Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-03
. Our Next President.
Prom the New York Tribuno.I

On Tuesday, Nov 8, 1864, the People
of this country will vote for the Electors
who are to choose President and Vice
President Of the United States, to serve
for four years from the 4th of March,
1865, when the present term of Messrs.
Lincoln and Hamlin will expire That
an election will be held, according to the
requirements of the Federal Constitution
and laws, and that the President and
Vice-President thus chosen will serve
throughout the term for which they are
elected, is as morally certain as anything
yet future can be- He who talks of the
next Presidential Election being carried
or precluded by the bayOnet does grossly
disparage and calumniate the American
People.
But before electing another President,
the great majority are naturally and prop
erly anxious to decide the Previous Ques-
tiOn-this, namely, that an election shall
be binding on those who are outvOted in
it as we'll as those who succeed. Until
this point is settled, elections wear a fan
tastical (nOt to say farcicaD aspect. If the
President elect is to take and keep his
Office by virtue of the bayOnet, voting
soon becomes dreary absurdity; for, il
the bayOnet is ultimately to choose the
President, the preliminary ballot might as
well be dispensed with.
We trust the Rebellion is soon to re-
ceiVe few more such blows as were
dealt it at Gettysburg and Vicksburg-a
very few more such, we trust, will suffice.
Then 1e shall be ready to discuss with
our fellow-citizens the pTOPriety of 81
porting A. B, or G for next President, and
weighing the relative merits of this and
that aspirant: but until then we trust the
whole subject will be quietly ignored by
all earnest patriots. We cannot now
guess who ought to be supported for our
next President by those battling shoulder
to shoulder for the National life-we can
not fOresee a time when it will be proper
for them to compare notes on this subject
But If, ON the 9Th day of next July, the
Rebellion shall not be crushed, as we
fondly hope twill, then let the People
In their patriotic festivities indicate their
preferences respectively; and let these be
cOllated and their bearing determined.
Let delegates be chosen in that mouth to
q National Convention, if that gigantic
evil cannot somehow be avoided; let that
Convention meet early in August, select
suitable candidates, and let them in due
time be elected. But until the 4th of July
next n41esS Tue 1SeDeAll0u SuOutu mean
time be suppressed, let all President-ma-
king be scrupulOusly left to those who
would increase our internal distractions
and infame our party contentious in order
to give aid and comfort to the COnfeder-
ate traitors It will be high time to
plunge into Presidential contest on the
back of our National commissions, when It
is settled that this Is indispensable. Mean
1Rk
eminent civilian or successful General is
Intriguing for the Presidency, set it down
as calumnY. Idlers, babbIers and self
seekers of low, degree may inaugurate
Presidential intrigues in order to amuse
their leisure or increase their consequence;
but those who are from day to day para
ded as seeking the post are often if not
always innocent of even aspiring to it
Let us unite in the resolve to save the Ma
ton first, il possible, and make the next
President afTerWard.