The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-23

spectators of the rascally machination
of the party in power-they had beel
on tho watchtower of Democracy ant
are now ready to report what they hay,
seen aud heard. The committee through
their Chairman presented the following
resolutions which were unanimously
dopted:
The Democrats of Lincoln township
in Convention assembled, do resolve:
I. That the past six years have but
strengthened our confden ce in the prin
ciples of the Democrat tic party, even
whilst terrorism, vituperation, outrage
and abuse have constrained us into al.
lence and into inaction. And we dc
now therefore congratulate our fellow
citizens of West Virginia upon the signs
of a return of that ample liberty oi
speech, of the press, and of political ac'
tioA which was enjoyed by the humb-
lest citizen through q long series ei
Democratic administrations.
2. We invite into our organization all
who are opposed to that Legislation
which has given existence to hungry
host of unnecessary civil officers and
sinecurists; all who are opprsed to its
authors, who, by their reckless and ex-
cessive appropriations and expenditures
of the public money, have increased
taxation beyond all precedent in order
that corrupt party may live and fatteu
upon the spoils of the people; all who
are opposed to that multiform fanati-
cism which undermines or deties Or
ganic laws; which destroys the public
tranquility, .poisons the social and busi-
ness relations of the good and quiet
people, sows the seeds of diseord and
hate; which, always meuthing its
own loyalty, virtually dissolves the
Union by decaying representation to
nine co-equal States, and seeks to sub
ject the white people of those States to
the domination of a semi-barbarous
race.
3. We are now, as ever, ,unalterably at
tached to the Union of our Fathers; but
We are resolute in our opposition to
those Radical schemes which seek to
make the will Of an unbridled
majority superior to the Constitution,
and to substitute mere force for those
bonds of interest and affection which
were the original inducements to Union,
and upon which alone any union of
political communities can long exist.
a. If the fanatical and tyranical con-
dact of the Radicals of our own locality
be persisted in, whereby Democrats and
Conservatives have been subjected to
every species of indignity and outrage,
and deAied many of the rights of free
and equal citizens, it is our settled de-
termination to retaiiate by giving our
patronage and extending our friend
ship and kind Offices to those alone who
are ready to do us that justice which has
been so long denied.
5. That the Registration law, by
which nultitudes of good citizens are
wantonly deprived of the elective fran
chise, is an abomination too great to be
endured by a free people in an enlight-
ened age and that the public interests
and the public safety, alike with out
ragged justice and common decency,
demand its immediate repeal or its com
plete modification.
6. We regard all laws, proscriptive in
their character, rs dangerous to the
public interests and the common safety,
and valuable only to men who, destitute
of merit--having neither ability nor
integrity, find success for themselves
only when the voice of the people is
suppressed. We, therefore, demand the
repeal of those two engines of fraud
and oppression-the suitor's and the
lawyers test oath.
Z. We believe, with the Fathers, in the
superiority of our own race; and, with
the great Douglas. that "rnis 10 a white
mans government, made by white men,
for the benefit of white men, and their
posterity forever"
On motion, the following gentlemen
were appointed township executive
committee:
F.A. Snidcr, ?. y. Martin, G. +. Nor
gan, Fielding Ice, Eugene Wilson, A.
W. Sturm, and Jacob Sturm.
On motion, it was ordered that the
proceedings of the meeting be Published
in the Wheeling REGISTER.
F. A. SNIDER, President.
PRESLEY n. MARTIN, Secretary.