Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-19

whose works on engineering and mathe.
mates are in all the academies and COL
leges, and who has been the educator of
nearly all the West Poiut generals in both
armies, writes an excellent letter to the
Hon. Henry ]. Raymond, congratulatiDg
him on the result of the election. Like
the speeches of the President, his words
bear the impress of rightfuI appreciation
as to how we should ell feel in view of the
dangers which the nation has escaped.
Although few can say, in the words Of
simple honesty of Abraham Lincoln, that
'shs regretted to triumph over anybody" yet
there are thousands who, assured of the
success of the cause they advocated, now
find no other cause of feeling against
ueighbors and friends-persons whom they
have always known as good and true men
than that of congratulation that, by an
All-wise interpretation, they have been
spared the future bitter reflection
that they had undesignedly given blow
against the national lite. The issue was
too appalling for any thoughtful man to
have gone into without that stern sense of
responsibility that rises above all petty
personal considerations. The defeated are
OH GubIlIGu u lEOu4 tuOAA
friends Of opposite views. The peace-at-
any price men, that their psmes have not
been consigned to the execration of pos
terity, on any public record of their coun-
try's dishon0r; and Gen. Mcclellan, more
than any one, that he has been saved from
having his name go down in history as
President of this Republic, among the last
of the Emperors of the Eastern Empire,
the last of the Gothic and Moorish Kings,
and the last of the Doges of Venice, as it
must have done, had be attempted to car
~ out the only pregnant propositions of
the Chicago Platform.
We are again committed-sternly COM
mitted, and, trust, unshakingly commit
ted-to the great affirmation: The Nation
ShGH liVei
Prof. Mahan has rightly expressed the is.
sue that was before the minds of the peo-
pie during the late election and the verdict
rendered thereon. Never before was there
such deep and sincere and patriotic pur-
poses represented at the ballot box. And
because such was the case we hear very
little since the victory in the way of shouts
and noise. When was ever this the case
beforeI The omen is for good. We rejoice
it. Nshows that ,the'people are impressed at
not only with the dangers thus far escaped,
but also by those still remaining. 1t
shows that throughout the canvass
they were acting upon conscience
and conviction; and when the result
was announced, it did not occur to
them that they had achieved party vic
tory at all. A great cause had triumphed.
Christianity, humanity, patriotism, unity,
had triumphed over barbarism, oppression,
treason and division, and the triumph was
the triumph of the right.
Nothing could possibly Vindicate the mo-
tives of those who voted in the support of the
government so perfectly as the spirit in
which they receive their success. They
manifest no party exultation-no personal
e1ultation. The motives that had animated
them throughout the canvass were more of
love for great cslse than of hatred to its
enemies and when that cause triumphed
it's enemies were forgotten, and only a
calm satisfaction WAS felt in the conscious
ness that they had not prayed and labored
in vain. Voting was done in the fear of
wrong doing, and the extraordinary going
over of multitudes of democrats to the side
of the government was purely matter of
conscience. This is the real explanation
of the calm which succeeds the election.
The triumph of the government is not ap-
pretended and entertained as a party tri.
umph, and therefore it is received with
manly dignity and not with boyish exhibit
tions of exultation over fallen foe.