The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-02-25

party. In this state of facts, profes-
sion by leaders of that party of sympa-
thy for the rebels and hope of relief
from their burdens which they per-
sistently oppose, is simply nauseous.
1t is generous in this connection to
allude to the assassination of President
Liucoln-an event which, at the time it
occurred, none more deeply deplored
than the rebels-as an intimation that
they counselled it, and as justification
for their further oppression.
1t has often occurred to US, that of all
the wrongs aud trials to which the reb-
els have been subjected, the reprOach
and yilitication that the party in power
have thought proper to heap upon them
in vindication of their unrelenting poll
cy, is the most irritating and harassing.
Their motives have been perverted, their
actions distorted and their characters
asperscd, in every conceivable manner
and degree. And whenever that party
has determined to intlict new injnry or
refuse to redress an old one, it is the oc-
casion of the PRONUNCIATION Of new, or
the reitcration of an old calumny.
We are struck by the character OF the
reasoning employed by the MielIigeHcer
on this snbject Some unknown per-
son writes puerile letter, from
Raleigh county, in which he states
that many of the rebels there are
very agSrava'ing, and expresses the
opinion that some of them should not,
and the hope that they will not he al
lowed the elective franchise in this State.
We suppose thai, even in this State,
the rebels do sometimes talk among
themselves and their friends of the OPP
pressions and outrages perpetrated on
them; though we have not heard that
they make any public complaint. This
is the only reasoa alleged by the In
telligencer that is true. And thereupOn
it is gravely urged that the Legislature
did well when it refused to repeal bill
depriving creditors of their debts and
securing them to the debtor-which sets
at naught every principle of private
justice and common morality, and utter
ly disregards the once sacred prOvs-
ions of the Constitution of the
United States as we'll as that of West
Virginia. Whether, in the argument
that because rebels and others talk of
the oppression and outrages perpetrated
upon them by the dominant party,
therefore the expressions AID outrages
should be perpetuated-thereis more of
arrogance, absurdity OF malignancy, we
have not the discrimination to decide.
The Democratic party-containing
within its organization the Conserva-
tive men who have stood 10y the Union
and now labor for its prosperity-not
the rebels--do demand return of the
Government to the principles OF hon.
esty and humanity, and the tenets of
the Constitution; and in view of that
object demand repeal ofall iniquitous,
proscriptive and unconstitutional laws,
whether they effect rebels, or Union
men. They do this in the name
of natural philanthropy, christian char
ity, civil liberty AID Constitutional
Governmental the sake of them
selves, aud all other citizens and resi-.
dents of the State-whethcr heretofore
rebels or always loyal" Their demand,
however, is detiantly refused. Bat they
will again appeal to the people of the
country who have only the common
welfare to promote, in the confident as
surance that, ere long, indignant at the
shameless prctences and shallow So
phistries with which they have been so
long beguiled, they will wrest the in
stitutions of the country from the party
that So persistently perverts them to
the service of its own and Individual
purposes, and place them in better
keeping.