The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-04-02

tional distinctions and limitations, ant
that what he would naturally do 6l
force many OF those around him wouie
accomplish or defend by finesse or mis-
construction.
Iwant a country with Constitu-
ton; / want a country without sectlona
hostilities; l want a country with state:
whose Municipalities shall be preserved
country with harmony and peace IL
its borders; a country where law suo
ordinates power; / want amnesty io'
my friends, and generosity and magnan
unity in my foes; l want the pas
forgotten as a ground for revenge; ano
the future cultivated for the welfare o
all; / want reform in head and mem
bers," and eutrencament in al! eSPeo
ditures; | want honest men in ONCE ahC
out of office, and country where Once
is not the spoil of yictors, the reward o
servility, and the purchasabie com
modify Of knaves; l do not want cor
ruption, nepotism, and vindlctiVeness
l do not want a secret league OF soldiers
to be continued in time OF peace, wheh
Washington would not justify tne con
tinuance even of the Society OF 'he
Cincinnati composed OF the palrio,
soldiers OF the Revolution, and insisted
on their disbandonment; want nc
usurpations OF power, no San DoiI.nso
simonies, no tendencies TO imperialism
40 sudden fortunes obtained 10y Puoiic
officials by means that dare not be
avowed, but which, when they become
known, are constantly Infamous; want
honest men in government, ana 40
not want Grant and his mercenarIes.
speak as an Old constitutional Dem
ocrat to fair men of all parties but
especially to my Fellow Democrats,
who, in the success Of temperate anu
honest men, can yet see some nope LOT
the country; and after 4 pause IN TIE
cessation of feuds and hostIlitle'' can
in the future consult circumstances
and, from a new standpoint thus "a ned
act Tor the great interests Of q great
country, IS her welfare and Ler true
genius shall then inspire and demand,
| am oppo-cl TO any chances %
election by the House OF Representa-
tives, and the corruptioas which may
attend it by the management OF tne
Rings which fill its Hobbies and hoid
their saturna!ia in the saloons OF Wash
iogton. | am in favor Of but one can
d;date as against Grant. Let 1t be any
man who stands upon honest convic-
tons Tor the maintenance OF the Con-
stitution and the preservation OF the
Individuality of the States. Honest
convictions may be dealt with by rea'
sons, but with tic man without convlc-
tons, and without honesty, and whose
are all at the point OF the
sword and the bayonet, there is no con,
iition forthc people but submission and
servility, or that which may be thatand
worse, when corruption shall make the
Union that which it made the republic
IF Rome-a despotism and an anarchy.
The cannon are called the ultima ratio
.s3,,,c. the last and absolute arEumct o!
kings; in the hands OF the soldier asplr'
ng to dominion it is the .hrSt-thc
lie has his triggers 50 set that
ne he can dare 10 use them.
do not propose the Reorganization
IF the Constitutional Party; | do 10.
lesire that the Conservative Democracy
should disband their forces as organized
n the States, nor yiell the cohesive
sentiment Of union a. Il National Parry,
out only 10 make it more national 10y
maxim. i! more comprehensive, and hy
a!ing in under any hoaest leader w"o
shall! marshal all troops which may
come to the rescne Of the Constitution.
They cannot d:sband, Tor they cannot
lescrt their principles; they cannot
desert their principles, except 10y aban-
doning the Constitution and losing all
hope in republican forms Of government.
They canuo, fail TO maintain and defend
the Constitution without surrenlerin4
The country n prey TO anarchy, or
victim TO de-potISm. With the re
election OF Grant all the evils cnumcr-
a,cd or sug .cstei will he fastcaed upon
the country; and those very evils will,
then, become the most dangerous
eleMents OF that fatal success
which will enable him to resort to
the last, absolute argument Of kings,
and which he has already ttutat;etiy
trie,l in North Carolina, Georgia, South
and Louisiana. The Consti.
tutional Democracy from the very
starting point of all its reasoninGs, Is
opposed TO unlimited powers in men or
in government, for a constitution is q
limitation OF power; it is opposed to
Capitalization, for it guards the const:-
tuition from any excess or abuse OF
power; it is emphaically the Peoples
party for its principles hedge in and
prevent all ENFORCEMENT upon their
rights 10y any usurpatjon OF power; il
is their party because il is basel upon
their virtue and Intelligence, and when
those fail the people constitutional
republicism fa.ls-falIs utterly, and it
is therefore pledged to education and
morality; i; is the party OF the Work
ingmen and Of the Farmers, for all the
reasons which have been sugg,-tcd, as
it IS idcnt fed with them in AL meas.
ures which tend to secure q sound cur.
rencv, circumscTibc within legitimate
bounds the power OF capital, and secure
fair, honest wag.s Tor tair honest work.
It's the party OF the merchant and the
moderate and small dealers, for the
higher the Tar rs and the stronger the
prices the more capital is required to
Start and keep their business, and the
more the people are taxed, directly and
indirectly, the less they can buy aud the
less able are they to pay, and the more
uncertainty in the huctuatiou OF cur
rency the more chatces there are Tor
pecuniary disasters to all, except to
those who are in the secret, as Corbn
in the Black Friday Of Wall Street; it