Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-01-31

The Logic of Recent Even

The Logic of Recent Events.
As a too trusting reliance on the advantages
promisedin the result of Presidential election,
is the mistake to which the South is speedily in
cined at the present moment, so is it precisely
the error against which events warn us with the
most distincncss and emphasis of admonition.
We do not mean to imply that the South rePoses
President elect; for, as we have over and over
again avOwed, we believe Mr. Buchanan will re-
deem his pledges in each and every letter of the
platform. The blundrr towards which our pco-
pie seem to have too great procivity, is i'll
Supposing that the result of the recent election
determined the struggle with Black Republican
ism; or, indeed, that it gave any decisive adj
vantage to the South.
In moral sense, the recent election seems
barren of any permanent effect. For moment
perhaps the Black Republican sentiment of the
North suffered some shock and recoil; but we
do not perceive that the party betTays any dis
position to abandon the contest, or even to pros
ccute the war with less spirit and vigor. It's
organization exists with stronger vitality and
its members are already projecting a plan of
campaign for 1860. If they understood their
recent defeat to be equivalent to popular YER
dict against their principles, they would not ex-
hibit so much of energy and defiance in their
preparations for another trial of the issue. A
party which feels itself smitten by the wrath of
the people, does not carry so proud a front and
so lofty a crest, but, like the miserable frug-
ment of Fillmore's followers, is apt to hang its
head in shame and to shrink obscurely from the
struggle.
Again; if the consequences Of the recent VIC
tory be computed by more material standard,
they will scarcely appear of greater promise to
the security of the South. Since the election
of Mr.. Buchanan, the Black Republican party
have been busiy engaged in consolidating their
own successes, and in breaking the force of
our partial triumphs in the North. In Indiana
they have postponed the election of Senator; and
have thus wrung the prize of victory from our
grasp, and secured for themselves the chance of
another appeal to the people In Pennsylvania,
the home of our candidate, and the theater of
his most signal success, they have contrived to
neutralize the popular verdict of November, and
to send representative of their interests othe
Senate of the United States. Thus does the
Administration lose the incalculable advantage
of hearty and reliable support from Pcnnsyl-
vania-a State of whose sympathy the South
deemed itself secure, and to whose cooperation
Mr.. Buchanan was entitled by every conSid-
Grafton of justice and propriety, Then, too,
contemplate the overthrow of the venerable
Cass, in Michigan, and the succession of an out
and out Black Republican to the Senate; the al
most unanimous reelection of Sumner, Hamlin
and Nourse elected by reclamation from the
old Democratic State Of Maine, and Simmons
sent to SuperSede James, from Rhode Island -
contemplate these things, and say il the South
finds much in recent developments whcreuDOn
to congratulate itself with camPIacent con-
seriousness of security. 1t is an ungracious task
to recite all these circumstances of defeat and
encouragement, but wise and fearless man al
ways wants an exact measure of the strength of
his adversary. Only the weak and tho foolish
avert their faces from the unpleasant spectacle.
Above all things it is the duty of the Southern
journalist to furnish truthful statement Of the
forces Of tho Black Republican party, and to
utter timely admonitiOn against a too great
C0nfideueA al neara and Sacurifv
These events in the North and the South,
teach lesson of very great moment at this par.
ticular crisis In the first place, they tell the
President elect in what quarter lies the strength
Of the Democratic party; and, in the second
the necessity Of union among themselves, by IL
Illustrating the gradual extinction of all hopes of
snccOr in the North.