Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-11-12

General Feeney, the POST Master. WHICH
ever way it was can make but precious
little difference to our friend, Buersner,
and he ought, philosophically, to console
himself with the reflection that the Job is
over, and can't be done again ON the 4th
of March. It's great alienation of mis-
cry to get clear of suspense as quick as
possible.
The Future OF the Republican Party
in this state.
We spoke Friday of the Bourbonism
that has for, long time prevailed. in this
part of our State. This has Been the
great ailmeut of the opponents of .Repub-
licanism here. They have affected sove-
reign contempt for the growth of that senti-
msnt. They have either very cavaIierly
ignored it as something too Insignificant
for their well bred attention or expressed
for 1t their disdainfnl contempt. But in
the meantime the sentiment has gone on
growing, spreading and increasing, just
like Pitt told the British Government that
the American colonies had grown in spite
of their neglect and oppression, until it
has now become power in this city, in the
county and the Panhandle, which no oppo-
nant of it can afford any longer to ignore.
As we said the other morning, the Repub-
lican sentiment in this county, at the
lowest and most modest estimate, is full
one thousand strong, and if any politician
or political party in the county think they
can afford to ignore a strength of that
sort, then are they Bourbons, in
deed, and they will assuredly meet with
Bourbon experience. Any man who can
see the length of his nose ahead of him can
easily sec that Republicantsm is the
growing element-the Aaron's rod-in
Western Virginia, and that sooner or later,
it must become dominant. If it wasn't
vital-if it hadn't the germ of certain sue
cess init, itnever could have stood the pres
sure that has played on it SO constantly
and BITTERLY. as it has here. Not only
has it stood it, but thriyed and fattened
all thewhile. 1t is the party of progress
the Democratic party-it goes in for the
people, the whole people, and not for
sectional Bourbon interest. It does not
believe in an enactment like the Twenty
Second article of our State Constitution,
which says that, "al property, other than
slGves, shall be taxed in proportion to its
xalue. It believes that all property, in-
Guiding slaves, should be taxed according
to value; and it intends, at the next Con-
stitutonal Convention in this State, in
1865, TO be ready to meet that provision.
Neither does it believe in the aristocratic
injustice of letting Eastern Virginia, with,
a minority of one hundred thousand of
the white population, do as John Letcher
saidsin 1s47 she was doing, viz "goveru
both East and West for her own advan-
i tage." They do not intend either that she
shall any longer than possible have two
thirdsofl the Senate, while Western Virgin
10 footing the tax bills has only one-third
They intend, too, that if niggers are to be
the dominant overriding interest after this
time, that they will move, as Mr.. Porter,
eflH6neock, gaye.out in the Legislature,
last winter, he would move, in a certain
contingency, that that interest pay an ad
zodsOrem tax, and that the infamous and ty-
Eannical per cent assessment on laborers
in,the west, be repealed. This will be the
mission Of the Republican party in this
State, asit grows to power, in one point
o: view. An other will be that it will re-
store to- active vitality the provisions of
our Bill of Rights-oue of which is that
ssPolmap, or set ofsmen are entitled to ex-
clpsiSh OF separate Bemoluments or5privf-
leges from the community and another
tslA an elscttons ought to be free, and
that all men having sufficient evidence OF
commo3 paramount interest with, or at
.tachment to, the community, have the
right of suffrage and still another is,
'that theifrsedom of the press is one of
thegreat bulwarlks Of liberty, aud can never
'bsfestfainedbut sdespotis governments
These duties We say, win be In. part the
mission of tlie Republican party in this
State5 and Gin q National point of view
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