Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-10-08
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chosen; suppose the new administration
duly installed; then suppose that what hap.
pened to General Harrison and General
Taylor, and what very nearly happened to
Mr.. Buchanan, should occur to General
McClellsn-suppose he should die, or that
by some sudden disease, such as so siugu-
larly prostrated Mr.. Buchanan, he should
be incapacitated for the discharge of the
duties Of the Presidency, what then His
colleague, George Il. Pendleton, by the
requirements of the Constitution, would
succeed to the Presidency.
Does any one think such thing uu-
likely? Bear in mind that it has happen
ed; two of our Presidents have died short.
~ after their inauguration; and another,
Mr.. Buchanan, was struck down suddenly
and mysteriously by disease which puz-
zled the best physicians, which killed
number of persons stopping at the same
hotel and dining at the same tables with
him; and which turned him in few days
from hale, healthy man, to a trembling
and nervous one, and left him too weak in
mind, as the events of his administration
proved, to manage the nations affairs with
either dignity or Vigor; the convenient in
strument, indeed, of the ambitious Vice
President, John o. Breckinridge; and such
members of the Cabinet as Floyd, Thomp.
the reius in their own hands for four years,
and how did they driver Does any one
believe that Floyd could have stolen the
guns, that Thompson could have stolen the
millions of Indian Trust Bonds, that Tou-
cey could have dispersed our navy, that
the planters could have prepared them
selves thoroughly for secession and war,
had there been at the head of the govern
ment a capable man, man of nerve and
of courage, anybody but broken. down
"old public functionary," shaken by mys
terious and terrible disease, and perhaps
living in daily fear of another attack2
The slaveholding conspirators had moth
ing to fear from Mr.. Buchanan as he
was, but if he had broken away from them,
or resisted them, they had John G. Breck-
inridge ready to be his successor. In like
manner, Vallandigham aud his crew tell
US now that they do not fear Mcclellan;
Mr. Fernando Wood tells the public openly
and confidently that Mcclellan will do the
will of the peace faction obediently, and
Mr.. Lazarus W. Powell whom even Gar
rett Davis moved to expel from the Senate
of the United States, because he was an
open mouthed traitor and rebel, said in a
late speech,in in Kentucky:
LAS peace man who has opposed this
war from the beginning, never having
voted man or dollar to carry it on,
never will occupy the position of QUE ap-
proving of the war, or of the unjust acts
connected with it; but believe that Gen.
eral Mcclellan, as the nominee of this
Convention, should receive my support,
and he will have tiny warm, hearty,
jealous support"
Buff Mcclellan should prove refractory,
there is George 81. Pendletoa ready to sue
ceed him. and every body knows that
Washington is one of the most insalubrious
cities in the world, city in which two
Presidents have already died, both, singu-
Iarly enough, believed to be opposed to
the encroachmentssof the slave-power, and
determined to resist the plots of the pro-
slavery politicians, and both succeeded,
by no less singular chance, by men who
did obediently and zealously all the be-
hests of the Shareholders, and one of whom
died bitter rebel, while the other now
ranks among the peace at any price fac
ton.
The country cannot afford to take such
risks. Men may believe that Mcclellan,
iu some incomprehensible way, means to
be faithful to the Union; but the record of
Mr.. Pendleton is clear, consistent, upmis-
taxable; he has always opposed the war;
he has repeatedly declared himself in favor
of separation, he is the Town familiar
friend" of Vallandigham, the crony of Cox,
Voorhees,, and Long; aud to crown all, he
has asserted distinctly that, as he UNDER
stands the constitution, the President, or
the person acting as President, has power
and authority, without violating his oath
of office, to submit to, recognise and assist
in the disruption Vi toe Union. There is,
therefore, no doubt of what he would do
should he, iu any event happen to control
the Executive power. But is it absurd or
even credulOus to believe that If Mcclellan
resisted the schemes of JEFF. Davis and his
northern allies, he would in some manner
be put out of the wayH Those who have
deliberately plunged the nation into war
which has cost a hundred thousand lives,
would they incur an ultimate failure for the
sake of one more life? Those slaVe-lords
who have tortured prisoners of war, who
have in cold blood massacred others, who
have repeatedly set price upon the heads
of northern statesmen, who have shown
themselves ruthless and reckless in the
pursuit of their insane ambition, would
they not quickly find the means OF getting
rid of the only man who stood between
them and their objeot2
Not to dwell, however, upon the contin-
gency of violence, let US again direct the
attention of. the reader to the thousand
natural causes which may incapacitate Nc
CIellau for the discharge of the duties OF
the Presidency. He may die; he may get
hopeIessly diseased; he may become imbe'
cile; or he may become so crippled as to
compel him to give up residing in Wash
ington; in either of which events he must
relinquish his Office, that is, he must give
up to Peudletou, an undisguised sympa-
thizer with the rebellion--a pet of the
most factiousEpeace men. Will any hon
est democrat, sincerely attached to the
Union, say that he is willing to run that