The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-07-19

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Iimpenitent Democrats, OF re6ellion.iavor.
Ing Democrats, OF negro.hating, negro.
whipping, negro.hanging Democrats be
forever shut out OF power. Time enough
will II belor the Democracy TO come
again into power when the present
Democrats (the youngsters excepted) are
all dead. Thankful should our Demo.
Gratis be that the penalty Of their crimes
falls but upon themselves and not upon
their children also. Thankful should
they be that under our Constitution there
can be no bill Of attainder-no disquali.
flying Of children because Of the crimes Of
their parents.
Sad day would II be for tho negro II the
impenitent, unchanged and interchangeable
Democratic party should come again into
the ascendant God forbid that It shall
ever GOMEZ Ku.kluxism, now restrained
and In process oil extinction by the action
of the righteous and merciiul REPUBLICAN
party, would then reappear 10 repeat Its
enormities, Who ever reads tho news.
papers cannot fail to see that the chief ar.
gument, which the Democratic party re.
lies on 10 rally opposition TO the Republl-
can party, is.the protection from Ku.klux.
ism, that the Republican partyis afford.
ing to the negro.
But may not the Democratic party be
allowed to put up and vote for Republi.
cans? Yesl-but Republicans should, as
a general thing, pause long before voting
for them. But suppose that party puts
| up for President so prounced and eminent
q Republican as Fl, ace Greeley-can
not Republicans consistently voted for
him? Certainly not. For his election
would as surely be the success Of the
Democratic party as the election Of Presi.
dent Grant will be the success Of the
Republican party. The election of Mr..
Greeley will not turn the Democratic
party into Republican party-but it
will turn him into Democrat-not, l
trust, into one Of the worst type-butstill
into Democrat. In anticipation of
merely his nomination he talked differ.
emily about the tariff from what he had
been won't to do; and instead Of continu.
ing to uphold the Presidents hands in
his warfare against Ku. kluxism, he Joined
himself to those who would palsy them.
He had now ten words against the "car.
pet baggers" where he had one against
the Ku klux. No, Mr.. Greeley's election
would not assimilate the democratic party
to him, hut him TO it. So it has ever
been in such cases-and how, with his
kindly and obliging spirit can he prove
an exception l do not say that Mr..
Greeley will set out to be Democrat,
and l admit that he may be largely in.
sensible to the progress of his change.
Nevertheless, whether consciously or un-
sCiously, he will be moulded, and this too,
at no very slow rate, into harmony with
the general views aud policies Of this
great party, which, as seductively as
tlatteringly, places him at its head. But
what il Mr.. Greeley should, notwith.
standing his candidacy and election,
remain miraculously unchanged Pit
does not follow that his election would
not DO the success Of the Democratic
party. The President is not all the
government. Congress is far more nearly
all OF it; and Mr.. Greeley's election
would be quite likely to result in Dem.
ocratic Congress. Many of these seeding
Republicans will sell their votes TO Demo.
cratic candidates in exchange for Dem.
ocratic votes for Mr.. Greeley. Unless
human nature shall change, the sympathy
between these seeding Republicans and
the Democratic party will, all the land
over, ripen into open coalitions. The
nomination Of Mr.. Greeley by the Demo.
cratic party-a nomination TO be consum.
mated by the Baltimore Convention-is,
in effect, scheme to draw of by this use
OF his name enough Republicans to turn
the scale in favor Of Democratic ascen.
denCo. l have not spoken to disparage
Mr.. Greeley. / have no sympathy with
the defamation and abuse Of him. l am
as indignant at his being called "lree
lover" US at President Grants being called
a "drunkard." l know him well and
esteem him highly. That he has risen
by force OF his very remarkable talents
and many virtues from poverty and OBJ
scurity to his present distinction reflects
no small credit both on himself and on
our American free institutions. l do not
blame him for his aspirations to the Presi.
dency. He means to be, If elected, an
honest as well as wise ruler. l only Ia.
ment that he had not been content to look
for his honors solely to the Republican
party. AS the candidate for however
high an Office at the hands Of the Repub.
lican party, would readily have voted
for him. l only lament that he should
have sought his honors by lending his
name and influence to the Democratic
party, and by damaging and endangering
that other party which he had served so
long and SO well. Right here letme an.
swer the question. Where is the Demo.
cratic party to be found. Is it to be found
in the recent Cincinnati Convention, or in
the approaching Baltimore Convention
1t is to be found in both 1t is to be found
wherever war is made upon the Republi.
cnn party. To cali the handful Of Repub.
licans represented in the Cincinnati Con.
vGntion the Republican party is absurd.
The hope Of that Convention was in the
Democratic party. Its candidates are the
candidates OF the Democratic party, and
are to be beaten as such and not as candi-
dates Of the Republican purity. need
say no more of the Democratic party ex.
copt TO add that patriotism and justice,
the love of country and the love Of God
forbid our voting with 1t or for any Of its
candidates.
We now turn TO the Republican party.
at the time 1t came into being, Consider.
ably less than twenty years ago,) the
Democratic party was sunk into dead
conservatism and into the basest servant
Of the slave power. The Wing party be-
came the basis Of the Republican party,
Notwithstanding 1t bore quite too much
resemblance to the Democratic party.
Happily, however, the Wing party al.
lowed itself TO be leavened by the hand.
full Of old unCompromising abolitionists.
In this wise was the Republican party
constituted; and the condition Of its con.
tinued existence and power Is that il
shall continue to be n Reform party.
GrandlY did it begin its reformatory ca.