The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-07

States Senator for six years from the
4Lh OF March next.
We need say no more Of the import
ance OF the struggle before you. You
know that your candidate for President
is that citizen soldier who led the west
ern forces of the Union by Fort Donel-
SOD, Pittsburg Landing, Port Gibson,
Brandon, jackson, Champion Hills and
the Big Black, to the capture of Vicks-
burg; who, being then transferred TO
Chattanooga, drove Bragg's army in
rouE and panic from its barely sccessi-
BILE eyre on Mission Ridge; and, be-
ing again transferred 10 the Potomac,
sci his face resolutely toward Richmond
and Lees army, and held them steadily
in view till both were captured, and
the rebellion utterly crashed out.
You know that his opponent is that
Hcratio Seymour who has been your
deadlisst, most insidous, most calumni-
Gus foe, from the day when New YORK
tirst, by the nearly unanimous vote OF
her Representatives in Congress of both
parties, declared her indexible hostility
10 any further extension OF slavery
underour national flag, down TO this
hour. He supported the Nebraska Bill
and the LecOmpton infamy. He did
his utmost, but In vain, to put the vote
OF our State against Fremont and
against Lincoln. Thrice defeated by
was at last elected through the absence
of thousands of you in the teld where
our country was saved; and his success
sent your gallant and noble Wads-
worth to his fate near the spot where
Stonewall jackson first called on his
iellow-rebels to cheer the last election
of Horatio Seymour as their triumph.
He IS The man who addressed the draft
rioters, orphan asylum burners, and
negro killers of the great Emporium
as his friends" and was exultingly
recognized by them as their chief.
There is not to-day an impeniLent, i'm
pIacabIe rebel in the land who does
not glory in supporting him, and in his
heart ecno Vaace's boast that all they
lost when defeated by Grant, they will
regain when they triumph with Sey-
mour.
me candidate for Vice Preside Mt,
you also know. Schuyler Colfax is a
native of your State; and she may well
be proud of her son. From poverty,
obscuriIy and orphanage, he has stead
lily won his way, while yet in The prime
OF life, to the third place in our Gov
erament, which he is soon to exchange
for the second. Seven times elected TO
the House from district previously
represented by a political adversely, he
has been thrice chosen its Speaker, and
has discharged the aIduous end critical
duties of that exalted station with an
ability, dignity, and assiduity, rarely
equalled and never eIcelled. Never
accused OF a wrong or suspected of a
vice, having achieved eminence with
CUT exciting envy, and risen to power
without having made one personal enc
my, his career is a sign of promise, a
beacon Of hope, to every Portionless
American youth, and his popularity is
bounded only by the wide circle with
in which he Is known.
His competitor is General Francis P.
Blair, Jr., who was likewise, while a
protested Republican and Major Gen.
eraI in service. a candidate for Speaker,
but with no better success than now
awaits him. General Blair secured his
present nomination by publicly pro-
posing, IN case of his party's success
next November, the overthrow by mil
itaTy force OF tie loyal State Govern
ments now established in most OF the
States lately in rebellion. This propo-
sal SO delighted the rebel Congressman
and Generals convened in Iammany
Hall that every dictate of prudence and
sagacity was detied, and his nomina-
| ton rushed through on a whirlwiDd oil
acclamations. Ii was seconded by For
rest, the butcher of Fort Pillow, as that
Of Seymour had been by Vallandigham,
the martyr OF Ohio-the only man who
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being beaten 100. 900 votes in warmly
contested State election.
Fellow citizens the platforms OF the
two parties are before you. They differ
vitality on an Issue of good faith against
reputation. The Seymour platform
demands that the loyal blacks of the
South shall be put under the feet of the
rebel whites, SO that the latter may
take vengeance on the former for guild
ing and pioneering the armies of the
Union through the swamps and forests
of Dixie, and for swelling the ranks OF
those armies by at least one hundred
thousand muskets. The Grant and
ColfRx platform expressly recognizes
the duly devolved on the restored
most exposed class of its defenders
from rebel malice, intlRmed by the
spectacle of negro loyalty. The blacks
were freed in order to save our coun-
try from disunion. They have been
enfTAnchised to save 1t from venRelEl
rebel domination. The Democratic
party proposes their disfrauchisemenI
| to assume that they were never duly
enfranchised, and thereupon support
their late masters in stamping out the
existing State Governments and re-
storing the old rebel domination under
the cry of IA White Mans Govern
ment." This is naked revolutions
rebellion within the Union to achieve
through rebellion against the Union.
The rebel Ex-Governor of North Caro-
lima has we'll said that they will thus
gain, if they elect Seymour, all that
they lost under Davis and Lee.
On the question of paying or swind-
ling the National creditors, the two
platforms are in pointed antagonism.
Fahola and THAR lpSl
honest Northern allies, of course, hate
those who lent our Government the
money indispensably required to arm,
equip, feed, Clothe, and pay the volun-
teer armies that fought TO preserve the
life of the Republic. The dodge OF
paying the bonds in greenbacks, and
not paying the greenbacks at all. is
congeniul to their natures. II gratities
at once their knavery, their avarice,
and their disloyalty. They punish, TO
their OWE profit, those who furnished
the ''sinews of war" for their over
throw. Upto the hour wherein that plat
form was reported, Horatio Seymour
had spoken and witten as though in
| 1lexibly opposed 10 this sneaking plan
OF reputation. Yet the platform pro-
claims that the great bulk of our ma
tional debt is payable, aud should be
quickly paid, in lawful money''-that
| is, in paper promises that VIGOROUSLY
are not fulfilled, and should orr adver-
saTies achieve, power will be. And the
moment this doctrine was announced,
rebel We'd with Copperhead in shouting
its instant and unanimous ratification.
| TbencefOrth, it was and is canon of
! the Democratic creed-iu New York as
well as in Ohio-that the boudhOlders
are to be paid OFF in greenbacks and
the Greenbacks left unpaid. Every
pensioners pittance, every savings
bank depositoE's bard earned. scauty
provision against an evil day, dwindles
| 10 nonentity il this policy OF repudia-
ton and rascality shall be suffered to
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