The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-08
York, including those at Sing Sing and
N tho Tribune, December 10, 1861

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(Frcm tho Tribune, December 10, 1860
If democracy has concocted or borrow,
Cd an interference theory" which justi
ges such meddling, 1t Is q worse theory
than even VIC had supposed. All do
know that there arc several hundred
thousand mullatoes In this country; and
we presume no one has any serious doubt
that the fathers Of at least nine -tenihs Of
them arc white Democrats. And we
hold that those Democrats, If they will
have yellow children, might better than
otherwise treat the mothers respectively
as wives, after the laudible pattern OF
eminent Democrat Vice-President Rich.
ard III. johnson.
(FrOm tho Tribune, January 4, 1857
The World recently gave graphic nc.
count OF the dens and denizens which
give character to the Five points aud 9th,
or "slums" oi our city-a class perhaps
lower in the scale OF being than can bO
found in any heather city on earth. We
thereupon asked our contemporary to
state frankly whether the pugillsts, black
legs, thieves, burglars, keepers Of dGns Of
prostitution, Sc, &C., who make up 80
large portion ofour city's inhabitants,
were not almost unanimously Dom o.
cratsS
(From the Tribune, January Z, 1862
For the last thirty years, every Amcri.
can STAKEHOLDER on the African coast has
accounted himself in politics a Democrat
SO, every one who chooses 10 live by pugil
ism, or gambling, or harlotry, with nearly
every keeper OF tippling: house, is po-
litically q Democrat lie believed in
''lalssez talrc'-that "the world is gov.
erned too much"-that "thC best govern.
ment is that which governs least" lie
wants "his trade to move without re.
striction."
Indignant at this kind Of vililcation,
the World very properly commented upon
it, in this wise: "Now, seriously, 1t seems
FUR, nay Indispensable, that somebody
authorized to speak Tor Mr.. Greeley
should explicitly tell the Democratic
party whether he continues 10 hold this
opinion Of It's character. Ifhc does still
think that all the viiest classes, all the
scum and dregs Of the community, are
drawn TO the Democratic party 6y "A
sympathetic chord he disgraCes him.
self in asking for Democratic suffrages;
and II these incessanL charges OF thlr,
ty years arc wantOn calumuies, il
would be an indiscribable bascncss on the
part Of Democrats to adopt him as their
candidate. If the party is infected with
such a loathsome moral leprosy rs lie has
so perpetuaily asserted, how utterly vile
and sordid must be his hankering for
office 10 come also among them : He
wound up one of his foul Trades against
the democracy by saying: may H66 cri!.
ten on my grace that aoaS ncueT itS t0Goloer
and !iced and died in nothing lis de5br.'-
And let tho people say Amcn." No
answer was given to these pertinent in.
quiries. Mr.. Greeley's opinions oil the
democrats stand as they were written, and
the inierences Of the World have the
same force now that they had then.
This kind Of argument is in fact so rich
that We are compelled 10 postpone our
further inCursions into it to another time.
We have taken enough, however, to
prove both the necessity and convenience
of the straight.Out movement in the sud
dilemma in which tho democrats are in
volved.