The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-03-31
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
II Ne reds AN Infusion Of the Oio NC
sistance 10 Capitalization.
Remove the Mailed Hand from INC
Domest,c Affairs OF the States.
New York World.

New York World.
n the last Democratic House, in the
heoinning, as the World in season and
out of season Implored it to do, had put
its teeth into the military question wnicn
MIR. Banning so shsmefully trited with;
If its Arst act anent the army bill nao
been, as we advised, like its last act; II II
had courageously refused to make one
dollar OF appropriation for the army
unless the rights of the States were re.
spected by the War Office, or II ~ mao
demanded the repeal of section 5,2S1 OF
the revised statutes as the indispensa'
ble condition of maintaining an army
81 alive should not have had to
suffer the disgrace of the Electoral Com
mission, or to deplore our present ma
tional woes. The fatal blunder OF the
Democracy was that 1t did not see that
no other reform was worth talking
about, or could be SO much rs undertaken
nationally, until the mailed hand had
lheen taken of from the domestic affairs
of sovereign States. Till that was done
it was idle to potter over the currency,
or taxation, or internal improvements, or
specie payments, or corruption itself IN
high places, because, as has now been
demonstrated, the army could at the last
moment be used to defeat at the bailot
boxes or in Washington, the execution OF
the peoples judgment on any or on oil
of these points.
Can it be imagined that the Democ-
rscy will now make another and q
similar blunder2 Will the South make
it? When Congress meets, the South
and the Democracy united can, once Tor
all and forever, compel President Hayes
to call Oft his "dogs of war from Louisi-
ana and from South Carolina. Their
sister States, if they will, can rescue these
unfortunate common wealths from the
parslyzing grasp of Federal tyranny.
will not each State make the cause OF
Louisiana and South Carolina its own
cause? What would the men who
framed our Constitution be certain to DO
and say if they could be mem.
beers of the next Congress3 II
there be anywhere In the Union DEM
ocrat so conservative, or SO tlmid, or so
possessed with the fear of disturbing the
value of government bonds, or SO solicit
GUS about what banking and other corpo-
rstions may think, that he dare not look
our present position manfully in the face,
we recommend him to buy, if ne does not
already possess. copy OF the FsderaltSt'
, and to read, mark, learn and lnWardly
digest what its great authors say OF the
duty of the House whenever the Execu-
tive shall seek to use the army to Cypress
any state. Especially do we adjure every
such Democrat to turn thoughtflly to
the reason which Alexander Hamilton
assigns, in the twenty and twenty
, eighth numbers, for limiting army sppro,
priations TO two years Somewhere it has
been recently said by somebody that Con-
gress cannot deprive the President OF the
command OF the army. Precisely this Is
the slsvish idea which the upholders Of
absolute monarchyIn England contended
for more than two hundred years ago al
against the English Parliament; and with
pTecisely such an assertion the statesmen
, of England dealt after the great revolution
bya continuance which made the standing
army equally dependentupon the Crown
and the Parliament, by putting the en-
listment and pay of the army In the
hands of the House of Commons and its
difficulty was met in the convention
which framed our own Constitution
when Mr.. Mason, of Virginia, prevented
Congress from providing a perpetual
revenue for the army. Passing strange
it is that the new administration should
have struggled so long to evade this per-
emptory prohibition, and to escape
from calling together the new Con-
gress. And now, since the new House
must speedily come together, let this
grand historic issue he squarely made and
bravely met If any part OF the South
or of the North seeks to leave the DEM
ocra.ic partly in order to go with the
Administration into resurrected Wing
party, pledged to equip and maintain
Federal bayonets to be used in the inter
nal affairs of sovereign State and to
settle election disputes, let it go2 With
out State rights clearly defined and abb
solutely respected the Union is an I'M
possibility; and between the American
Union and the old Wing party the
American people may be trusted to
make their choicel