Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1853-09-12

oil OOngIeSS Stlll attenueQ Inetl ueleSaIeS
or as lobby members. Persons attended as dele
gates who had no constituency. Delegates attend
ed unon euuivocal appointments. Double sets of
delegates sometimes came from the same State,
and either were admitted OF repulSed, assaulted the
views of the majorit. Proxies were lnvented.-
Many delegates attended with the sole view Of es-
tabishing claim ur Office and voted accordingly.
The two-thrdS rule was invented, to enable the
minority TO control the majority and the whole
proceeding became anomalous and irresponsible,
and SuOveIsive of the will of the people, leaving
them no more control over the nominatLon than the
subjects OF kings have over the birth OF Il child
which is born TO rule over them. King caucus IS
potent as any other king in this respect; for
whoever gels the nominaton-no matter how et-
fected-becomes the candidate OF the party, from
the necessity of union against The opposite party
and from the indispositon of the great States togo
into the House of Representatives to be balanced
by the small ones. This is the mode of making
Presidents, pracliSed by both parties now. 1t is
the virtual election and thus the election OF the
President and Vice President OF the United States
has paSSed-not only from the college OF electors
to which the constitution confidtd 1t, ami from tue
people to whom the practice under the conSlitu-
ton gave il, and from the House OF Representa-
tives which the constitution provided Us ultimate
dTbeTS, but has gone 10 all anomalous, lTTeSpoSl-
bic body, unknown 10 law or constitution I'M
known 10 the early ages Of our Government aAu Oh
which large proportion of the members compoS-
ing ii, and much larger proportion OF interioperS
attending it, have no other view eItherln attenulhg
or in promoting the nomination OF any particular
man thnn to get one elected who will enable them
to eat of the public crib, who VIII give item akey
TO the public crit. The evil is destructive 10 Tue
rights and sovereignty of the people and to the pu-
rity of eect!onS The remedy is in the aPpllca-
ton of the democratic principle, the people 10 vote
direct for Pr Sident and Vice President, anu sec
ond election to be held Immediately between Inc
two highest if no one has majority of the whole
number on the first trial. But this would require
an am ndment Of the Constitution, not 10 be ell
Gected but by concurrence OF two-thlfus OIL each
House of Congress and the sanction of three fourthS
OF the Stntes-a consummatlon to which Inc
strength of the people has not yet been equal, but
of which there is reason to despair. The great
parliamentary reform i'll Great Britain was only
carrieu after forty years of continued, annual per-
Severing exertion. Our constitutional reiom, IN
this point of the residential election, may require
but few years; in the meanwhile an Tor the
peopeto select as well as elect Their candidates,
and for reference TO the House 10 choose one out
oil three presented by the peopl', lnsteaIot eau
Gus nomination OF whom 1t pleaSeu' Inc louS-
of REPRESENTATIVES is NJ longer the small and dam
gerOus electoral college that 1t once was. Instead
of thirteen States we now have thirty one; lhSteau
| of sixty five Representatives we now have ABOVE
two bundled. Responsibility in the House IS now
well established, and political ruin aud personal
humiliation attend the violation OF the Will oil the
State. No man could be elected now, or endeaV-
or to be elected (aiter the experience OF lSUO ana
1920 who is not at the head OF The list ana Inc
|
those times W ould deter imitation, and the demo
cratic principle would again crush all that were
| instrumental in hwarting T. pubic VIII. There
| is no longer the former danger from the House oil
Representatives NOR any thing IN IT 10 justify pre-
viouS resort 10 such aSSenblageS as our national
conventions have got TO be. The House IS legal
and responsible, which the convent on is not, with
a better chance for integrity, rs having been aclu-
nllv elected by T. people, ami more restrained ny
| position, by public op Mon, and clause Ill The
la constitution the OF ONCE from Inc
| man they elect. 1t is the constitutional umpire;
and. until the constitution IS amended, ani Tor
acting upon 1t as it is.
ETLola Mcntez has gu rrreleh with her new
husband, bee use he was Jealous OF a vIolinSt
| from whom she chad received some polite alien
tons" The husband raised row, and was kick
I'd ont the house. Served lin rlght.-iLbany
Transcript, Sept. 2.
When we quoted from California paper notice
of the marriage OF this woman, we expressed the
wish [not the ope) that she might at last become
an honest woman and make her husband happy;
and ut the same time ventured 10 suggest that 1t
would be well for him at once to resolve against
dueiLg. II seems that the suggestion. So lar as he
is concerned. was unnecessary, and 1t is we'll
Lola would no doubt delight i'll being fought about,
and would regard each victim of the "cOde of
honor (heaven save the marky new and
valuable trophy.
5 The newspapers often tell us Of homicides COM
mitted By injured husbands, and we observe that
nublic sympathy leans so decidedly toward their
pcrpe rators that legal punishment is but seldom
inflicted. Now, we have given 10 these no little
II attention. and we havr observed in nnetenthS oil
the instances that the husbands had married either
beautiful and vcluptuous, or rich, or talented
women, without maniGeSiing proper regard for
the qualities of modesty coed repute; AMI that
they have themselves been men OF loose principles
and impure morals.
A Men marry with the opinions OF the Duke Aranza
no said Of his bUlde-"l have heard ii said that
!, wifc's honor IS her husbands SErest ftguard;
but for my part, think there is virtue in u
lock and key;'' and, when betrayed by women
they have never trusted, ey make good their own
and their wives honor by the commission OF muir
del.
For the foolish lupe and victim there can of
course be little sympathy. The maria relation,
even Of the vile and base, should be held sacred
BY every man who owes his own safety to the Tro-
lection of the community; and, no matter what
may be the allurements presented 10 him, his vio-
lation of the peace Of any home should be fol-
lowed by disgrace and punishment. But i'll the
remission tacitly given to the huSbandto nvenge
his real or supposed wrongs, undue encourage
ment is given 10 the worst of men, while the N
evitable right Of retaliation, on the part OF the
aSSatled, will IN the end induce and legalize the
contest of the duel to determine by might the title
OF either party 10 some vile woman unworthy OF
the name Of wife, land on whose account such
scenes are likely to be repeatedly enacted.
/ The remedy for these abuses consists SIMPLY in
the enactment and enforcement Of laws, punish
even of his wfe's seducer as any other murderer
is punished.
The sentiment of something called honor,
and chivhlry, upon which religious and moral men
never act is the source of great crimes in all
commu mites. 1t Is the sentiment OF the murderer,
aud it sanctioned the whole conduct of Rob Roy,
the highwayman, as completely as it does that OF
our chvalTouS citizens who heal wounded