Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-23
THE GOSPEL OF HATE.

81 hate the Republican party with
all the intensity of my nature. | intend
to teach my children TO hate it. | have
live hating it, and mean to go to my
grave hating it."
The H~teligsncer keeps the above
natter standing prominently and per
| mlnently in its columns. Why so?
Because it is unjust, unkind, %unconsci-
entiOus, unchristian and ungentleman-
~ in its spirit and in Its language? Or is
it because it would cultivate the Gospel
OF Hate against Mr.. JACKSON and the
Democratic party, and thereby arouse
all the old fierce passions OF the
last twenty years which have been
smouldering in his Own heart, but
which have been measurably dying out
of the bosoms Of the more thOughttulan
considerable members OF his party? Is
it because that editor has repented him
self oil the mOnstrous evil he has
done in this respect for these last twenty
years? Does any body, even OF his own
| party, suspect him OF such a Christian
! or manly act as that OF repentance OF any
evil or wrong that will pay' Is it done
to lit up the people above the base and
sDrdid atmosphere OF party strife and IL
tleness? When was the editor OF the
I~aieiigencer guilty OF any such good and
honorable intentions in his partisan
warfare2 Did Mr.. CAMPBELL ever fail
in his virulenCe against the Democratic
party, or did ne v lose an opportu-
nifty to assaii individual members Of that
party whether the occasion was true,
probable, or false' Twenty years OF in
yeterate habit added to a natural char
acter, known of all men as neither
amiable, disinterested, or patriotic be-
yond his interest and ambition,
made him one OF the first, II Of
the very first in the present political
campaign to preach the gospel OF hate,
and arouse all those passions OF his own
| party OF which he has been the malevo
lent a~gitator for these last twenty years?
Was moi Mr.. CAMPBELL n OF the first
to act on his own old gospel OF hate so
rive new venom to the sectional division
Of the country, which commercial pru-
dence and social intercourse were to
steadily obliterating1 Speak OF repen-
lance in such a nature. Speak of such a
man rising above the malign atmosphere
of party STRIFE which he so aided and aids
to produce and to poison! Speak ofsuch
Imam rising above the littleness OF the
man himself. You may speak OF
such a man preaching the gospel
Of hate to keep up sectional
division; you cannot speak OF him as a
man broad enough, wise enough and
| generous enough to look to all the com.
mercill and social relations of that coun-
try which he contributed to bring to the
verge OF ruin, and place them all under
the presidency of a man who knows how
to guard all interests, protect all rights,
maintain the integrity OF the Union and
make the Constitution the bond OF
union between the States, and under
both promote the fellowship of all citi-
zeus. The editor OF the IntsLligencer is
an ironmonger, but are our people a
mass oil material that can be heated to a
white heat of passion and bitterness by
his gospel Of hate and cast into the ma
chinery OF a truculent and oppressive
system OF party power, which in the end
shall grind them as he would have it
grind usr