The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-06
From tho Boston Courier.


The Tribune makes an admission in the
passage below which is of considerable
,alue in its rebuke to the weak -kneed Con-
servatiyes Of the day. 1t states the case
very strongly about Connecticut, allowing
vastly preponderating power to the real
Democratic vote, which We have no doubt
aill be fully justified at the next genera.
election. But it makes even a stronger
c,se for Ohio. In Connecticut it seems, &C.
,ording to this frank reckoning, any Dem
ocrat but three, eft for the Justice OF the
reace," if not a peace man, as we under
,tand the inusndo, could have been chosen;
N Ohio ,hsre was but one through whose
nomination that State could have been lost
% the Democracy. The Tribune remarks :
"There were not three Democrats fit for
Justice of the Peace in Connecticut, who
,ould have lost the State last Spring, yet
me of these was nominated for Governor
There was just one man in Ohio who could
nave been beaten out of human shape in
.urning as Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of that State: yet that man was
dominated. How much more of this will be
enough ? ae
The Democratic party might have been
dominant in most of the free States to-day.
It had only to refuse to commit suicide
Just as the Republican Administration Of
Madison would have broken down during
he War of 1912, had it not been upheld by
be mad folly of the Hartford Convention
Federalists, so the Republican Administra-
tion of 1851 would have broken down but
TOR the similar conduct Of its opponents"
Well, the Democrats counted too soon.
asst year, upon the reviving common sense
Of the people, to say nothing of the spirit
which should have animated them against
iusufferable public outrages committed by
the Administration; but the Tribune may
console itself with the reflection that men
do, in general, eventually learn. New
Hampshire and Maine, were as needlsssly
lost, last year, as Connecticut and Ohio
were; but the first of thsse, we have good
reason to expect, is soon about to show a
brighter record, and Connecticut and Maine
will assuredly follow in its train. A similar
glorious revolution may be expected in ma
ny other States, in which the love of our
civil institutions and of the principles Of
liberty is mot relinquished; and how striking
the lesson would be, if tho radicals were
overthrown in the North, in spite of the
success Of Mr.. LrNcoLN's tenpenny projects
in certain States of the south,
The New York Ledger speaking of the
movement now on foot to place ABRAHAM
LINCOLN again on the coul Sc as candi.
date for the Presidency, remarks:
cit is generally understood that Abraham
Lincoln is quite anxious to serve another
term in the White House, and that his
friends are working late and early to secure
him the nomination of his party. We hope
he won't get it. We have nothing against
Mr.. Lincoln personally; but person who
can quietly sit and crack jokes in the White
House, while he permits an old fossil like
Secretary Welles to manage the Navy De.
partment, is not the sort of man that we
admire. The mere fact that Mr. Lincoln
has kept old Mr.. Wellss In Office while our
commerce. is being ruined by rebel privateers
will cost him thousands of votes, if ever he
comes before the people again as candi
date for the Presidency"
When we come to add to these the tens
of thousands of votes he will lose by keep
ing Stanton in office, to say nothing of
any other high official, very large deduc-
ton will have to be made in any expecta.
tons which his party have formed in his ia.
vor On the same general subject the AL
bany correspondent of the New York Her.
aid says, that
Leading State officers here are under
stood to be opposed to the nomination of
Mr.. Lincoln or any of his Cabinet. Gen.
Fremont, it is said. will shortly come out
with pronunciamento to this effect. Gen.
Wadsworth will take the same ground.