The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-15

tVhGt is certain more than half tpay. The
negro question out of the way, saws
the Times the Democrats have once
more q chance. Their resistance to inn
partial suffrage Is only to pile up stu.
pendous mnjorities against them. The
only votes made for the Democracy by
prosecuting the colored man, and deny
ing.hIm his rights, are In such cities as
New York-elseWhere the Investments is
failure and a farce. Thousands OF
Democrats will cry amen to the Times:
and when all citizens, white and black,
enjoy the right to vote, we shall be
ashamed at having opposed what was
at once just and SO harmless. 1t will
not be nine-days' wonder; and once
tatrly settled, our great interests will
revive with a rapidity that will prove
that the only thing necessary to make
us once more a powerful people was
boldly to prove that having conquered
slavery, we had also completely estab-
lished freedom.
The Times, having nobly. come to the
rescue of the colored man, COMPLETES The
harmony Of the demonstration by cut
ting loose from the false Moses in the
White House But here the Times has
not got much the advantage of A. j.,
who is preparing, we have every reason
to believe, to turn against his Demo-
cratic friends at the first fitting oppor-
tuntty. Possibly the Times knew what
was coming.
The Cincinnati Commercial makes the
following comments:
1t is manifestly the intention of the
Democracy 20 desert the President and
his policy and set up for themselves
again. The Chicago Times takes the
lead In this movement in the West,
Inc New; York World shows q DISPOSE
ton to head the movement in the East.
n NFNk
the President, 1t advises him to let his
policy slide, as It can be of no possible
account to the South, or to the country
at large during the remainder of his
administration. He Is informed that IL
would be judicious to cooperate with
Congress upon all "neutral questions,' %
and maintain q dignified silence on
points of difference. This is rather
cold comfort from the most influential
organ of the Administration on the
seaboard.
The Democracy regard their brief as
soctatton with the j Johnson Republicans
In the light of positive calamity,
ihey compromised themselves and
their t1me-honored principles by join
ing in q grand conservative rush for
the flesh pots. They sold out the reso-
luttons of '9S at Philadelphia, and all
the old pet theories of the Sovereignty
OF the States were acntioned off at the
same place, cheaper than old clothes in
Chatham street. They accepted the
Republican ideas of 1864 with very lit
tie modification as the creed of the
party, poking along slowly in the wake
OF the eAbolitionists, asthey have been
doing, for some years.
This availed them nothing; they met
with defeat when they confidently
have now discovered had not set In,
The passions kindled by the war had
not died out. The sober second thought
had not come to the people, But it
is coming they say, and when it does
come they do not propose to be in sit
uatton which will compel them to di-
vide Its honors with an administration
that adyerttses its weakness by its fran
tic efforts to sustain itself.
The Democratic party is to be recon-
structed. 1t is to be put on the old sub
stantial foundations. The Weeds and
haymonds, and all such uncertain
quantities as Beecher and Custer and
Doolittle and Cowan, and even Andrew
Johnson himself are to be shaken off,
The work of repentance, publication
and reconstruction is to be commenced
on the Sth of January. That daY is to
be signalized by the holding OF State
conventions us typical of the intention
to purge and make clean the house that
Jackson built.
There will be time to attend-to look
after the party-when the carpenters,
upholsters, painters, gilders and finish
efs have completed their work, and we
know what manner of fedifice they shall
have put up. The condition in which
the Administration party is put by this
sudden desertion of its Democratic al
lies is deplorable enough. A few thou
sand postmasters, assessors, collectors,
and custom-house officers, will consti-
tute its strength. 1t will 90 into the
next political campaign, with less re-
tainers than followed James G.. Birney
and the banners of the Liberty party
into the Presidential canvass Of 1s44,
There is not an Instance of an admins.
tration falling SO fiat in the midst of its
career since the beginning of our polit-
ical annals.