Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-03
a letter from LOrt Lyons on Our
"COnscrvRtIVhs"--I View Of the
situation Five Months Ago.


! FINWhtlUn FINf "UHNnA ~ RUs
LopD LvOst 10 EARL TrssGLL.
wAsHISeruX, Nav II, 1862.
Ny I.oEp--ln his dispatches OF the l7t
and Ol ihr 2Ilh ult. and Of the ith inst
Mr.. Stnnrt reported to your !ordsl,ip til
results Uf tue election for members .! Con
grrsJ and State officers which have regent
+, ~ lakeu place IN several OF the must in
portaut States OF the Union. Without rr
pCatinr the details, it Till he sufficient To-
mr to observe that the success Of The Dem
ccrntic or tHI it now styles tsrlI) the con
Servative party, has been SO great AS tt
manifest change il public feeling, nmoGI
the most rapid aud the most complete
that has ever been witnessed, even in tbI!
country.
Ga my arrival at New York On the sti
ius,., iouud tue conservative leaders CN'
nliing in the crowniug success achieved 10y
The party in that STATE. They appeared to
rejoice above nIl in the conviction 'htj
! personal liberty and freedom ot speech haG
been secured for the principal State Of The
Union. They believed that the government
must AT once iesisl from exercising in the
State Of New York the extraordinary (hnd
as they regard lhem) illegal AMI WucOns'i.
tutiOnHl powers which il had assumed
They were confident that all rYcnis after
the lst olJ4nuary uexI, % which day the
newly elected Governor would come into
office, the suspension Of the writ Of h1beH'
corpus could not be practically maintained,
Tiny seemed 10 he persuaded that the re-
suit oi the elections would br accepted by
the President aS declaration Ofthc will Ol
, The people; that he would increase the
mUdrrats aud conservative element IN the
Cabinet that be would seek tn terminate
the WAT, not TO ushstt 10, extremity that
lie would Cn1eAYPr to eject 4 reConcillia.
tion with the people 6f1the South, and re-
nouucs the idea IL SiJjugatiuZ or vxtcrni'
mating them.
On the following morning, however, in.
telligence arrived from Washington which
dashed the rising hopes of the con.
scrvaiivc5. 1t was announced that General
Mcclellan bad been dismissed from tbs
command Of the Army OF the Potomac, an !
ordered TO repair TO his home: that be had
in inct, been removed altogether from nc
tive service. The Generai had been re-
garded as the representative oil conserva.
tive principles in the army. Support Of
him had been made on" OF the articles Of
tho conservative electoral programme. His
dismissal was taken ~ a sign that the
Preside Il hal Ihrown himself entirely into
the arms OF the eGirrnC radical party, and
that the attempts 10 carry out the policy
Of that ptr'y would be persisted in. The
irritation Of the conservatives ut New orS
was ccrIainly very great II seemed, how.
ever, 10 he not mumiIrl with CONSERVATION
aud dependency.
ScverA! Of the leaders Of the democratic
parry sought interviews with me, both be-
fore AMI latter the arrival OF ,h" intelligence
Of GvuCrhl MCiellAns dismissed. The
subject uppermOst IN IhCir minds while
they were speshm; to me wn- naturally
thu, Ut foreign mediation between the
North and South. Many nf ihrm s"ened
10 think that iii, mediation m0r5. Co,ac At
last; INT they appeared tn b" very murh
arraid uI its coming too soon. Twas til'
deut that they npprthenard that PT'ln ,
turc propvs.l Of rurrgn Intervention would
afford the radical patty means 0I rr'iN
ing the violent war spirit, ant Of thu' de.
fsating tho peaceful plans of Tie coner'gN.
tiycs, They appeared to rcgtId the prs
ent moment as urculury uulNHoFahlr tOr
such m o!lcr, aud, inIeed, to hod that It
would ue essential To the success oi any
proposal from abroad lhnt It ,houl,i be de-
icrrrd until thr control of the rHrcHure
government should Il" III thr haWd- u! 'hr
ccpgervntIvG pnliy.
gave no opiuiuu OH the subject. did
not s4y whether or not | my'eit though
foreign Intervention was ptobAbl" or "'''I
snblC, bu, Ii,teuel with attention TO Ia'
account. given nc of III" plan aud hope
VI the conservative party. A. tho bottom
thought | perceived II desire To put nr
Und to the war, Cvru Mt the risk of losinI
tho Southern States altogether hut 1t vi"
plain that it WAS not thought prudent Il
avow this desire, JUDGED, some hints Q
it, dropped before the elections, were -
Ill received thm" stronG dcc'"rniIo" III u
contrary sendo was deemed necessary D
the Democratic leaders
A the present momont, therefore, ~
chiefs OF the conservative party c.Ii IoHai
\ . .