Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-09

Legislative representatives, magistrates, 9TH
ers, and it shall not be our fault if they do not
have laid before them both the law and the facts
relating TO this subscription to the stock of the
Hemp6ed rnilroad company.
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON, of Pennsylvania,
is busy at work preparing the way for sue
cessful competition for the candidacy of the Re.
publican party for President Cameron is a
mighty worker and in the business of laying
the plans, adjusting the ropes and grcasing
up the machinery Of the party politics, he
has few, if any equals, in the country
We never thought Cameron was one of the
greatest Of American Statesmen;-in the abili-
ties that constitute the real Statesman, Seward
is more than his compeer,-he is undoubtedly
his superior. But the Pennsylvania Senator is,
as we have said, an end!essa and untiring worker
He never for a moment ceases working, and
when he does work, it is with an unconquera-
Bile WILL He is, therefore, one of the very
worst kind of competitors to encounter.
Day by day, the papers through his native
State are coming cut openly in his support
We notice that the Pittsburgh Gazette, which
has for some time been rather wary on the sub
ject Of the next candidacy, has at last come out
fully and fairly in favor of Cameron. a good
many of the conventions of various counties
have also expressed their decided preference for
him over any other that can be brought into the
field. Cameron being man of very popular
manners, Ohough by no means what is called
popular spcaker,) has also won over to him
vast mass Of the rank and file of the party, and
these are all loud and cIamorous in advocacy of
his claims.
But whilst this is true in his own State, very
little Of general movement in his favor has
yet been made. Outside of the keystone State,
Cameron has but few open advocates, whilst
Fremont Mclean and Seward have their hosts,
Again: it has long been n standing maxim of
political success, that us Pennsylvania goes, so
goes the Union. This cry has year by year
grown to be more significant, from the fact that
the history of past political conflicts has verified
its truth. And never at any former time has it
seemed to be of fuller meaning than ut the
present. We verify do think that as Pennsyl.
vania goes in the next contest, so will go the
Presidential election. 1t is therefore Of vast
importance that the candidate which the Re-
publicans shall bring into the field be one that
will certainly carry that State. This will be
an all-inf1uencing consideration in the next
National Convention. The friends of Cameron
will therefore come into the Convention claiming
'''"s H. lap the pest CnanUes &C sweeplng the
State, and upon this grounds they will ask his
nomination. No doubt this argument will have
good deal of force, especially If the Republi-
cans of his State are at all unanimous in his
support. The policy of combining his present
efforts to his own State became thus quite evil
dent. tits necessary that such a force from the
very seat of the decisive grounds Of the battle
come up to the Convention as will persuade
them of the certainty of his triumph IN the
FINAL event.
We have thus simply sketched out our own
opinion as to what Senator Camcron's tactics
are Whether they will prove successful in
the end, is another question. The past history
OF the man shows that whatever "Simon wib-
bie-wabbles" he is pretty sure to turn up,
but how it maybe in this case, we cannot pre-
| tend TO predict. We would rather say, after
all, that Cameron will not be the nominee of the
Republican party in 1860. Six months after
this we can make better conjcctures.
IT would seem, from the accounts from vari-
GUS parts of Italy, that agitation is universal
and determined. The Pope is making war upon
his revolted provinces, the King of Naples gives
no sign ofjoinins the Italian Confederation, and,
in fact, it is quite certain that he will not
The people of Tuscany have resolved, as one
man, not to receive the Grand Duke back again.
and it is understood that the Emperor of the
French has declared that his troops will not be
engaged in enforcing his return. Piednon. is
in dubious state. The conduct OF the King is