The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-29
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lutlonize the Southern States. rrOr IN
stance, the Charleston Mercury pro
poses that the Democrats shall meet
at the call OF their leading men, and
form new State Constitutions. Here
are its words: ~
'They (the Democrats) intend to as
sail no one pretending or not pretend
ing TO authority within the Southern
State. They mean peaceably 10 meet
in convention, probably recommended
| by the legislature of their former legit
innate State governments, and in such
convention form constitution for the
government of these States.
>1'But IL may be said that the negro
governments in the Southern States
Will not permit the white population 70
assemble. They will assail them with
violence. Suppose that this is done,
does IL afford any ground for their sup
port by the military authority of the
United Siates2 Clearly not. "A DEM
ocratic President would most probably
answer, TO any application TO him by
the negro governments for assistance.
In my opinion, your government In
1.-THE first place is unconstitutional and
Revolutionary, and therefore j decline
TO recognize your application. and in
the second place you violate the Con-
stitution of the United States In en-
deavorinG by force TO prevent peace
able assemblies by the people,
But let us suppose that the negro
governments shall lawlessIy endeayor
to,prevent the peaceable assemblies OF
the while population TO reorgantze their
government-what theDf< The while
population Is amply sufficient TO pro-
tect themselves. All they want Is that
the government of the United States
shall stand aloof. If the negroes are
fools enough to attempt by their power
10 establish their supremacy over the
white race in the Southern States, they
can try IL, but the trial will not likely
last very long" - -
These are the same kind of peaceful.
measuresn with which demagoguesde-
Inded the Southern people into seces-
sion in 1860 There would be no war,
Yancey, Stephens, Toombs, Rhett and
others asserted; oil mol nothing was
necessary, except for the people to vote
power into the hands of a few politi-
clans who called Themselves conyen-
ton, and carried the State in their
pockets 9te 70 ll-si ..s-s'5 90
It would seem impossible that any
substantial citizen in The southern
states should be.once more gulled by
these proposers of"peaceful measures"
to defy the laws; bnt passion run high
there; free discussion Of political ques-
tions has not long been allowed there,
and the people are, in too many of the
states still subject to the imperious rule
of the old politicians. 1t is easy TO tell
what might happen, underline encour-
agement to demagogues of the election
of Seymour and Blair. Excited by the
letters OF Blair, the Cobbs, Toombses,
Hamptons and bills would be mad
enough to attempt such revolutionary
measures as the Mercury urges, and
thus plunge the COUNTRY. anew into
civil war. .gV
HdTpeT's Weekly, in its last number,
sets forth very clearly the successive
steps by which, under such peaceful
proceedings" as. the Mercury urges. we
should fall into anarchy:
"How a Democratic success at the
election would occasion civil war is
easily seen. General Blair does not
hesitate to avow It. Congress must be
WHOLLY disregarded. The Supreme
Court must not beinvoked. The Presi
dent must nsurp all powers of the Gov
eminent and act alone. he must be a
Caesar. BECAUSE says General Blair,
| III his JULIET II Llb
| by the Democracy enfOrcesI or permits
/ others to enforce, these decentralization
acts, the Radicals, by the accession OF
| twenty spurious Senators and fifty
4 Representative, will control both
branches of Congress, and his admin
istrhtiOn will be as pOwerless as the
/ present one of Mr.. Johnson Force Is,
\ therefore, the only alternative.
''If Mr.Seymour be elected after this
| loud and reiterated declaration by his
party that his election will mean Iorci-
BILE overthrow OF the present state gov
ernments In the Southern Stntes; the
result Is eVidenS. He would officially
declare those governments void. BE
would then be impeached and pToba-
bly, cOnvIcted; but the Democratic par
ty, victorious at the polls, with the
whole TebeffOrce IJubilant and ready,
would dispute the sentences and rise
against ITS execution. Meanwhile In
the Southern SIatesth new Democratic
State organizations summoned by the
President, would the formed. They
would dispute the State authority with
the present incumbents. The President
would recognize the new claimants and
order The ARMY TO lh,ir support, and 10
'ITAmple in the dust the others. They
in turn would appeal to Congress, al
ready engaged in conflict with the Pres
ident. Meanwhile the representatives
and senators of the new State organiZa-
Iions would arrive in Washington, and
| in concert with the other Democratic
members would be recognized, as Con.
gress by the President. But, indeed,
long before this event civil war would
| be raging in the country, and Wnds
Hampton, and Robert TOomDS, and
Howell Cobb, and the Old rebel chiefs
who say with Albert Pike, We do not
love and will not pretend to love that
Union, though we have agreed 10 obey
the laws OF the conqueror,1 would glad
ly behold in II GesOlHting war and u ru-
ined republic the Gullness of their re-
venge." -.-,--s
Thoughtful men cannot help seeing
how tho evil spirit, the old spirit of
naisrule, of violence, Of injustice, of
hatred towards the Union, has been re-
yiyed by the letter of Blair, the Tam
many platform, and the attitnde'of the
northern democratic leaders. Nor
could this help but be So. The rebel
leaders, during the,war, looked upon
Vallandingham as their great ally; and
they beheld VallandIgham prominent
in the TammRny Convention, and able
to nominate the candidate for the Presi-
dency. They always looked uponlPen-
dleton as one of their chief allies in the
North; and they see that Pendlston's
opinions are represented in the plat
form. i-i
They learned to know Seymour as a
man weak in action, but with sympa-
thies all on the rebel side; and now they
see Seymour nominated for the Presi-
deney. They read the letter OF Blair.
promising revolution, and thew saw