The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-26

danger. Ten States virtually blotted on
by Congressional enactments, taxation
without representation, military com
missions instead of civil courts, the Stat.
banks destroyed by acts of Congress ant
the whole subject of the currency draw
within the province of its legislation
bills pending in Congress to take from
: all the States their right to regulate til,
elective franchise and compel them Il
allow the Negro to vote, mighty ma
tional debt exempt from local taxation
system ofreyenue the most inquisitOri
al and vsxatious the world ever saw, al
immense standing army, composed il
part OF Negro troops, a navy large ant
powerful enough for O time of War, and I;
host of Office olders, so great as almos
to defy numeration-these, and Inucl
more that might be mentioned, show
how we'll founded were our fears apt
what mighty strides towards consoli
dation of all powers in the hands of tn,
!, Federal government have been taken
within the last few years. But right
across the march of tyranny and oppres
sion, stands the Democratic party, it.
ranks unbroken, its spirit unsubdued
lIS pun DOoC ltOICll "
preserve and perpetuate free institu.
tions, it tolerates no such word as fail
But short time since it was asked te
disband. What unprejudiced and IN
selfish patriot weuld ask that now
What wise man but sees in it the grea
obstacles to despotism, the great con
servator of well regulated liberty'
My friends, on the 9th of January last
j said no party that habitually disre
garded the Constitution, could long re
tain power in this country. Is not the
truth ofthat remark being verifed-ver
fled more rapidly than the most hopefu
of us dared to expecti Look at the
elections of this year, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Della
ware, Maryland, Kentucky, California
all redeemed. Ohio substantially so
Everywhere else, where the ballot-box
was free, immense Democratic gains
Nay, even Massachusetts,, a conservative
gain of 40,000 makes Radicalism trem,
bic in its very citadel. True, much re-
mains to be done before the country will
have been rescued from the clutch of the
destroyer. But believe me, my friends
it will be done. The people were never
more in earnest than they are now.
Dcmagoguism, abuse and empty decla.
ration 20 for nothing. The people de-
mapd the truth and they will have it;
they demand Constitutional rule, and
they will have it; they demand relief
from unnecessary taxation, and they will
have it; they demand fair apportion-
ment of the public burthens, and they
will have it: they demand just and in
telligible reTenue laws, and they will
have them; they demand retrenchment
and economy, and they will have them;
and, to give effect to their will they de-
mand honest rulers and they are detor-
mined to have them. On the other
hand, there are some things that they
are determined not to have. They won't
have negroes put above white men; they
won't have ope-third of the country Civ
en- up to destruction; they won't have the
prosperity of the whole country sacri-
feed for the sake of politicians; they
won't support tens of thousands of effice
holders in idleness, who ought to he
turned out to honest work; they won't
be taxed to support negroes who are
able to support themselves, while poor
white men and women have TO earn
their daily bread; they won't have agold
currency for the bondholder and paper
currency for the people; and they woh't
have the social customs to which they
have been habituated arbitrarily inter-
fered with by vexatious and oppressive
legislation. SO / read the elections of
this year.
Ny friends, nearly seven years ago
the Democratic party lost power in the
United States. 1t seems as if we are
about to regain it. 1t took our fore
fathers seven years to achieve American
Independence. Let us, within the same
time, re-establish American Liberty. l
know what difficulties we have yet to
overcome; know that it will task our
energies and wisdom 10 the utmost to
overcome them knew that our rulers
will not yield up power if by any effort,
or artifce, or expenditure they can re-
tain it; / know what mighty interests
will rally to their support-hOw the
hosts who feed and fatten atthe public
crib, who draw the tribute by millions
from the pockets of the people, and
thsse who, by means of partial legisla-
tiOr, tax us, for their private emolu-
ment, even more than the Government
taxes us, will strain every nerve to per-
petuate Il rule that ruins Us, but en-
riches them. know that we are to
have the voters Of Africanized States in
the South to countervail the votes of
white men in the North. l know that
the scales of victory hang SO evenly bal
anced, that the weight of mere feather
may turn them. / feel all this; but yet
/ am full of hope. We have made a
glorious beginning in the work of re-
demption. have not forgotten the old
maxim of Horace, that freely trans
lated, reads: "A work we'll begun is
half DONE" We have begun our
work well-it is half done-it is in our
power to complete it-every thing dear
to freemen, every true interest of the
people, call upon Us to complete it. Let
no man lay aside his armor; let every
man 60 earnestly to work, and the year
1868 will be forever memorable in the
annals Of our country, rs an era when
tyranny and misrule departed from the
land, and Constitutional liberty and
good government resumed their sway.
Ny friends, do you know that if you
carry Ohio next year Democratic
President will surely be elected' Do
you know that upon the result in our
State may, very probably, depend the
general RESULT Do you know that
upon that result may possibly
depend the future existence of pop
ular government Do you realize the
immense responsibility that this fact
imposes upon youi Do you wish to be
remembered and applauded, as long as
time shall endure, as the saviors of pop
ular rightsi Do you wish this grand
State Of ours to become the citadel OF
freedomf Do you wish her name to
inspire the hopes of the oppressed, even
to the uttermost parts of the earth
Do you realize the truth, the profound
est of all political truths, that the world
is governed too much' Do you know
that too much government is always in
the interest of the few and the selfish,
and oppressive to the many and the gen.
erous! Do You know that father and
o mother are better legislators for their
family than the wisest Congress or Par
lament that ever sat : De you know
that the dignity of the individual is
superior to the dignity of the govern
ment; for where the individual is de.
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