The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-07

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admirably set forth by the Albany
Evening Journal; and as complete
answer to the Register'S wall of"Rhy
The Defeut9" we copy the terrible in
dictment OF the Journal against the
Democratic party:
4 Rejeeted-and why:
To the Leaders of the Democratic Party {:
Your rejection by the people Is de-
cided and emphatic. Whyf
You encouraged the South to initiate
You pronounced coercion equally re.
| evolutionary with secession.
i You assaiIed the first call for troops
Il as unconstitutional.
4 You refused 10 vote either men or
money to carry on the war.
You bid the Southern States depart
in peace.
You declaped that II slavery must be
destroyed to gain the Union, then the
Union should perish.
You declared your preferences for the
rebel Constitution, as against our own.
When 1t became apparent that to pro-
claim univeral liberty would weaken
i the enemy and reward the trne friends
of the Union, you nevertheless oppos-
ed 1t.
You stoutly commended that the re-
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triumphanIly quoted every reverse TO
our arms as demonstrating IL.
You urged the abandonment OF the
war. and the resort to negotiation for
the best attainable terms.
In our gloomiest days, and when no
| political campaign was pending you
sought to indame the passions of the
people against the only government
/ we had, or could have.
You assailed President Lincoln as a
despot.
You denounced the government as
revolutionary.
The Boys in Blue were termed by you
Lincoln htrelings and dogs.
You opposed allowing the men who
were periling their lives for our coun-
try, the enjoyment OF tine elective fran
chise.
You opposed filling up our armies by
You melted riotous and bloody re-
sistance to the laws of the land.
You pronounced the war failure,
and called for It's abandonment.
You urged the South to reject the
most magnaDimous terms ever offered
| to conquered rebels. i
| You passed laws Imposing on free
men the most CALLING and unjust dis
examinations. in the halls of Justice, ON
the fields OF labor and in the resorts of
trade.
You would not allow a man equal
Justice before the law, because servile
blood flowed in his veins.
You would not permit man to con-
troll his own labor, who had once been a
slave, or was the child of slave.
You would not allow a man to dis
pose of his own property on equal
terms with his neighbour because his
color differed. r. fia9
Yon,wouldsell the labor of a colored
man on the auction block, as a punish
ment for not working when you would
not give him employment.
II You fired the Southern hearth anew
against the loyal North.
j You confer the highest honors on the
hercest and nost brutal Of the rebel
n Generals.
energy, sagacity, bravery and skill, we
owe the existence of our country,
as a "brntaI butcher" q "miserable
ldrunkard," a Contemplate liRr,n a
"miscege ;" and a "scoundrel.''
The man most warmly welcomed by
you, in National CONTEMPORARIES
leon "Butcher" Forrest-1lshonered a
nag oftruce, and shot down his victims
The pavernents of New Orleans are
stained with the blood off the while and
black victims OF yonr hellish malig-
You have rejected every principle
the democratic party formerly cher.
You propose to trample into dust. by
revolutionary means, the laws of Con.
gress, -afAa =
Riot, rapine and revolution are the
weapons with which you propose &c
/ overthrow all opposition TO your Will.
You trampIed on the ballot box In
1860 and for i've years thereafter, and
| you threaten to dolt again.
You hoastthRt your triumph would
be the triumph of the "b0st Cause.
You ayow a policy of Reputation.
You propose an irredeemable paper
currency.
You propose to refuse To pay interest
on the public debt.
You propose to tax "evsry, species of
property" the poor man owns. ta
You turn out Inspectors of Election,
forge naturalization papers, and Issue
them criminally, and by violence seek
to peryert the voice of the people,. a..
The fact that republican meeting is
| to be held, in many of the States of the
Union, is deemed by you of sufficient
reason for shooting down those who
attend. -~
Southern republican editors are none
too good for merctless castigAtion at
your hand and an excited people are
murdered in their fear.
Fort PIlloW-Eew ,Orleans-GRmilla
-OpelousRs-theseR are your Victories
You court or crush the colored man,
just as he accepts or declines your
offered political alliance. -.-----,--zs-
You turn into the streets to starve
and die every colored man who will not
vote a rebel ticket. -
The war was your war, begun by you,
conducted by you prolonged by you.
Thousands of homes in our land were
dssolated by you. Hundreds of thou
sands OF graves were dug by you. At
Fiction, desOlatIon, death, followed in
your train. Debt and taxation are the
fruits of your treason.
Reconstruction has been DELAYED by
you. You would have no reOrganiza-
ton that did not place the old lash In
your hands, and enable the masters to
wreck vengeance on their late slaves.
The future you would give. us is fl-
ture of terror. Civil war, business
prostration and oppressive taxation are
all you offer MS.
The past warns us of you. The grave
holds up its hands against you. The
future implores to bs saved from you.
The people heed the snpplicatiou, and
hence you are rejected.
THE CANDIDATES.