The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-15
F5ronoanee. Ger Nekrol suarare.
Andrew Johnson's AdminIstratIou
Denounced as n Hybrid Con.
cerns and an Object OF
Public Contempt.
Nom 0te oAtoa0O Times, November l2.

FFOm ate Chicago Times, November l2.
Shall the Democratic Party Die or
Il -,,s 4! St LIyeF tff-
The present is crisis in the Demo-
cratic party, which has no precedent in
its history, as it isia crisis in the pro-
gress OF the country, which is also with
out precedent. Never before has the
Democratic party encountered events
SO seriously affecting its future validity
as now. Not that it beholds itself di-
minished in the magnitude of lis num-
bers-for it is numerically; stronger
than IL has ever been before-but that
having been beaten on great national
issue, as to which it believed itself to be
| wholly right and the opposition wholly
wrong, and still SO believes, 1t must
nevertheless abandon that issue--for
the decision of it is final-and either sit
down In helpless and decaying inac-
| ttV1ty, or strike boldly out upon new
line, selected with peculiar reference.
not to things as we would have them,
but to things as they actually are, and
| In pushing which line it shall cease to
be hOld-back or r"conservative' party,
and become, what it was in its palmy
| days, a progressive and an aggressive
party. These are the alternatives.
1t will not sit down in helpless and
decaying inactivity.
| What, then, shall the new line be? In
the first place, mnst we not cut loose
from the administration of Andrew
Johnson, and leave that hybrid concern
to foat on the sea of public contempt
into which 1t some time since entered,
and from which no power can rescue
it7 Is not the late defeat attributable
more. largely TO this Administratio
than to ali other causes combined2
| What is there in its composition to COM
longing to 1t, is entitled, by reason of
his antecedents or of his statesmanship,
to the confidence or the respect of the
Democratic party2 Certainly is not
Andrew Johnson nor William Il. Se-
ward, nor Edwin NJ Stanton. -Trtle.
and the Democratic party, in overlook
ing the chief men comprising it, and
thinking only of the rightfulness Of the
policy, displayed a patriotism whose
purity was never excelled; but the poll
icy having failed-apd having failed,
too, through the feebleness and folly
and Otfenses against public propriety
of the tion-why should not
the Democratic party abandon the dead
body, longer adherence to which is
death to itself2 s..sg4
What next? Gun the Democratic
phLDy 6uGCScu uublL GuS
shall be gotten out of the way? It can
not. What next? Is not negro suf-
frage inevitable, and is not the quick
est way to get the negro question out of
the way to at once concede the suffrage,
making issue only on the degree to
which it shall be conceded 2 We know
that many Democrats have not reached
this advanced view of the case, and
that such still feel greatly inclined to
revolt at the proposition OF negro suf-
frage in any degree; but let us tell
| them that 1t is always wise to accept
when the inevitable comes. Negro
suffrage, qualified or universal, depends
upon the promptness or otherwise with
which the Democratic party shall move
| with reference to it, The South will
speedily yield qualified negro suffrage
upon the motion ofthe Democratic par
ty; because, If for no other reason, she
will soon see, If she does not already
see, that if she does not yield it, she will
ultimately be compelled to- accept
| universal negro suffrage. lsE -
Qualified negro suffrage yielded by
the Southland by this we mean i'm
partial suffrage, or suffrage dependent
upon the intelligence of the man, ire
spectiVe of color, as is now the rule in
Massachuse negro question will
have been disposed OF, and the occupa-
| ton Of the Northern Republican Radi-
cal party will be gone forever. Notone
inch of ground VIII It have to stand
upon; and the country can once more
turn to those material questions of
public policy, the right disposition of
which Is SO essential to the public pros
perity. It will be upon these questions
| that the Democratic party will triumph,
and 1t will be by this triumph that
constitutional government and our fed
eral system viii be preserved!
|, II the South be wise, 1t will not wait,
| IN fI,to fro nuaatfnF -aJyn1 RnFstftn
motion of the Democratic party. If it
be wise, 1t will lose no time in putting
in motion the necessary machinery by
which 1t will at the same time save it
self from humiliation, preserve its own
sef-respect, rid the country of the most
vexatious questions that ever distract
ed any country, kill the worst political
party that ever existed on the globe,
| and put the Union in the way ofspeedy
| restoration. This machinery consists,
of course, in Conventions to revise the
State Consultations. si71 -gs q
ooNSrENTs or THE PRESS ON THE FORE
GOING ARTICLE PROM THE TIMES.
The time is yet too short TO say what
sort of responses are to follow the above
extraordinary article from the Chicago
Times. ( It only appeared in TINT paper
on the 18th, and this is but the 18th day
of the month. Doubtless thererwill be
many curious comments upon it, espe-
cially at the South. We subjoin the
following notices Of the article tromtwo
or three OF our leading exchanges.
The New York Herald says:
The Chicago q Sptes, the ringleader of
the copperhead journals OF the West,
has, it appears, taken a new departure
| from the late elections and struck out
boldly from the Presidents policy in
favor of negro suffrage In the South.
| Now, If the QemQar ratio party, or what
| remains Of It, VIII onlygo the same
way, the Ja0obin FepubliGans will be
| hanked and headed OH, and the Democ-
racy may ride again into power on this
i new tack. Why not7 The negroes of
the South cannot make much worse
use of the right of suffrage than is
made by many OF the white men of the
| North. Let the Hon. John MorEissey
and the Hon. Fernando Wood strike
| ont for the flank movement of the Chi
cago Times. Why stop to consider old
things, when an things are becoming
noW3
The PhiIadelphia Press calls atten-
tion to the article, as follows.
'SThe article Of the Chicago ITptcs of
yesterdAy Of which we have d special
teIegraphic abstract this morning, fa-
yoring negro suffrage, .is q sign Of re-
4 turning reason that Hooks vastly like
4 the hard common sense of the Demo-
4 "a.