The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-07-07

We observe that our neighbor Of the
RVi&cr, following the example OF other
Democratic papers in the South, is in
clined to speak Of tho editorship of this
true blue" Democratic paper as proceed.
ing from an alcoholic importation from
from Ohio. This will never do. The i'm
portation aloresaidis not the senior editor
Of the States. On the contrary, the head
man, or senior OF the paper, is Col. A. Y,
Harper, native down there, ITO the
manor born," who fought and bled in the
rebellion on behalf OF his true blue Dem
Ocratic principles; such principles as the
junior was holding and suffering for in
Ohio during the war, where, as he says,
he wGs threatened with all manner Of vio-
lence ard reproach on account. Of his an
tagonism to the Union.
The fact is that Herman is well accred-
tied Democrat His uncle was and is a
Democratic editor-a follower and sup
porter Of VallandigHam during the war,
and the nephew was chip OF the family
block during that eventful period and ever
afterwards. He boasts Of holding his
present principles as a sacred with right.
He was born Democrats true blue
Democrat-and he understood Ohio De-
nocracy to mean adherence TO the South
and the right Of secession during the war,
and We all know that the Ohio Democrats
in convention assembled, led by Thurman
and Yallandigham, did proclaim their
hostility to the coercion Of the South on
the Sth day Of January, 1851.
Itis therefore useless to impugn <Ker'
mans Democracy. The fact that. Dem.
ocratic sympathizers with the rebellion
were beaten in its contest against the
III ion, does not change the facts OF his
tory, nor do away with Kernau's claim
that hc is only now advocating the princi-
pies th,t he advocated in Ohio, and that
were held by him in common with Thur
man, alaudigham & Co. during the war.
With these remarks by way OF preface
wcproceed to quote few lines from the
OhOYona States Of July I'd, the latest issue
Of that true blue Democratic paper They
are headed "No Compromise" and read
as follows:
Clasp hAods across the eha'm,. -. ,.......
With the fankeN hoOdlum horde -
Who trampel through sunny Southland
With the fagOt and tae SWord'
~, never, III their "uation''
Uur S-W reiEn statSi 0heC !, n Ne ara =
No. never, I'LL they takethe vote '-' go
from negro hands away
ST, sever by the God on high
rrtIlIeuged shall be
Five hundred thousand Boys In Cray
Who fell TO make Us free ~
l4ro down within theheart Of each
whits master Of the south,
Though seldom written with the pen
ortOld By word u mouth,
There buns purpose 6srcs AMI h!sh ~
That yet will do and dare, . -as
And when the fatal hour chimN
Let fanLeSland beware!
For they shall reap a! thsy have sowu,1
rhelr Fed hearts blood shall be
The Ch'iSn Ot our Clnm0nVealthS
FOreVSrmOIe made free.
Asappropriate to this 4th OF July sea-
son, we offered the remarks OF the Stats
on the Stars and Stripes. 1t speaks OF the
National flag as rag" which the people
Of the South hate with a heavenly ha.
md" ..
"A rag which they spilled the blood Of
life itEell in fighting on sea and shore;
A rag filthy all over with the spots and
blotches o: Radical leprosy;
A rag that has been q lie, cheat and {
lnOCkery since 1851; .
A rag whose stars are darkened will
disgrace and whose stripes are less honor
able than q convlcts uniform"
In contradistinction to these comment
on the starsand.stripes, here are itscom
ments on the Stars and Bars: -
Its stars are as clear and luminous q
the planets that shine in the crysta
vaults OF HeaKsn,
Its stripes are as sPotless as the lilies 9
our Southern savannahS. 80
1t symbollEes the highest, he puresI
the holiest patriotism Of the human bear
aud It Is therefore at type OF the higt