Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-07-31

have since understood that there Is a
probability that it will reach 300, at any
rate, that it will far exceed so. Why
these remarkable changes? There must
be some cause, and eau only attribute
| it to the violence and incorporate zeal of
some of those who are professedly acting
with us, but who are in reality the allies
of the Democratic party, if not actually
nothing but spies in our camp, and the
stipendiaries of the Democracy. There
are thousands in our good old Common
wealth who will never affiliate with either
wing of the Democracy, but who will cast
their votes for Bell and Everett successful
or unsuccessful. II is now very evident,
nuy it is beyond a.doubt, that Mcssrs.
Hunt and Brooks are endeavoring to sell
out in New York, and the proceedings at
Trenton, New Jersey, on the 25th inst,
must cause the bosom of every old Clay
Wing and American, in Maryland, to swell
with indignation. Never in the history
of political parties was there such bald
bargaining and corruption. Such pro-
cedure thirty years ago, would have caused
such a commotion as to ruin politically all
who engaged in so disreputable project.
After the above statement, the writer
goes on to quote at length from the Rich
mond Wig as to recommendations and
expediences which that paper offers to
those who desire to vote so as to defeat
Lincoln in the North, and it is to recon-
mcndations like them that the writer at
tributes the "disintegration" of his party
and the disgust with which many of them
have turned from Bell and Everett, in
Maryland, over to Breckenridge or to Lin
coin and Hamlin. He quotes the follow
ing, for instance, from the Wing, and gives
it his most emphatic condemnation:
"Our primary object is the defeat of the
sectional Republican candidate. Every
other consideration should be secondary
to that. AS practical men, we should aim
to achieve the greatest good to the coun-
try, and where that is not attAinable, we
should aim at the second best thing. We
should strive to carry for Bell every State
that we have reasonable prospect of car
rying; but where that cannot be done, 10e
should throtO our aveiqht in the scale for
Douglas. as the most national and least
objectionable of the other candidates. By
this interchange of support between the
friends of Douglas and Bell, Lincoln can
easily be defeated, aud the election carried
into the House, where the choice must fall
on Bell or Douglas. Wherever we are the
strongest, as in the Southern States, Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and
New Jersey, the Douglas men should come TO
our aid. Whilst in Maine, New Hampshire,
New York, Michigan, Illinois Indiana,
Ohio, and the other Northwestern States,
our freight should be Arown in the scale OF
Douglas. In regard to Pennsylvania, it
! may doubtful which is the strongest. Bell
or Douglas. Such being the case, it would
be fair to make a division of the Electoral
ticket, and thus insure the defeat of Lin
coin"
AS commentary on the above quota
totion from the Wing, the correspondent OF
the Patriot remarks
AS a Wing and American, can have no
part in any arrangement so dishonorable,
and speak the sentiments of hundreds in
old Cecil. We shall vote for Bell and
Everett, unless we find that our party in
Maryland is to be used,by the Democratic
monkey to pull the chesnuts out of the
fire, and when this becomes little more
apparent, we shall then cast our votes so
as to defeat the Democracy.