Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-09
nc Party tn Power.
A Graphic Summary or its YeaLuess and its
HisdOtngs

HlSdOlnlS.
Extract from the Cincinnati COmmereiaI.I
The party is swollen with the conceit of Its
own infallibiitY, and vests all its transcendent
qualities in its chief Office holder, IN the inn
lnaculate conception of whose opinions all must
believe. or be communicated with all the
pomp of Papal cnrsings- And yet, its leaders
do not know, its rank and file does not know,
no one knows, what its policy on any live ques.
ton is The present Congress belongs to II, and
has lodged "Lecomptonn and the Mormon ques-
ton, aud the Central American question, and
the Tariff, and Bank and Bankrupt Law ques.
tions-and has borrowed, or is IN the process OF
borrowing, forty millions of dollars to pay cur
rent expenses and has closed the session with
empty chatter about war with England.
The commercial condition of the country has
called for the solicitude of its ruling party
What has it received? Nothing but "inexpll-
cable dumb show and noise" 1t might be held,
however, with some show OF plausl0Illty, tnat
the Administration was still in favor of thard
money" It has issued rag currency to the
amount of twenty millions of dollars-the rags
to be exchanged for gold-the people to haze the
rags and the Government the gold! Perhaps
that is hard money policy. The Secretary OF
the Treasury has twice been before Congress
begging money, aud has each time Numbered
egregiously as to the amount requisite Il. meet
the expenses of Government And what is the
policy of the Secretary for the replenishmcnt of
the exhausted treasury He has nothing to say
of policy. He is waiting for something to turn
up. Behold Micawber in the exchequer!
But there is party ''test" 1t is the Kansas
policy of Mr.. Buchanan. That plainly stated,
as an honest man sees it without looking through
colored glasses, has two parts: 1st. To force
Kansas into the Union as a slave State against
the will of her people; I'd. To prevent Kansas
from coming into the Union as free State, when
it is the clearly expressed will of her people to
do so-the Original Lecompton test was aban-
doned, and then test adopted, the merit Of
which was its incomprehensibility. One thing
was submitted to the people, and as they voted
yea or nay upon it, something else was decided;
and the incomprehensible excellence of the
measure was in this submission something
else. Now, Gcguiescence in this juggle is the
test of loyalty to the dominant party of the
Republic which always boasts of its courage
and directness, and claims to be the only party
capable of governing the country.
This political sphynx is the thing that parti-.
Zans must worship. Our standing army, gar
risoned in the Post Offices and Custom Houses,
is down in the dust in humble praises and to-
morrow they would, with the same zeal, adore
brass, or stone, or dough--or any, OK OF ass, or
creeping thing-if it were set up by authority.
as the test and symbol of party. They must
take their party as it is, and love- honor and
obey it for its OWL sake, accepting allits dogmas
as perfect wisdom, glorying in all its acts with
out question or reservation. We have their
case in relation to their party stated in one of
Tom Moore's songs:
know not, care NOT,
What is In thy heart,
know that love thee,
Whatever aFt