The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-14
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The Duty of the Republican Party.
Advance the Whole Line.

( formed. 1t had suffered defeat. Timid
cOunsels urged that It should fall back
i'll good order, and intrench. tsgreat
captain advanced the whole line, and
won the most brilliant victory OF the
war. --aa. EaH g. a
This Is our advice to the Repu ublican
party. Advance the whole line. Cali
iornia is regarded as the beginning of
! new revolution. The people are said
TO be weary of the Republican party,
forgetting that the Republican party
has been thwarted, betreyad, and sem-
barrassed by Mr.. johnson ever since
he took the Presidency. It was our
pride and duty to reconstruct the Union
and end the war. We should have done
this had the President given us the
least sympathy-had he not been a
traitor and Il hypocrite. His recon-
struction meant surrender into the
hands of the men who had created the
Rebellion. The country protested. He
has met its prot astS by insidious and
malignant enmi y, by pandering to the
worst class of politicians and adven-
turers, by driving from office honest
| pointing dishonest men who pretended
10 sustain him. Reconstruction has
been weary, tedious, uphill work. We
have had every obstu cle-the EXecu-
tive against us, the j judiciary doubtful,
sullen, vindicIive sentiment In the
OOhlh ShNOuAd6GA D1 NAC
Copperhead dalIiance. As it is now,
we may consider the work ended un-
less the cunning of Mr., Black or some
other of the Presidents advisers may
find new objection, or unless these
bad men in their desperation should
attempt to seize upon the machinery of
| government, and hurl Congress from
| power. To reconstruct the South with
/ the Presidents aid would have been a
difficult and delicate labor. To recon-
struct il in the face of his enmity is one
| of the most hazardous impOssIbilities
| ever imposed upon people. So with
/ the tariff and the finances. Here are
two subjects demanding the gravest at
tentIon. We have revenue system
based upon the artificial and extreme
necessities of war. A healthy manage
ment would have aided us in reducing
the debt. But how have the finances
been managed? What has Mr.. John
son done toward executing the financial
laws OF Congress? Take the internal
revenue system We believe that the
President has wasted millions upon
millions OF dollars in the collection OF
revenue. For political reasons he re-
moved last summer majority of the
| best Assessors and Collectors, and ap-
pointed men without character or re-
cord. Mr.. McCulloch protested, butthe
Philadelphia Convention was necessary
money and positions were needed
adVentuTeTs were crammed into place
adventures who feared rejection by
the Senate, and must needs feed raven
/ ously on the Treasury. What do we
now see? In whisky alone, Sl5O, 600, 600
| of taxes are lost to the Treasury every
/ year! The whisky interest created
and permitted by President Johnson's
wRnton neglect of duty daily takes
nearly half million of dollars from
/ the Treasury. Yet this man talks of
executing the laws Execute the laws!
/ Here is n law of revenue, SO badly ex-
ecuted that but one-siXth of the whole
amount Is collected. 1t is plain to ali
men that he has fostered a gigantic
SYSTEM of fraud, sytematiZed, far
| reaching, and widespread. We find
stop it. Even the World, which has
/ the impertinence to call Mr.. Johnson's
Cabinet Republican" says that his
/ "administration must justify itself be-
[ fore the country or be overwhelmed in
disgrace" We say disgrace has come.
The President either could execute this
law or he could not. If helpless, he
should have asked Congress for more
power. Unfortunately il has never oc-
| CURED to him that he had anything to
do but write proclamutions and de-
nounce the" Radicals" a President
whose favOrite amusements consist in
"awinging around the circle, T" putting
his foot down, ".and dancing along "the
"war- path, can scarcely be expected
TO devote himself TO saving Sl5O,OOO, 900
II year. And so the money goes, and
fraud reigns, and we have the special
friends OF HIS Excellency running from
one otfice-holder to another, levying
taxes, assessments, and contributions
to sustain the party and print The Ma
hondl I1IteHiOeHceT. 1t was bad when
Buchanan and Black were in power.
Now that Johnson and Black have
combined, 1t Is infinitely worse. Well
may the leading Democratic newspaper
of the country dread the Presidents
being "overwhelmed in disgrace"
The Republican party made laws oil
reconstruction and finances. Some OF
them have been defied; others have
been executed negligently. Yet the
party is assaile0, and an attempt Is
made to carry us before the country
not only responsible for our own short
cominRs, bnt-God help usl-fOr the
infamies of the President. This is
the "Revolution" that awaits US. This
is the returning tide that is to sweep
us out of existence, and give the
country over to the unchecked control
of the worst men who ever aimed at
power. Unless we temporiZe, and act
warily, and cease to be "Radicap'-un.
less we abandon our prineiples-weare
to be defeated. We do not believe 1t.
II we did, it would only make duty
Z clearer lue IhepuDliCdh purity 10 lAe
party of progress, and II must advance
The organization must be perfected
Our principles must be asserted with
more vehemence. The lines Cf de-
markaIion must be drawn, and the
only password for the present must be
! the overthrow of Johnson's Admlnis-
Iration. It darkens the country like
an eclipse. 1t is full of shame, and
and falsehood, and cunning. Here is
a President whose history men Will
\ hesitate to teach their children, and
n AROUND whom swarm greedy, unprin-
\ cipled adventures. He has done
nothing but war; nothing but produce
unrest, fever, anxiety. The atmos-
jphere that surrounds him and his
Cabinet is SO. dense and foggy with cor.
ruption, intrigue, insinCerity, and
e. madness, that men walk in terror. o.
This being SO, we must prepare for
the fall elections. The guns OF the
Democracy over the California elections
are as harmless as the blank cartridges
/ with which they are loaded. II we
only do what is wise and intrepid, we
need not fear. But we must have 9
thorough reorganization. Let All
minor issues fall. All who are timid OF
time-serving should be allowed TO go &c
= the rear, We want no compromise CO.
alitions, no "People's party move
/. ments," no temporary political make
shifts. Better be fairly and squarely
defeated on the principle of universal
freedom aud universal, suffrage than
gain "A victory that will leave one man.
no matter what color, without every
political right. Honorable defeat is q
! huudredto more precious than dis
honorable victory. We have to meel
the cries of "nigger supremacy" aud
: america for the white men" and