Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-11-05

ton to which she has elected him.
TaE elections in New York, Massachu.
sstts, Illinois, Maryland, and wherever else
elections were held on Tuesday last, have
gone SO far as heard from, (save in New
Jerseyl like their predecessors in Maine,
California, Iowa, Indiana, Pennsylvania
and Ohio-all for the unconditional Union
ticket. Copperheadism, in all its v"rities,
has been repudiated. The people say, 1--WE
will not be misled-we will not he entrap-
ped-we will not be turned aside by minor
issues-our absorbing intention and desire
is to save our nationRlity-to preserve the
Republic unbroken."
Who have said and done all this? Nc, one
party-no Republicans, Democrats. Wings
or other partisaus-but millions upon mil
lions of men of all kinds of antecedents.
Tho triumph is national in the pnrest and
best sense of the word. The spirit OF the
people is iudomitable. Despite taxes and
the great mountain of debt that is Piiing
up-despite their disgust at mal-adminis-
tration and corruption by thousand petty
officers connected with the civil and mill
tary service-despite the shock given to
all their old prejudices on the slavery ques-
tion-they have nobly rallied to the saliva
ton of the Government, forgetful of all
else save the certain danger OF dismember-
ment-natioual downfall-nolitical, social
and personal ruin.
,s,t,, ia iVUaalF CHAT
would have been the condition of things
to-day had the Copperheads, and not the
Union men, carried these elections We
address this question seriously, now that
the elections are over, to defeated symP'-
thizers themselves. Suppose that Ohio
had elected vallandigham by n round hum
dred thousand majority, as she has Brough,
and Pennsylvania had elected Woodward
instead of Curtin, and New York had gone
for the ticket of the Woods and Seymour
and Maryland had elected May instead OF
Henry Winter Davis-and some chum of
Marshal Kane's instead of Edwin H. Web
ster-what would now be our feeling
our exPectatiOus-our apprehensIons about
the war? 1t is useless to disguise this
view of the matter: to say that all, or any,
thing, would have been well with us: that
sixteen million OF Five.twenty bonds would
heuceforth be taken by the people in one
day, as they were on Saturday last, or thir
ty.six millions in one week, a. WAS the case
last week.
No! Five twenty bonds would not have
been in demand. That foreign house in
New York would not have wanted mil
lion. Why should they? What would
have been the prospect. Remember the
words of the rebel Maury to the London
Times, about what VaIlandigham was
pledged TO do-'to array the state (Ohio)
against Lincoln and the war, and go for
peace" What other thing could Yallau.
digham have done He has never yet voted
a man or a dollar for the war; he has de-
nounced it in ell its length and breadth /;
he has said that States were responsible
only to God aud to history for such thing
as secession. What could he do-whAt,
necessarily, must such a mau have done
had he been elected?
Strong men aud brave men, too, feel
themse Ives nervous after a great danger
has been narrowly escaped. None OF Us
perhaps not a single one of us-realizs the
magnitude of the danger we have escaped
by the defeat Of that roh-copperhead.-
whatever vallsndigham might have at
tempted, and we all know he is a dare.
deviI-in Ohio, must per.fOrce have been
continued and followed by Woodward in
Pennsylvania, and by the riot-patrOnizer