Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-08-26
The journal az "A WhIpper-in.


bring the party machinery to bear upon
the members Of its organization who ex-
hibit restiveuess, and a disposition to
think and act for themselves upon the To-
cal and other issues, which party blind
uess and prejudice have forced upon the
people. We do not pretend to say for
vb;ch Of the many intestinal disorders
,heir dilapidated body polite is afflicted
with, this remedy is especially intended.
hut it is applicable equally to them all.
It is pretty good article for the purpose,
and, Judging from the past, we incline to
the opinion that it will not be without
effect. The members of their party have
exhibited rare docility during these last
-four years, and the readiness with which
the obstreperous ones have yielded when
the lash has been applied, justifss the
journal in assuming the duties of whip
perrin. Many Of their members now pro-
fanely curse and damn at the mention of
military commissions large standing ar
mics the idea Of keeping the States oHt
of the Union until they will send Repre-
sentatives to Congress of whom the Re.
publican members will approve negro
suffrage, and the other characteristics Of
what Mr.. Greely calls the " Stantonian
form of Government" but we have very
little expectation that the dislike of any
very great number of them to these things,
will ever be expressed-where it only can
be expressed effectively--at the ballot box.
The assertion Of the Journal that it is
the duty of men to cooperate with those
who agree with them in their political
principles to secure the domination of
those principles, we are not inclined to dis
pute but when it comes to apply this
general doctrine, the truth is developed,
that after all the Journal is much more
anxious for the success of the nominees
of its conventions than for the triumph of
tue first self-evident truth Of the Declara-
ton of Independence. The cat develops
itself in the meal tub, and the psrturient
mountain brings forth its mouse.
1t thus gently raps the knuckles of the
Republican gentlemen who consider them
selves bound to support Hon. D. A,
Haynes for the Superior Court Judge
ship:
Z" How could the Union party of the Ma.
ton go into Presidential campaign with
hope of success, il New York. Pennsylvania
and Ohio, for some real or fdncied previous
pledge, which they assumed to be superior to
their allegiance to political principle, should
bolt Il nomination and set up an independent
ticket for MISUNDERSTANDING at the same
time to entertain the principles Of the party
they had deserted
And again:
"If any dispute the decision OF the party
as expressed by its convention-Rud oppose
its expressed will they simply desert it
They may not Join the enemy directly but
their desertion helps the enemy more than
their absolute union with him would Ii they
set up third party for lhemselves---and all
men have an undoubted right to do so--their
action nevertheless is practical denial Of
the principles of the party they desert, how
ever much they may assert to the contrary,
because it tends to defeat the party upon
which the success of the doctrines depend"
"If Union men desire their principles TO
be established, they must adhere faithfully to
the party, regardless of passion and preju-
dice respect It's decisions, and never lose
sight of the fundamental fact that allegiance
to principle is superior 10 any pledge to any
man or to any idea, that endangers the doc.
trines of the party through which only its
principles eau be maintained
The English of all which is: "YoI
gentlemen who insist on fulfilling your
pledge to Judge Haynes, are notified that
you are 'deserters you help the en-
emy more than if you directly joined
them--that in our party the duty of alle-
glance to its nominations is paramount to
every other-snd that you must yiolate
your publicly plighted faith and become
liars in the face of the world, or you will
endanger the success of our ticket, and
thereby commit the objectionable politi-
cal siR."
This, we suppose, is the "Higher Law
that we have read of. Whether the Re-
publican members of the legal fraternity
will bow to its authority remains yet to
be seen.