Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-04
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be Louis the XVII of France, was scarcely more
Ipreposterous, than the pretensions Of asquad
| of nulliiers, their adherents and followers, to
be the great Democratic party of the United
States. The proofs of want of identity with the
party of twenty, or twenty-five years ago, are
numerous. A single one of which is sufficient
| for it is conclusive. Neither President jackson
| or Polk, could be members of the now pretend-
ed Democratic party, if they were yet alive,
unless they would renonnce their official acts
They both signed bills excluding slavery from
territories. They didit not as automaton writ
| ing machines, not as matter of course, because
the bills had already passed both houses of Con-
gress, as some politicians argue that it is the
| duty of a President to do. Both Presidents
jackson and Polk, eprofessed to follow the plain
and explicit provisions of the Constitution,
which requires that when ! bill is presented to
the President, sIf he approve it, he shall sign
lit; butlf not, he shall return it with his objec
TONS" The party that now controls President
Buchanan, originated during the second term of
President jackson. 1t was originated by John
O.. Calhoun and his friends. It's action was for
several years mostly confined tosthe Senate of
the u S., where it opposed the confirmation
of every, nominee who had at any time denied
the divinity of negro slavery; no matter how
well qualified, and nnexceptionable in other re-
Spects, If he was only charged with being un-
sound on the slavery question, he encountered
the opposition of this new party. Presidents
Polk and Taylor being, themselves Shareholders
and high minded resolute men, could not DO
made tools of or controlled by it, further than
the official action of its members intcrfered with
their nominations and measures. But since the
lamented death of President Taylor, the leaders
of this notification party have dictated to his
successors. Neither of them had sense and
courage enough to treat with. proper scorn and
derision the threat of one-fftieth part of the
voters of the United States, that they would
dissolve the Union unless all their demands
were complied with. While thousands of old
democrats denied theirright to assume the time
honored name, and refused to act with them,
their ranks were recruited from the WING party,
which was very convenient, as the new converts
were not required to renounce their adherence
to a United States Bank, prohibitorv tariff,
Bank suspensions and irredeemable paper cur
Tcncy; if they only profesSed to believe that
the paramount object for forming the constitu.
ton of the United States was to propagate and
perpetuate slavery, and that "the chief end of
man" was to "catch runaway niggers," they
were acceptable members. Acquiescence in one
demand of this new party was followed by 9th
ers still more extravagant
Not content with regulating their peculiar
institution in their own way, in the States
where it was sanctioned by local laws, they un-
dertook to extend it to all the territories and to
the other States, by the judicial legislation of a
subservient federal court. But OVERRIDING is
undergoing; the ugly cloven foot Qualification,
was too large and too hidious, to be longer hid
by the ample cloak of the assumed name Of
democracy. The men who are democrats from
principle, and who honor the memory and
abide by the doctrines of the fathers of the
party, and who care little for the rising or the
meridian sun of executive patronage, are taking
the first opportunity to administer n scathing
rebuke to the arrogant pretenders, aud let them
know, once for all, that they have entirely over
rated their own power, and underrated the intel
ligence of the real democracy. c.
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THR Richmond Enquirer, after exhibiting to
its readers this extraordinary capabilities of the
State, in reference to supplies of fuel, and the
very limited extent to which its people have
profted of them, thus concludes an5able article,
the whole of which, had we room, we should
gladly place before our renders
'sWe said that we could not understand, nor
account for the fact that the Richmond coal
field still remains undeveloped: but though
there are no good aud sufficient reasons, we can
detect causes and influences which operate, not
only to retard and fetter our coal mining enter
prise, but every pursuit and every enterprise in
the State; that noto only cripple individual exer-
tons, but also the prosperity of the whole COM
munlty. We feel that this is not the time, nor
the place. to discuss those causes and influences.
but in the connection we may enumcrate u few
of them, and leave their discussion for another
and more appropriate OCCASION.
First-We propose that the policy of the cen.
trail government is not such as TO encourage and
protect industrial pursuits generally.
second-That our home legislation has been
insufficient and often impractical
Third-No State or community can prosper.
or advances under the single pursuit of tiliing
the earth.
Fourth-The people, who constitute the bone
and muscle of communities, are chiefly unedu-
Gated, and therefore incapable of individual en-
terprise.
Fifth-Lacs of business, or practical informa-
ton and enterprise, the result of our previous
propositions.
Sixth Want of capital, arising from these
and various other causes
Seventh-Dependence on others for CONNER
cial and financial facilities, arising fromtindirect
exports and Imports
Eighth-Untnished internal improvements
or investments that confer little or no benefit.
administration of external trade.
Tenth-No State, however rich in internal re.
sources, can be prosperous without development.
These and many other propositions might be
advanced, as reasons for the low state
in which we find our industrial, commercial and
financial facilities or condition, and, therefore
since we cannot find any direct or local agency
must be amongst the reasons why our coal fields