Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-07

But General Mcclellan is anau that, Is
utterly devoid of experience in civil affairs
4 at a time which calls for more natural
1 aptitude for civil administration, and more
lexpertness gathered from the habit Of Rd.
mfnistration, than perhaps any period
| that has ever been known. since this gov
eminent had an existence. A. this time,
when foundations are broken mp; when
states are almost thrown back into their
original elements; When every doctrine OF
man and every doctrine Of government is
\ 70 be resettIed, We have presented to us 3
man that has never been . legislator; that
has never been so much las p justice of
the peace; that has never had one civil
trust put into his hands; and that he b as
totally ignorant of such Q trust as any
common citizen that could well be select
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THE DRMoeRA4IC cASDIp1FH AND TIE CHI
CAGo PARTY
You have seen q ferry-boat, with the
lest of pilots, and with a full head OF
steam, aim right at the Fulton Ferry slip,
and swim far out Of the course. What is
the matter There is cuffent under
the hull, and the boat is inevitably swept
with that current at the same time that II
is attempting to reach the point toward
which the pilot aims. ra.il -
Now, there is q current and the demo-
cratic candidate is in it; and however he
may individually handle the wheel, and
try to steer, the current will sweep him,
aud he will 60 with itin spite OF himself.
He will go ont of the true course because
he is in bad company. he is in pratt
cal vessel, that means mischief to liberty;
he is with men that have no claim to pub
lie honor, and that will have no name In
history except that which Is written to be
avoided as a beacon; he Is with wrong
associates; and cannot train With him.
He represents men of insurrecionary ten
denotes, and oligarchiSal tendencies, and
aristoc ratio tendencies; he represents men
that are revolutionists; he represents those
Who patronize rebellion and sympathise
with cruelty and war for the p0rpose OF
upholding slavery; and he cannot separate
himself from them.
WENDELL PHILLIPs' sPERoH.
#-"I have read with considerable
attention the speech made by Ar. Phillips
at the Cooper Institute few evening since.
The criticisms which he made npon Mr..
Lincoln do not demand at my hands any
minute dissection. 1 have only to say that
Mr.. Phillips and Mr.. Lincoln. are counter
parts aud need each other. Mr.. Phillips
ayoyedly is a reformer, and therefore Is an
agitator. Mr.. Lincoln is by nature and
practice an administrator and an organizer.
II is impossible but that these two men
should in some respects stand IN critical
antagonism of each other. And Mr.. Phil
lips goes before. to prepare the way. He
raises higher and higher at every step the
great moral standards : aud he hnds fault
with the administration that be may bring
it higher and higher. / am glad he made
- ran,a ~ him aa L do anCh0Fa
in the western rivers. When thestSamboat
runs upon shallow place, they set jacks
under her quarters, and take an anchor and
carry it far down the stream, and couple it
to the capstau and then haul the boat up
to the anchor.
Mr.. Phillips Is an anchor; aud he is far
ahead of any possible administration at
present; but he hopes by turning the cap
stan to bring the administration up to his
ground by .and.by. You know that God
left the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the
Amorites in the mountains as thorns to
make the children of Israel faithful to their
worship; and God leaves in our Canaan
some thorns to spur men up to their duty.
And am glad Mr.. Phillips criticized Mr..
Lincoln.l Let him criticize him again.
Mr.. Lincoln can bear it. It will not hurt
him. Neither will it hurt Mr.. Phillips.
do not think that any speech that he can
make will iDjure his reputation The
ablest speaker on the continent; man
that has been true TO his ideas at the ex-
pense of his ambition; man who had the
prospect Of rising 70 the highest honors
that a nation could give, but who, bee
cause he loved justice more than honors,
stood in q minority, hissed, hated, mob
bed, that he might be a witness OF lib.
erty, q John Baptist in the Wilderness,
clothed with camePs hair, eating locusts
and Wild honey, and preaching repentance
to guilty nation-such is he; and because
he has adhered to his convictions OF liberty
to the uttermost, and, with constant testt'
mony, he is without comeliness in the eyes
of the people, and is made of no reputa-
ton. And honor him, and admire himi
and love him. 1 do not always follow him;
for l, TOO, am free, and have q judgment
that must exercise. But do believe that
Mr.. Phillips, while he may seem severe in
his criticisms on Mr.. Lincoln, is severe only
that he may be kind to liberty, and that he
may be kind to patriotism, to county
And think that Mr.. Lincoln will do well
to take heedto his criticisms aud 70 accept
such men as he is; not blindly to follow
them; not to take everything that they say
as gospel; but as the natural quiCkeners OF
men like himself. For these extreme men
these men that are administrators and
organizers, and thatgo only as fast as they
can take the people With them, and these
men that are reformers and agttators, and
that always go ahead of the people-are
the natural counterparts and helps OF each
other.