an extension of time for his
political aspirations, and to distinguish
himself by a prompt seal in behalf of
the nominee who slew him in the Con-
vention. He went also to give his
twist in the platform, against the pro-
uounced opinions and the whole record
of Mr.. Seymour, and to "recover the
wind" of him by expounding it TO mean
greenback imitation, the perpetuity OF
| legal tender paper, and the turning oil
the public faith to the wind of bad
breath, by uttering our own broken
promises to pay as complete payment
of our pecuniary obligations.
We shall see how this game to fore
stall the Presidential candidate, by
tVing to his tail the notions which he
has before denounced of the defeated
aspirant, will work. Perhaps it will be
taken that Mr.. Pendleton went thus
early to Virginia to embarrass the can.
didate of the party, and to raise an i'll
odor. We shall see if the aspirant who
was defeated by his paper money inha-
had most denounced 1t, will be permit
ted to pin his greenbacks to The coat
tail of the candidate. and TO lead him
about like bear to dance to his legal
tender notes.
Mr.. Pendleton arraigns the Republ' =
can party. And what is the whole
sum and substance of his accusation
armies, and brought the rebellion to
submission, and having It In their
power to restore the Union, they have
not done it, but have imposed terms
on the conquered States. Grant all
this, and how infinitely better Is the
situation of the country than Mr.. Pen
dleton's policy would have brought 1t
to?
Let us glance at this. When but two
States had seeded, Mr.. Pendleton de-
clared that the Union was dissolved,
that the rest of the Southern States
would follow, and that no power in
the Government could reverse the ac-
complished fact, or prevent its con-
summation, and that there was no way
but to let the South establish its iHde-
pendence, and work out its destiny ac'
cording to its own will. In accordance
with this, he opposed in Congress every
measure to raise men or money for the
defense Of The Union. In the spring,
after the reverses of the loyal men in
the elections of the fall of 1862, he made
a speech to the Democratic club at
New York, in which he declared the
failure of the Government to put down
secession, the impossibility of the un-
dertaking, and that our troops should
| be recalled, the independence of the
Confederacy recognized, and future re.
| lations between the two contederacieS
left to be settled by mutual interest.
In 1864 he ran as candidate for Vice
President on a platform declaring the
effort to restore the Union by war a
failure, and proposing line of con-
10 lnaag Nil hi n
could only mean the permission and
recognition of the Confederate indie
pendence. And il was universally &C
cepted that he represented the Intense
peace-and. surrender or cUpPerhead
part of that ticket.
Now, suppose that MIR. Pendielon's
craftsmanship had prevailed. He
knows-Ior no then toretold it-that
every Southern State would have gone
with the seceders, that the Ohio river
| would have been the line between two
| Confederacies, the one excited with all
the hatred that had led them to seces-
sion, made insoIent by easy triumph,
and in this temper having an induity
of affairs TO arrange with the other,
growing out of their geographical and
| political relations and with the slavery
| question raising greater causes OF hos
| tllity between two Confederacies SO
situated than it ever did under one
Government.
He knows that this separation would
either have been the abIect submission
OF the North, or an immediate arniDg
on both sides for war. He knows that
the original Democratic conspiracy
contemplated the establishment OF the
Southern ConIederacy, and then the
| dissolution of the Northern States, aud
| their piecemeal subjugation. With his
! policy, the North would have begun by
surrender, and then would have had to
\ fight for its Independence.
We have escaped that destruction
because Mr.. Pendleton's craftsmanship
did not prevail; because he and his
party we're sent into retirement. And
| now he, whose Htatesmanship began
By submission to the South and a dig
solution of the Union, comes up before
the people and arraigns the Republican
4 party who saved the Republic from
| this ruin, because they have imposed
terms on the conquered rebels, and
thereby delayed the restoration OF th'
| Union.
Bv 40 much as 1t ia better to be able
\ to impose terms on a malignant, con
quered enemy, than TO have them I'm
| posing terms on us conquered, Is the
situation of the country, for which ne
arraigns the Republican party, better
than his craftsmanship would have
brought 1t 10. By so much as the pres
ervaiion of this great National Union
and the holding in our hands the power
| to prescribe terms to a beaten enemy
| is better than dissolution and all the
causes of hostility which IL would have
enRendered, is the craftsmanship ofthe
Republican, party above that of Mr.,
Pendleton.
i And yet he, the personal embodiment
| of national dissolution, disgraceful sur
render, and of all the war and anarchy
that were inseparable from it, now, in,
stead of confessing his disgrace, and
hiding his head from the accusing ehul'
gence of great nation, which with his
policy would now have had no exts'
| tence, comes out in the light OF day,
and, with a lace more brazen than
brass, he assumes to accuse the Repup
lican party because they have prescrio'
ed conditions of the restoration OF the
Union.
If we take Mr.. Pendleton at mis- word
as he gave it in the rebellion, he has Mt
part in this preserved Union. He cast
in his lot with secession. The country
is saved in spite of him. And yet he
instead OF asking amnesty of the ma
ton, assumes to arraign the people VINO
preserved it nation. he talks OF GU u
i zens OF Ohio, Indiana and Michigan Dc
ing Congressman and Governors II
the reconstructed States. Why thes'
men have right in the nation. They
fought to preserve It, But what rlghi
has Mr.. Pendleton in the nation which
he sought to dissolve2 Even West VIE
ginia, where he made his speech and
accused the Republican party That they
had not restored the Union as soon al
confederacY, If his statesmansh4p har
prevailed.
TER Dapooo-.ts T., TvasbfpOton anC