The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-23
Genuine Democratic sentiments.
It is not in platforms, cunningly d

Genuine Democratic Sentiments.
1t is not in platforms, cunningly de-
vised by committees who shape their
resolutions upon the basis OF policy
more than principle, that the genuine
sentiments of the rump Democracy OF
these Northern States will be found.
1t is not the business of the committee
to make its report a clear and candid
exposition of the feelings and opinions
of those who delegate the work to them.
They are expected to generalize, totone
down, to smooth off the rough corners,
and present to the convention n pint
form that, because it means next to
nothing, will not offend the prejudiceS
or conflict with the settled views of any
one. This wHs the course adopted by
the Committee on Resolutions of the
recent State Democratic Convention of
indiana. The resolutions reported by
them and adopted by the Convention
were made as near Republican as pos
sible without being otlens.vetO Demo-
Gratis, and as near Democratic as possi-
BILE and not be otfensivet to Conservative
Republicans. 1t is the old-time policy
of that party applied to new conditions
with what success time will reveal.
We must go deeper than platforms to
find the animus of this faction of a
once powerful party. The party or
guns and voters, forgetting policy ut
times, give us the information we
seek. Take the following, for instance,
from the indianapolis Herald. Who
believes the writer, in his heart, In
dorses the platform constructed in that
city last week .HE
'The United States Government is now a
school OF crime. This is profoundly to be re-
grett d. but it has been brought 70 tnat con-
marty. Every man now does business under
the screened gaze OF n GOveInmentSpy.- Ihe
Government seeks to fitch iron every. busi-
ness man ns much as possible of the proceeds
of his business and laboT-to lake from lhe
mouths OF his children as many ot the crum,us
upUn which they may be feeding as possible,
willie, on the other hand, every business man
wishes TO save, for the use Of himself and
family, as much as he can oil MS hato-eatheu
income. ..t- Il .ff
The principal of this school, controll-
ing vast patronage, and holding in his
hands more power than any monarch
of Europe, is Andrew johnson. He is
the head criminal, and the indictment
of the Government lies against ms ue-
partment equally as against the other
branches ! He is engaged with all the
administrators of this Government IN
devising plans to rob the people OF
course, tile people know this to be
false. They know that the demands
made upon their substance by the Gov
eminent are not of its own seeking, ana
that there is not an officer, from Presi-
dent to Collector of Revenue, who
would not, If it were in his individual
power, tighten the burdens which they
are called TO bear as the price of the sal
yation of the Union. To accuse the
Government of the United States as n
common thief measures the extent OF
the good will which the editor of the
indianapolis Herald, himself a pronli-
nent democratic politician and office
holder, bears toward it.
The spurious democracy develops the
same symptoms everywhere. Among
the patriots in Philadelphia, who, we
suppose, 20 their whole figure Tin pub
licl in support of the President, is Jas.
G. Vnn Dyke, Esq, formerly U. S. Dis
trict Attorney under the administrator
of james Buchan4n-a fact that should
be n sufficient guarantee of the purity
of his democracy. On the 1stof March
he proceeded to pay his gas bill. but
covered the face of It with remarks so
insulting and reasonable in spirit that
the clerk refused to receipt the bill or
rcseive the money. Thereupon Mr.
Van Dyke addressed letter to the re-
ceiving clerk, of which the following is
the significant part:
az sent YOU, this morning, the amount of
my gas bill, furnished on the lSt inst. You
refused to receive II, us my messenger reports,
because had set n lit TO designate the thirty
cents per Thousand feet tax aS AN abolition
Imposition upon white labor, levied by n
Congress of traitors upon the labor OF white
men, to support n corrupt negro War against
tllesOverelgn rights OF States and the people
thereof :, :, =. ,so, - IL
the shinplaSter currency of the same Congress
of traitors. The bill you can have when you
desire 10 become more familiar with the
proper names OF traitors laws.
the mode Mr.. Van Dyke takes of ex-
pressing his sentiments. But no one
can doubt.their genuineness. Mr. Van
Dyke was not just then engaged in
manufacturing platforms for his party,
and he let out his individual RESPONSE
bility. His opinions are in entire har-
mony with those of the editor of the
Government as thief, the President as
the head of great national school of
crime, mutunlly- at work to steal the
substance of the people, while the
other expressly declares the taxes
levied to meet the liabilities incurred
in n war to save the Union as the work
of Congress of traitors. ....-,-
How long would it be, were the peo-
pie TO give their confidence to men of
this class and place them ut the head of
affairs, before the nntionnl debt would
be repudiated, and the agents and in
struments of the rebellion restored to
the places they held in the Federal Gov
ernIlpnL before lne WIT M4tu uuGOuul-
tional privileges to hatch another con-
spiracy and foment another rebellion
for the overthrow of the national Gov
ernment and the dissolution of the
Union2 1t is prudent to consider these
things, when asked to support the po-
litical eXponentS of such men as Van
Dyke, OF Philadelphia, and Perkins,
of Indianapolis, for important public
trusts. -.--