Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-01

~ W.. do not know, says the National lntelli.
cancer. that we have ever before seen, in so few
words, more comprehensive and conclusive VIM
dieatian of the VINE PAKrr from the charge oil
being opposed 10 "PRooREss," in the true concep-
,cn of that term, than scontained in the subjoin-
ed article:
From the Lynehbnrg Vbginian, Of Sept. 20.
PROGRESS. ~
To the observant and impartial mind no more
rroundleSs prctenSion could be presented than tha
OF the Locoocos, that theirs is the party oil pro
gress ; and yet lhcie is scarcely any one OF the
many assumptions with which they have SO long
managed to delude unsuspecting people by wlnch
they hava profited more than tins: IL de'tatio'l
were progress-if to hare kept all the clements ~
social and political life in state Of perpetual ef
| element and discord-to hare encouraged fne 0ue-
caueeriny spirit of one class OF our citizens III us
law less designs against the peace and prosperity o,
other nations were promotion Of the substantial
welfare of the country, then we admit that the
claim of the party would be indlsputabie. But py
those who are Of opinion that our prosperity US
republican people depends upon the culu'alioh Oh
the arts of peace and faithful observance OF those
laws and treaties which have been enacted for the
protection of our individual and national nights,
widely different conclusion will be arrived at
Education, commerce, the industrial arts, and
peace, internal well as external, are the wheels
by which the.machinery of true and safe progress
must be propelled. Let any man ask himself what
the Democratic party have done or sought to do for
these and answer the question to their credit if he
can. Let him consult their history, examine their
party creeds, look to their legislative action, and
say what system or measures they have established
or attempted by which these great agents of i'm
provement or progress have been strengthened and
benefited.
What encouragement have they ever given 10 The
abors of the manufacturer the miner, the dgricutu-
rist, andtA artisdn2 What have they ever done
q n1a iparn pf
American people, against the pauper and convict
labor of other countries Nothing, and worse than
nothing! For years they have warred, with unre-
lentng hostility, against every attempt oil the mig
party 10 foster and support them. What have they
ever done, as party towards The extension and pro-
lection Of commerce? Nothing, and worse than moth
ing! They have permitted hundreds OF lives and
millions oil property TO be sacrificed annually to the
dangerous pedments that obstruet the great rUers,
and bar out ships from safe and accessible harbos
along the lakes and ocean i'll times of storm. While
the public lands are plundered every year for petty
and local purposes, they found, as aparystead-
lily resisting all attempts of the Wings TO increase
the means of commercial intercourse, and render
more the lives and property of those who are
engaged in it. Their present candidate for the
Presidency sgnalized his career in Congress by an
unvarying opposition to every scheme having these
objects in view. What have they done to keep
down intestine commotion in the country, preserve
peace oiM foreign nations? The history ofthe past
Will Show that the polcy they nave uniformly pur-
sued has brought us all the former, while it has
been characterized by much that was at war with
the latter; and who does not know that but for the
restraining and conservative influence of the Wing
party, always exerted in favor of the public tran
guilty, our present condition, consequence OF
such course on their part, would have been sadly
different.
Indeed, there is nothing in which the progressive
character of the two parties has contrasted more
avorably 10 the latter than in their constantly
ercised conservatism, by tchieh the lrhole gopern
mental aehnery has been kept in sound icorkng
der. On all occasions when danger has threatened
our Institutions; at every crisis in monetary at
fairs, whenever one of those revusions that SOME
times shake the business system like earthquake
hasthreatenedus; IN whatsoever manner the rights
or interests of our people have been imperiled,
Wig influences hare been fell, ,cdrding of, steady
ing, and protecting, ike the principle Of good in tbs
moral trorM. lthas been finely said of Wing pm
ciples, that they were like electricity in the phys
cal universe-sometimes dormant, but alicdys pos
Sessing in themselves pgor and pitay, fructifying,
viyifying, aud purifying every thing with which
they come in contact. They are not the offspring
of any passing emergency, dying with the use TO
which they are applied but they universal and
eoerasting-a applicable at all times, and suited to
every possible condition in which people can be
placed.