Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-09-07
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


i 10 eI4ssq From the NY, Times. :
A political csmpaignis before us of more
terrible moment than any military cam
paign. One Of the latter might fail and be
retrieved by another But if this political
campaign fails, it is irretrievable. There
will be no subsequent opportunity to undo
its effects. 1t would settle the war decis-
lively, fatally, forever. G9e-
II is not too much to say that it Wonld be
a less calamity to the country that Robert
E Lee should enter Washington as a rebel
Commander, than George B. Mcclellan .ps
a copperhead President. Lee, would not
remain there four days .beforeahe would
have to Gee from the gathering hosts, of the
North. Mcclellan, once there, would be
secure for four years no power ON earth
could expel him. Lee'scoming would goRd
the national feeling to a wrath that would
be Fesistless. McClellan's going would
palsy every arm, and bow the nation to the
rebellion Lees hostiIiIies on any field We
eau confront, and eventually master. Nc
iGlellan's "cessation of shostihties," which
his platform declares for, is helplessnessi
submission, ruin sg.ill ylnhia i,'i ..'d7
We say then that every loyal man Of the
North has now % heavier responsibility
upon him than any soldier in the field.f ID
is a time when rnbre' is at stake ia ballots
than in bullets, I'VE are on the straintor
the tidings of some new movement of
Grant, or Sherman, or Farragnt- There
are other movements which far moro con-
cern us. We need borrow no trouble that
our soldiers will not overpower enemies
in the war. Our business is to attend to-
our own psrt--to overpower enemies to-
the war; All that the soldiers have done
or can do, ia of no account If We neglect
our Duty If The enemies of the war are to
come into power, it is useless for our sol
dieFs to shed another drop OF blood. Nay,
| we ask crime if we expect it, There can
be no greater crime than bloodshed with
out an object, Hitherto the war has had
4 an object. 1t has been prosecuted to save
| the republic from disruption, and to, main
tain that tcohstitntional authority without
which anarchy is sure to come. The re-
/ belIioni claims TO "Le let alone" Itis.pre-
cisely because We cannot let it alone with
| out ruin that war has been made against
it. The only possible way of letting it
alone is by the very Iicessation of hostili.
/ tiesr demanded IN the Chicago platform.
/ If we are to give the representative of that
platform the executive contrOfiot the ma
| ton, the object of the war sinks dead into
the earth with our dead soldiers. five
are thus to make the war objectless by
our defaIlt, our anxiety for favorable news
of its progress is uuspeakably shameless
and wicked. Not another trigger should
be pulled. .l..-. .r,is.-.
Isoyal!rnen en- have no such thought. On
the contrary, they find greater reason than
ever to hold fast to the war to its legiti-
mate end. They see that its object is near
consumma ton. 4 The rebellion which 1T
aims TO PROSTATE, though yet defiant, is
plainiy stagg gefing,E 2 The rebel armies are
being decimRted, with no possibility of re-
enforcement. The rebel communications
are being broken up, with no possibility oi
replacement. The war policy never was 80
4 strongly sustained by the military situation
and prospects as nows Everything betokens
it to be on the eve of a splendid fruition.--
Loyal men ezpIt in this, and with reason
But all this success. and promise binds then
1 to yet greater fidelity at home. To be de-
4 relict when thus encouraged, would a
Il peculiar sin. -, gFEFF TsQf8 u
j Let it not be imagined that this election
1 is to be carried by the sheer merits of our
cause. 1t'wonid be the greatest of delu'
sious. we might as well expect that tht
merits of the cause will give our soldierl
II victory, without organization or EFFORT
Political campaigning has it's laws of ope'
ration and its conditions of success, which
can no more be safely disregarded than tht
laws and conditions of military campaign
ing. The party that does not organize ant
methodically exert itself, whether it be o.
} the right side or the wrong side, thougl
!, It's original numbers be ever SO large, is
u doomed party, Is iShpOtorious that th
Il 1copperheads are preparing for the mos
q thorough efficiency. They are strictl.
: marking out their lines, are vigorously en-
forcing their discipline, are leaving nothinl
I1ndone toinf1se ardor and epthus siasrn.-
They are getting an their batteries of cal
um1y and falsehood in position. They ar
j devisiug every possible stratagem, and tor
y lturiugf their ,brains for every .ipaginabl
exbedient of mischief. We do not believ
that the rebel leaders themselves hsv
drought, OF. can bring, more science @
81 more energy of military kind against tn
Union armies In the South than the copper
head leaders will bring, in political line
4 against the Union party OF the North
Il Again. the very merits OF our ca91s
Z tgive our opponents the adVantage vat
}, no small number ofpeople These mel
4 it's. by the very fact that they are them
selves SO exalted; appeal only to the yer yer
highest class of motiyes-to humanlt' "a n
Patriotism, love of justice, respect tC
z Iiaw, reverence for cons sttnti9nal author
E IN. devotion 70 the, flag, q genuine an
e5mplete public spirit But they a
= calculated In Just the same degree to pr
d 1,ol-a apainst themselves every selfish an