Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-10-25
From The Iphig Rertel0 for NoveH6er.
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baen actively engaged will have been made known.
Meant;me the space that is to elapse before the
dny of the election becomes more thronged with
events and more pregnant with important issues.
The real magnitude of the choicewhich the nation
is about to ma ke presents itself to us, to claim
rres,stby our most serious attention: In the month
in which we date. our Republic is to enter upon
new era TO plunge into another Of those epochs
by which, like the Oympiads of old, its existence
is numbered Again are called upon TO undergo
another of those epochs in whose constant recur-
renee the philosophers of monarchy profess 10 see
our downfall, but from whose healthy stimulus We
think we trace our firm and rapid advancement
The Ides of November are once more upon u.s. 10
be dignifed with the memorable chronicles IN
which TO be related the renewed choice OF Tree
and independent people.
In any case, we regard Presidential election as
matter Of grave Importance. II is no iigh, thilis
for the entire government of nation as large ana
mportant as our own to pass from the hands OF one
body of men into the hands of another If the men
who retire from office and the men who enter upon
Office are of the party the change still entaiis
great contingencies upon the government, necessi-
tates many shocks, produces inevitable cohius'oh'
and causes a universal hush of suspense as 10 TN:
future policy that is to be pursued. II government
is transferred from one party to another the change
becomes still more productive OF concern ne
removal from Office of great bodies cl NEIL anu the
selection of their successors from the lillhGnse nun
Der of applicants who besiege the new Executive
with clanors for appointments; the alteration OF
financial policies, of governmental practices, ana
of Executive counses; and the dlslrustlui Sehli-
ments every where uttered by the defeated party,
in every newspaper and from every rostrum: these
circumStau noes combine to surround an election
like the present with peculiar interest, and to i'm
part TO the mind of every student of political affairs
a more than ordinary degree OF sollcitude.
In addition to these circumstances, from winch
no Presidential election is free, the contest which
we are now about ending presents other features
of remarkable interest. 1t is close, and we had
almost said final, battle between the opposite
ideas of Peace and War, and between the opposite
theories of Protection and Free Trade. 1t Is pre-
eminently battle for principles, and whichever
way it shall be decided, the results will be most
import. Mt and lasting. In the event OF the sue
cess of one party, our great induSirlai interests
shall receive such share OF behehciai piotectioh
as shall place them for many years beyond the IN
fuence of rival ina fractures sustained by oppress-
ed and unpaid operatives, and stimulated by the
commercial ambition OF an immense ana naughty
empire and while the internal coinmunicatlons Oh
the country shall receive the liberal attention OF
government the spirit of foreign conquest shall be
repressed, and an effectual bar lnteTpCsed III the
way, of the admission of such outside nations as
cannot be received into our Union without lnvoiv-
ing it in bloody and expensive wars ANA IN case
of the success of the other party the manufactures
of other countries will be allowed to rule and over
ride our markets; our lakes and harbors will be
forced to appeal to the generosity OF individuals,
the conf cting interest; OF separate States ofthe
improvements which their navigation constantly
d.n,onds. and the wild shirt of conquest bas-
tarJ 'nrsnr;ng oc Democratic institutions will be
allowed its full and mischievous range, TO involve
us perhaps in another sanguinaty war with south
ern sister Republic, and TO blot the waters oil The
southern seas with the stains of plratca invaslons
and aggressive war.
Once only in the history of this nation has All
election been so fraught with decisive consequent
ces. In the campaign of 1914, n similar Crisis pre-
scented itself 10 serious attention. a tariff,
man,frstins ITS influences in the unexamplcd in
cr.,S, nj yery sneces of manu- ia curing industry,
,y,x in dancer of overthrow by the patty of Free
Trade r6e annexation of an immense tract Of
territory NOT vet recognized as free and oreseen
he Intended nv n inevitable and costly war was
;mnend;n, i man unkuown TO fame and only
rcrognized ms n dextero,s and unscrupulous poll
,;c;,n bod heep seI,cted to oppose the abest and
,,rrect of ,polerp statesmen The excitement of
III c,ny,ss cannot soon he forgotten /; nor does
.t a' ,ina', rIi hh;nJ i in ;,srest II apneal.
M ,ess IN our deem attention. The cause oil Pro-
lection was then in danger: now defeated there is
hone I'm, II NAV he restored Then war npend-
cd! no,y =, like calamity threatens u.s. and "Demo-
cr,,;c statesmen are actively stimulating the rude
ciamors of men disseminated with our present
neace. and longing for another Sturnala of rapine
in the territory of Mexico The spri, of aggression,
mt satisfied with itself in single scheme
incites lawless men in many directions. The for
chic OCCUPANCY of Cuba is intended the Isthmus
;s menoc.d. Mexico is threatened. Men high in
the Democratic party do not hesitate TO avow their
concurrence in projects which might deserve to be
stihed evenly the Empire Club. 1t requires no
Imagination to draw aparallel between the cam
paign of 1914 and the present, and little sasacty
10 discern that, in case of Democratic success the
first act of the Democratic government will be to-
wards war along the southern frontier and in quar-
tiers still farther south. Between peace and wal,
the nation is at last fairly called to choose.
Forced into temporary union by the near pros
nd
ir1u.nce IN ;,s ra,rograde and destructive doc
,r;nes sic;entIv strong 10 compe the multitude of
,nt;Scs Who in ordinaTv times hold aloof from the
,Wts nf either rrent nolitical organization. In
iaiS the ,ne,nsi,v wbichthe Whir candidate was
Iora,tad were noient enough 10 have ensured the
tr;,,n,nb If :, mnch more inconsiderabIe faction
.hu,' ith n.n,orr,t;c Marty ON. of these iunc-
tr um nd arisen an whose oppearance no man can