The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-05-22
Reading II hem Out.

General Logan has been making a
speech at Chicago, in which he demands
that the seven Republican Senators who
voted against conviction on Saturday,
together with Chief Justice Chase, be
read out of the party. "This sugges
tion," the Tribune correspondent de-
ciares, "was received with the widest
demonstrations of approval" Mr.. Judd,
the same authority adds, ere echoed the
sentiments of General Eogan, and lie
was warmly applauded." ApropOsition
to this effect is to be brought before the
Convention, and there will undoubtedly
be a great deal of passionate, half-crazy
talk on the subject.
With view to effect upon the Con-
ventiOn, extreme newspapers are press
ing the same demand. 1t appears, char.
acteristically in the Philadelphia Press :
with every hour the demand in
creases that those Senators who, from
whaterer causes, proved unequal to the
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publican organization owes it to itself
to erpel from its communion promptly
those faltering leaders, whom the peo-
pie have spontaneously repudiated. We
can lose nothing by cutting them off.
Saturday was an illustration of the
strength which their presence gives to
the party. But at all events, lose or
win, we do not want political associ-
alton with this clique. We admit their
right to vote according to their con-
sciences, but but We detest such a con-
science, and want to stamp it with the
official reProbation of the party that be-
lieves in moral ideas and the triumph
Of right"
We can readily believe, not only that
Mr.. Forney "dctests such consciences"
as those of Messrs. Fessenden, Grimes
and Trumbull, but that all conscience is
to him obnoxious. What claim have
men to conscience, forsooth, when it
stands in the Way of partisaBship 7 Mr..
Stevens evidently adds to his contempt
for conscience, a kindly feeling toward
perjury when an oath obstructs his
path. At least he said so, substantially,
in the House on Monday:
Mr.. Ross-I ask the gentleman from
Pennsylvania whether, in his opinion,
Senators would be justified in perjur-
ing themselves for the purpose of pro-
curing conviction of the President
Mr.. r.Stevens-Well,s sir, do not think
it would hurt them.
The disgusting feature of these decla-
ratiOns and demands is, that they are
put forward in the name of "the party
that believes in moral ideas and the
triumph of right" "Moral IDEAS" in
deedm The morality that despises con-
oniannn affor fhn ~ EarnaN.
and sneers at respect for an oath, &C.
cording to the style of Stevens, belts
Sing Sing much better than the Repub-
lican party. The fact that the editors
who write this degrading nonsense, and
the politicians who talk it, do so under
the pretence of serving "a party Of
moral IDEAS" and with o show of zeal
for "the right" proves how completely
the Radical element is demeralized, and
how hollow is its title to general sup
port.
If there is to be any reading OUT at
Chicago, we submit that the culprits
SHOULD be selected from the list of men
who outrage morality by crimes COM
mitted in its name, and scandalize So
ciety by holding up perjury for its COM
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their convictions and their oaths, no
party can afford to quarrel. They are
the salt that saves from rottenness and
destruction the organization which
once respected "moral ideas" J" and strug.
gled for the promotion of the right. To
cut them of, as Logan and the Press
propose, would be to drive out of the
party all that makes it respectable, and
to establish despotism which few who
value truth and justice and duty could
tolerate.
We don't know that the Chicago
Convention will deem itself strong
enough to undertake the task assigned
to it. We are not prepared to believe
that any considerable portion of the
bsdy there represented will invite de-
feat, by instituting proscriptiye meas
ures against every man who dares to
differ with Mr.. Butler and Mr.. Bout
we'll. If the Convention is so strong,
however, that ID can without risk begin
the process OF reading out, we trust
that its attention will be first directed
to the noisy advocates of impeachment,
who, while protesting to help the par
ty, damage and disgrace it.-N. 7. Tri.