Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-19

heated 7iifaeatiou oftboss upon whom de-
volved the responsibility OF: carrying it on;
and In pallistien of the gigantic crime, OF
those by whom it was brought upon the
country.
That such party, characterized by such
antecedents, and animated by such spirit,
burning now more than ever with in
tense hatred of the war, and elsmoring
more than ever for its cessation or suspen-
sion,-is at all likely to nominate man
who will Ego one step further or faster than
Mr.. Lincoln" in putting down the rebel
lion, it is not easy to suppose. II they
should put forward man whose personal
sentiments would favor such asuppositiou,
the instinct of every man would lead him
to suspect that It was mere cheat-that
it was intended to deceive the people, and
that such a man, so selected, would prove
to be the mere tool of those who, for their
own purposes, had put him in Office. They
might Offset this suspicion, it is true, by
adopting platform so explicit, and so un-
mistakably patriotic, as to commit the par
ty and the candidate to its terms; but they
are much more likely to adopt plat"
form which shall contradict every patriot.
ic inference which the personal character
of the candidate might seem to warrant
A War candidate, on Peace platform, or
Peace candidate on War platform, is
likely to be the entertainment to which the
Chicago Convention will invite Mr.. Weed,
and all patriots of similarly inquiring
turn of mind. .....-
When that Convention shall have made
its selection of a candidate, and submitted
its action to the public judgment, the
whole country will be invited to decide
whether he or Mr.. Lincoln will probably
ego furthest or fastest" in quelling the re.
beIlion, and restoring the Union and the
Constitution.
On the other hand, and from a different
source altogether, Viz:-from the Copper
heads-we have a significant utterance
which appositely comes in just here. Sam.
Medsry, editor of the Columbus, Ohio,
Crisis, the earliest and most radical, if not
the chiefest of the Copperhead organs OF
the country, speaks thus about Mcclellan
and the prospect of nominating him at
Chicago next Monday week, the goth inst:
1t is we'll knswn that General Mcclellan
has not one spark of pretensions to the
Presidency, except what he has made out
of this war, under Mr.. Lincoln. He never
held civil Office in his life, and was I'M
known 10 the puOllc Wnen Governor Den
nison brought him forward as a military
man. Yet, in three years as a mere SOL
der, he rises to the demands of the Pres
idency, to head party which is for peace
"a position requiring statesman of en-
lsrged views and statesman's experience.
If we are to plunge into interminable wars,
each section or portion following its mill
itary leader, as in Mexico or South Amer
lea, then Mcclellan might be proposed
with some more show of consistency; but,
as it is, it would be the utter annihilation
of all constitutional politics and wiping
out of the Democratic organization. And
for What2 That few men who have got
his ear may get foreign missions and home
positions, at the expense of the peace of
the country and the lives of their constit-
uents. This is paying too dear for such
whistles, and for Que we protest against it
in behalf of our bleeding, ruined, and dis
tracted country. If peace will not pre-
serve order and preserve civil society, war
will not, and We are lost people, anyhow.
We have reproduced these articles as
showing the present feeling of a number of
recognised organs of public opinion Our
own views were set forth in our comments
on the Tri6unes article, in our paper OF
Monday last. They are even more fully
illustrated in the article which we publish
to-day from HarperS' Weekly.
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