The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

Our contemporary remembers, perhaps, the speech Mr. Davis made against the Fifteenth Amendment, last winter: he, perhaps, also remembers the State Rights doctrines laid down by that gentleman on that occasion: from which it is plain that Mr. Davis does not accept in good faith, the great results of the war, as negro emancipation and suffrage. That Mr. Davis did not 'favor the restoration of harmony in our hitherto distracted State,' and that he was not 'willing at all times to lend his great powers to bring this about in the most practicable manner, and at an early a day as possible' was shown by his vote against the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment: as he was one of the five Democrats in the House that voted against that measure. Is there a more practicable way to restore harmony? But Mr. Davis opposed it and denounced all the great achievements of the terrible war. His speech was a counterpart to his harangue against all the great measures rendered necessary for the salvation and further security of the Union.

Not even a conservative Democrat can consistently support such a man for the high position to which he has unfortunately been nominated. His election would be a disavowal of the true sentiments of every true West Virginian, which we have always been proud to claim as our own.