The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-12
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The Warning.

In the old days Of the slayeocracy th'
planters Of the South rested in consciou
security, even when the air was thicl
with rumors Of uprisiugs among th'
slayes. WbyH Because there was Away
some old Uncls OF. Auntie whose deep al
lection for sMassa or Massa's "chillin'
would prompt them to shield the object
Of their dsvStion from impending danger
and they were sure, to use . common
place expression, to let the cat out Of th'
bag, and thus the whole scheme Of reyol
would be quickly ierreted out, and the ad
ministration OF the lash soon restored sh'
normal quiet. The great gunpowder plo
Of Guy Fox. by which the English HouS'
Of Parliament was to be sent into th'
realms Of space, and Mr., Fox to achieve
death and fame in q moment, failed By
reason Of the anxiety Of one Of the con
spirators for Parliamentary friend
which prompted him to warn that FRIEND
to be conveniently absent from the sitting
on a certain day. Couohed in obscafisy
a. was the language OF the warning, II
was sufii .ient, and Mr.. Fox appears ia
Euglish history only Us the unsuccessful
manipulator Of q pyrotechnical display
which did not reach even the dignity oi
fzzle. Not unlike the above are the Demo
cratic couspirators against the peace and
dignity Of the country. While there is
not the same prompting motive, there
is the same inability to closely con
ceal their designs. Among those who
have access to the true inwardness oi
their political Vaccinations there is al
ways some fool blatherskite unable L
contain himself, and who must needspro
mulgate the desigus Of his co'conspira
tors. When such an one snuffs q part!
victory in the air he must forthwith pro
coed to cast the political horoscope ant
reveal what Is to be. The okoloua editol
in Mississippi Is one OF those. On th'
bare possibility Of the success OF hi
party in 1880, he takes up the role o
prophet aud lgives US a rough outline o
the revolution that is to overturn exist
ing things and relegate the country te
the darkness and despotism Of the Slave
ocracy. Assuming that Democratic
President will occupy the. White HOUSE
in 1881, he informs us that an irresista
BILE revolution will set in; similar, w
suppose, to the one that occupied the at
tention Of the country for four long ant
bloody years. The contemplated revolu
tion is to sweep from the Constitution
and Statute books the last stain anc
blemish Of New England ideas. In othel
words, free schools, free thought and th'
right OF the individual to life, liberty and
the pursuit OF happiness, those grant
New Eugland ideas which have given u
all the standing, either political or moral
that we have as 4 nation among othe
nations, are to be wiped out under the re
gime Of the southernized Democracy
When Democratic President and Dem
ocratic Senate and House hold tn
destinies Of the couutry in the hollow o
their hand, the Republics 10 be diVestet
Of the powers that it has usurped sine
1861, The power which the RePubli
successfully used 10 conquer the mos
formidable rebellion on record, TO cruz
out Calhounism or the doctrine that tn
States were superior to the Nation, /
practically prove thatth whole is create
than its parts, but when the Democrac.
are re-habilitAted with the functions o
government, they are in 1881 as in 1856
to recognize in their widest scope an
range the reserved rights OF the Revera
commonweal,hs OF the Federal Unior
that is the right TO secede at pleasure, I
declare that the Union that binds III
States is mere rope Of sand. The ide
OF permanancy in our form Of govern
ment Is to be torn up root and .branc
forever. The okolona soo,hsayer prog
nasticates the repeal Of the upconslitu
tional amendments, "a he calls them; tbs
is the amendments which secured to tn
liberated slave the rights and immnnitie
Of a citizen before the Law, which pro
vide that rebel claims shall not be pait
either for slaves liberated or for anythin
else. The Constitution will then b
restored to its primitive vigof as i
the days Of the Dred Scott decision
under which there were America
citizens who bad no rights that any ma
was bound to respect; that vigor unde
which Bob Toombs claimed the right
call the roll Of his slaves at the foot {
Bunker Hill monument. This Demo
cratic political Seer sees in the comm
millenial era Of his party rule, the pur
fication Of the baliotbOx (God save Ii
mark according TO the New York plal
the South Carolina and Louisiana pla'
he sees politics redeemed from the d.
moraliriug influence Of ignorant, viciOr
and mercenAry suffrage. That is Ii
Niger In the South and the mudsills
the North are 10 be deprived Of the rigf
Of suffrage. The ignorant Democrat
masses who may help 10 galvaniEe Int
life Calhoun Democracy, that efiete rel
OF barbarian, when they have served Ii
purposes Of the Democratic conspirator
are 70 be cast aside as part and parcel {
that class whose influence /, dsmOralirin
and from which the politics Of the ne
Democracy must be redeemed in unliu
tied measure. This ia the sort Of talk '
heard before 1851, when the crack Of Il
slave whip corralIed the Northern D
moorscy a. easily as flock Of lrighten'
sheep. According to the program
which this Southern Knight Of the Trip'