The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-21
MONDAY MoRNINa, April 81, ls7O.
why Grant viii Ne NomInated IfNomiD
mated Mt All,


In last Fridays debate in Congress,
representative Mckinley charged that Mr..
Blackburn, Of Kentucky, had said In the
crurse Of his late speech that I'VE (the
Democracy do not intend to stop until
we have stricken the last vestige OF your
war measures from the statute books"
Mr.. Blackburn charged that this "a a
Misrepresentation OF his remarks, and
SAID that what he hal said was this:
ave do not intend to stop until we have
stricken the last vestige Of your war mea.
sures from the statute books, which, like
those election laws, were born Of the pas
sions incident TO civil strife, and look alone
- the abridgement Of the liberties Of the
citizen"
The average reader will not be impress
ed with the force Of the correction made
by Mr.. Blackburn until he specifies with
some minuteness what measures he has in
mind as having been born Of the passions
incident to the civil strife. The Demo-
cracy have always been regarded as hos.
tile 70 the constitutional amendments, and
unless people know what Mr.. Blackburn
means by his sweeping declaration they
will be prone to indulge apprehenstons
that II he and his party were in full pow.
er In the land they would sweep away
pretty much all that has been achieved by
the war. They have real taken from the
0kalOua, Miss, SdkS) that "the principle
OF Secession must be vindicated. The
Federal Brigadiers, whom the Govern.
ment educated in the doctrine Of State
Rights, must be denied a voice in the re-
s~toratlOn Of the Republic, for they sinned
with their eyes wide open to the enormity
o coercing sovereign Comm 1nwealths,and
knew that it was pOint.blank treason."~
The people OF the North will be very
apt to interpret NJ. Blackburn's declara.
ton by the light Of the more explicit and
fearless declaration OF the Mississippi pa
per whose language We have quoted.
They will also interpret it by the light OF
another declaration from another Missis.
sippi paper 1.-THE Corinth Record, whose
editor says that "it will cost any member
OF the Legislature his political lie to vote
against Jefferson Davis for the U. S.
Senate"
These are the sort OF declarations, taken
in connection with those OF Congressman
Blackburn and the attempt Of the Democ.
racy to repeal the election laws, that are
alarming the people Of the North, and
that are bringing Grant to the front as a
Presidential candidate. As the Chicago
Tribune Of Saturday well says:
"a series Of ill.natured bluuders on the
part Of the Democratic party ever since
Mr. Hayes was declared elected has made
the American people think that a strong
mans hand and will IRE the only condi.
tiUns that can secure the country from
new and perhaps dangerous political dis
turbancc. The Democratic attempt 10 re-
peal the election law. following closely
upon the corrupt and violent efforts ct the
South to nullity all laws growing out OF
the constitutional amendments, has in.
spired this feeling SO favorable TO General
Grant as u candidate in 1850. Whether
the sentiment can be sustained or not will
depend mainly upon Democratic conduct
in the meantime.