Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-28

umns, we have ever refrained from commenting
in any but the most respectful terms upon the
present administration of the government, even
when called upon to express our dissent But
at this writing we must say that our pen is
we'll nigh tempted into a less discreet course
than that we have endeavOred to pursue. BY
the last mail we have a copy Of one of our New
York exchanges, which complains in very forci-
bic and Just terms of the recent unwarranted
interference Of the President Of the United
States in their election for Mayor. We will
state the case as Faithfully and plainly as we
can, so that all our readers may know just what
we are ut. Fernando Wood was nominated as
the democratic candidate for Mayor of New
York. Yet he was not, mol could he be recog-
nized by all the democracy of that city as their
candidate. The reason was this: Mayor Wood
stood charged on the court records, and moral
Iy convicted, of a crime which, but for the in
PREVENTION of the Statute of limitations, would
have consigned him to a felon's cell in the State
Prison. He was openly and often charged with
hcinous crimes, and he did not dare to ask re-
dress of a jury of his countrymen. He, to get
himself foisted upon the intelligent people of
New York, who knew him, and had read him
through and through-who feared and loathed
his INSCRIPTIONS cunning, got down on his
knees in the dirt TO the rag and fog of famous
Five Points, in that noted message of his, in
which he told the lazy and lecherous scum of
Five Points, that the peopIe-the well-to-do
workers of New York, owed them, the vaga-
bonds and loungers, a living. More and more
than ever the intelligence and deccncy Of the
great metropolis was rOused-they met in a
great meeting-where men were counted by the
street fulI-and in common and earnest deliber-
alton, there assembled, they picked upon a man
"A democrat too-without respect to party or
creed-but simply and alone with regard to
honesty aud responsibility. This man was
nominated, and the good and true men of
New York assembled again by thousands
to ratify the nomination. Such men as Daniel
Sickles, a democrat, u leader too, and at that
very time n member elect of Congress. Such
men too, as McKeon, the U. S. Attorney, and
other prominent and respectable men, met with
the men of all parties and labored to redeem
New York from the disgrace which threatened
her in the eyes of the intelligence and respect
able Of the country. The consequent of all
this arousement of all parties aud persuasions,
was, that Mayor Wood, although voted for, al
though worked for and cheated and fought for,
by nil the nests and crews Of the lanes and
alleys and Five Point rendezvouses of the city,
was most Thoroughbred effectually d~iscomftted,
and decency and religion triumphed in the per-
son of Mr.. Tiemann.
When the votes were all cast and the result
known, Mayor Wood, and those who had boast
ed that If he was the devil incarnate" and
should "cut the throat of one of his children"
still would he be elected, assembled in conclave
in Tammany Hall, andmoaned and groaned over
the sore defeat. Mayor Wood, in his speech a
few nights after, vented his pent up wrath and
vowed his vengeance upon the heads Of such
democrats as had opposed him. So from that
time on ne has seemed to give emo sleep to his
eyelids,' but to be wholly given up TO revenge.
And this brings US to the President. Mr.Bu-
chanan, at the instance of this man and his CO.
adjutors, has rebuked the action of the deeency
of New York, and has gone to work and removed
Mr.. McKeon from his office, because he dared to
do ms he felt it to be his duty to do. Such an
act of executive interference, saVors oflthe Sc
cret police espionage Of Louis Napoleon and is
an alarming precedent to set up in a free coun-
try. Many years ago, when he Witt Clinton
wasa candidate for governor of New York, the
naval agent Of the federal government was sus-
piciOned for having endeavorcd to WELD the pa
tronagc ofthe government so as to terribly those.
in the employ of the Navy from voting against
Mr.. Clinton. So outrageous was this suspicioned
action Of the government held to be that Gov.
Clinton made it formally known to the legisla.
ture in his message, The legislature appointed
a committe to inquire into il, one of whom vas
Martin Van Buren. This committee while they
failed to procure sufficient evidence to prove
the interference Of the Federal government did
not hesitate to express their hearty excavation
of any such attempts-Ofany interference by the
authorities At Washington in the sacred rights
of the people of each state.
Isit not then. we ask all our tsadeFA, AN In
Sultt6 as aiLan outrage upon all our rights,
TO sec tho President OF the United States stoQp-
ing from his high office to play the despot over
the minds of his fellow citizens; to attempt to
intimidate with the miserable Cruinb Of office
an independent thOughty God forbid that ever
such a custom should obtain in our country.
If it does there is an end to the value of the cleo
tivc franchise. We believe. however. that such