The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-07-03
@ WHEEIING W. VA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY g. 1872
THE GREELEY DISGUISE.
Real Meaning Of the, Democratic
Possum PolicY-.speech Of Senator
Morton. ~ ti-Fl L'..f1 lnfs4 ,

Real Meaning Of the Democrats
Possum POlicY-.Speech Of Senator
MortOn...ss E'., 355'l \
Senator Morton made o bneE and excel.
lent speech at the great Republican ratifl.
cation meeting In Indianapolis, on Haiur.
day evening, July 20. We quote: i
"My friend, Mr., Hendricks, said In his
speech In the Convention here I'VE
have this day turned our backs upon the
past We now stand in the present, and
we look forward o.the great future. The
past Is gone Task you very briefly, have
they turned their baoks upon the past,
and can they do itf 1sitin the possfbili.
ties Of partiesi Is II In the possibilities
OF human nature? Why, the Democratic
party has an education running back for q
quarter OF century or more. It has On
experience. They haYe declared their
principles from time 10 time, They have
reasserted them within three months.
They are old doctrines. Have they
changed their mindsG What the Demo:
Gratis believed six, twelve, twenty. -four
months ago they believe now. They can.
not helpit. Men can change their ac-
tlons, but they cannot change their con-
victions. God alone can make change
in the hearts and conscience OF mon, but
a Democratic Convention can't do that.
Great laughter and applause, They
may profess new convictions, but they do
not, they cannot entertain them. They
can no more lay aside their convictions
than they can their experience. Take
the Democracy Of the South. Do you
believe they have fallen in line with Re-
publican principlesG Do you believe they
love the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments any better than they did six
months or a year agoi ["Nol" "NoI'l
No, they do not They may agree to
support Horace Greeley and to take the
principles Of the Cincinnati Convention,
but they have not changed their minds.
We know tho body OF the Democra.
cy OF Indiana have not changed their
minds. care not what they say. There
are some things we do know. We
certainly know that where large
bodies Of men have been educated for a
quarter Of century, many oil them all
their lifetime, in particular way, they
cannot lay aside their convictions and
actions and declarations Int their cnnvic.
tions remain nreciseIv the same Now
that brings me tn the noint IF the Dam.
ocratic party shall come into mower I'M.
der whatever name oT standard when
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