The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-05
rhe EIeetIoni T0-MOrroyv I'm the STATE
- OF New York.
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week. The Democrats profess to be
confdent Of the election ofIHohman
to be Governor, but we see no good ba-
sis for any such expectation. Outside
this city the popular sentiment is over
whelmingly the other way. The DEM
ocrats themselves base their. estimates
of success upon thevpte OF New York
and Brooklyn. Their msjorities in
these cities will undoubtedly be large.
but they will ,needlto Sbe very large to
overcome the Republican majortties in
the rest Of tho State, Giving the Dem
octats All they can claim with any show
of reason, and it still seems to us alto
Rether likely that Fenton will carry the
State by from ten to twenty thousand
There is very little difficulty in ac.
counting for this result. The people
are unwilling to restore the Democratic
party TO power. They distrust its tenn
per and its spirit, even more than the
specific principles to which il is COM
mitted. They believe the nation to
have gone through the most terrible
crtsts.Of dtslfate-to have -surmounted
the most fearful danger that can ever
threaten its existence; and that, too,
not, only without the active help of the
sympathies and its organized efforts.
Before the war that party was in close
alliance with the Southern conspirators
who were the authors, and nfterRard
became the leaders OF the rebellion. It's
whole scheme of party warfare was
based upon that alliance. It lent itself
always to the political ambition of the
Southern party. 1tstood by the South
mis- contest with the growing anti
slavery sentiment of the Northern
States, 1t encouraged the spirit and
temper of sectional hostility at the
the conviction Is general and deep.seat-
ed in the public mind that the South
| never would have plunged the nation
into civil war IL it had not counted, ).
with more or less of warrant, on the
sympathy and aid of the Democratic
The course OF that party during the
war strengthened this conviction and
deepened the popular distrust of its
loyalty and fidelity! to the national
tI6ause. The eGoverument which repre-
sented the nation, and which alone
could carry on the struggle for its SAL
Vation, met the steady and Strenuous
opposition of the party from the begin
ming of the war to its very close. Its
measured were resfstedS its motives
were maligned, its members were de-
Iipopnoed, and at every recurring APP
and sdetermined Efforts were made. to
overthrow and defeat 1t. The Demo-
cratic party in Congress resisted all
measures designed to raise money and
men to carry on the war. 1findividual
members, obeying patriotic impulses,
voted for those measures and sought to
make the war successful, they were de-
nounced as traitors to the party, and,
refused Office or rec69nitiOn in its
ranks. Organizations were formed
within the party to resist the draft-to
discohrage enlistments, and to embar-
rass and clog the operations of the Gov
ernment in every possible way. Our
disasters were magnif1ed, our victories
belittled, and our fnal failure steadily
and clamorously predicted. The party
planted itself, as national organiza-
ton, upon that prediction OF failure as
its cornerstone at Chicago in 1854, and
upon that basis under, the banner, put
forth its utmost energies to overthrow
the Administration and put in its place
one which believed in anything, and
was pledged to nothing, but the inabili-
,ty Of the nation TO crush by force the
rebellion against its authority All
this was in fact, though not in form,
giving aid and comfort 20 the rebellion
-strengthening the hopes and hands
OF those who were striving to divide
the Union and overthrow the snprena-
cy ofthe Constituti ton. The people by
ergy, defeated this purpose and over
whelmed the party which sought to
accomplish it. Their victory over the
rebellion, and their victory over the
Democratic Party, were intrinsically
and substantially the same thing
These were both necessary to the pre-
seryRtlon OF the Union, and each was
necessary to the other. 4
? This Is the opinion of the Democratic
party held to-day by the great body of
the people. Judging 1t by Its action
during the war, they deem It, in temper
and in spirit, still in sympathy and al
lance with the enemies Of the national
authority; and whether itawouldl or
would not do anything directly to Inn
pair that authority, they are unwilling
70 trust its restoration, and the reorgan-
lization of our political institutions 70 its
hands. As it has never, sympathized
with the principles on, which the war
was carried on, II cannot be trusted to
incorporate those. principles in their |
spirit and essence with the new forms |
of political activity, the new social and |
civil forms OF national life, byaJyhich |
the war Is TO be succeeded. II restored |
to power, the DeInocrattc party would |
act with those who fought against the |
Union, not those who fought forit with |
those who sustained slavery, not those
who opposed and sought TO check and |
destroy 1t; with those who believed and |
sA75gAGS0 oSag08oNoAGA e5hLy 1A4ghhh0ob HnO |
held to the sovereignty of the nation /;
with those who would deny, curtaii /
and restrict popular rights and liber-
ties,--not those who would extend and /
enlaTge them. 1t is not so much the |
special things to be done, as it Is the
spirit and general rpose which would !
animateand control their action, which 4
are of chief Importance to the work of /
restofation.b tilsil=i fs.ss... q 1,t.s y II
In this matter the people entertain a I
profound distrust of the Democraticl /
party They are determined that It |
shall not be restored to power until the
leading principles settled by theNvar /
have been incorporate into the basis of
our political institul ions. And 1t is /
this ton, far more than any
devotion to definite measures and
points of policy, which has caused the
renewed defeat of the Democratic par
eyin all the States where elections have
hitherto been held and which viii
pro baby lead 10 the same result in this l
State next week. -
g ECoNoMY.-A slight knowledge of
human nature will show than when a /
man gets on little in the world, he Is |
desirous of getting on a little further, |
Such Is the growth OF pFoVident habits /
that Il has been said that II q Journey-t
may lays by the hTst dollar, he is on
the high road to fortune. It has been
remarked by one who has paid great /
atfantfOn IN tho 7Ifuta rft-tl1d- Ii ISCrfv,s.