Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-03-24

OUAB VI OuE e4CuhuReeJ We OoseEF6I are
discussing the status of parties after the
war shall close. One of them thinks the
Republican party will continue to exist
and become the greatpar of the country,
while an other expresses the belief that i'm
mediately following peace the reign of the
Democracy will commence in good earnest.
We submit that all such discussions are
premature and out of place. There is no
occasion to discuss now the political issues
and combinations that may grow out of
this war. Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof. We have our hands fulfCf
the present-let the future take care of
itself. Who can as yet foresee the end of
this war; Who can assume the public
feeling in the South, or even in the North,
month after the last battle shall have
been fOught7 II argues want OF com.
ProhensiOn OF these eVentful times, 10 be
Spooulating upon TneIruIEImate outgroWtbs.
We appfehend that new conditions of
things, now undreamed of, will speedily
arise. Those who are acting together
may before this time next year be an
tipodes. 1t is hard to see what
appropriate relations the old parties
will bear to the after days of the war, 80
far as their past is concerned. 1t is not to
be supposed that slavery will again be an
element Of strife. And that question has
been about the only sntagonism of our
parties for several years. Itis to be hoped
that the war of sections will end with the
rebellion. We may safely count upon the
same party ele long being in power both
in New York and in Virginia, in Maine
and in Louisiana. We hope to see all our
divisions of sentiment, whatever they may
be, distributed more or less equally in each
State. The country was imperilled because
of slavery, and because that Institution
united all the States in which it existed in
favor of making it the dominant element
in our national politics, or, failing in that,
in favor of dismembering the Union. 1t is
OF easy to see how the country can ever
beput in like jeopardy second time. 1t
is not probable that any srpposable Issue
can array one. half the States against the
other half.
The nation will long for an era of good
feeling after the close of this war. The
South will be tired, desolated and exhaus.
ted. She will want a recuperative policy,
and her people will be busy with the prac-
tical matters of every day life. Politics
will be altogether secondary with them
All the old sublimated theories of her poll
ticiaus will be swept away. New men with
new ideas will come up to the national
council, and we rejoice to believe that they
will be met as friends and brothers by the
members from the North. How to forget
the ness ofthis war will be the study
of the great trading and travelling public.
The people of the two sections know each
other as they never did before. The wants
of the South will be many, and the busy
North will soon be deeply engaged in man.
ufacturing, importing and selling to supply
those wants. Such things as make for
peace will absorb the whole people of the
whole country.
Under such an altered condition of things
VINO can venture 10 say what our National
politics will be2 We have an immense
debt, and Issues will spring up connected
with it sufficient of themselves to form new
parties. We have vast numbers of eman-
cipated blacks, and they will present new
questions to our statesmen. Our Indus
tries will be greatly changed. The South
may want tariffs instead of free trade The
Pacific railroad will work almost revolu-
ton in our politics as soon IS it is built.
Population will flow to US from the old
world as never before. Our politics will
feel their influence rapidly. The future of
our Army and Navy will present new
questions. The issues are thus to be num-
berless. We can only now very dimly dis
Germ their germs. And the only thing safe to
assume for the present is, that old parties
q nd did iauupu will uDaa5;Iv 1o,o oro