Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-09-01
nEPUBL1cAN PRINCIPLES.

The Southern States Ot Chicago
What could have been done had
more of them gone there.
Extract from the wellsburg Herald of yesterday j
1t is true that Lincoln and Hamlin we're
nominated chiefly hy delegations from
the NOrthern States: but the Convention
was open to the South MS we'll as to the
North, and amy delegation coming from u
Southern State, fairly accredited, was al
lowed the proportionate vote of that State,
in ballottiug for the nominees, nothwith-
standing the self-evident fact that it was
not to be expected that any Southern
State, in any probable event, would cast
her electoral vote for the nominees of that
Convention, whoever they might be. Sew
eral Southern States were in the Conveu-
tion, by their delegations, on these terms,
the result of which was the substitution of
Abraham Lincoln for W. II. Seward, and
very nearly the substitution of the gallant
Kentuckian, Cassius NJ. Clay, Instead of
Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine. Had few
more Southern States exhibited good
sense and patriotic good-feeliug enough to
have had themselves represented in Con-
Yention with the representatives of their
equals, the nominations might have been
still more etfectually modified. Did this
! look like sectionalism if it did, we
would like to know upon which side,
| North or South, is the greatest appearance
| thereof.
The purposes and principles of the Re-
publican party have been widely misrep-
resented i'll order to show the sectionalism
of the party; but take the history of the
doings Of the party where it has been in
power, and the record will show as few de-
partnres from Constitutional precedent as
attaches to amy other party. 1t can we'll
afford to stand by its record, which is
surely better authority than the rash
speeches either of its friends or its oppo-
ncnts. 1t is urged that the people of the
North, actuated by fanAticism, are mimi
cal to those of the South. However this
may be politically, personally and individ-
ually, just the converse appears to be true.
a Southeruer can travel in the North and
exercise all his legal rights of words and
acts with perfect safety from violence or
insult; but let Northerner travel in the
South and ne must do it with fear and
trembling, lest an uncOnsidercd word or Il
hasty act may bring upon him social ex-
clusion, if not worse. lie nfGst be cir
cumspect, indeed, if he escapes annoyance.
Southern subscribers dare not take n
newspaper even that leans toward justice
toward the North, and Southern pustmus-
tiers are required TO act the spy upon north
ern correspondents lest inccndiary matter
should find its way to the minds of south
erners. Where is the sectionalism here 2
Which section and which party threat
ems secession in the event the majority of
the people determine so and SO; what party
| leaders concocted scheme for Southern
! Confcderhcy and still maintain its feasi-
bility in certain contingency; who pro-
posed to take possession of the national
archives at Washington by military force
in case of the election of Fremont in 1856;
who threatened to resist by violence the
Inauguration of Lincoln in 1861, and
gravely laid the plans for revolution and
treason? Are not the answers to these
queries patent to every reading man.
The truth is, and We believe it, that the
Republican is actually the most national
party in the land, both in precept and in
practice. With all the political opinions
of It's members, even with the political
opinions of Mr. Lincoln, we may not and
do not concur; but in the broad maxim
that the majority shall rule, in the geucr-
Gus federation of all shades of opinion, in
the free permission of liberty of speech, in
the grand idea that underlies it all, that
| liberty is the birth-right of all mankind
and that general intelligence is essential
to its perpetuation, the Republican party
incontestibly and certainly stands on a
| broader foundation than either of its ri-
| walls and is entitled to be considered the
/ Worlds Great National Party. These
magnificent principles, comprehensive, MS
they are, as the universe dwarf the paltry
conceits, dignifed by the name of South
ern principles, into an insigniicance too
pitiable almost for contempt. There they
stund-written by the hand of Omnipo-
tence on the great heart of all mankind
the cardinal principles of true Republi-
canism. The evanescent issues of the
day will vanish with the petty squabbles
that give them birth: buttruth, justice and
Humanity, founded on the rock of eternity,