The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-06-16
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Irrespoa dence q the World

- WAsHrNGreN, june 10.
The Tsmes quotes the Erpress in favor
of new party with an inconveniently
| long name, the Unconditional Union
party" in which the bummers OF the
Juhn Known, srmy are to do the thinking
and hold the reins. and the Democracy
are to do the voting apd pun Ine ; iTaW,
This modest proposition 10 o"o nh;nra
five hundred thousand voters " S suIG
the opinions of their lives ior tae ; De now
of few politicians who. 10 at'aln ~
or, plunged the Union into war, sp Issors
not likely to be palatabie, ana thero a na
La iudicious mipgling OF coa1ing ane to
breaches is employed IN the Tay "
Lament, macadamising, perhaps, /, Sne
road for the machine to run smo9enIy
on. The Prudent is asserted 10 nav
obtained so,ra new inteiiectuai taeur
ties by reason If his election upon tne
Union ticket. nd to nave discoVersui
chat all his pol .ical life up to the break
inc out of the war had been blunder,
and that his former political faith had
been either o mistake or an imposture.
IF Andrew johnson has made that dis
coyery through an election, we VINO
have not suffered such an accident may
be excused from notshariDg his opinions
The blindness sent from Heaven and the
voice issuing from above may have con.
WINGED Paul, but any Hebrew not SINH
larly saluted might not unreasonably
have declined to be converted by the
narration Of miracle he had not ex'
perienced. Let US examine why men
are Democrats, and sec if 1T is possible
for them to cease to be such, especially
since the experience of q great war, oc'
casioned by departure from their prln-
ciples, has strengthened by the stern
logic of facts, convictions formed upon
the strictest, deductions of reason.
The principles and theory OF the De.
mocracy are coeval with the United
States-they are formed upon the Con
stitution and unless the English Ian.
guage means to-day something 1t did
not mean nearly eighty years ago, 1t Is
g difficult to understand how they can be
changed Now. what are those prlncl.
, pies and what is that theory
l. That all rights dVties, and obhga-
tiors upon either States or men, as cit
zens of the Union, aIG based on and Gre
! ated by the constitution. That doctrine
Mr.. Seward and his friends ostehtatious-
~ reject; therefore, any alliance with
them upon any principle but that of
sharing the public plumber is impos'
sible. .r
Some former Democratic leaders, for
place or profit or popularity, have gone
after strange gods; but the mass of the
party believes as firmly in that faith as
in Christianity. The rank and file lock
upon those of its former officers who
have abjured the doctrines they once
professed for their profit, as the poor de-
cent woman looks at Perdita in her
carriage, OF as the bard-working mer-
chant looks upon fellow who has
grown rich by failing.
In that theory of the Democracy it
sees the only hope for constitutional
liberty.
2. A strict construction of the Consti-
> tuition; In every case Of reasonable
; doubt deciding against, not in favor of,
, delegations of power. The Democracy
holds that for every purpose of Justice
glory, security and good government
I the plain palpable delegations Of power
in the Constitution are amply sufficient
and that they can be understood as vel
by the plain farmer or mechanic as By
the most exalted intellect. They hold
s to this principle most firmly, because
the real rulers OF this u Mon aIo ill.,
binary laborers, the Masses and the
system was made SO that they who were
to administer it could do so with nc
more necessity Of consulting lawyers oil
: taking advice Of great men than they
would have for opening an account at 9
grocery, Or marrying wife.
, Parties arose in tire Union from tht
attempts of some men to get into the
, Constitution what is not written there
at any rate not Enthusiastically written
there Take the United States Bank
d for instance. Jefferson said 81 do not
!. see D the Constitution one word about
chaitering banks, and as that is dis
y tinct power of sovereignty and IS not
given | do not believe it was intended
n to be given" Thence one party issue
was made His argument could only be
met by Il decision of the Supreme Court
, that the word necessary" in the Con
stitution did not mean necessary, but
convenient So with tariff. The De-
mocracy holds that the federal govern.
ment has its own business to attend to-,
and no one elses; that its business is to
get money to pay its debts and o. penses;
that the business of men is TO earn their
own living; and that they do not need,
in fact, are injured by, any gov ,rnment
Interference with their business The
European idea is to have government
NEEDLE in every thing, from reli zion
10 locking up rail cars. The American
idea was TO have government meddle as
little as possible, and the Democracy
was the standard bearer of that American
idea
What principle is there to be Ill this
; proposed new party What is to be its
theory2 Unconditional UuiVn That
is nonsense; the Union is conditional
Union now. The Constitution contains
the condition of union. What uncon.
ditioual anion is there in the world Is
it marriage9 That is conditional
union; is it the parental or the filial tie
those are conditional unions Surely
it tle most sacred of personal relations;
even those of blood, are conditional; no
political relations between strangers can
be unconditional. None but swindlers
aud scoundrelS ever want to be absolyed
from conditions, and no man can ever be
absolved from conditions without being
thereby made despot and scoundrel.
| Bat there is another reason WHY the
Democracy cannot make one step TO.
ward Mr.. Seward and his tail. Every
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