The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-06

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! Vice Presidency, and that letter as the
Democratic platform. It expresses
| fully and directly what is contained IN
I the regular platform in a more general
way, and now my friends let me con-
slider for few moments the CHARACTER
/ of that Convention. One thing IS 10 oe
/ observed, and thaeis that the Southern
men went into that Convention and
took possession off with just the same
ease and the same assurance that tEey
! did In former Democratic Conventions
/ The Democracy in that Convention
submitted to them with the same Iac ! =
| ty that they had always done anu
4 now ask my friends who were the DEM
ocratic delegates in that Convention
| from the South. They were not Inc
| man who had been Union men during
| the war: but they were the men VINO
had commanded the rebel armies, ana
| filled the rebel Congress, and been Sen
| ators and Representatives; these were
the men who came to that Convention
and represented the Democratic party,
| and made the nominations.
| Now, my friends, allow me to call
your attention very briefly to what
\ would be the inevitable consequences
| of the success of the Democratic party
| in the approaching election. One OF
the first conseaue1ces would be the
| elevation of the rebel soldier 10 the
same platform occupied by the Union
solder. In this Convention you find
the rebel and the Northern Democrat
standing on the same Platform
! exactly; you find the most
influential men of that Convention to
KAYE been rebel officers, and none was
more Influential than Gen. Forrest, OF
| Memphis, the butcher, who had colored
! soldiers and even children murdered in
cold blood after they had surrendered;
but yet this man was received into fell
lowship in the Democratic Convention,
and no voice was more powerful there
than his. If you bring this Democrat
| ic party into power, the rebel soldier
must be pensiOned like the Union SOL
der, his widow and his orphan must
4 be provided for as we provide for the
| widow and orphan of the Union soldier.
| They must be placed upon the same
level, for ask you If the rebels OF the
South gel into power through the medi-
UNI of The Democratic party, will they
consent to tax themselves in common
with the nation to pay pensions to
Union soldiers and the widows and or
phans of Union soldiers, while theirs
are unprovided for? Never. That is
against human nature; and the hrsi
| thing they will do when they shall come
| into power by the election OF Seymour
and the Democratic ticket, will be TO
place the rebel soldier in every respect
upon the same level with the Union
soldiers, and their widows, and or
phans, and all who are pensioned. An
other inevitable consequence of the
success of the Democratic party will be
the reputation of the National debt.
The Democratic party has no position
or status upon the subject of the Ma
tional debt except reputation. Why2
1. Because the Democratic party of the
North was opposed to the creation oil
the debt for the purpose of putting
down the rebellion. Every acI
of Congress authorizing the is
suing of bonds or the borrow.
| ing of money was denounced as
unconstitutional. The several acts o.
| Congress, authorizing the issue of legal
| tender notes, were declared TO be 6
shameless and wanton violation of the
Constitution. The Democratic party
did all in its power by its politicians
and its newspapers to prevent the bonds
from being sold, to prevent the people
from lending the government theil
money to carry on the war, and now
the great mass of the Democratic party
hate the bondholders. The hate then
| because they lent their money TO carry
on the war, and whatever may be the
feelings OF Seymour or the bondhOlders
of the Democratic party in the State
and the city of New York, the truth II
that the great body of the Democratic
party hate the bOndholders because
they lent their money to carry on thu
war, and they will never pay them {
dollar, principal or interest, if they car
help it.
But again: The Democratic party Il
now in open fraternity and in solemn
afhliatIon with rebels of the South. Tn
rebels of the South put their money! il
Confederate stocks. They invested
their money to carry on the rebellion
They were conquered. They lost every
thing.
And now want to know if there is
; man stupid emo ugh TO believe that thes
Southern Lebels, when they shall com
into power through the medium of tn
, Democratic party, will tax themselve
along with the body of the nation to pa
our debt, either principal or interest
: Never. Therefore it is the inevitable
, result. the memorable logic of the situa
ton, the very constitution of the Demo
: cratic party, that it can not and will
not pay that debt, and if il it is brough
into power, that reputation will be tn
certain result.
The only thing that would ever recon
Gle them TO the payment of the deb
would be the assumption OF their debt
and putting it on the same basis bu
; that would be IepudiRtion, because
: would make the debt so large that
never could be paid. Another conse
quence Of the coming into power of tn
} Democratic party, and of the overturn
} ing of these loyal State government
) that we have built up in the South, will
} be the restoration of slavery. did no
think SO year ago. thought, com
what might, they never could restorl
l slavery. I do not think so now.
t think If you give them the power the.
? will return the colored people L
slavery. Let them oVerturn those Stat
t governments down there and they viii
! disarm the negro population. They ar
all armed themselves, and then, will
the sanction and appreciation OF Sey
mour and all the Democratic politician
of the North, they will, by militar.
power, return the colored people L
8 slavery. That would be another inev
liable result of success of the Demo
cratic party.
, Now, my friends, we hear a GOO
] deal upon the question of negro sufl
rage. MY distinguished colleague, il
: the speech which he made in this yarC
last night, took occasion to advert t,
that subject, and wish to read an ex
, tract from what he said. Hesays
} By an net of Congress it has been es
: tabiished in the District of Columbia
and now ut every election III the cit!
of Washington the disagreeable sigh
is witnessed of hundreds of white meI
being joslled and crowded from tn
polls by organized bands of negroes
/ think my colleague has been misin
formed. 1 never heard of that, and
never paid SO poor compliment to thu
white men myself. Laughter Tht
idea that the superior race, the uncon
querable Anglo Saxon, with all his in
telligence, with his possession of arms
with all the advantage that intelligenc,
gives, even in the city of Washington
has been crowded and iostled from thu
polls by those poor negroes. Laugh
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