Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-11-01


] 1889. E. ss' 5s j. !. I. s.s-..s s- ..a
dom TO rnshssto tho rescue of the sconstitutiun
ifspd that their yeEyff dqfy;i 40 dismiss the
siepocratic party from the administration Of
F! the government. Why shall it not be done?
Alfagree that itougiit TO be done " hat. then,
tsihalE prevent it's being dGno? Nothing butitim-
idity or division of the opponents of the cleuu-
cratic s party. .,Sqnle of these opponents start
one objection and Some another, Let us notice
these Objections briefly, qC)nct Glass say that
tthey cannot trust ,thercpuhlican party; that it
R3!5 7p9t ayowed itsuhpstiljtyr ia slavery boldly
li enough or its affection for ireelpm, earnestly
enough. ask, III repiy is there any other mar
| ty that can besas safely trGste1?s Every. one
know9 tErtsit is hesrepubliean pasty oh none,
fhat shall dlsplNcelthe democratic party. But.I
answer, further, that; the character and fidelity
OF any party are determined, necessarily, not
iIy pledges, Programmes andpatfUrIns, hut hv
tthepubtc oxi$cneies and the temper of tho Peonle
fllGpI leall 1itijrtho activity Subservienpy
20 slavery IS u law written, not only on the fore
mead 6f tho democratic party, but also in lis
very soul. So resistance 10 slavery and devo
tlonffton troeitnm--the popular elements now
.Et feiy .ori!ng tor the republican party among
the pc"pc--!nuSt and will be the resources for
ITS ever renewing strength and constant invii:gu-
fFiitnn others cnuEot support the republican
party iccausG it lins not sniiiceiitv exposed iFs
trlathrm and determined Whit it viii do ia1d
liwhhtit Will not do'%lien triumphant 1t may
prove too progressive fHrsome ;lid tho consef-
NAttve igr 0tleES777aS If any party ever furcsaw
S" clGallyth the course of future events as to nlan
a universal scheme for future action aIlaDtctI TO
all possible emergencies. Who Syonlj ever
nave Joined the wl.ig party of tire rCvultticncif
| ~ y htu hseA QbilGed t0-answcr, i'll Ito. whether
| i wouid declare for Independence in l7I6 and
Or this n0bic federal cunStitipii '6f Gure in i7S7
tand not a year earlier or late;? g'Ehe pcnplc 6f
Ethe United States will il1e as wise ncxt.vpar and
ne year afterwards, and even ten wears hence
IS Weare now, = They will obl5c tie republican
F:iafty to act as public welfare and the inter
cStS- Ui Imsticol andsilIuulanity shall YeoniFe
thE4WG5h all the stages otsits career whether of
| .ttlai OF triumph. Others will no venture al,
effort, because they fear that the Union viii not
fcndurc the change WiiFsuGt 0biectUFS tell me
nov long Il constitution ciil bear sttain direct
!y along the iibres of which it ,ig compose,I.9
This Is a constitution Of freedom Itis being
! converted into n constitution OF slavery 1t is
republican constitution 1t is heinos I1alr nj,
Nf1stGcratlc one9 Others may wish tij wait until
some collateral questions concerning teinnernnce
or the exercise Of. the elective franchise arc
tPtoTcftyj $ettIpd. Let me ask suelL ncrsous
whether time enough has not been wasted ON
theSe pnints already, without gaining any other
tn''il tlls Single advantage, namely the iscuy-
cry that only one thing chll be cffecuaIlv done
AZ one tnne, and That the one thmgNYhich must
IN, .tnH VII nc Hpi;s at any 9no time is just that
tn.hE WElch IS most urgent, and will no LONGER
aamitof prStnUheIient or DELAY? Finally No
are tutl by t;tint hGaFcd men that thcy d,ssI,nnil.
tne demoeratic party, they say, Is unconouerl-
nc and the dominion of slavery is consequently
inevitable. reply to them that the t,a,nTiasIo5
and universal dominion of slavery would 5e
lntnterab!e enough when it should lave come
attcr the last possible effort at escane, sllOuId
have been made. There would in that case be
iett I to ms the c,nsQiing reflection Of fidelity to
duty: But reply further, that knolw-fcy
uhlnk know better tlitn I-the resources and fhc
energies pf the democratic party, which is iClen
tical With the slave power. do ample prestige
to It's traditional popularity. know further
few, think. know better Than l-tc Clisadyan-
agcS and difficulties of organizing new pOlitcal
iurce IKE tic repnhiican party, and the obstacles
1t must encounter in laboring witli0ut prestige
and without patronage. Bnt, notwithstanding,
all this, krow that the democratic partv must
so down. and the republican party must rise
into its place. The demucratic party derived lis
strength originally from its adoption Of the
principles uf equaahd exact Justice to oall.mcn.
Sn'l"oS as 1T practsed this principlc faithfully
ltwas invmtnerable. / became vulncTablc when
ltrenOunccd it, and5Sincc hat time it has nlnin.
tnined itsclf-iot by virtue Of its own strcn,rth
or even OF its traditional merits, but because
there as yet had appeared in the political field
no other party titt had the conscience and the
courage to take up and avow and practice tile
lite-insIiiring principle which the democratic.
party had SuYrcndcrnd .H. Us T..
At last the republican party has appeared.
HiWdws now, as the republican, PARTY in alSOO
did, in one word, lis faith andaits works,
"Eqna.lsgla,.nd 4. exact justice 10 all men, Even
when !; first entere,l the field Unly half orran-
izc'l, it struck blow which Just f;,icd to secure
{" compile and trirtmpant victory. In this. its
second eamaai Gn, ithaS already won al vttaoes.
which render liiai triumph. nov both easy and!
certain. The secret of It's assurcd success lies
in the very characteristic Which, in the m6u,h
of Schtiers, constitutes lis great and llstins i'm
beeity n'l.reprnach. 1t lies ii. tE,f,ct that it
is 81 parry of one i,lea hut thas idea is q mobile
one-,,n idea that fills and expands alI generous
souls-the idea Of ee!uality--the equality Of all
men before human tribunals and human laws,
as they arc aii equal before the Divine tribunal
and Divine laws. / know, aud yoh know. that
arreyoluiiUn has begun. know. and ali the
worIl knows, that revolutions never 20 back
ward. Twenty Senators anl a hundred Repre-
sentttives sprocltinl boldly in Congress to-day
sentiments aud opinions, and principles Of grce
,lou which hardly so many men, even in this
free Sfae, dared TO utter in their own homes
twenty Years ago. Nhilc the government al
! the United States i,Dllnr fin .nD,l,ct r. .lto