Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-16
.GoMmRNTs ON THE ELECTIONS.

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Interesting Analytical Views as to
the Elements OF success and Defeat
Entering into, the Campaign.
From the New York Herald.
THE LATE ELECTIONS IN NEW YoRK-THE DE.
ai rs FIAT OF GOV. SEYMOUR.
The late elections in this. Commonwealth,
including the State ticket, Congressional
and -couuty nominations have laid out
among the killed and wounded quite a
batch of the big fish and small fry of the
| democratic leaders, managers and truck
sters. AT the head of the, heap lies Coy
ernor Seymour, :"as dead as "a herring. p"
His rise decline and fall, though not 30
vast, magnificent and GcomPrehenslye q
theme for the historian as the case Of the
Roman empire viii yet serve in small way
as a wholesome warning to over ambitious
and unscrupulous politicians.
The fsuccess of Horatio Seymour in our
State election of 1862 as the Democratic
candidate for Governor ruined him. All
things considered, that election was greht
success. The Rev. Thurlow Weed,who had
something to do with it in opposition to
Greeley, recognized the lucky Governor Rs
| a trump card for presidential succession.
To be elected by ten thousand majority In
| q state which but two years before had
given fifty thousand majority for Abraham
Lincoln was indeed, something TO be proud
of But it was too much for Seymour, 1t
brought upon him the White House teYeri
malignant disorder to weak system,
which can only be reached by taking the
life of the patient.
To a sagacious, able and courageous
man the position secured by Governor Sey-
mour in 1852 would have been sure
| stepping stone to the Presidency. To
| make it so all that the Governor had to do
was to adhere to the democratic waE plat
form upon which he had been elected.
But; unfortunately, instead ofmaking him
| self the master, he became the easy VIE
tim of the copperhesd peace leaders. He
was an apt scholar, too, in their hands.
In two or three short lessons he learned
1 the copperhead catecbism of peace-at-any-
price. Next, he proceeded. to carry his
new faith into practice by casting State
rights, State jurisdiction, the habeas cor"
pus, the draft. and all sorts of Southern
l,democratic principles as distractions TO
the war policy of the national admi4istra-
ton. s' i,. IL
In this obnoxious attitude before the
country, however, he did not stand alone.
A half dozen. bold, reckless and domineer-
| ings copperheads, seizing upon the demo-
cratic victories of 1862, as their peculiar
thunder, had by. the autumn-ef 1868 leaV-
euedi5 the whole democratic party from
Maine to Minnesota with their demoralizing
peace heresies. But the fall elections Of
| 1868, especially that of New York; would
have been a sufficient warning to poll.
tician of any perception or decision Of
| character in the place of Governor Sey-
mour to tack ship and avoid the breakers.
Not so with the Governor. Flsttering
himself still with tho delusion that the
peace. at aDy.prioe apostles OF the party
| lVallandigham, Voorhees,, Pendleton anu
Company-were on the shortest road 70
Washington he still blindly followed them
Thus he doomed mp at the Shent- per.sheut
Chicago Convention as the reserved candi-
date for the nomination if the copperheads
could first engineer General Mcclellan OF
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But here the Governor, as a Presiden- :
tiai available, received his first stunning
blow. The popular outside pressure aip
favor Of Mcclellan enforced his nOmina-
Etion: What next2 The Governor then,
shreWdly- calculating that Mcclellan and
Pendleton, yoked together, would never
get over the hill, resolved to stick to his
position as master of the situation IN New
York. The result of his experiment Is oe-
fore him. Hitched on with the team OF the
Chicago Convention, and the same rickety
platform, he has gone the same road to
ruin. He is a,small, weak, slippery man,
twho has. made a miserable botch OF
lRreat opportunity. His enemies are re-
Eioicing over his defeat, and his friends
lhaye, nothing in the way Of comfort to offer
him. Let him retire. mi-
Prom the New York Times.
A TEw rkFaaKsrINa REdUREs ~FRoM oITT
ELECTION RETURNS.
r. we WWonldilike g have those "respects-
BILE" Democratic who stood by their party
Lin the recent election, bestowl a aulittle at
Itention on the analysis of thereturns from
fthis city They should ask themselves
THE question Why it is that the lowest dis
Itricts of the city, the haunts of vice and
Enrime. the notorious headquarters of gam
blers and rufians,s aud all the most crowd,
ed and wretched of the tenement house
districts give tremendous majoritles fol
the Opposfriuu, while the wards where are
lIntAIligsnt American mechanics and where
ESte gathered the most education and char
aeter, among the merchants and profession
al men, uniformly. poll strong Unior
vote. We venture TO say that throughou
the country, from Maine to Kansas, thi!
lis the general rule, though with here anC
There marked exceptions, The vicious anC
Ignorant population Of theicities and man
1faGtnring villages has been Tor AcUIeIlan
. WGhile the strength Of Lincoln LAY In ~
EfaFming clssss and the Intelligent classe
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