Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-10-08
/ ErTER FROM n. P WILLIS
AROTJsTTEIE PRESIDENCY.

E7TqTER FROM N. iP.S WILLIS
ABOUTTHE PRESIDENSS
The following Is an extract from aPrigate let
ter written by n. P. Willis, Esq, Inc gsnt.s
man who hands It to ms asked peTIalssl9n -
nublish It. as furnishing additional evidence
which way the intellect ofthe country y leaning
and as showing also how the present contest aP
nears. q those habitnaIly neutral IN politics, put
who arc awakened by peril of tho times to give
a voice to the question of Presidency:
ave all turned out the other evening 70 near
Curtiss stump speech for Fremont, at NewouIg-
FIVE mile drive IN the niSht ar was qlle e =.
venture for me, and did it more tor interest ~
the cause than with any expectations OF eio-
ducnce from 'Howadji / thought he was quite
too handsome and well dressed boy for Popu-
lar oratory. And continued to think So Tor
five minutes or so after he began, and then, to
tell the truth, forgot al about i'll de enSr9ss
cd me so completely with his su6Ject thaL los t
sight of what was to critislSe- Mheh ne 20.
through. l drew long breath, and for the nrst
time remembered that / must get back to per-
sonal considerations, and tell my previous Cur-
tbs hoH, much admired the present stump SPEAK.
ar 1t was really very fine-se!EPossessedI log
irnI and rational enough toinspirc absolute con-
fidence; and yet, row and then pursuing mo tiie
full tide of eloquenes unrestrained. 1t comes
natural to the bOyl He was born TO an orator e.
81 find myself for the first time in my in :,
interested for a political candidate; or, should
rather say. perhaps, in a candidate without ms
politics. / have hitherto Ito account somewhat
for nv apparent want ofpatriotisn) thought the
country under Roadway which made almost
any steering safe enough. 1t seemed to me oil
very little consequence Ito anybody but ONCE
seekers whether wing or democrat was At
the helm-pubiic opinion, besides being alto
petber too wide-awake, in so educated country,
for either blunder or sin of pllotagc 10 be
moro than approached So complete was this
confidence in Americas ndolescent yigOr and
correctiveness of constitution, that (would you
believe it?) 1 never voted in my life.
But with the events ofthe last year or t%o'
and with all the intcllect of the country AT WoTN
upon the great questions at issue, 1t would be
hard TO remain longer blind or insensible. And
vet 50 iodgey are political theories, SO insecure
are party platforms, and, above all, so often
NAV the changing tide Of events require l5ressAt
decision with little or no reference TO party theo-
rs or party platform, that, it.scens to me, we
| should look most if not only to MeqnfHttty o.
the a0n-what our candidates., by nature and
culture rather than to what his party processes
or his platform promises.
'.You see, in this last remark, the ground up
| on which shall give my virgin vote Tor Ere
| mont He is one of those rare men, sure to DC
| well in allsemcrgencies-not only with bralu
| lofty enough at the mainmast, and a heart sound
! and true enough in the hold, but with that dcGt
keel Of comn101 sense which mas regulated t u
pertrous navigation by all the great pilots of thu
world, (the most signal quality of Washington
among others, and which alone can ensure tru'
saitiag and no eapsizimg, in these stormy times
Fremont is both lofty-minded and wise-bott
lincorruptib!e and sagacious-both tearlessly IN
dependent and lnodestly deferentiaL In fact, !
seems to me he was born for the crisis on which
the country is now balancing. and that he ha
had Cby the overruling providence of God pre-
cisely the training and discipline to fit him TO
Ibis work. That he will be our next Presiden
i have no doubt; but mean to do all in m!
tpower, hereabouts, to add my grain of sand t.
4 what trust will be mountnin of a majority
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