Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-10-05

| NNS' t'i0 l'e0Ple Win whom the new
company must deal will, in all probability.
prefer TO transact their political business
| Win some hrm of longer standing and n
better reputation for candor and libernlity.
But TO be serious.
This combination ofopposite and hostile
parties, MOTTO, elect any manato the Prcsi-
dency, but ayowedly to dcfc:tt !in election
| Gy ne Peopte,is fHctious and daugcrous.-
On the face Oft, it proclaims ,lis,rust Of
the people, and desire TO withdraw the
great question from the body of the ma
ton and. refer il for decision Il, |, small
number ofnien-thc House of Represents
tlvesEall of whom, IN re- open to all Of the
appliances of political spectators. who
will have ample opportunities TO work
upon ,their; hopes and fears, their ambition
aud their interest," -a4s. .0 ~
II the traders succeed in defeating an
election by thespeople, it, is, more than
probable that in view, OF the present array
OF parties in Congress, the House of Rep.
resentntives will also fail to make an cleo.
ton, and then the Senate must choose ~
Vice President from the two highest on
the list voted for by the electors; and the.
person SO chosen will become President of
lne United States, and what sort of n
President? x Constitutional President.
admit, and, therefore, to be quietly sub
mltted to, but President that no citizen.
in voting for electors, ever thought of as
President, and yet the parties which bar
gam and contrive, and labor to COMPASS
this result, ell profess to be great friends
OF the people, aud firm believers in their
virtue and their capacity, to choose n.
PRESIDENT, in. the way of the Constitution,
wisely and we'll; still, they are doing their
worst, to take the election, in fact, from
the people and givelitt to the Senate. And
why give it to the Senate just now? Be-
cause Just s!Otc tue Democratic party is in n
sinking condition, and already below the
hope of electing a President by popular
vote. But if this new scheme can be
made to work successfully, then, the SEN
ate (Which unfortunately has still Demo-
cratic majority may force upon the coun-
try Democratic President in spite of the
people.
Thus it seems to me plain, whatever
mask this intrigue may assume before the
public, that the real design of it, and the
probable effect of its success, will be to re-.
establish the now broken and defeated
Democratic party, and make it stronger
than ever by the absorption of most if not
all tile elements of tue new coalition. It
is easy to understand the Democratic pnr-
ty, for its history is before the world; and
its present division into factions, ostcnsibly
upon particular principle, but really up-
on particular men, has not changed its
doctrines, or improved its character But
1t is not SO easy TO understand the Consti-
tutionnl Union party, because it is Il new.
party, without any history and without
any pledge, in case of its success, to sup
port any particular line of governmental
p9l.ey. It contains rRPie "56r 5PTnS%a:nx nSanx ex-
SSfnHEDs2Epa SSfnHEDs2Epa MIA rGSb biSScted, but as a party it
leaves itself by design perfectly free to do
whatsoever it pleNscs, and unite with
whomsoever it plGases, when it comes into
power.
Itpledges itself 10 nothing, but to the
support of the Union, the Constitution and
the laws, and that, every honest citizen of
every party, knows to be- common duty
Every President, of whatever party, must
begin his official life by swearing that he
will "preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States" and
that Constitution makes it his especial du-
ty to "takc care that the laws be faithfully
executed" As npnrty then there is moth
ing to distinguish them from any other
party.
Once in power, it may carry out the
views of policy entertained by the ''hot-
test Democrat of the South, or "blackcst"
Republican of tue North, free from any
charge of inconsistency or breach of
plighted faith. Any party, think, in or
der to grow in strength and to become
useful to the country, must needs have
some distinguishing characteristic of its
own. Without some such nucleus of at
traction and bond Of union, no party can
long survive.
And in this instance, the process of dis
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