Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-28
DAY MORNING. JUNE %. 1860.
From tho New York post.l
The Five Preeidential5 Candidates

from tho New York Post.l "a
The Five Presidential Candidates.
Mr.. Lincoln, the candidate Of the uni.
ted and enthusiastic Republican party
the only party IN the nation now that has
any consistency or vigor-will have to
run his race for the Presidency against
multitude of competitors. The Union
men have entered Mr.. Bell; the Know
Nothings, Sam Houston; the Squntter-
Sovereign Democrats, Stephen A. Dong
HAS; and the Southern Democrats, MIR.
tBreckinridgc. Thus, there will he no less
than four rivals nominated against him;
but nominated, it is important to observe,
from the ranks of those who would have
been likely to oppose him at any rate, and
not from those who could be counted npon
as his friends. The division will, there
fore assist rather than endangcr his run.
Mr.. Bell and Mr.. Houston, if they are
able to command any effective support,
must derive it mainly from the Southern
States, where Lincoln's hopes are not ac-
lively centered. A few men at the North
will follow the fortunes of the hero of
San Jacinto; and q fewer still will attach
themselves to the favorite OF Uthe old gem
tlemen," as they are called; but the great
body of the northern people will make
their choice between the other three con-
testants. Can we doubt as to what that
choice will he? Mr.. Lincoln is the sole
candidate of the Republican party; he is
not only nominally but generously sus-
tained by it, and he will control, in addi-
ton to its regular vote, a large number
of voters who have hitherto failed to
cast their votes for the Republicans
With his opponents hopclessly divided,
aud his supporters warmly working in his
behalf, it is scarcely possible that he can
be defeated before the people.
We are aware chat there is n prevalent
belief that the election will be ultimately
thrown into the House of Representatives,
where Democratic combination may be
formed for the election of either Bell or
Rreckinridgc. But, under the existing
auspices, we do not see how this is to be
effected. 1t was doubtful, before the
Democratic split at Charleston, whether
any single ticket that could be devised by
that party would he able to carry any
single northern State. Douglas, i: was
supposed, might make hard fight against
the Republicans in Pennsylvania and Endi-
ana, but it was also supposed that he
would in that event lose as many electoral
votes at the South as he might gain ut the
North. Bell would have easily carried off
from him sevcralof the middle, and perhaps
some of the southern States. Under the
most favorable circumstances, at any rate,
he could not have been chosen by the peo-
pie. The best result that he could have
achieved would have been to tranter the
election to the House. But now that the
Democratic forces are divided, now that ii
young and popular mar is put up by II
large division Of his own party, now that
its intestine broils have been infamed to
the pitch of open and bitter warfare, his
of success are diminished by near.
~ one-half.
That the division in the democratic
ranks will not be composed, is pretty evil
dent. 1t was predicted by sagacious poll
ticians, even long before the assembling of
the Charleston Convention, that no harmo-
its nricnsl cfoas fSIa Mas rG64feheah 81 ah,u M9s os
to be removed Mr. Douglas WAS not ouly
personally offensive to II minority of the
southern politicians, hut lie was offensive
bv means of his nvowed political cOnvic-
tIons. Not only had he boltcd from his
party on a question deemed OF vital lm-
port, coalcscing the meanwhile with its
opponents, but he had triumphed i'll his
revolt aud tauutcd his former coadjTtors
with the greatness of that triumph. lie
had rcbukcd the sentiment of the South IN
its most delicate point, and appealed TO the
nation to sustain MN rs wei III tue reouNc
as in the revolt. The South could never
forgive him; though he tried to win it
back by the buse concessions of his
Completely bill, the estrangementhad gone
too far to be checked. At the same time,
Douglas was the only hope of the politi-
clans of the North, who knew that they
could do nothing Mt home without him,
and who determined upon his nomination
ut all hazards. The impotcnt efforts to
effect reconciliation at Charleston, and
the grand explosion at Baltimore, show
the depth and inveteracy of the quarrel
The same motives Of hostility, however,
which have led to the rupture are still in
force, and must operate to prevent any
effective future reunion. Mr.. Breckin-
ridge, the rival of Douglas, is not strong
man, but he will prove strong candidate
rs against him. He is not brilItnnt in
intellect, nor of much experience rs a
statesman; hut he bears good name, has
many popular qualities, and is open to
none Of the objections that have grown
out of the past disputes of his party.
OxEoP THE ProNEERs.-A person who
has been travelling in the Southwest for