The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-10-26
WHAT IT HAS WROUGHT n TINE
SOUTH.
What tho Democratic Party Has
sa..-. Done.

II ever the Truth was oily spoken II
ls In tho following article by George
William Curtis, In the last HaTpcr'l
Weekly. 1t will bear reading at least
twice, and ls worthy Of being printed
In letters Of gold:
II the late lRmented John q. Calhoun
could return and read the platform OIL
the Republican party In Mississippi, he
would either groan that his country
had DO degenerAted, or, illuminated by
celestial experience, he would join the
party and proclaim its glad tidingE
more zealously than ever be preached
Southern rightsn against the rights oil
human nature. In the report Of the
platform. the resolutions OF which we
speak 60 OF, Rs It were, like volley OIL
triumph.
First The Union FIRST, last, and for
ever.
Second, Freedom ofspeeCh and ofths
press.
THtrd. Universal suffrage and uni.
versal amnesty.
FoNrth. Free schools-thelr benefits
70 be extended to every child In the
State.
The resolutions 20 on to declare fol-
all the constitutional amendments; for
the immediate removal OF disabilities;
and for the new State Constitution,
without Acknowledgement or prosCrip-
ton. How many Of the noblest vic.
Tins OF the war, II they could have
known that within less than ten years
Of their death party with every pros
pect OF success would proclaim such
principles In Mississippi, and be cor
daily supported by the Adminlstra-
ton, would not have felt, indeed, that
they did not give their lives In vain
No great sacrifice ever produced more
immediate and vaSter results. In the
four Mississippi resolutions lie the
charms which are to redeem that State,
and every other that went Into rebel
llon-the policy which would have
saved them all their sorrow had It been
that OF those States for the last genera
ton,
These principles, and the measures
that sprlng from them, and the spirit
which accompanies them, are those oil
the Republican party OF the United
States every where. II the observer
turn his admirlng eye 10 the great
Northwest, the marvel OF progress and
prosperity, he Is not surprised to learn
that those great States have been al.
ways faithful 10 these principles, and
are steadily Republican. 1t he look AT
New England, which Is not ashamed Of
her history, he finds that the Mississip'
pi resolutions have no heartier echo
than from Bunker Hill and the Green
Mountains; and he is not surprised thai
TO leave New England out In the cold
was the angry wish OF the naughty
chiefs who were not for the Union first
last, and forever; and not for freedom
OF speech and OF the press; and not fol
universal suffrage; and not for freG
schools. Those chiefs ruled the coun.
try by the Democratic party. Let the
same observer look at any State or sec.
ton which Is indlsputably Democratic
and consider whether It IL equally
grateful to him with these as an Amer
lean or as man.
The great service Of the Republican
party In this country ls that It has made
q truly popular republic possible. I'm
der Democratic supremacy, the funda.
mental principles Of such government
were deSpised. Our system had be-
come vast propagandlsm Of slavery
That has been overthrown, but its spirI
and Its traditions still linger In the par
ty through which 1t worked. Nowhere
does that party lead the van for the
Union first, last and forever, nor fol
freedom Of speech and OF the press; mol
for universal suffrage, nor for free
schools for all children. 1t chung L
slavery while slavery lasted. II would
have supported the Southern black lawI
II Congress had not made them impos.
sIble, 1t would still maintain all O.
slavery that 1t can, denying the suffrage
TO Intelligent and industrious men, and
every where promoting that exclusive
spirit Of caste and race which will an.
grlly agitate the country until 1t Is laid
By their works let the two great par,
ties OF this country be judged. Aud by
them, because the general principles
and policy OF each are unchanged. Lei
any candid man answer, Which has
been the party Of liberty, Of intellI'
gence, Of progress, Of humanity
Which has been the party OF retrogres,
sion, OF ignorance, Of slavery, and in
humanity? The tendencies, the imper
alive necessities Of political party are
stronger than the hopes and wishes o.
some Of Its members. By those ten
denotes, by Its upjuat and inbumHr
spirit, by It's wanton crimes against
liberty, let the Democratic party b
judged.