Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-23

TIE National Z59telligsneer of Monday,
journal, We may remark, that opposed Mr..
Lincoln with more ability and with more
fairness than any other in the land-ha5 an
excellent srticle entitled "the future" 1t
is one TO be alike read by those who are
either victors or yauquished in the late
election, and az such we commend to all
our readers the following extract from it.
Noticing the highly conciliatory speeches
both of Mr.. Lincoln and Mr.. Seward since
the election, the InteIliSsneer remarks:
The most embittered opponent of the
President will not deny that such express
sionS do honor to his heart, and they
should go far to disarm political defeat OF
its sting in the breast of the vAnquished,
And we do not hesitate to say, for our
selves, that We shall accept these declara-
tiops of the President in the same sincere
ty in which we believe them to be made,
and shall be prepared to judge his future
administration of the governmentssimply
BY his acts without any other predetermi-
nation than that of cordially co.opere'
ting in all measures which shall seem to
US judicious and proper, without seeking
to End in any Of them the grounds OF fac
tious opposition.
The csndor of Mr.. Seward should bemet
with equal candor by the friends OF Gen.
Mcclellan. II may be that the latter have,
"au things considered" judged Mr.. Linz
coin and his party "rather harshiy in some
respects" At ali events let it be no fault
of theirs, as Mr.. Seward says it shall be
no fault of the Administration, If an "era
of good feeling" is not re. established. The
times are Propitious to such desirable
consummstion. Party names have lost
their power to charm or to repel. AS has
been well said by another: "Parties may
retain their name, for the sake of the pres
tige, just as the makers of Cologne water
all call themselves Jean Maria Farinai but
the identity will be gone. They may even
rshow some vitality, like snake that has
lost its head; but they are none the less
certainly dead, and destined soon to be abb
sorbed into other mere living bodies
Parties cannot, any more than families
subsist on their mere traditions, they must
connect themselves with the realities of
the day, with the actual life of the time
and place, and be formed and take their
color as we'll as their inspiration from the
controlling necessities of the nation. With
every radical revolution 10 the situation of
the country there must be inevitably no
less radical revolution in the relations of
opinion; and the parties which represent
that opinion will undergo corresponding
modification"
They who undertake to oppose the Ad-
ministration merely because it has not been
elevated to power by their votes will soon
surely find that they do not understand
their epoch" Aud they who give to the
Administration an "unquestioning sup
port" will Just as surely discover that their
| maxims of craftsmanship belong to an age
that has passed in the history of the couu-
try. The issues of the times are too mo-
mentous and far.reachiug to admit of such
narrow-miuded views in the one direction
or In the other. 1t should be the aim OF
all to cooperate with the Administration
in its legitimate efforts for the preservation
of the Government and the restoration OF
the Union, remembering that wisdom and
virtue are the exclusive possession of no
party, and that therefore, if no party is to
be implicitly trusted, so none is entitled
to an exclusive right of censorship, since
the one case equally with the other implies
the assumption of human infallibility.