Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-04-19
The preuIdentiaI QnestIon-sewnrd and
Blair ms Ihe Republicans Nominees.
Lcnrr..nnndence of the New YoEk Time
LOUISVILLE, Ky, Friday, April s, u


LOUISVILLE KY, Friday, April s, 1859.
As you have well remarked in the course OF
vour sagacious observations on the prospects OF
the several talked-of candidates for the next
Presidency, it seems manifest that the prospects
of Senator Seward for the Republican nomina-
ton are Frightening every day. II we are not
to hnve-as trust we shall haye-a united
Opposition throughout the land under the lead
of a man like John Bell, and if the organization,
prestige and ascendancy Of the Republican
Party are to be maintained in all or most OF the
Free States another year, we may look for its
nomination of VIM. II. Seward for the Presiden-
cy and Francis P. Blair, of Missouri, for the
Vice Presidency of the United States.
Such n ticket Especially if Judge Douglas
shalt take the back track which leads to Charles
toni might carry every Free State east of the
Rocky Mountains, including even Indiana and
Illinois. 1t might command large, important
and significant vote in Missouri, and enlist, per-
haps, not few names in Maryland and Della
ware, Virginia and Kentucky. Its success,
with or without some support from citizens of
the Slave States, would, should hope, be any.
how acquiesced in by such number of intiu-
entail men among them as to thwart aud foil
any attempt to resist the installnent or prevent
fair trial of the Republican candidates consti.
tutionnlly elected, be they Seward and Blair, or
any two else
The general course of Senator Seward
through both sessions of the last Congress may
well be regarded as unexceptiOnable and states.
manlike as that Of any other of his fellow lnem-
hers, saving the venerable Crittenden, and the
universally esteemed and always national John
Bell. Mr.. Seward has acted, in very remark
able and creditable manner, with an eye to the
interests and the welfare o. his whole country.
de now has high claims to the respectful con-
sideration of his countTymen everywhere. The
records of the Senate of the United States, and
his recognized weight in all the counSels and
7 - II. -
| is no longer the bugbear in the South it used to
be. Denagogues here wellknowit Governor
Stewards Administration would be momentous
and eventful indeed-an epoch in the history OF
this nation. That, however, at the same time
it would be more discreet, wise and comprehen-
sive in its character and less sectional and dis
organizing in its aim and tendency than the
| Administration of some of his predecessors
those who have most studied his career, and
best know the man, do most firmly believe and
| the most readily declare.
| Mr.. Blair's name would doubtless contribute
much to the availability of the Seward ticket
Many sold liners" might vote for it with Blair
on it, who otherwise might not lie is young
| talented, energetic, spirited and progressive
His opposition to the extension of Slavery and
to its perpetuation anywhere, is well known. :
| On the strength of this opposition of his, (if
mistake not,) he was elected to the last Con
gress from the ST. Louis District, and, by right
Is member elect OF the new Congress lie Is
like Henry Clay always was for gradual Eman
cipation and Colonization hand-in-h hand, 2'1r
pdSsu, and inseparable His views are
moderate and sensible. They arc already quite
popular in Missouri, and are gaining ground
there and elsewhere every day. In my Opin
lion, the popular aversion in the Slaveholding
State to a Republican Ticket for 1860 on &C
count of its understood sectional aspect ant
bearing, would be greatly lessened by having
/ on il for Vice President the of Francis p
Blair.