Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-07-30


Gals, who are seeking 70 bring
about q reorganization Of the Wing
party, that Democracy may be
weakened and R~adicalismstrength-
sned, We commend the reading Of
he following letter:
FB0m ~ CsEiOn.
LEETER EEoH An OLD LTHE WIG.
To the Pilot: Ia my former let
ters ! have shown that the Wings
have never entertained . single.
political sentiment in q with
you. That while we opposed %.
cession We never re-echOed . cen.
timent Of yours. We we're inau,
enced bv a policy widely difTerent,
by aims altogether d~iSsimilaE.-
You were, . ragged crew Of dirty
abolitiOnists, and any respectable
Northern merchant would e. soon
have been found associating with
you at the Five Points, ~ we been
heard to defend your course
Have you changed either your
moral or political opinions. Have
you since that time deserted your
principles so as to commend you
to the association you seek. Ifso,
point out the change. l have seen
no political inconsistency, !
change in your moral code
which to accuse you. A disbolic
hatred Of the Southern peop
coupled with q total disregard
the obligations Of the constitute
characterized you then. Now
plumber ofthe one and the rendiI
Of the other so far from satiatiI
seems only to have increased t
malice and whetted the appeti
for more spoils, more plumber.
No one will pretend to deny th
you have been as true to yo'
principles as the needle to Il
pole. You are singularly untort
nate-consistency, which in 9th
men 10 esteemed o virtue, in y
becomes 4 crime.
We of the Wing party have G.
er been influenced by moral q,
political opinions directly the O
poSite Of ours. We felt the goo
Of our whole country to be the
highest consideration. Our re-
spectability and fair fame as next
in estimation, and last the care Of
personal or private fortune. Ev-
cry where, among every people the
universal voice of mankind has in
every age stigmatized the man
who for private gain would sacri-
fee his character or country, as a
villain; and it has ever been re.
garded as the quintescence Of all
that Is despicable, base and de
grading in human nature; but
when so assailed, you have the
consolation Of knowing that it is
prompted as little by the contempt
and hatred Of those whom you
plumber as by those moral princi-
Piles against which you are array
ed, q proof Of the necessity for
progress in moral ideas. The
system Of ethics should be over
tnrned, since mankind will only
cease to apply to your party such
epithets-When the christian reli-
giOn is forgotten and the philoS.
ophy Of Psley shall give to . new
moral code, based upon virtues
hitherto mistaken by the world
for crimes.
The signers Of the Declaration
Of independence had . decent re.
gard for the opinions Of mankind.
The man who does not have IT. Is
capable Of anything, will do any
thing, but for the restraints OF
law. You press, unlimited, to an.
other mans table and glory in the
shame Of pocketing his spoons.
This defiance Of, and outrage
against public decency, now leads
to official position and emolu.
ments but II, as in former times,
aud in all other countries, it led to
the pillOry or the halter, you might
desist, but what then would in
1%iuence you to decency-youI
sense Of honor, the sense of duty
to society, which you do not pos.
sess, or the certainty of the en-
3 forCement of the criminal law.
Men may join your ranks, but
not true Wings. The whole ma,
4. ture Of the man must be changed,
-, he must be born anew and regen,
Grated by q baptism in the Shiny
I pools Of political corruption he
may then come forth q fitting in
strument to use in working out
your policy. You need not feaI
either his desertion or his treach'
cry. No party will have him. No
> person will believe him, he has lost
: even the power TO betray. What
: words will describe the mora
, abyss into which he is plunged
who is too vile for the meanest
villainy. You have tried them and
! invariably found them true
Should such again offer take him
. quickly, without question as to his
/, lunacy or knavery, in either event
, he iS yours until death. Hug him
with your fondest embrace: intro.