Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-08-16
tFrom the Philadelphia North American. !
What there is to Do.

In the heat of disputation about other
matters, many have come to believe that
this government will not readily return TO
the consideration of great questions n fec
ting the business of the country, and that
issues involving feeling rather than f.
nance, and what nre declared to bN rights
rather than interests, will hereafter censti-
tutc tue dividing lines of parties. We he
| licvc the contrary. We work for n condi-
ton quite the reverse of that involving
disputes about righ.s-rights in the per-
sonNl sense. Periods often occur in the
lives of nations in which fearful contests
over personal rights necessarily occur; but
we have pissed that state of transition.
and no longer have such battles to fight.
The seeming intractious of personal rights
the real infraction rather-which has
characterized the Kansas policy of the
present Administration, is paltry parti-
Znn abuse; Infamous, it is true, Int as
18rs ofe 1yed We drP aS P4TGtMzz9mShp be- There
special influence will give us perfect peace
again, and on this point we have not q
particle of doubt or hesitation. In put
ting the ascendant party ont of power, VIC
/ put an end to the abuses which constituted
temporary infraction of personal rights;
and, though great deal of soreness has
grown out of them, not n months full as
ccndNncy of power, welded for the public
good, will be required to dissipate all that
bitterness of feeling. II we anticipated
that condition of irritation like the
present would always prevail, it might be
necessary to concern ourselves seriously
about il; but we know by what acts and
Ngencies it was generated, and in reno
wing these causes, harmony as we'll as or
der will be restored.
Then it will be possible to inaugurate
the new era of attention to business. 1t
is high time the day for such attention had
come, and it is high time the business in
terests of the country received such attcn-
tion as they need. Until the wreck OF
the party which has prostrated these in
terests-in pursuance of policy such Ms
the letter of Sanders exposes-is removed,
it is impossible to do anything. No re-
form is possible within that party, and no
| legitimate or illegitimatc success of it can
reform anything. Thousands of its own
members assert, what tens of thousands
believe, that until defeat has thoroughly
purged the democratic party, it is utterly
good for nothing for business, or for any
thing above mere partizanship and jobbing
It is spoiled absolutely, and a new tone in
affairs can be inaugurated only by new
men and new regime altogether. III this
new regime which is coming, some fear
inspired persons can see nothing but con
tention; but VIC claim for it, as certainly
as it shall clear the ground of the rubbish
now abounding, a direct institution Of
peace afterwards. We claim that mon
competent to consider the business inter
csts of the country will then devote them
selves to their consideration. and that the
dishonOr of getting fifty millions in debt
in three years of peace will not only he
wiped out for the past, but be sufficiently
guarded against in future. The postal
service will cease to be an enormous drag
on the country, simply by the exercise o
administrative efficiency, instead of vast
ing everything on party service. The navy
will save something without losing strength
by cutting the barnacles from it, and tho
war department service will be made tC
get over year without spending ten mil
lions for carriage to Utah and hack. There
is not ~ department Of the public service
indeed, which is not suffering for the want
of vigorous and faithful management
aad in these matters of almost purely ex-
ecutive character there is opportunity for
a vast amount of labor.
The business interests ofthis country are
already vast, but i'll n quarter ofa century
theywill outrank those of any other natior
in the world, and almost equal those oi
united Europe. Are these things to be
cared for by such pitiful Administrations
MS we have now-by men of fminds SO mar
row as those that rule the Senate anC
Treasury in this our year of sorrow?-
They arc not; hut5the question is atWhot
time shall we shake off t5is incubus. The
pressure of huge fiat stone which has
lain on us tor a decade or so, would no
quite extinguish life if fit'should lie a little
longer. but nothing can grow under it,
men and cities sent on fools' errands in the
needless or rutnous carriage of wha
should be valuable mercbandise-thcse
are the fruits Of tile dead weight policy al,
ready The nnhlic have had enough o