The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-26
The Danger Of Democratic As
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New York Thbaus oiath.
Secretary Sherman, 1t Is said, has i'm.
properly as,erIsd that the restoration d
the Democratic party to power Is "the
only danger that really threatens our
public peace and safety" tits even said
Ina, Mr.. Sherman cannot possibly believe
this, ard must be inGincere in Sayingi 1t
Patriotic and able Democrats are named
by way Of proof that the country Ia,
nothing 70 fear from the advent Of that
party 10 power, and It Is somewhat fashly
asserted that "Wheneyer the ascendancy
OF either party is actually and positively
q menace 10 the public peace and safety.
then the days Of liberty are numbered
But Mr.. Sherman Is entirely right In
this matter, aud bis critics are palpably
Ia the wrong. There was time, moi
more than seventeen years ago, when the
ascendancy OF the Democratic party
would have been not only menace 10 the
public peace and safely but an inevitable
and quick disunion, with resulting war,
endless and merciless, between sundered
sections.
Secretary Sherman wisely refuses to
forget that time. In some degree the
Democratic party has changed its con-
stituent elements, but the same controls
ing spirit remains. 1t is ruled BY the
South, as II was before the war. In loose
and ocular phrase the South 10 said "a
be RECONSTRUCTED" but it is absolutely
| impossible to name the Southern states.
man who dares publicly TO disayow the
ideas for which the South was said 70
fight. Southern statesmen come back
| into the Union because they cannot help
| Il, but not one Of them ventures TO de-
nounce the objects Of the war, or to say
tina. on the part Of the South II was
wrongly fought, or to say that the South
will not seek In peace, and by means oil
| its political power, the very object
which It mistakenly sought to gain BY
war. Until the South has changed, why
should It's tool, the Democratic party, b
thought to have changed In purpose OF
character. I,
Secretary Sherman need not go back
| further than the opening Of the present
session OF Congress TO prove that "the
Democratic party threatens our peace
and safety" The attempt to set aside the
settlement Of the Presidential question
and 10 reopen that most exciting and
dangerous controversy, Is made by DEM
ocrats only, has the support ot'hot sin-
ola Rapublican, and obyiously threatens
the public peace and safety. The effort &c
rob creditors Of the nation, by making ID
bonds and the interest thereon payable
In deprecated money, unquestionably
threatens the credit, and therefore the
peace and safely Of the country; and 1t |,
made mainly by Democrats, and would
doubtless have succeeded il there had mol
been Republican President. -Four
| 6ilhs Of the Democratic members Of Con
gress are inlationists, and Of their thou
sand schemes every one threatens the
public peace and safety, and the success
Of each and all Is to-day prevented BY
a Republican Senate or a Republican
President.
More lies behind, as the vote Of thu
| house Oh MOuuhy pLo'e7. 4oeVuy 70.
guess how many millions may be votet
away, il the Democratic party gains th,
power. Seven millions on Monday-why'
Because the South wanted three million
or more, and was willing to conspirt
with hungry members from other sec
tions. Can anybody guess how many mil
lions the House would have voted, II ther'
had been Senate 10 match? That there
are Southern claims, for losses during th'
war, readers Of the Tribune know. Doe
any one suppose that these claims woule
be forgotten or generally rejected, II TIL
Democratic party had powerH All thos'
expenditures and claims threaten th,
public safety, because bankruptcy vii
come II they are granted. They threatei
the public peace, because disorder, ant
resistance to law, il not actual disunion
will follow whenever the Nation is finan
cially crippled. Secretary Sherman toll
nothing but the truth. Democratic rul,
means now, as II didduring the war, peri
to the Union-peril to its credit, It's pros
perlty, Its peace and its safety.