Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-17
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The RESTORATION or the Oem0crnlIe
!. - -. -RnrlY 10 Power.
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Tod many of dc oId Deno.

a good many of the old Democratic
newspaper organs are insisting, as often
as they are issued, and with such empha-
sis as they. can command, that the essen
tial thing to be done in order to pacify
the county is to restore the Democratic
party TO power. There is strange for
getfulness on their part, of the very inn
pprtant fact in our political history, that
the Democratic party ceased, more than a
year belotathe war commenced, to be an
entity, Not only were all its old princi-
pies abandoned during the administrations
Of Pierce and Buchanan, but it was dis
rupted, and actually had in the last Ma
tional election two candidates for the
Presidency, in the field, standing upon
distinct and hostile platforms. Which
wing of the party is 1t that gentlemen
propose TO pat In -pOweri Certainly as
the Douglas wing did not obtain power,
that which 1t never had cannot be TeStOred
TO ik24;Isit then the Buchanan and Brock
inridge party that gentlemen propose to
rei1state in heiiigh places Of the ndtion2
Have We nut had enough of Buchanan
ism3 Is it In the programme to run
Breckinridge for President in '64? Are
Yaneey and the rest of the leading trait
ors in the South to be the leaders of the
new party? If not, how is it to be M.
tional3 Yancey and Andy JonsOn were
both Democrats. Are both of them to be
z Of the democratic party Of the future -
II 80, how are they to reconcile their
principles If only one Of them can be
recognized as a true Democrat which
stands now for the sound doctrine p
These ara questions which gentlemen,
who talking of the restoration Of the
Democratic party to power, should be en-
abled to answer promptly and positive
Just now the CRY is that the Democratic
paFtyis for "the Constitution rs il is and
the Union as it was" But have gentle
men forgotten that the Democratic State
Convention of Indiana, held on the 9Th
of January; demanded. as the basis of
Union party in the South, ''allditioRal
Constitutional guarantees" of slavery p
This doctrine is expressly laid down in
the 18th resolution of the Indiana Demo
cratic platform. Are gentlemen who
constructed that platform, and sustain it,
stickleEs for the Constitution as 4 Ia
If so, what Constitution is referred to-
the Constitution Of the United States, or
that of the Confederate States? The lat
ter document IS certainly the one that
contains the ''GGditional constitutional
guarantees" The Democrats party, as
1t was In in latter days, had no distinctive
characteristic principles, aside from that
Of allowing or aiding in the employment
Of the power of the General Government
for the propagandism of slavery. Does
the proposed restoration of the party to
power, mean that the Government should
again be used in that direction?
The broadly apparent truth is, that
thoseiWho are laboring for that which
the Democratic party to power, mean OPP
position to the war for the restoration Of
the Union. They propose to charge the
responsibility of the war upon n orthern
aGitators," and doing SO to make n wing
Of their party Of the original seeesh ele.
ment in the South. They can do this in
no other way than by recognizing the
right of secession and denying the right
OF the Government to coerce q refractory
State. This would be, if the res grafton
of their party to power follows, to place
those now in arms against the Govern
meDt in possession of it. Is this the en-
tertainment to which the people are invi-
ted. who are now giving their blood and
treasure for the vindication of law and
the firm establishment of our national
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Now how is an anti-warl party to man
age the affairs of the future II by such
apolitical reyulsion assympatliizers with
the rebels predict, the Democratic party
shouldsbe restored to power ON the ideas
that thesWar was unnecessary and unjus-
titiable, that the rebels were wronged-
that the Ab0litiOnists" were to blame
and that the Union must be restored to
its former condition Chat is to say with
the governing class in the minority sec
"a a. Of he .
Will it be part of the Democratic poli.
cy to repudtate the debit Would the
Democratic party-by which tits impos-
sible now to understand that anything
else than the anti-War party is meant
vote aud collect the taxes to pay that
debt-and insist that the insurFectionary
states shall pay their share Of 1t -
Would they vote for the support of such
an army as would be necessary to Dfe-
serve order in the Republic? Would
they stand firmly for the punishment of
the leaders In Southern treason How
could they do this If dependent for the
right arm of party power upon the seees.
si0nistS of the South who were restored
to the Union by Compulsion2 Or would
they compromise the matter BY assuming
the debt Of the Confederate States, and
placing Confederate notes on par with
onr treasury notes2 We do not see how
the financial policy of such a party could
fail to reach one Of two pOints--the repu-
diation of the war debt of the United.
: States, or the assumption of the war debt
Of the Confederate States. Are thepeo-
PIE prepared to belsO taxed as 20 make
Confederate notes a legal tender
The path Of duty Is straight enough for
the truly loyal citizens, who thinking Of
= heir tsoafikFS7 iFaIs aud al Az. I: o :,
for the future The Government m6st
crush the rebellion or be crushed bv it,
There Is no alternative Tho question is
TO be decided by war. Peace narties ara
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