The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-19

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Why BLAIR WAS NOMINATED.
But there was Vice President also to
be chosen. That didn't take much time.
Frank Blair had anticipated what these
southern masters would require of their
northern slaves. do not overstate the
matter; Tor 1t does appear to me that
slavery being abolished as one of the
consequences OF the war, and having NO
longer any negro to wallop, your South.
ern man has concluded to take as q sub.
sutute these Northern Copperheads and
crack the lash over them. TCheers. I
BLAIR saw what was demanded and he
very early put in his bid. He said all
tneSe other matters that Seymour land
Valla1digham lately had been disposed
70 tax about-public credit, finance,
greenoaeks and bonds,-were matters of
the least possible consequence; that the
one single and only issue towering above
al Others, and the only one that gave
dignity to the contest was that the Demo
cracy should plant themselves on the
ground of "trampling in the dustr all
that had been done BY the Republican
party and by Congress for the restoration
of these States that had gone into the
rebellion. Well, Blair having put in a
bid of that kind, there was no Quarrel
ing over him; and by reclamation al
most, on the first ballot, he was chosen
to be the standard bearer so far as the
second office was concerned.
WHAT IT SIGNIFIES.
Thus step by step you find the thing
eomplete-so far as the composition Of
the Convention is concerned in its two
wings-So far as individuals are con-
cerned, giving character to it,-so far as
candidates before it for nomination are
Goncerned-and so far as concerns can
dldates that were selected. All point in
the same direction and go to show uner
ringly that it was worked out to a result
which proved as said at the outset, that
your present Democracy, as it is termed,
is not the old-fashioned Democracy of
the country which had some principles
and some measures which it was accus.
toned to contend for, but is Democracy
which starts with no principle whatever
but accommodates itself to an organiza
ton whose only care seems to be to GO
back on all the Union party of the
country has done and revive, if it can,
disorder and anarchy rather than not get
control of the country.
THE PLATFoRM-RECoEsTRU TO BE
TRANPLED IN THE DUST.
The prominent feature of their plat
speaking of is that which Wade Hamp-
ton says he dictated: That all the meas
ures of reconstruction resorted to by
Congress for restoring peace to the land
and bringing back the integrity of the
Union are Revolutionary, unconstitution-
al and" therefore "void'i-thus laying
foundation for what Blair so emphati.
cally declared was the only issue-and
these measures being "void," nothing
remained but to "trample them in the
dust" Now, Blair was right about that.
He admits you cannot get a Congress
elected by the Democracy that will have
majority, much less two.thirds, ready
and able to repeal any of these acts.
Every one having grain of sense will
admit so far as amendments to the Con-
stitution are concerned, there is no hu.
man probability of Congress submit
ting amendments again to wipe out
what has been agreed to as new parts of
the Constitution, nor sufficient majority
of the States through their legislatures to
consent to any such new amendments.
What then? AS they cannot be repealed,
be legitimately or constitutionally got rid
of there remains nothing except to disre-
gard, disobey and defy, or, as Blair says,
''trample in the dust"
THE RECONSTRUCTION MEASURES EXPLAIN
ED.
Well, let US look at this "trampling."
Let us see what is to be trampled in the
dust that has been done by this Union
sagE Il, n1-
you to put on now your best brogans,
with hob-nails all round for you will find
pretty big job in this .'trampling" you
have undertaken. All that hes been done
by Congress in the exercise of its legiti-.
mate power as the law making depart
ment of the Government is to be set aside,
DESTROYED, disregarded, de6ed; and Mr..
Stevenson, Governor of Kentucky, has
already issued his proclamation declaring
that the XIVth Article of the Constitu-
ton is to be regarded hereafter by his
people as 40 part of that instrument, and
is to be disobeyed. He is little in ad-
vance of the column in declarations, but
further south they are perhaps even
little in advance of him in their acts; for
they IRE engaged in the work of disc
bedience and defiance.
WEST VIRGINIA TO BE "TRAMPLED IL THE
DUST"
What are these reconstruction meas
ures that are to be got rid of? To bring
it right home to you, suppose West Nir-
ginia is to be put back to her place as a
part of Old Virginia. [Cries of ''Neverl'
AS one of the consequences of the war,
she is part of the reconstructed States.
You say "Never ~ but you must remem-
Der that it is SO, SO far as their purposes
Hannngn thau have hnvyaH
the knee to this Southern wing of the
party, and agreed that they will en-
deayor to get the Constitution Us it was
and the States as they were before the
war, and everything as if there had been
no war. Recollect what has come to be
the doctrine of the Democratic party now
a-days about the war to put the rebellion
down. They wish at the South, and these
northern copperheads have agreed to it,
to regard the war as little unpleasant
ness between neighbors, which has blown
over. They look upon it as a mere dog
fight where the strongest came out best.
We have notion it was contest for GER
tain principles and measures whether
they should prevail or be put down, and
having succeeded, it is our own duty as
rational beings to take security against
the recurrence of this trouble in tuturei
that that great war was not a mere con-
test of brute force, a mere dog fight, but
that it meant something; and that now it
is proper for the conquering party to in.
sist on maintaining what it accomplished
by the war, and take security for the fu-
ture that rebellion shall not come again.
There is the diffe.ence between US which
| lies at the very bottom of all the contro-
versies between the Democrats and Re
publicans.