Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-13


Americans and Republicans, always adbering
%'th the principles of the last party, with whom
nc coalesced. He is certainly very comprc-
henslve politician; and skillful in action without
extraordinary ability. He is adroit an,i knows
''4o to use and the time to move He is an
a'"iaole and rather generous man; indeed, his
means, 1t is said, have suffered some little re-
duction from his generosity TO some of the
pennsylvania legislators! lie is said, however
TO be rich and very intlefatieablc and Jealous
politician. lie proposes himself for the next
PRESIDENT, but how fa; this preference will be
endorsed, by the opposition, it does not require
Enliadeiphla lawyer to determine
Hon. Nathaniel Prentiss Banks is a man of
more thought, more philosophy, more genius
tnan m'nc-tcnths of the public men Of the pres
ent day. His early advantages were limited to
Il common school education. He served III a
cotton factory in Waltham, Mass, in which his
Iather was the ovcrscer, and afterwards learned
Tue trade OF machinest. Mr. Banks aspirations
were lar above that position and being attracted
ny dramatic representations he was soon offered
Tue profession OF an actor. Politics, however
more successfully captivatel him, and he turned
ms attention to lecturing, and in editing the
village newspaper. He first held office in the
boSton Custom House, to which he was ap-
pointed as democrat, under the administration
of President Polk.
In 1919, he was elected to the House of Rep
reScntatlves in Massachusetts aud entered the
roll as 'macEiniSt" The next wear he en-
tered the profession Of law. In 1851 he was
chosen speaker by the union of the democrats
| and Tree soilcrS and thus ovc1threw the Whir
power In Massachusetts. He was President or
thc Convention to revise the Constitution of
that State, and in '52 was elected to Congress-
was i'll this his first Congressional term that
ne ahJured the democratic party He voted for
taking up the Kansas Nebraska bill, bu opposed
ard voted against its passage. In 1854, he was
re elected to Congress, by AID Of the Republican
aud american votes; and made Speaker OF
the House after contest of two months in
which over one hundred ballots were cast His
election vas the result OF a plurality vote, as
the standing rule Of the House reuuired Al
the close o! the term he received a vote Of
thanks Tor his distinguished abilities MS a pre-.
siding officer. While a member of the sue
ceedIns Congress, hc was nominated by scpar-
ate Conventions OF Americans and Repnblitans
for Governor of Massachusetts, to which Office
he was elected III November, 1851 Gov Banks
has eylhccd in every deliberate assembly, high
qualifications as presiding officer. He is too
out Il young man, not over AZ years. He has
extraordinary familiarity with parliamentary
!aW-ls prompt IN, decision and readiness to act
Ills speeches in SO, in behalf of the RGpubli-
can nominee, we're more effective than those OF
any public man in the country; and beyond all
question he is to-day, the strongest Republican
i'll the free States
The constitutional amendment in Massachu.
settS, ratified by Gov. Banks which keeps the
adopted citizen from the right of suffrage for
two yours after tho clny=tsf his atIralizafion il
has been supposed might iniurc him with the
German population, which constitute large
portion OF the Republican vote in the North
west, and some of the leading Republican
presses counsecd against it, But, he will 20
INTO the Convention with all the New England
States, and fany one could secure the nomina-
ton for the first Office, he would undoubtedly
be most likely, because most available But
MIR. Banks stands on a Northern sectional plat
form How do we know? There is his record
we have demonstrated as we think, lin Il pre-
Vi0us letter., that no man under the Heavens
can be elected to the Presidency who is found
there lie would drive off all the conservative
elements of the opposition, and bring n third
party INTO the field. parcly Northern organ
iZati0n upon the exclusion Of Slavery from
every Territory, and IFS extinction from every
Slave State in the Uniun, cannot possibly
triumph at the next election. This must bilc
its time
The Republicans CANT never elect any man
without the aid of the other wing Of the oppo-
Sllon There are now four Southern States of
This Union, with dcmonstrabsc majorities against
the Democratic party, who are anxious to unite
with the organized opposition Of the North
Shall they enter? What we need is some ma
tlonat man to redeem the country 4 man who
through good report and through evil report has
cried alone" against Locofocot tyranny and mis-.
rule, and 'Spared not" With such man
every cement of the opposition should be
willing to unite, and thus lead our hosts to vic
tory IIAScocK.
n. Y. City, July Gth 1859.
2. S.-Our next will refer to Hon. John j.
Crittcndcn, Of Kentucky, and Hon. John Bell,
Of Tennessee.