Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-08-27


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.ss eoun1ies IA Nissan, bat ose o. tEoS Ia
Kea.o1rv he T,snoz4t:- majority Is large.
sSo4isg aaiaerease upon the Tote Of the Pres
de9tisl eI.tioa. tniEezl a the aggregate Ia OLE
OF tEo distrfs4s tie Anerissas have made gains
In tls 81 zisstri-s, hoEeTs-, from Ehieh A-.
Usds4Eosd. American. vas eSeetsi. there i
filling OF IN the rote- This Stase Tet1rns f~9
4y5sTff.t., - ssaI.s zIlsa4e==z4.- Ia North
I,aTo1ina, the eleetign has sin m0re soas che
4av. tilat Stste Fe4aTaiHg seven DeusOerats gid
orr Afnc-5oalE In TcHBessee tiir sAa1e osse-
siI,faezsi. "a IL tie election u eight Deiaa-
eTn4S 10 tao A.seriezns AIsbaua IootIz up
With an uaLrokea front, being Eoal IorJer to
border infenselT Democratic Texas On Us
snail -eais. tro rnsnbsEs, Is no BITTER General
Hoastoo. as3 The Congnezsional ticket hasing
been more overwhelmingly routed than were.
the easrniss Of the Lane Star, at tbs battle Of
s4n Jaeinto In Missouri, ne have the Only
scene Of aeIoss-coatestsd, hand 70 hand st-ug-
gle. and there We zee that the Dem1azts hare
met with ! IYatsrioo dsfeat The sun Of .l1ster-
liz did not set GU more discounted, disbeaFt-
ened, and ruined ezusc than Is theirs 10 Nilsson
n. Their los IN THE State since NoyeDbes lasf,
IS nearly eIeTen thOusand
We pat on record this brief SUMMARY, and rs
indepeadert journalists, writing for : candid
people, we have the night 70 submit TO their in
teIligeBee, what may be supposed 70 Be fair
and timely deduction. we confess to hare
lfttie Gseiiag q sympathy IN ~ fiese elections,
gsye only IN die cass Of Missouri. There vas
pses1JrtlS q decl-eiF Atlte fet0lI9s agalnst
a state a inertia; there vas found progression
struggling against fsudaIisn. ItwouId be just
Is Impossible f0r us not To hare taken sides in
this strnggie-n0t 70 have wished success TO the
gallant Rollins, As st would for US to suppress
an emotion when reading IN the pages Of histO-
RI, the protest Of the Bzrons Of Runnymesde,
against the tryannieal usuEpatioas Of King John,
or in witnessing the denouement Of jack Gade,
not to hare sympathized with the men Of Kent.
in their indignation against the lecherous des-
potism Of Lord Say.
The signs Of the times seem to indicate a
great approaching struggle between the spirit
Of conservative progression on the one side,
and feudaiistie immobiiity on the other
Had it teen told in 1920. to the Pilgrim Fathers,
or before that, to The settlers Of jamestown,
that they had been led TO this continent 10 found
republic, seemingly modelled in theory after
Gods own heart, IN which, in any part Of If,
much less one half OF it. it should happen two
hundred years after, that liberty Of speech
should be prescribed under the sererest pains
and penalties, they certainly would have looked
and spoken increduously. Yctit was only last
November, that in the larger half Of this Union,
liberty of speech, tile right to assemble and de-
bate matters Of State policy, which the cOnsti-
tuition Of the republic expressly guarantees, vas,
n theory, as edectually abrogGted as it ever was
under the Venetian Council Of Ten" re-
narkable instance Of it was even seen in this
city-a city, which Of all others within our know
ing, was most interested, and which could least
afford the blow which some Of its rufian rabbIc
sought 70 inlet. This prescription shackled
every departmental sllaekled not alone the
orator, the politician, the press the pulpit, but
every day opinion-the opinions Of the MGR
chants and mechanics, who quakcd under ap-
prehensions of ruined patronage, If not of Physi
cal outrage. al this was done under the name,
under tie eye and under the power and patron
age Of one Of the most frequently mouthed, yet
least appreciated words in the political diction-
airy, viz. Dsaoerasy: which word IN its received
acccptation, bears about as much resemblance
to its original component elements IS the egGIite
Of the French theorists did to the Jacobin rule
Of RobespierTe.
The people saw this. felt aud groanei under
itevery where. As tie best they could do at
the Presidential election, thousands Of men, in
our State and in other Southern States. anxious
to strike blow at this prescription, voted for
Mr.. Fillmore, in the hopes Of bringing about an
amelloation Of public sentiment This was
evident in the large German and other foreign
vote either cast for Mr. FIllmorc, or-uot voting,
in the South One Of these two methods was
the only chance which was leu to them. We
are acquainted with quite : number Of such
votes in this city. In st Louis. however, an
election for Mayor shortly amer came on. Aftcr
casting about for some time, Il came % the
knowledge Of The people, that Il they would but
join hands and strike together, they had it in
their power to exercise the free agency with
which God had endowed them. They did so,
and the result WIS one Of the most splendid tri-
umphs Of liberalism on. record. This victory
electrified the whole State. The current Of fol.