The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-12
PARTIES,
And their Positions.
Editors of the Register.

Editors OF the Register.
It's n singular and impressive fact
that on every question relating 10 the
Presidential election, the Democratic
party has been insisting on getting at
the right, equity, and justice of every
proposi,ion or Tact which has arisen, or
which in any way hAs been presented for
consideration or decision by any tribunal.
On the contrary, the position ana action
of the Republican party has been that oil
shit, evasion, techhicality, inconslst ancy,
and is of corrupt al d fraudulent purpose.
La Florida they intrench themselves IN
the dry, hard and false return OF the
Board OF Canvassers, and they Will have
some equally unjust and technical tech
nicalitv Tor the rejection OF the official
return from Oregon. In the LOUISIANA
case, while the fraud is reeking IN their
no>trls, and taint;ng the moral, socis!
and political atmosphere of the whole
country, they will endorse Wells, and Will
sanctiiv his name to the Republican
marty MS the martyr OF an infamous
and vile prostitution OF his own lie TO
the cause of party whose want OF pTin-
ciples corrup!s the public virtue on
which Republican forms of government
can alone subsist and be continued, and
which under technical forms strikes at
the subs lance of liberty and the moral
life cmboG led IN our free institutions. III
is n conspiracy against the life OF the re-
publrc. and Chamberlain, Stearns and
Wells are but the tools OF Grant, Cameron,
Chandler and the thieves IN and from
the pcnitentiaries who were their assO'
clates and accomplices. They are the
Catiines of the modern conspiracy
against the purity OF the people and the
integrity of our republican form OF gov
eminent. When the old consplraton
with Cs.illne united TO corrupt the Peo-
ME and overthrow the republican instltu-
lions of Rome. they killed slave and
washed their hards IN his blood, and by
this sacrament of guilt bound themselves
tore.her in the indssoluble bonds of il
fanny and OF crime. The penitentarles,
the Senate in its conduct Of lmpeacE-
ments. the departments at Washington
in their usual patronage by the
sale of official favors, by their par
ticipatlon in the plumber and corruptlt
o. the offices, by the corrupt and per
yerted PRONUNCIATION of doctrines tor the
protection of usurpatiOn, the officers o!
State Selling upon the powers OF the
States, which they would only do by me
armed support of the National admins
ton. by the exercise of the p&rdonlng
mower of the President, whom the laws
and the virtuous judgment OF the pubhc
had condemned to penltentiaries, ana by
his concentration of All armed force to
oyerawe the highest dcliberatIve body
kr own to the constitution and laws by
all these the liberties OF the pcope, the
integrity OF the Constitution, and the
perpe,uity of the republic are menaced,
have been and are jeopardiZed, until
shame honesty and honor are laughed
~. and successful villany is the triumph
If the hour. Great God is there no
thunder in the armory OF Heaven Tor
vi,lany like this, and rs this Isl
In this tendency to corruption and
centrslism the hope OF the American
peoplc, the hopes of that portion OF
American citizens who are conservative
bv position and principle, OF those VINO
seek the perpetuity OF the republic by
the education. intelligence ard virtue,
orsll citizens, their hope has been in the
jndependence, intelligence, and virtue
of the Supreme Court Of the United
States. But now this seems to fail, and
the sad, sickening spectacle Is presented,
that the members of that court who hold
their offices by the appointment OF that
marty and of that administration which
has been and is guilty OF all these
enormities of corruption and centralism
are in the discharge OF their sworn
official duty, but the eXponeuis, aoettors
and defenders of those political practices
which are corruptlng and destroying the
rubNc life OF the country. All high
character is merged IN that ofthe mounte-
back politician. They have violated the
express provisions ofthe Constitution on
the question of currency to accomplish
the political ends of their party. They
have adopted the construction oil the Com
stitu,ion put upon it by he executive
politicsl officers of the government to At
tam their ends of power. As tue eSl-
rcncles and the purposes oil their party
have changed, they have changed, until
the decisions of Jay, Marshall and Tan.
rcv are the severe and truthful iIDe! O!
their judicial conduct AMI the contrast
cC their weakness. imbecility, and faith
IesSness to public duty. When their
marty commanded the doctrine so 10 be
irId, the Ststes had no separate and no
sovereign powers which were TO De re-
rarded. When their party commanded
the States nave seperste and sovereign
mowers which are to be regarded aha
protected by the observance r. the Ver'-
Sst dry ,echnicslities, which Evsrts, for
his foe or his ambition for power and his
corfrsLernity with all all this tersiveFsa-
tioas and perverions o: principies, conia
suggest or render plausible. Thanks 10
the God above us, who has so shaped
these issues tina, these bad men must no'r
affirm thst which they have as",e'i ana
written their denisl IN the blood oil inc
nation.
An oath is an oath, and duty Is 3
duty. They are always sacred "A"
oath may be perjury, and the perjury
msv h. Eomnnited with but little injury
TO the public at large. But there are
neriures which at once involve Inc
whole order OF society, threaten the per-
petui,y of political institutions, and may
Chance the course of history. So viii
duties. They are graded from the mar
rowest intercourse of msn with man 70
the conduct which involves the fate OF
millions, and may leave the wreck OF
nations on The tide OF time. The oath Of
Judge of the Supreme Court of thu
United States is, then, no common oa'h
with all these mighty and tremendous