Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-25

THE telegraph this morning informs US
that ut the Festivul-of the New. England
Society, 10 NeR YoEt, on last Saturday
might, Senator Seward made aispeeeh, in
Witch he predicted that with go days
onr political troubles would all be settled.
and the country would be NJ quiet
A dispatch from Petersburg this morn
ing says that.a secession pole was put up
In that city on Saturday, and sawed down
ON Sunday night. The people who put it
up we're furious in consequence, and u
!. collision With those opposed to them was
feared. We are no advocates for cutting
down poles, as everybody knows, but if
Z ever there vas kind in which it is justi
fable It Is in such emblems of treason.
AVrRr esteemed correspondent in our
paper to-day calls upon Mr.. Lincoln to
come out either In speech or a letter or
in sOme public way and give the country
/. an assurance as to what the policy of his
administration issg6lng to be. Our friend
thinks that something of this sort would do
coed and would the more effectnnlly rally
and concentrate the Union sentiment of
the country into one solid nucleus. Per-
haps il would. We are not prepared to
differ with onr correspondent to the ex-
tent Of saying no. But there is some
thing involved in this thing, which, al
though perhaps of secondary importance
20 time like this, when everything that
can be done should be done, that is wor-
thy Of remark 1t is this: No man WAS
ever elected TO the Presidency with a
record more entirely conservative than
Abraham Lincoln. And the beauty and
strength of il is that it was laid plank
, by plank, and item by item, without any
reference or even expectation that he
would ever be candidate for the Presi-
sdency. As far back, Sc 1886, in the very
same year that Mr. Everett recommended
the Immediate and unconditional abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia,
Mr.. Lincoln, then member of the Illinois
Legislature, in company and alone with
Ira Stout, dissented from his fellow legis-
lators who had made exactly the same re-
commentator that Mr.. Everett had. Andto
thus day the protest of Aessrs. Lincoln and
Stout appears written ont at large on the
journal Of the Illinois House of Represen-
tatiSes. And ten years thereafter, in s46,
Mr. Lincoln in Congress, when this sub
ject was up again, reported adversely to
the proposition. His report embraces
ov,aCtRrot;ooss ,,,nr;,,.. th.o,,O.l, g.. =. -.
clauses. He objected to the abolition of
slavery in the District, without, first, the
consent OF the States of Maryland and
Yirgtnia; and second, without the consent
of the qualified voters of the District of
Columbia. In other words he took exact
~ the same grounds which he took in
1886, in the Legislature OF his State. Aud
all of his record is just like this. He
never said sectional thing, but of all
men who ever came before tue American
people, his sentiments, from first to last,
are.consistently upright, national and pa
triotic. Who ever answered questions
more frankly and more satisfactorily to tie
lRtapS4 of the country than did Mr..
Einse 81. Douglas at Freeport, Illinois,
ssins1 epRtor Benjamin, of Louisiana,
nexpectedIy pleased with them,
lAended Mr.. Lincoln for them in
beech last session, in the Senate
I'D now the question is, what morecouId
% lincoln y-if were to write fifty let
eeFs or make fifty speeches? This is a
{ question worthy the consideration of onr
friend We are notaware that any persons
who have read the various newspapers, are
ignorant of these records of Mr.. Lincoln.
There is no trouble, in our opinion, about
Mr.. Lincoln, at all. Heis known to be con-
servative. Hisenemies who read, know him
to be such. Aud that as much as anything
else aggrayates them. Mr.. Pryor when he
was out here, said to some gentlemen up
at Wellsburg, that the fear was that Mr.
Lincoln would populnrize his party in the
South. We believe Mr.. Pryor in this
That is just exactly his fear, no doubt,
because he knows that if his fear is real
ized, his occupation is gone, sure The
ulttas are afraid that Mr.. Lincoln will
prove to be, just what they have said he
IS not. Their case lie like that OF
Sir Joseph Banks, who affirmed that flea.
were species of Holsters, aud proceeded
chemically to analyze them, and prove
the truth of what he said. AMER working
aznong his retprss, and bringing his agents
aad-re-agents5to bear on the insects for a
long while, he at Last, in fit of passion
threw up his speeks and slapped over his
gallipots aud muttered out, "Aeas are not
Holsters. damn their eyes" And so it is
with these ultraists. They have searched