Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-02-23

! time of wnr from tho Western and Middle and
! Northern States to defend the city of New Or
/ leans, or the State of Texas, in time of war
/ also, and that have the right to improve our
rivers, and harbors, and lakes, which consti-
tute the great highways of commerce. just rs
we now exercise the right of erecting light
houses for the same purpose.
Having thus shown the actual condition of
the country, which is a sOrrowful, but not over
drawn picture, and the causes that have in my
best Judgment led to it, the inquiry remains to
| be answered-what is the remedy? And the first
thing to be done, think, is to get rid of Dem
ocracy! and there is but one way of doing that,
and that is, by union of all the elements of OPP
position to it. Neither the Republican party,
/ the American party, nor the Wing party, into
which the Opposition is divided, is strong
enough, to beat thcsDemocracy by itself Nei-
Their Of the two combined can do it-if the third
element is left to cast its vote for, or divide 1t
with the Democracy. One of these parties may
have a great surplus of strength in some of the
states, which will be of no service to them, IN
other states more equally divided, and which, If
carried for Democracy will elect their candidate.
The next step is to abate, at all events for the
present, all sectional issues and agitation
| God grant in his mercy, that 1t could be done,
not only now, but forever! But this must be
done to prevent sectional issue, upon which
all the southern states will be united in favor of
the Democracy, when it will require very little
aid, from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
and Indiana, to give them another triumph.
Is such q coalition likely to be formed2 can
see no strong indications that it may be; but
confess at the same time see much to discour-
| age the hope and to occasion painful appre-
! hensiUn that the Democracy, now in q minority
of more than half million may through our
discussions and divisions be again successful.
| know there are some impracticabe people
who say they are opposed to all coalition, ana
who would ruther sink to the bottom in HpOliti-
cal contest and be kept undrr the heel of despo-
tism, contending for some unattainnble principle,
| than to be indebted for II success, by which an
infinite deal of good might be accomplished, to
those who cannot endorse their whole entire
creed That is not the case with me. If can
not get all / want, will take all l can get.
| If / were at sea, 1000 miles from shore, and
| found the shin had sprung q leak, and was fast
going down-and whilst was laljOring with all
my energies, to stop that leak, any other pas
sengcr or person wore to come up, ana uiler
his assistance. l would not stop to Inquire,
what was his religion, what his politics, or what
| his profession; but l would take him by the
hand and saw go to work my good fellow; let
us stop this leak, and save the ship, save our
our own lives, save the crew and cqrgo-nnd Al
! there is to he any quarrel between US, about the
distribution of the cargo, let us postpone that,
until we get safely into port.
This, it appears to me, would bc the course
that practical wisdom and common sense would
dictate; and if the ship should be lost, because
such aid was rejected, it would be sorry cunsO-
| lation to the owners, to he told that she went
down, because it was n marine, and not SAILOR
that would have saved her.
Our country now is in that sinking condition;
lit is travelling with railroad speed down an in
clined planet destruction--and tho only ques-
4 ton for us to decide, and we must decide it
duickly, is whether we shall apply the breaks,
| or clap on more steam. am for applying the
| break, and the man who hns the most power,
| for the application, is the BrcdksmdR, that
want, and and am in search OF: will not stop
to ask what have been the politics of any man
who will help mo to do it.
But want who will do something more than
beat the Democracy. We want no barren victory which
II possible Is worse than defeat we want WISE LxJS
charge lbs duty fearlsssy in healing all sectional
faithfully executed that mob law:
OF GbnsternE. call by It's right this pratt.
cal cruising and seizure OF other peoples property hsr
bors, is not OF II arrested, but punished.
want @GR S n Daonai and
catholic spirit that will recognize the Just rights oil all anu
section Of the country, against another section upon
70 speak Il plainly, we want wi9 viii his at
teno and the attention Of the government to the inter
as surrey can and srsiy viii where it exists
Constitution and the local law that protects = and where
must, and NO one car be permitted snd no party
have the legal control OF 1t.
question ana, settled by the southern Denecra-
promisr abide the result Of their own action
And there possible means by which Slave terrific
nv can enlarged under this government as told
them in 1854 that Is, by the farther dc9HstttoH OF
territory the attainment Of Cuba, for example,
be done by the Slave States without tht
aid Of the Free. -
We want man whose antecedents will secure the conf
dence Of the country who will look the Constitution
as his PLATFORM and the only upon which the govern
ment can safely, wisely properly administered and
he only one that the elements of strength within
I itself for enforcing all us provisions 49,
We want man. who, instead Of encouraging mischiev.
Gus legislation srinR up sectional strife for party and
political purposes, shrinking rather than meeting the
responsibilities Of his position, when disuntonts threaten
he longer OF the Republic, and laNess wicked
men defiance 10 the laws will initiate the example OF
the other great powers Of the earth, by advancing with
steady rapid strides the development OF all those
industrial resources that constitute the mate
progress Nation, and lead 70 the wealth and power
and greatness Of tlIe State.
we want a man, who, without being parsimoniouS or
Ibera the expenditures OF the governmental
fairly economical point. and urge policy that VIII Keep
er than abroad to be laid out in the workshops OF
We want man will elevate the standard Of virtue
morality among public men At home and raise the
intellectual standard of those who represent Us abroad
We want a who will give IN impetus rather to the
Improvement OF what have, than to the further edn
sion Of the country
We want will not permit the energies and In
nation longer to yield to that eter
nal everlasting exhaustless question OF slavery.
Can no such found either North South, East,
for one, will swear him in my heart OF hearts, and bless
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