Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-09-10
The night Man in the Rlght place
From the New York Times.

The Presidents letter to the Springfield
Convention receives the unqualified admi
ration of loyal men throughout the breadth
of the land. Various as have been their
sentiments on some of the topics, it is yet
their universal testimony that nothing
could have been more true or more apt
Its hard sense, its sharp outlines, its noble
temper, defy malice. Even the Copper
head knaws upon it as vainly as did the
viper upon the file.
Men talk about a courtly felicity of
speech, and term itarare accomplishment.
So indeed it is. Nothing but high culture
and the most patient practice confers it,
Here is a felicity of speech far surprising
it, yet decided uncourtly. The most con-
summate rhetOcician never used language
more patio the purpose; and still there is
not word in the letter not familiar to the
plainest plowman. But what is still better
than even felicity of expression, is felicity
of thought. Not only the Presidents Ian.
guage is the aptest expression of his ideas,
but there is a similar fitness OF his ideas
to the occasion. He has singular facul-
ty of discovering the real relations Of
things, and shaping his thoughts strictly
upon them, without external bias. In his
own independent, and perhaps we might
say very peculiar way, he Invariably gets
ut the needed truth of the time. When he
writes, it is always said that "he hits the
nail upon the head" and he does; but the
beauty of it is that the nail which he HIS
is sure to be the very nail of all Others
which needs driving.
Nothing could have been better adapted
to the exigencies of the time, in argument,
in expostulation, in warning, and in gem
eral tone than President Litcoln's Inaugu-
raj and yet it would be hard to conceive
a more difficult or more delicate position
than he then occupied. Bat this peculiar
appositeuess is just as manifest in his less
formal productions. Everybody was struck
by the remarkable appreciation and force
with which he urged Gen. Mcclellan to
more active military movements in the in
terVal between the battle of Antietam and
that Generals final removal. Yet these
letters were not meant for the public eve
at all, and never would have seen the light
but for the report of the Congressional
Committee on the conduct of the war. So
too his letter to Mr.. Greeley, odd as it
seemed at hFst blush, was, as everybody
now admits, perfectly adapted to that stare
OF the war. His letter to the intercessors
for MIR. Yallandigham utterly annihilated
the case they thought they had made so
strong and yet 1t was done in so genial
way that the victims themselves felt like
joining in the general applause. There
was the same unpretentious and yet ire
sistible power in silencing Gov. Seymour's
tactious remonstrances against the execu-
ton of the enrolment law. This letter to
the Springfield Convention, though in
very different veips has just the same 1T
ness to the occasion, aud the same effect.
iveness in its own direction. Whatever
the effort, it is never mistimed, never ms.
spent.
Lord Brougham remarked of Washing
ton that 1.-THE human fancy could not have |
created combination of qualities more
fitted for the scenes in which it |
was his LOT TO bear part" This came I
:onsummate fitness for the times may be
;ecegotzed in the man at the head of the
Idatrs Of the country in this second great
.risis OF It's existence. Rather we s6onld !