Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-02-04
denomination OF P PRESIDENT Lineoln.
From the philadelphia AoEth American.

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From the PhatieIphiA Aorth American.
In the year 1856 tue election of John G.
Fremont, the Repu blICAn cA didnte, TO the
Presideucy of the Uuted States, seemed at
one time certain. Il was quite clear that
| the sentiment OF Aii the Tree States Was
| largely against the Democratic party, on
account OF its fearful record on the Kap.
sas question; and if that sentiment could
have been hArmonized and embodied BY a
single candidate, such a candidate would
undoubtedly have been elected. In view
of the possibility of such. a, result, the
ultra pro.s!avery politicians of the South
made secret preparations for violent re-
slstance to the government, and, in fact,
aimed at a revolutionary outbreak
All the arrangements for that purpose,
since disclosed by the course of events and
the revelations made by captured docu-
ments, were nearly ripe, when advices
from Pennsylvania brought the assurance
and conviction that Buchanan would be
elected, and therefore, the attempt was
deemed unnecessary, aud Was abandoned.
In the year 1860 a Republican President
was elected, as was manifest he would be
from the beginning of the contest. The
Southern politicians, therefore, had ample
| time to mature their plans for revolution,
and the successful manner in which they
were carried into effect shows how COM
plete all the arrangements were.
These plans were not developments CEN
! sequeutupon the rise of the Republican
party. They we're foretold and announced
long before by Calhoun, the arch enemy of
liberty and Union. He said explicitly, in
conversation held with Commodore
Stewart, that while the South remained in
power at Washington she would be salts
fed; but whenever the North should
! ACOnirR a fhn no
| secede, of course. When General Taylor's
| administration adopted y northern policy,
the threats of dissolution were as violent,
aud efforts to precipitate it as desperate,
| as any subsequent perfNd. The death of
General Taylor suspended his policy, and
therefore the revolution did not take
place. When General Scott was the can
didate of the Whig party for the Presi-
dency on northern platform, the violence
of the South against him was extreme,
and had he been elected, there seems no
| doubt that resistance would have been
tried. When it was supposed, just before
Mr.. Buchauau's inauguration, that he
might adopt northern policy on the Kan.
sas question, the National Hotel disease
mysteriously broke out at Washington, and
came near removing blm to make way for
Breckinridge.
Abraham Lincoln, therefore, has been
made the victim of a revolutionary conSpi-
racy, long ago formed, though kept in
| a6eyance for many years. Had he been a
weak mao, like Buchanan, he might have
yielded to the force OF events, aud made
peace with the.rebel confederacy.L But he
was Just the mar adapted to breast the
storm. He has accepted the gage of battle.
and fought it through with u courage, a
prudence perseverance, aud Il shreWdness
which will render bis nams illustrions in
all succeeding time. ltss
He was elected to be President of great
nation, stretching from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and from the Gulf to the lakes
AT the very outset of his administration
! he found himself deprived OF all power
over most of the slBvehOldiug States, COW
eriug an area SO large that Europe accept.
ed the revolution AS an accomplished fact,
and set down the two governments respec-
lively as that OF the north and that of the
south, as though they were equals With
out Uu army or II navy, without credit
home or abroad, without financial power,
aud without, it may he added, the CONF
denCe OF large part ut the northern peo-
pie, he was compelled TO meet this crisis
How he has dOue SO let history nttest.-
Out of the chaos which he found he has
evoked order aud symmetry. He has. crea-
ted the most powerful armies the world
has ,ever ssen,, aud their deeds OF heroism
have earned immortal reHown for the re.
public on battle. fields, the number aud
magnitude OF which are without parallel.
On the sea he has given US such fleets, and
proved their qualities in such fearful bat
ties, that we are now not wiuiagi-io ac-
knowledge naval inferiOrity to any Power
I whatever. ~
He has s,rs- established the national credit
on a basis so eXkrRor tibarV and Vith re-
souTces and fiscal power so splendid, that
i the spectacle confounds all Europe. He
has, by that very process, emanclpated this
people from the control of European cApi-
tai, aud shown that We have ourselves a
financial power of which the grestest- ma
ton in Christendom might feel proud. He
has made our northern industry prosper
ous, beyond all presedspt, and enabled US
to stand, without any sign of exhaustion,
the enormous drains upon US for soldiers
and money. Is -fas
Our successiu the 6sIa has been reaped
in very despite of the ineffiCiency of our
military commanders, most of'Whom at the
outset sf the war were unfamiliar with the
direction of such bodies of men as were
l rendered necessary, and who have been
obliged TO Undergo an apprenticeship to
their art amid scenes of blood and carnage
almost unequAlled. The .unquailino couT.
age aud energy of the Administration met
every disaster With renewed exertion, and
searched diligently for able generals, brav-
ling unpopularity aud reproach, by remov-
ing one after another, as fast as events
proved that the true man had not yet been
found. ~" = we @ :
What the generals of this ias'1si.r wapndrs the
: Administration has made them, Itraised
! up for them veteran soldiers, by deman-