The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-02

master. Would TO heaven 1t were
Otherwisei Would TO heaven that the
Radical party could pause and modify
lits suicidal policy! But fear the ma
iority have become bound TO it-bound
hand aud foot with chains they cannot
break; that, however much some may
regret it or strive TO conceal regret, po-
llItical necessities compel you to 90 90,
aud right on TO the bitter end. 'fou
have sIaked your all upen ii. fon must
live or die by it.
The Senator from Massachusetts,, Mr..
Wilson. as if by authority, says, We
will take no step backward" Mr.. Col
fax in his recent letter, rc-echoes, Not
hairs BREADTH Such, / fear, is the
fatal resolution taken by the majority.
The result of the recent elections,
showing that a majority in the North
eru aud Western States is opposed to
that policy, so far from cbanginga resO-
Iutisn from which the Radical party
dare not retreat, is pushing it on to the
malness of de,piir. 1t sees. & lat its ma
jonty in the North and West is already
lost. 1t dare not exclude the South III
the next election. The South must be
forced Mt the point of the bayOnet, by
white disfranchisement and negro suf-
frage, to vote for the Radical candidate,
or he will be beaten. The majority in
the Northern and Western States
AGAINST him must, therefore, be over
come by the negro votes of the South.
Sir, we shall see il the people of the
| United States will allow the regular
Army, which now controls this isignorant
negro vote in the South, to hold, the
balance of power in the Republic and
to elect to the Presidency the candidate
of negro supremacy, upheld by military
despUtism. Shall PrmtOriau bands con-
troll the Presidency, rs in the degenerate
days of Rome they set up tue empire
for salei am no prophet; but, If not
mistaken i'll the signs OF, the times, the
American people are not yet prepared
for that. The Democratic party, every
where freeing itself from the errors OF
the past, planting itself upou the living
issues of the hour, welcoming into its
ranks all who are opposed 10 this Radi-
cal and barbarian policy of subjecting
the States of the South to negro ,suPre-
macy by military dictatorship, all who
are in favor of maintaining the integri-
ty of the Union, the rights of the States,
aud the liberties of the people uuder
the Constitution, and all who neither
admit the doctrine of Southern radical
ism which brought on this rebellion,
that State may seccd0 from the Union,
nor admit that other doctrine OF the
Northern Radical, no less revolutionary,
that Congress may exclude or disiran-
chise ten States from the Union, are
now coming together upon the platform
of the fathers of the Constitution, and
in the same fraternal spirit in which it
was formed, aud by which alone 1t can
be maintained.
Sir, there are times when public
opinion is like q placid stream gently
| flowing within its bank, when slight
obstacles may for time arrest or change
| or divert its course. Then, it may be
said, the voice of the people is the
voice of politicians the voice of the
people is the will of party. But there
are Other times when the heavens are
overcast, the rains have descended, and
the floods have come, that its majestic
current rolls on, emblem of wrath and
mower. when resistance maddens its
fury and increases its strength. Then il
overhows its banks. Tie barriers of par
ty caucuses aud politicians are all
sweDt away and become mere Hood
wood on the surface of the troubled
waters. The voice of the people then
is no longer the voice of politicians ;
then it is that the voice of the people
is the voice of God.
Sir, We have passed through such cri-
ses in our day. You well remember
when feeble minority in this body
raisetrits voice against that overbear.
ing majority which, undrr the diCtatiOn
of southern radicals sought to force a
State government, with negro slavery,
upon the people OF Kansas against their
Will. That monstrOus wrong stirred
the hearts of the people to their very
depths, and party lines and party names
were forgotten. Party ties were sundcr-
ed like flax at tho touch of fire. You
remember that, sir.
! Again. when these same radicals of
the South, because the people of the
North Indignantly refused to sanction
! the subiugatiOn of Kansas, rose in arms
to destroy the Union and the COnstitu-
lion, what became of party then :
! The people rose as one man. Large
masses of the Democratic party gave
their political support to the admin
i,tratiOn of Mr.. Lincoln, forming the
Union Republican party; and to their
eternal honor be it said that the great
mass of the Democratic party, with
some exceptions, gave Ia this war meas.
ure a hearty and unflinching support.
/ 81 hnt tNn
have been q failure.
In the actual prosecution Of the war,
| in the camp and on the field of battle,
/ in the rank and file, as well as in COM
maud, we found 10 distinction what
ever. Shoulder to shoulder Democrats
and Republicans stood together like
brothers OH every battlefield from the
beginning to the end of the rebellion.
| To defend the Union and the COnstitu-
tion against overthrow by Southern
radicalism, in arms against them, they
braved every danger and endured every
hardship. Together they stood in the
day of the conflict, freely barred their
busoms in each Others $ defense; together
often their Iife's blood gushed and min
rled, and side by side they now sleep
JutlI laSI SIetp III IbclI uOnOItu graves
There they will sleep together till
Heaven calls them TO their reward.
And now, sir, what do we behold A
dominant majority in this Senate and in
Congress, under the lead of Northern
radicalism, at the point OF the bayOnet
fercing negro suffrage and negro gov
ernmeuts upon ten States of the Union
aud six million people against their
will. What was the Outrage upon Kan.
sas compared to thati We see them
practically dissOlving the Union by ex.
cluding ten States from the Union, thus
doing what the rebellion could never
do, and what we spent S5,OOO, ,OOO, ,OOC
and Ave hundred thousand lives Of ouI
best aud bravest to prevent. For long
months we have seen them en-.
cIOaching steadily and persistently
upon the just righ.s of the Bxecu'
tive; and now, to rivet their chains up
on US and TO crown the whole Of their
usurpations, they propose to subjngate
the Supreme Court; 'Ooyerturn justice IN
her sacred seat in this tribunal of last re-
sort. They would compel the court whose
office il is 10 hold an even balance be-
tween the States on the one hand and