The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-07
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FIRM EHa,per's Weekly.

The political spectacle OF the moment
Is Instructive. The Republican party,
the party of the country and of the
war, of liberty, progress, and ciTiliza-
ton, after successfully yindicating the
authority OF the Government, obliIera-
ting the shameful sin or slavery, aud.
maintaing the bond of the Union, has
restored every seeding State but three
to ltB practical relations In The Union
upon the broad, simple, humane prin-
ciple OF equal civil and political rights,
and has done this despite the treachsry
OF the Executive head OF the Govern
ment and the relentless hostility of an
INSCRIPTIONS party. Knowing that
upon no other principle eau there be q
peaceful Union and general prosperity,
| il has declared that without that tram
guilty the debt can not be paid, and
that there is among the ashes OF the re-
bellion a spark of hope that the debt
may be Tepudiated. the national credi-
tors deIrauded, and every man in the
land disHraced; II has, simultaneously
with this policy of equal rights and
peace, declared that the national honor
shall be faithfully defended, and has
nominated aH The representatives of
great soldier OF the war, who has shown
himself as free from The traditional am
bitiUn of a renowned and victorious
General as Washington himself, and
with him a man of the same pure per.
sonal character, and identified with the
cause OF constitutional liberty thai trl-
uuphed in the war.
Upon the other eide, The Democratic
party, whose inhuman policy, alike
crime against the conscience and the
prosperity OF the country, plunged us
Into the war, snd which four years ago
demanded that the Government should
treat with traitors in arms, now bEh1ed
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eminent, either by force or by negotIa-
ton with its enemies. stands torn with
doubt and mad with the lust of power,
wondering in what way it can most
| successfully deceive the country and
| reverse the great victory which Il could
not prevent. Conscious that Its logical
| aud secretly cherished design, Il de-
clared, would be Tepudiated by the peo-
| pie, its counsslB are divided between
| those who would say nothing aud those
who would reveal me real party pur-
pose. Hating equal rights as periIous
TO ATS party hscendeney. 1t would
thrust back into political and In
dusirial chaos the States which the
Republicans have restored, and re-
newing It's ALLIANCES with the dISaffected
classes OF tho South would seek a re.
construction which should leave the
spirit that rebelIed aud palliated rebel-
lion paramount in the Government
| Disorgapizing, dangerous, reckless and
destructive, as every party indifferent
to humanity and resolved upon tUjua-
tice must necessarily be, this Democratic
party goes into its Convention agreed
only in contempt for the great Prin-
| clples of the Government, and in q pas
| sionate desire for its control.
These are the attitudes OF the two
parties that ask the sympathy and sup.
| port OF the American people. The one,
having successfully concluded the war.
/ is organizing its results, cherishinR
vengeance against no man or class. and
anxious that those whom conspicuous
1 disafIection have necessarily disfran.
chised may at the earliest moment
| which depends upon themselves-again
resume their share in the common
4 government. The other anxious only
that fidelity and patriotism may be dis
franchissd, and .disafection put into
power, in order that those who derided
loyalty 10 the Union may now gov.
ern it.
! To doubt the result would be Il
question the common sense of the
American people.