Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-05-27

AyEAR ago Wendell Phllips-that rest.
lsss,iucORsistant and t@pSaelcablS 4Aaatie,
nominated Mr.. Lincoln for reelection. He
has now eha6s bis base We see. Perhaps
Phillips thopgHf that as 1t was likely that
his nominatiensW would succeed, and as be
had nsssF yet sided with 80 t6i0gSdr any.
body that succeeded, it Vas tlns1O him to
bedhdipg his old place emo1g 8 minority
of sOms'ki6a. In7thss NitsssgAusetts Re-
publican State Convention. We notlee. that
hs'msds 11o6g aud brilliant speesh. nots
extreme Il possible than ever, ID, ahicIa,
amouR other things, he said as follows:
With regard to President Lincoln, al
though be might be hodesES h0n6StyS " d
not enough[We wanted capabtlity as well
as honesty. He spoke Of twenty millions
OF white me0p the laboripg men of this
eouniEy. Their future was to be determ-
ined by the success Of this war. We had
been fighting three years; aud the oonfed;
eraey was still terrible 10 its strength, MI
had advanced eight miles in week In VIZ
GINA, Grant Is . noble leader (cheers);
Batter Is another (reheWed cheersf Sher.
man deserves credie; Sigel fif6tS like a
native for the country that has adopted
him. But let rs be just to our enemy. An
these Are gathered around Lee, and GheysaFe
just able tO;hold him in check he hoped
Grant or Butler might succeed against him,
buE.afler all, the cOnfedeEaoy, is aiterribIe
power. There was neither Uni01tsm nor
loyalty in, East Tennessee, nor in New
OrIeaDs. BE commented with severity
on Mr.. Lincoln's letter TO Hodges, aud
criticized hF. Lincoln because he had
kRUA. ola az RI.a
moment. The negro was out of the Arena,
bat he spoke for the whites. The. Prssi.
deaf in 1861 had . war. 70 WELD. He waited
for the most efficient weapon until he had
exhausted ali Others. he has plunged the
country in debt. We are loaded With
taxes; he has built mp q leonfsderAcy, and
We have consolidated it, by our conduct,
by our delays, BY our. indifference. JEFF.
Davis started a rebellion, but 1t was left 10
Lincoln TO build up Conted racy, The
amnesty proclamation had driven ont the
last remnant of Unionism that Was ,left 10
the South. The administration was bring.
ing the country to point where ii may be
impossible to keep the people up to the
level Of resistance to the Southern plot
ThereiWere two courses with the present
policy OF President Lincoln. One was to
keep fourteen States in the condition of
Territories, and send governors, judge ad.
voeates, provost marshals, and any army
officers from Washington, until twenty
years of trade and emigration should create
. white loyal population. The other 81.
teruAuTe was to recallIhe black element of
the South and e0nfscate the estates of the
whites. The administration repudtates this
course. That resolution ofA6rahGm Lin ::
colo is the doom Of the republic NJ. Phil.
lips concluded by declaring his preference
tor Butter, for Fremont, or even Gov. An.
drew, rather than Lincoln, though be didn't
see now Andrew could be spared 80 far,
from home. II We elected Lincoln again,
1o Wau OF usidaie1 ss woutd have . chance
TO see reconstruction of the Union, aud If
the war was not stopped In two years, the
money question would swamp us.