The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-07-29
A Choice Candidate for Congress

H, .N.. jU4N o. "I4OuGh'
A choiea Candidate for Congress-
The readers Of the INTEILroENcEE
have this morning a full report Of The
Democratic Congressional Convention
held at West Union, Wednesday. The
nomination made Is just the one most de-
sired by tho Republicans who appreciate
the situation; and we beg in this mode t
tender the Convention their acknowledge
ments. With Col. JOHNSON Of Tyler, Of
4, Col. SWEENEY Of this city We should
have had much harder fight; but Mr.
JOHN JEFFERSON DAVIS, 1--WE take this
liberty with his name in Difference TO the
eternal fitness oGthings) is just the man Of
all others who ly the extreme violence o.
his views,hi implacablebltterness against
the results Of the war, and his determined
and undbguised hostility not only to the
settlement made by the sword but to those
in his own party and out Of 1t, who ore
willing to accept that settlement, is most
obnoxious TO tho Republicans and no less
to the liberal and intelligent men Of hi
own party. a..t,,,.,..
II there Is such thing asa rebel after
the armed rebellion is over, Mr.. JOHN
JEYFERsoN DAVIS is that man. He. docs
notlccopt the collapse Of the Confcdcracy
as final. he docs not submit to the recon
struction Of the South Us conclusive. lie
docs not receive the legislation Of the
Congress of the United States Us valid
and binling. lie docs not acknowledge
that the amendments 10 the Constitution,
made since the war, arc any part Of that
instrument. Ho denOuncGs them as u
fraud, and Is prepared 10 resist them II
ever he Gun see way to do it without
getting his neck in halter. He does not
even recognize the right Of the people OF
the United States TO amend their Con-
stitutlon in the mode provided in the in
strument ITSELF if the effect Of. the
amendment ID to extend to all classes Of
I OItIzSSlR ttlGS II1oaE Im~0luatla. 'saaFodr ind
essential right and prerogatiye ofthe citt'
zen,i In a'Ieepdblican government, the bal
lot. He denies tint by the ratification O
three-fourths Of the States the constitution
can be SO amended rs to enlarge tho sui
Grage. lie makes the constitution greater
than the people whose agreement ant
creature it Is. Heldoes not believe ANY
new political necessities have arrisenfrOm
the changed conditions Of the last three
quarters Of a century. lie thinks all po
litical wisdom died with the men who sci
up our government eighty years ago, and
yet denies the declaration whereon they
founded it . Whilethe people have grown
from three to forty millions and our terri
tory has expanded from tho Ale
ghanies, to the Pacific, and all thg
arts and sciences science Of govern
nlent among the rest-have flouriShed and
expanded beyond any precedent in his
tory; he believes there should BIO nc
growth or expansion Of our political char
ter. He believes the half aristocratic and
half Democratic form Of government
the hall slave and half free Republic"
which resulted from compromises
with the slave oligarchy in the Fed.
eral Constitution, was the very perfection
orall governmental wisdom, which eighty
years Of growth and experience cannot
possibly improve on, and that tho rosolu'
tions Of '98, under which our Government
would be, like the JEFF. DAVIS ConFed.
eracy, either rope OF sand or an afro.
cious despotism, exhausted all the science
Of human government from the earliest
ages-or, as our eloquent friend BINGHAM
would say, "thc gathered wisdom o.
q thousand years" and LEFT nothing
Tor modern generations to do but to lan
guisll Tor q. return to the slave sys
TEN, under which an aristOcracy of colo
was built up In halt the Republic, llvlnl
ON the enforced labor Of the working poo
pie, and holding tho rest Of the country
under political scryitude as abject as tht
personal servitude Of the slave. It Is thi
aristocratic form fgOyernment-happily
now NO more-fbr the return Of which thu
Democratic candidate tor Congress long
and pines, It Is the old story Of those in
tue wilderness who sighed for return tC
the feshpOtA Il u.,Ef !
1t Is because this bCnitlcGnL system Of
slavery was broken up and aristOCradC
government ended here by the war, tha
,Mr.DEv1s deAes tho results Of the war. 1
iSbecausc the reconstruction Of the Soutl
on . basis Of free labor renders the rein
statement Of this aristOcratic goyenmCn
forever impossible, that he CRASHES hi
teeth In vain aud impOtcnt rage over th
laws that have done this great and hcroi
work. And II is because Of this blin'
wrath that he goes to the cxtraVagan
length ofdenylng the people otthe Unite'
States themselves the right Of moulding
thOlr Constitution to their condition and o.
making 1t express; rather than rcpress
,l,o,r 1,,IIl and u,iah
And why docs Mr.. DAVIS thus ragclik'
the hcathen against the greatest politica
affirmation ever made in our Govern