The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-31


last Wednesday. The dispatches have
already informed us that the Secession
ISIS had things altogether their own
way. The following extracts from the
papers indicate plainly enough the
issues upon which the election turned
and the light in which the result is
viewed in that city. The Commercial
Bulletin says:
The election of yesterday simply
means that the people OF Virginia, so
far at least as Richmond can be taken4
as representative of that people. turn
not with the spirit of the craven and
the renegade from opinions which their
kith and kin have died for.
1t Is, even among those who were re-
Gently the armed foemen of the State,
subject which deserves respect and
admiration. For the people OF the
North could hold the people of Virgin
ia in but slight respect did they behold
them, in Euch an occasion as that offer
ed by the election of yesterday :fawn-
they had hitherto opposed with their
very lives. Loyalty TO Government
must and viii assnredly come, but II is
not the work of prestidigitatio Is
( born only Of the slow and mysterious
process Of time. While no open plat
I form Of political creed was placed be-
/ fore the people, il Is clear that the pro-
testntions of pseudo niOnism on the
one hand, met by polite reticence on
the other, gave the voters the true issue
upon which they were called upon to
decide, and all whose pride and love of
State cling TO the Old Dominion, will
rejoice to-day that the decision has been
made in favor of good men and true.
With no interference from the mill
tary authorities-the voters of this city
have given expression to their feelings
and opinions in a matter which does
no discredit to the better annals of the
State, and which is calculated to dash
calisrn for their future schemes Of inter
ference in our State policy.
The Republic is more discreet and de
precatcs the result, while it admits the
real point ON which the election turned.
1t says:
In reference to the election just held
in Richmond, it mHttered nothing per
sonally whether Taylor or SturdiYaut
was elected; but it does signify much
that Taylor was defeated because he an
nounccd himself as II Union man at all
times, and that Sturlivant was elected
because he is not, and has not been,
such as Taylor, and has been u soldier
Z in the armies which fought against the
[ Union. II is of vital significance that
large numbers OF men who would have
voted for Taylor changed their determi-
nation when they saw his card putting
himself On the Union platform. If all
the elections in Virginia are made to
turn uplgn such iSsueS, and if they re-
suit as the Richmond election has done,
the consequences will be more disas-
tTOus 10 this Commonwealth than the
fearful war through which We have
passed.
II we elect secession men as Repre-
scntatiVeS in Congress, or to our lcgis-
lntures, which elect Senators in Con-
greSS; If we elect secession men as Sc
cession men soldiers because they Ver'e
soldiers; or men who hate or have hat
ed the Union because of that hate if we
vote against and defeat Union men of
respectable personal character as Union
and because they are Union men, we
supply a reason for the exclusion OF the.
South from full admission into the I'm
( ion, which all parties at the Moth will
F, feel to be sufficient, which conservative
men will regret, and which our radical
enemies Will thank us for furnishing
them. If we send men to Congress
elected upon such principles, we insure
their exclusion from its halls, and we
supply to the radical party there the
very excuse which they are seeking for
setting aside the organizations President
i johnson has set on foot in the Southern
Suites, and reduce these States to a pro
vincial condition.
The Richmond Wig is Significantly
silent. 1t may he regarded as natural
that the control of affairs in the South
should revert-temporarily at least-to
those who have habitually filled Offices
of trust and honor. But that these per
sons are suitable for dealing with the
changed condition of affairs which they
have resolutcly opposed to the death
we may entertain reasonable doubts,
Considering the influence of passion
and excitement upan the Southern
mind, we cannot but believe that Il
sober second thought will induce a re.
vulsion of feeling in favor of IA frank
and full acceptance of the Union. The
Southern people themselves, however
will he the chief sufferers from any per.
verse and snllen opposition to the ma.
r tional will. But in any case, wefhold
that 1t is not in the power of Lees beat
en- soldiers, or all the bankrupt officials
of the defunct Confedcracy, to change
the current of events or roll back the
events of the last four years. sa-
I MIR. Seward During his Illness.
r Mr.. George Woke, who attended Mr..
!, Seward, gives the following account,
which is translated from the Illinois
Stats Zietung:
On the morning after the assassino-
: ton, he said to his nurses, his sensa-
lions immediately. after the assault had
: by no means been of an unpleasant
nature. He had experienced no extra
: ordinary pains; but while the blood
: had been gushing from his arteries he
had supposed that his last end was