The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-08

It is not decent that they should be put
IN office. When. any of them do truly
repent they will have shame enough
not to ask it; until that time comes our
indignant and instructed, now well
tried and victorious people, will know
how they should be treated,
These are the men that are to be put
down politically and kept down, while
the South comes up. They down, the
south may come up safely. This PEN
atty OF political dishonor they deserve,
too, more than the South. They are
more corrupt. They had not the ex-
cuses the Southerners had; they had no
properly interest to mislead them; they
had no pride of section nor State alIeC
giance; they hnd ndnothing, but their own
baseness: There are those of them that
are morally ripper for a traitors halter
than any man South that lives. These
men, we repeat 1t, these men arc to be
cast of and cast down, and buried up,
tnat We may be reconciled to the South,
that no'punishments should be attached
70 any rebels, and no watch kept over
them. There are men there that must
never come back to power. They NAV
feel that they are lightly dealt with so.
And the whole south will feel it, But
Tor our moral and political indignation
we mean to visit the greater part of it,
not on the South, but on these men
North. They deserve it. And withal,
we have more stomach for it thatway. :
We have said that the now govern
ing party must be kept in power. We
do not use the word in n narrow sense.
For the republican party, merely as an
organisation, or as an instrument by
Wnlch certain men may secure for them
selves station and wealth, we have not
and we never have had any caro- what
ever. What We want and what we must,
make sure of is, that the be gov
erned for the years to come in the inter
ests of liberty and of equal law for the
whole Union, substantially as it has
been for the years just past. And fur
ther, and especially that the men set in
power from the South shall be men
identified with these principles during
the time they were in. peril and were
fought for. So, too, when we say that
the democracy must go under out of
sight, we mean that democratic party
and those democratic leaders which we
have known for these last twenty wears.
we mean that democracy which, for a
generation, has been steadily and in
creasingly hostile to t'liberty, equality
and fraternity and which, in one part
Of the country, has at last rebelled, and
IN another has sympathized with rebel
lion, that these might perish. The
name Will no doubt survive. It is too
valuable for party service to be lost. 1t
IS oil of democracy the party has to
keep or to show. 1t will be held ON upon
by somebody rs long us there are men
withwhom noise is more than substance.
And 1t will probably always be claim
ed, as it always has been, by that party
which is least thoroughly in favor Of
just laws and equal rights.
Thus far the elections of 1865 have
LETT little to be desired. New York, of
the great states, alone remains. We
hope to SEQ the work completed there;
TINT it may be known that its disloyai
and liberty chatting gdemocrncyi is dead. 1t
is some comfort already to see that their
worst leaders arc forced to stand back,
and better men are moved into the front
of the party. If the old managers were
in fact quite put aside, and their power
gone, and sure to remain so, we should
caro- but little for the result now. We
fear this is not so. The snakes are
there-though just at present they have
crept to the bottom of the pile. It is
safer IS make u clean burn of all the
rubbish. This done, as we have said
before, throughout the North, and the
Union will reconstruct ITSELF As em-
bodied in its old leaders, the best that
the democratic party can do to help in
the good work is to lie still In its grave
till the stencil of it above ground hns
blown off.