Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-07-27
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The Logic OF Ex-Gov. Humps Albany

Gents. lit seems from Ex-Gov. Hunts
Albany speech, that somebody has been
looking into his record, and tryinr tn
place MN IN Il false position, which is verv
naughty, to say the least of it. But the
Governor is determined that he will not bc
placed IN sectional position before the
country, 1y seeming to give countcnance
10 Lincoln. Douglas, he thinks, is dis
t"stef"l, 1t is true, on account Of his par
uclpancy IN the repeal of the Missouri
compromise. But his Anti-Lecompton
nsht n"s fully regcnerated him from ull
tl"t SIN, and Douglas is now fit man for
the ''Cnion party OF New York to vote
for.
lie says Fremont got less than one-third
OF the popular vote in '5G-Lincoln will
not get more this year. He deprecatcs
Tue luea ol electing man by less than Il
majority OF the popular vote; therefore he
goes LOT Douglas, to throw the election
into IN the House. If it goes into the
House Bell has one vote-Douglas one.
ihlrty-one votes are against them, Will
thc Democratic votes OF Breckinridge
come to Bell? 1t is q strong supposition
10 suppose they will. Will they 90 to
Douglas? That is just as insupposable
Eut Will the Bell and Douglas vote unite
IN electlng Brecllinridge? This is anoth-
H. N
posed to Lincoln now, unite Men in elect
ing him. | think not. come to these
conclusions from the simple fact that nil
the Southern Sectional Breckinridge De-
mocrhcy has to do, is to hold on and pre-
vent an election of anybody until the 18th
oil March, 1860. Then the game is PLAYED
out-the Senate will simply elect joscph
Lane President of the United States: if
Breckinridgc and Lane get any electoral
votes to carry them there.
But Gov. Hunt deplores the election of
a President by the people who receives
less than majority of the popular vote,
because that looks sectional. Yet it is
certain that Breckenridge and Lane will
get less number of popular votes than
any candidates now before the people
Are we to understand Governor HINT that
an election by the Senate strips it of sec
uonalism or is a Southern section better
than Northern section.
II Gov. Hunt is determined TO turn the
Bell and Everett party into 81 nose of wax
to serve the beheSts of jobbing politicians,
TO secure the election of particular favor
ties, let him say so. The idea was first
started that the Bell and Everett men were
an "aid society" to the Democracy. But
after the'diviSion ut Baltimore it was evil
dent the Democracy instead of one "aid
society had formed two for Lincoln. But
the Governor seems bound to carry out
the first idea that he will not let the De-
defeat themselves. Oh no. they
are SO national, especially the Ynncey
wing, that all the Bell men in the North
must unite with Douglas to defeat Lincoln
there, that Lane may be President not
this bright idea. Yet it is the legitimate
sitiou. ANY mHrrA af.Goy. Hunts propo-
publicly for politics. tn make
shows its impropriety. The only true
Democratic mode of making President is
for a man to vote for the electors who
represent his sentiments, and if majority
of such electors are elected according to
the Constitution of the United States let
them elect their President, and there is the
end of it. But all attempts to get the
people to enter into unholy combinations
to do one thing to prevent another that
n third, more to be deprecated than the
second, may happen, ought to meeta prompt
reputation by all the people of every
party, unless politics is mere game to be
played at as gamblers play at cards to
make money. All who view politics in
this light are welcome to play as they
please. Yours, &c,
+. II. PEIRPoINT.
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