The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-08-09
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The Alabama Election Causes the Nation
nj organ 10 Break Out Against the De-
WAsnlSorox, August 1.-The National
Vie,c, the central organ Of the Greenback
party, published in this city by the secre'
tary OF the National Greenbsck commit
tee, will contain to-day the following ed
itorial on the Alabama election:
@wbile the result OF the election in Al
ALBANIA has been such to justify all that
Gen. Weaver said as 10 Bourbon rule, and
has made still more apparent the hopeless
ness Of successful contestins Democratic
supremacy where it has any power over
The decisions Of elections, there Is no rea-
son why 1t should discourage Greenback'
ers as tn the general result. It the more
conclusively shows the necessity, II any
security is to rest in the ballot at al, that
the party which so unscrupulously talsltes
it should be kept from any larger control
in the country. Whenever Democracy
lifts lis interruptions head into control, its
opponents may out number 1.-two 10 one,
but will nevertheless be manipulated into
a minority by Democratic dishonesty. 1t
NAV please the press and the politicians to
ialk about sectional feeling laid TO
rest and unity OF interest; but every
one at all conversant with SOUTH
ern feeling among the Bourbon readers
can tell you that never was the spirit OF
domination more rampant than 1t has
been in the years last past: The slaves
have been freed, but the element which
made slavery cherished institution Is IS
vigorous to-day IS it was in 1850. 1t Is
even stronger, for spirit OF revenge is
added to its intolerance, which only burns
the hotter at every struggle OF its people
10 throw of that dominance. The feeling
that has taken hold Of the agricultural
class in the South, impelling them to a
larger understanding Of the rights and du:
ties Of citizens, is looked upon as one Of
the results OF northern interference. They
fight against all liberality and independ-
ence, as they fought against the Yankee
Interpretation OF the declaration that all
men were born free and equal. The con.
tiict between that element and the real
doctrine Of freedom and equality is as IT.
repressible now as it was twenty years
ago. That conflict has in some measure
changed ground, but 1t has lost moth.
ing Of its iierceness. 1t is as determined
now as 1t was in any year oil
the desperate war, it is q conflict
between truth and ialsehood, between in
aliepable rights and the usurped privi
lepes OF few who have by fraud, by
force, by every evil means, constituted
Themselves ruling power. We have thii
conflict on our hands. The laws which
enforce it's adjustment are as immutablt
as God. 1t is still an irIepressible con
llict. 1t rests with powerful few to de
eide whether it shall be adjusted amid The
roar OF cannon, over heaps OF dead ant
diving, under the hot glare OF conilagra
tions lighting up fields red with slaughter
or whether a peaceful solution will bt
reached by the ballot. The peaceful 80
luton oil reason and the victory oil argl
menls whose strength lies in their truth II
| the victory We hope and work for, Mont
! the less do We sec and recognize the othe
terrible alternative. Long.coniuued sub
mission 10 recognized wrong has becomt
| impossible to men in this age; they are a
swift to punish as they are to understand
and patience is no longer the duml
patience OF ignorance, but the patience
that sternly waits on judgment"
1t seems to us that the natural Inference
TO be drawn from the situation in thu
South, as so forcibly depicted by thu
National Ticp, is that the Greenback party
Of the North is endaDgering the success o
the only opponent that the Democrat!
have any fear of-the only one that cal
hope 10 defeat their neiarious game at til,
South. II the Democracy succeeds il
electing a Congress and President tn,
Greenback party will surely go to tn,
wall. They will have no more chance ii
the South than the Republican party
Hence it is folly for Greenbackers to pla!
into the hands OF this great enemy OF fre,
elections in the United States. The Dem
ocratic party hopes to succeed by fraud
on the ballot.box in New York, and BY
terrorism and violence in the South, IL
electipg the next Congress and the mex
President, and the Greenback party, sc
far as 1t divides the Republican vote in the
North or in West Virginia, plays into
its hands.
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