The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-04
F0a some days past Inc reoel army


FCR some days past the reDel army
reinforced by the Knights of the Gold
en- Circle from the North and West
has been advancing en- the great COM
mercisl metropolis Of the nation Five
wears ago wing of the same army
advancing upon the same goal, were
met and hurled back by our gallant
legions at Gettysburg. To-day, in dit
f.ren, arrnor, many of the same men,
are there in search OF the same rights
they failed TO find on that field.
Fouryears ago the northern wing OF
thu rebellion assembled in Convention
at Chicago. To-day the southern wing
has Joined them. Then, their Southern
allies being still in arms, they resolved
that the war for the Union was failure.
Nov If it was their object to tell the
truth, they might appropriately adopt a
like resolution respecting the war for
theconfederacy. Yet they are at New
Yotk to. day, not to accept the situation
but.to resist 1t. They propose by po-
Mucal combination to retrieve their lost
eau Sc, to neutralizs the results,
OF tho war, to undo its work.
to put the Government again
In The control OF those who laid violent
and trgitorous hands on it.and to pros
trate ugnin all other interests in the
country to those which then ruled it
as with rod of iron. They
avow That for the present they are
willing to sink all other considerations
for the sake of success. Principles,
consistency, self-respect are to count
nothing. They arc like the desperate
ndventurer who turns against society
who to accomplish his purposes is
equally ready 10 lie. swindIe, steal, rob
or murder.
Their lenders know that frank
declaration of their renl purposes
would De fatal. The mass Of the people
arenot such knaves rs TO sympRthize
with their schemes, nor such fools as TO
desire their SUCCESS. The rebellion
with its costly lessons is too recent to
bs thus forgotten. We do not want TO
re-open tho paudora's box of slavery
which the war has closed, and which
will so remain forever If the American
people are wise.
The grand object. therefore. of the
Convention at New York. to-day, both
in the nominations and In The platform,
will be TO deceive and blind the people
as to their real purposes. II thUy can
do this etfectualIy there Is hope; with
out It, there is none whatever
The day on which they assemble is
peculiarly fitting and suggestive. Pre-
ciseIy i've years ago, II VIC mistake not,
"A part Of this Southern army now in
yestlng New York laid dOwn their
arms 10 the lnvIncibIe General of our
army M Vicksbnrg. Tho same Irwin
cible General conlrOnts them againto-
day, on different field; and now as
then nc article can save them from an
other unconditional surrender"
just Eve years ago. too, the rioters,
who instignIed to their bloody work of
rapIno aud murder by the enemies
of tho Government had held a
carnival in tho great city of
New York, for the purpose OF crea
ting division In the rear of our gall
liant host at Gettysburg, surrounded
the Hon. Horatio Seymour, who called
them his friends" and reproving them
with tho gentlest of gentle words, play
ed the role of Mark Anthony with 6
consummAte skill never surpassed on
the stnge. To-day Mr.. Seymour is
again surrounded by the bloody hand
ed rioters and the bloody-minded in
stigators OF their violence; and as IL TO
make the anniversary the moro CON-
plete and striking, theleaders of the re
bellion in whose behalf these riots wer,
inaugurated are there in the midst
and Mr.. Seymour smiling gracIousl,
on all alike, gives each haut
and calls them all his {" friends
as he called the rioters his friends il
1868. He stands above the graves o
negro men and children, murdered a
the iustigation and connivance of him
self and his fellow traitors who con
trolled the city government, and b.
sives one hand to Mayor Monroe, IN
der whose auspices a hundred unof
Tending and unresisting men were sho
and hacked to death in the Mechanics
Institute at New Orleans, and the othe
to the bloody butcher, Forrest, who
slaughtered a hetacomb of prisoners "a
Fort Pillow after they had surrendered
solely because it had pleased til,
Almighty TO make them black
Thus are Joined the bloody hand
of these menon whose souls rests N
crime of hundreds of cruel muI
ders. And as between the three named
we can see no difference in their NOR,
guilt. They are all "frlendsp aud a
alike illustrious or infamous, as Il
final success or failure OF their traito
Gus plots shall determine. As tbs
We'd with each other during the WI
which could be the most cruel euen
of helpless and inoffensive race, |
they now vie with one another whiC