The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-13

Crdt can De seQuceu from his devotion
and allegiance in any way, not by the
allLrements OF Office, or even by strong
appeals to abandonment by the admins
tration of vicious principles and dam
gerous policies, and the adoption of bet
ter doctrines and just measures. The
Democrats will not intrust their most
cherished principles to .. the keeping
of the power which is attained
by vicious and corrupt means.
They will rather continue their
faith in the right of a majority to rule in
accordance with the constitutional pro-
visions All the Democrats rejoice with
unbounded joy that free republican gov
ernments are once more allowed 10 the
States o. South Carolina and Louisiana.
They rejoice in the good fruits that must
follow, as they know that peace snd good
order will prevail; that capital will be
made secure and labor safe, contented
and happy; that enterprise will revive
and the cruel burdens Of the government
and public corruption will be lifted from
the shoulders of labor and that production
will increase and land advance in value
But they know that, in the language of
Governor Morton, it had become newt
able. Good COVE nment in the stat
was rot tree will oderinS on the altars
of the country. For years the Democrats
had tontended in Congress and befors
the people tor free republican states
throughout the South, and finally 1t be-
came inevitable because right and truth
were too strong to be longer suppressed,
In this the Democrats find reason TO
stand more firmly. With their party cut
ofpower, with no patronage to dispense
and DO money to distribute, but animated
by the spirit of our institutions and
inspired by the sentiment OF the right OF
local selfgovernment, inherent in the
people, the Democratic party during
the past ten yevrs has restored one State
after another till now the tread OF the
soldier is heard in no legislative hall, but
in every State the people are governed by
laws of their own enactlng and by Off
GERS of their own choosing.
My tellow-cltizens, my home ia in the
West and my associations have been with
the people of that section. Among YOU
| am personally almost q stranger, yet !
am received oy you with open arms
and with , cordial greetings. Need
| say thai | am gratlfed because
of this fact. 1t has more than personal
Significance. Does 1t not proclaim that
we entertain no scctor a. political sentI-
ment or sectional policies. Some may
think we should have An eastern policy,
and others that il should be western, but
it seems TO me that u New Yorker and
an Indianian should understand il better
and that our legislative and admnistra'
tive polity should be rs broad and com.
prehensive as the industries and trade
and commerce which il may effect. Does
the trade of the great cities OF
the Atlantic stop with the noun
tains? Does it not reach beyond
Mississippi and across the Missouri.
Every new home that is built upon that
recedlng border, every new farm that is
made far out, even within the shadow of
the Rocky mountains, and every addl-
tioDsl bale of cotton thai is pl oduCed in
louisiana and Texas add something TO
the greatness and wealth OF New York,
Boston, PnllaieiphIa and Baltimore. Is
there New Yorker who, as he walks
up and down this great Broadway,
hears and feels only the throbbing of
local commerce, let such man
break over The narrow bondsi land
habits of his life and visit the great cot
ton and grain growing regions, nor let
him stop till he hears the waves OF the
Pacific dashing against the golden shores
of California, and lie will be able better
to understand and appreciate the magn!-
tude of the regions and interests which
are affected by the financial aud COM
mercisl policy OF the country. Success
ful enterprise and development
in remote parts of the coun-
try are as certainly and almost
as directly conr ected with the prosperity
of this city as are the permanent and
valuable improvements on your more
distant streets. | have said this under
the influence of the sentiment that IN re-
spect to production and trade, Esst and
West and South are one, and that wise
and just policy will alike and almost
equally promote the prosperity of each,
il your judgment should be as compre-
hepsive as the influence OF your COM
merce, and ss far reaching as the distant
lines OF your trade.
The proceedings terminated with brief
speeches by Governor Robinson, Lieu
tenant Governor DorsheImer and Sens-
tor McDons!d, of Indiana.