Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-11-17
Gov. Wise and the Presidency,
we have heard of men being damned by fain

81 We have heard OF men being damned oy IalhI
praise, and of being damned by lou praise, and
of men and things being damned by unqualified
condemnation; and If the following $50 far as the
DEGREES Of the umpirss extendj is not remarka-
Bile exhibition Of the three cases, we don't know
j what tits:
Says the New York Tribune:
"The Evening Post has some observations on
the effort now being made to present the Hon.
Henry "A. Wise rs the Democratic candidate for
next President in which We heartily concur. We
are tred-and we think the country is also-of
your negative. putty faced. half-a nd half, good
for nothina characters. Let us have men who are
somebody or something-not mere ciphets lifted
into significance by some one standing beside them.
but having an intrinsic value of some sort
Gov. Wise's politics, except his opposition to Ma
tvisn, the antipodes ofours, yet we should de-
cidedly prefer him as President to any specimen Of
the Pierce OF Cass genus. Between the slave
holder and tho doughface, we always havea choice
and it does not favor the doughface. The Post
we'll says:
even If Mr.. Wise should be nominated anil
elected, the country is not likely be in n worse
condition under his administration than that OF Dir.
Pierce. He Is considerably the ableSt man of the
temner Of all reserve and disguise in expressing
them, and would command that respect which The
world readily yleldStO courage and an open tenn
per. He would commit thousand imprudenCes
but nothing of which the country would have more
reason to be ashamed than the follies which Mr.
Pierce and his keeper, Gushing, are committing
almost every day. In one respect the change
would be the better. If we must be governed by
the Shareholders il is better that they should gov
nus directly in their own name, than through
set Of caDIing dependents their favor, recruited
from the Northern politicians, and pretending 10
impariiality in the differences whieh have arisen
between the Slave States and the Free. 1t is bet
ter TO live under a rule which is simply uni u st,
than under one Which is both unjust and hypo
critical.
Mr.. Wise is Southern man in Principe, in tenn
per and character, who makes no pTetensions TO
neutrality or moderation. The maintenance Of
Slavery and what he calls the rights OF The South.
meaning the nationality Of Slavery, forms aImt st
the whole OF his political creed, and is tie probes
sed rule of his public conduct. In his moral con-
stituton there all that impetuosity, that pre-
dominance OF the will and absence of self restraint,
which are The characteristics of men brought up
among slaves. With Mr.. Wise for President, the
question Of The natlOnaliyof Slavery would adj
vance rapidly to solution. We should have no
half measures and no mincing of terms; there
would be the advocates Of that loose construction
al the Constitution which establishes Slavery in
tine Territories on the side, and the champions
Ct that stricter Interpretation which denies the
existence Of Slavery where ii is not directly i'm
posed by the local law On the other. Under such
President, parties would form and organise
themselves 18th a view to present questions; and
ii these views Of constitutional right which are
favorable TO freedom have any real hold ON the
mind of the people, they would then have all the
advantage of party regularly associated TO sup
port and enforce them. both in Congress an! in
the country at large. With such means the Presl-
dent might more easily be kent in check during
his tern Of office, and with such means the chan
o! putting successor Of different opinions in
his place at the expiration Of his term would he
greatly increased.