The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-27
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RATEs oE sUBscRIpTIoN.l
RATES OF ADVERTISING,
Political Parties.

| EOhLlcaI PafIAeS.
A correspondentfo of the New York
Times, writing from the South, makes
the following Classification of parties.
We refer toit elsewhere: -
"Political parties at. the North, as
viewed from southern standpoint. are
divided into four. classes; First. the CON
servntive repu blicans, under the lead
of Mr.. Seward; second, the radical re-
publicaps, the followers of Mr.. Sum-
ner and Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens; third,
the mass of The old democratic party;
and fourth, the radical democrats, like
Mr.. Long, of Ohio, and Mr.. Ben. Wood,
of New York. fJ ~ ,-5-'
"The first, comprising the vast ma
jority of the republicans and of the old
wings, supported by theintluence of the
commercial and financial interests,
which are always conservative in their
tendencies is regarded as the! party
which has the power, the wisdom -and
the will to restore the Union on a ma
tfonal basis TO abandon sectionalism,
and, content with the total extinction
of negro slavery and the cessation, of
war, 10 remove, as far as possible, by
sagacious magnanimity and generous
treatment, all traces of the conflict, as
well material as moral. AAH a
" To this party that large number of
men of the South who were opposed to
the democrats now look as the best
and strongest with which theyIcan CO.
operate, provided their hopes, or its
policy toward the late revolutionary
States be SO as to permit such co-ope-
ration without loss of principle and
Self-reSpect. =a4If1 - -Tsi E.'1tI
"The second division, or radical re-
publicans, who insist on negro suffrage
as condition precedent to the restora-
ton of the late slave States to their pla-
ces in the Union, who would contiscate
all the property and disfranchise all the
citizens of those States, is considered as
insignificant in numbers and necessari-
ly obnoxious to the conservative of all
parties, and to this party or sect there is
not a southern man, no matter what his
political associations, WING or demo-
crat, secessionist or unfonist, who looks
with any other feeling than an assured
conviction that the triumph of its po-
Icy, as announced by its leaders, is the
indefinite postponement of the peace
and prosperity of this part of the cOun-
Try, and, consequently, of the whole
Union.
"rhe democratic party North will, as
may be expected, rally to its standard
the bulk of the democrats of the South.
While its action, during the war is re-
garded by many as betrayal of the
principles it once professed, and on the
faith of which the secessionists at the
commencement of the revolution eN-
pected cooperation in peaceful separa-
ton; yet its nationality, its conserva-
tism, its present friendly disposition,
together with the force;of old party ties,
will heal the wounds of recent strife,
and re-establish the former community
of action. But there are many old deIn-
ocrats of influence and standing who
were prominent rebels, and who, for
the reasons indicated above, We're more
4. A. slF,s %,
than with the Republicans, who Will
now act politically with the conserva-
tive Republicans, believing that they
are more worthy of confidence than the
Peter Caggers, Dean RichmondS and
others, whose promises and professions
contributed largely to the attempted
separation of the Union, and who were
among the bitterest foes of, tho South,
when southern votes could no longer
avail to procure them political power.
"For the fourth division, or radical
democrats, who uniformly opposed the
war, and Vindicated the motives II they
did not sympathize with the purpose OF
the revolution, gratitude and friendly
feelings are felt and expressed; but the
course which they are now pursuing in
opposition to the conciliation policy OF
the administration is generally disap-
proved as unwise, impolitic, and really
Injurious to the cause which they pro-
fess to desire to serve. As 1 have al
ready said, this party is regarded with
kindness and gratitude fort past, but
it will gain no active support at the
south, for the reason that conservative
uationalism is the only doctrine from
which southern men hope for restora.
tion of their rights, and the peace and
PROSPERITY of their country.
"When the present dEJectG 7'lenbrG
at the South are collected and settled
down in political motion, it will be
found that there aret but two parties
the Republican and Democratic-both
national, both conservative, and, how
ever divided on other questions, both
earnestly allied in opposition to the
radicals"