Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-15
Tuesday Morning, November 10.

tracts from our contemporaries OF the NC
Clellan party showing their feelings and
temper In reference to their defeat. We
are glad to see that there is disposition
to avoid the example of those Inflated
people in the South who four years ago
took an appeal from the ballot box to the
cartridge box. We think the lesson has
not been lost. But we do not choose to
ascribe to our contemporaries any intimi-
dated feeling. We give them credit for
better motives. We believe that sincere
conviction pervades the vast body of the
people. and also great many leading men,
that there is no margin left now on which
to trife with the sacred interests of the
country, The voice of partisan outcry in-
cliues therefore to silence since the YER
dict this day one week ago. The occa-
sion is not one of the old time-not the
defeat or the success of a party. The vast
body. of those who were lately in the OPP
position were not adherents of the rebel
lion in intention, We like exceedingly the
spirit of all that the President has said on
the subject since the election. We pub
lished yesterday some extracts from his
fret little speech, and also his second
speech entire. Perhaps our readers will
have noticed the following paragraph:
"Now that the election is over, may not
all having a common interest reunite in q
common effort TO save our common coun-
try7 For my Own part, have striven and
shaIl strive to avoid placing any obstacle
in the way. So long as have been here
l have not willingly planted thorn in any
mans bosom. While l am duly sensible
TO the high compliment of re. election,
and duly grateful, as l trust, to Almighty
God for having directed my countrymen to
a right conclusion, as 1 think, for their
good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction
that any other man may be disappointed
by the result May / ask those who have
not differed with me to join with me in
this same spirit toward those who have I"
In the same spirit with the foregoing
from the President, are the remarks of
Congressman Rice of Boston. In his speech
acknowledging the compliment of great
number of friends, who called to cougrat.
ulate him on his election, he said:
"I beg that you will take with you my
sincere and b eartfelt congratulations over
the result in this city, this State, and
throughout our common country. hope
We shall he especially generous and mag
unanimous towards those who have differed
with us in opinion. and that, while We firm
" and unf1inchipgly resolve that the right
and the whole right must be maintained,
we shall deal gently with the feeling OF
those who may be suffering from disap-
pointment. / have no compassion, no pity
and no regrets to bestow or share with
those who are hostile to the governments and
the institutions under which we live.
would see them receive their deserts, and
their deserts need not describe; for
we are unanimous on that point. But i
think that great many of those who woke
up one week ago and thought their duty to
their country led them to vote in opposition
to the Republican and Union candidates of
henation and the States, have changed their
minds, and have openly or secretly deposit
ed their ballots for the Union candidates.
And those to whom our feelings of kindness
are especially due, if we had one week
longer of the campaign, would have gone
and done likewise"
1t is unnecessary for US to say that in
our judgment, all those who voted for Nc
Clellan made great mistake, but it is not
necessary to suppose, nor do We suppose,
that all made it wilfuIly. While we be-
lieve, as firmly as we believe anything,
that among the leaders high in the coun-
ellis of the Democratic party, are men who
are traitors to their country and allies to
JEFF Davis, we should despair of the re-
public if We thought that this description
applied to the body of electors who sup
ported the unsuccessful candidates. Some
voted from old attachment to the Demo
cratic name, some credited the ISLANDERS
upon Mr.. Lincoln, some forgot that it was
impossible for any administration ia carry
on such war without mistakes, and some
were too little charitable to the difficulties
and ADVERTISEMENTS, to the immense re-
sponslbilities of the men who were en-
trusted with the direction of affairs. Some
would not credit what appeared to us to
be the plain meaning of the Chicago plat
form, and thought that somehow Mcclellan
wonld break loose from the men who put
him in nomination, and by whom alone he
could be elected. From these we differed,
and claiming credit for the honesty of our
purpose, we concede the same to them.
The people have decided. The people,
in an orderly aud authentic manner, in
the mode pointed ont by the Constitution
and the laws, have indicated their will
that the war shall be prosecuted under
the direction of the men who have thus
far had the control of it. 1t becomes all
good citizens, not only to submit to this
expression of the popular will, but to cor
diallH co. nnarata in earning e ont Rinca