The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-08-08
pLoulsvhIEi August Q, 1877.

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pLoUIsyiLrE, August Q, 1872.
DEAR sm;-Will you be kind enough
10 place this circular in the hands Of &C
tive Democrats in your county who will
at once commence an organization for
tho purpose Of supporting the principles
Of our party as they will be proclaimed
by the Convention ut Louisville on Sep.
tember Sd. The entire abandonment oi
principles as evinced by the coalition
between the sportsmen and place hunters
10 their attempt 10 elevate Horace Gree
ley to the Presidency, is a sad evidence Of
the Generalization and corruption now
existing In our midst. Based as that bar.
gain Is, upon fraud and Hypocrisy, the ut.
terance Of one set Of sentiments in the
North and another in the South, 1t must
be repudiated and spnrned by every man
WHO has u spark Of honesty in his heart.
There are hundreds OF thousands who
already proclaim their purpose Of main.
tanning the Democratic organization at
all hazards. The disintegration Of the
Radical party into two factions renders 1t
self.evident that the Democratic masses
can elect one Of their own faith instead Of
lifelong enemy like Horace Greeley,
who still loudly asserts that he has never
abandoned his principles, and points
proudly yet to his record. Can Demo-
crats, who have boasted that they sup.
port principles, not men," agree 10
lslsily their past life by clasping hands
with the worst men Of the Radical
party, Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull, Fen.
ton and the thousand other leaders who
rally around Greeley and would control
his administration Il his election can be
secured! Who arc the men that thus seek
for the highest honors and emoluments Of
this country, and who have obtained the
support Of the trading politicians OF the
Tammapy school by promises Of dividing
the spoils without exception. They are
the bigots whose bitterness has been
evinced for the past twenty years, in the
defamation Of their opponents; they are
the men who have uttered the most un.
christian, the most ferocious, the most
villaiuous sentiments about and against
the Southern people-women and child
rGn, as well as the men-during the war,
and who have done the most TO develop
and passitha Legislation since the war
which true Democrats denounce as sub.
versive OF liberty and against the spirit Of
our institutions; they are themenwho have
riveted the South with chains and bur.
dened it with its enormous debts, the
proceeds OF which have gone into the
pockets Of select few, who have fatten-
ed upon the misfortunes OF the people,
and who turn TO the new ring and Tam.
many alliance in order to still further en-.
rich and ennoblc themselves. Warmoth,
Who has increased the debt of Lou
isiana $45O00000 in three years
whose fraudulent acts and villainous
State legislation have been denounced in
the Democratic papers from Maine to
Texas, is leader par excellent Of the chiv.
airy Of the South. His influence at Gin.
cinnati and the sixteen votes oi his dele.
CATION, insured the nomination Of Greeley
and yet we arc cody informed that the
people have done II with enthusiasm.
Warmoth can control the registry in
louisiana and can elect, by fraud, such
candidates as he peases. Just as the
Mayor Of New York has decided the vote
in appointing all the return officers for
Mr.. Greeley, who can if not checked,
carry out the open assertion OF $4,000
majority in November. And Augustus
Schell and others have written urgent
letters for the "good Of the cause that
Louisiana Democrats should work in har-
mony with Warmoth. And It is boldly
proposed to place him in the United
States Senate as reward for his infamy.
Can 1t be that the people are so degrad.
ed as thus TO sanction premium for
their own dishonor? Is our body polite
to be inoculsted with base person of fraud9
Is this. better method Of securing our
liberties than the partizsn use Of the
laws which were originated by the prom.
inent leaders Of Mr., Greeley's party and
placed among our statutes, to be enforced
by the bayonets OF the present Admins
tratioDj Shall we suffer our liberties to
perish ,seither by slow poison or by the
sword, or, preferring rather to maintain
them and TO insure a free expression OF
the popular will, shall we not make war
against all parties who attempt 10 perVert
the Constitution Can the people OF the
South clasp hands with those men who
have. wronged them, from the termination
Of the WARP Can Northern men condone
such ofenses by placing them in power
In Texas, to reinstate Gov. Pease, whose
arbitrary course was so nobly contested
and thwarted by the generous and states
manlike conduct of Hancock. In Arkan.
sSs, to indorse Senator Rice, who was the
first to concoct and carry out those frauds
bylwhioh Radical Legislature was in
stalled in power, and the infamous des.
potism which disgraces that State was
brought into being. In Missouri, to load
with honors Brown, who, in August, 1853
out Heroded Herod for disfranch nchisement
and persecution, and recanted only when
office was to be obtained and future plum.
der was in view. Blair, who came into
the party to destroy 1t, nobly has fulfilled
his mission. Schurz, who is the loudest
i otall, wanted to sweep the South with
the baton Of destruction" /" and viewed the
election Of q Democrat as the worst ca
lamity to belall the country only six
months ago McNeill, the butcher of un.
armed prisoners in Kentucky, honorS
Burbridge, the most detested OF all It's citi
zens. In Georgia, Brown, who as an off,
ciAl during the war and since under the
corrupt administration of Bullock, which
plundered the State of many millions, hal
been and Is accused oil using his oficia
station for private gain. In Alabama,
Warner, who never neglected TO carry ou
the most unrelenting crusades while tht
pay of his office rewarded his efforts
These and such men whose antecedentl
arc too well and too disgracefully knowr
are to be the Southern leaders, In conjunc
tion with those selected politicians WhC
a year ago denounced them as the mos
unscrupulous scoundrels. If the iradu-
lent bargains are faithfully executed BY
the selected chieitain Of the clan, canno
the people say "pdr noble trdtrum ldtrone
am60." And yet they dare to sail undel
flag upon which them emblaZon hon