Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-08-02

Why II Is mat the leadIng Bell ana
Everett men ara at work SO bitterly against
Lincoln and the Republicans is singular
and unnatural enough. They profess TO be
Just as tired Of al kinds of Democracy as
the Republicans, and yet We find them
entering into all sorts OF alliances and
combinations With every body aud every
party, as against Lincoln. There seems 70
be q total abandonment Of anything like
principle. In New York they have no
serupies about contemplating arrangements
for giving all their votes to Douglas. IL
Georgia they work With the Douglas men
and divide the spOils, if there are auy. In
New Jersey they strike hands with the
Breckenridge men. In every case they
cooperate with the men who repeal
ed the Missouri compromise, and food.
ed the land with thar dsluge of evils
which the Union men profess to deplore
with the deepest sincerity. No orators in
the country have set forth more eloqueutly
than some of their speakers the folly and
The wrong of M. Douglas in proposing his
Kansas-Nebraska measures, and of the
Democracy in advocating and adopting
them. And now ne find tie very men
who have mourned SO dolorousiy over the
agitation that the action OF the Democrats
caused, hasteningto work with both wings
of the Democracy. Neither Breckenridge,
with his kind Of non-interventiou, nor
Douglas, with his Kind, is repulsive to them
now. For the present they come
under the political blanket With either.
The effect Of ali ,his is natural enough
tits alternating hundreds of siucere Opposi-
tionists, both at the North and at the South
AS WAS shown in the letter which wc re-
printed from the Baltimore Patriot-and is
hurrytug them over to the ranks of Lincoln
and Hamlin. In Delaware and Maryland,
and, indeed, an all the border slave States,
as well as in the North, the same sort Of
feeling is rising between the two branches
NJ tho opposition. as already exists be-
tween the two branches of the Democracy.
and there is apparently to be very little
more sympathy or cooperation between
them than there is between the Breckenridge
men and the Douglas men. Why this
unnatural feeling should exist, ia as we
said, mysterious enough 1t is one sided
in its origin entirely. Such has not been
the feeling of the Republicans toward the
Bell and Everett men. Indeed, so far
from anything like it being the case, we
have reason to know that both in this
State aud in other southern States, tue
idea of a joint electoral ticket, or rather
the Bell electoral ticket, headed With the
names of Lincoln and HamIin has been ia
VOrably canVassed, and would be read
lily entered into by the Republicans if
there was yshOw of compromise, sympa-
thy or utilization on the part of the lead
ing Bell and Everett men. But the Bell
and Everett men-we mean the pub
lie leaders-are apparently aVerSe to
such corporation. The Richmond Wig
declares it to be primary object TO
defeat Lincoln, and rather than to let
him be elected, any arrangement should
be entered into. And on the strength of
such Recommendation, the game of "catch
as catchscau" is being played in the North
and South. We have Breckenridge and
Bell in Alabama; Douglas and Bell in
Georgia; Breckinridgc and Bell in New
Jersey, and Douglas and Bell in New York.
Now, is not the course Of these leaders
most singular indeed. Is it not somewhat
striking that the party which is so trou-
bled about the pcriIs OF agitation is so
ready to pursue course of action which,
ii successful in any considerable degree,
must throw the election into the House.
Every thoughtful man must deem it a mis-
fortune to have the choice of our chief
magistrate deYolyo upon House consti-
tutcd like the present one. We would not
borrow the silly phrase which our OPP
Poncnts are 40 ready to nse on every
occasion, TINT the result would be fatal TO
our Union. But the House is so nearly
divided between the opposing political
parties, that the balance of power is held
by a few persons: and the temptation to
bribery, corruption, and consequent vio-
lence would be very great. The people
could not have shat ready acquiescence in
the decision Of the House which they
would give to the manifest will of tho
voters of the whole country. We know
very we'll that their answer to all this will
be, that the evil complained of ia less to
be dreaded than the election of Lincoln.
We leave sensible meuito Judge whether
that is true. The Republicans do not
mean at any rate that the country shall
undergo the excitement which would arise
from entrusting the House with the choice
of our next President. They intend TO
settle the matter at the polls.