The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-23

THE ISSUE OF TIE WAR.
To this replied that I had grave doubts
whether it would not BIO better after all to
take hold Of this tariff matter for our
selves, accept it us nh outgrowth Of the re-
suit Of the war, SO far rs the South was
concerned, and SO on and develop our re-
sources with it. a.
Said-my. friend: "Thc result OF the war !?
What was it? Why VIC stopped fighting
because we were exhausted and had to
stop. The Yankees put on paper certain
amendments to tho Constitution and GER
tain laws. These are good just SO long as
the Republican party holds control and
not q day longer. The idea which We
fought for-frce trade and cheap labor
has never died out or been changed. The
idea they fought for, n distribution OF the
product OF labor by high wages, is the
same now rs then. The Southern armies
surrendered and the Northern armies
went home. That was all. Nothing was
settled at all. The struggle was turned to
politics again, and from that day we have
been gaining and the North losing. By
surrendering our armies we got rid OF
theirs, and left the whole question to take
such shape as we could give it tho mo-
ment We had recovered little from
the exhaustion Of the war. Two or
three years suiIiced for that. Then We
resumed power and drove out the carpet
Dagger from politics and influence. Then
we went to work to make the Confed-
eracy as politically solid rs she had been
solid in arms, and then We began to in
wade the North. Holding all our States
solid, il We can turn over New York and
Indiana, or New York and Ohio, or Ohio,
Indiana and New Jersey, or any combina.
ton Of close Northern States. we've got
them If such a man MS Cleveland had
been the candidate in 1876 we would have
put him into the White House Mt all cost
and hazard. That We did not put Tilden
there was because the game was not worth
the candle. Tilden had too many North
ern interests. Hc had large wealth OF his
own, and belonged to 4 set Of very rich
Northern men whose interests were in
railroads and other Northern concerns,
and he would have tried to build up
Northern Democratic party that should
control. We did not want this and we
let him 60. ,s65@. 1870 tr.a s
~ TAKING Ur TIE PROGRAMME OF 1861.
But with such a man as Cleveland ut
tho head Of the party the South would be
all powerful, and VIC could take up the
programme VIC started out with in 1861
Just where We dropped it in 1865. don't
mean, mind you, that We would be fools
enough to try q Confcderacy again. That
Inns always cost US twenty-five years loss
Of timo. But We would, from the Jump
upset the tariff. The North is now stag.
nant from ovcr.production in manuiac.
lures; it has built TOO many railroads; i,
is producing too much breadstufis; it has
lost a large part OF its export market, and
is losing moro every month, and with q
break down in the tariff we should pro.
duce q state Of affairs there that would
enable us to get the lead and keep i,
through control Of Federal patronage and
the Treasury, with the aid Of a Solid South
We could drive Investments down here by
rendering them unsafe and Improbable
in tho North. They have too many, in
casc Of a change, and we have too few,
They would lose and We must gain. x"
1.-THE struggle is exactly the same to-day
it was twenty years ago. We said then, /
the Coniedcracy won grass would grow In
the streets Of New York. II We wir
now that prediction will DO verified. The
only question is whether wo can elect the
right kind Of n man before they can de
velop a National sentiment in the South
to counteract us. It's hard to tell wher
we should ever got such another candidate
ms Cleveland, for he is entirely FREQ from
any sort Of influences or ties that woule
hold him to Northern interests. Ii we car
do this it is far moro Of victory for tn,
leading men Of the South-tliose who
have always controlled it-than woult
have been the establishment Of the Con
federacy. 8 N Is 3 s 4 s, lE'tf
"We have the negroes, and can do wha
we please with them, once rid OF any Fed
eral protection for them. We can estab
lish such wages rs We please, and Will
free trade We can make the North come Ii
that standard. We have tho cotton to sci
and can sell 1t abroad and We can brin,
back foreign goods in exchange and built
up our commerce and trade ut the expens,
OF New York, and thus soon becom
powerful in that way. We can use colore,
labor, at our own rates, for making irol
and mining coal, and run out those inter
csts In Ohio and Pennsylvania. We cal
! * our labor standard " q month, Il; vii