The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-11
Ohio County Union Ticket.

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CiV Disi,irf-E ELIJAH DAY.
CO'Ilty PRIVATE JAS. Z. MAXWELL,
WE have received a communication
signed Brooke" which. under our
rule, we cannot publish until we have
the writer's name. Correspondents
should bear this in mind, and govern
themselves accordingly.
THE effect of the Presidents speeches
is beginning TO he felt This is evil
deuced in the tone of the more respecta-
BILE and reasonable of the journals sus-
tanning his policy, rs we'll as in the OBJ
servationS of the more frank and can
did of his followers.
The New York Journal Of Commerce
says of the Presidents tour:
I'VE need not apologize to our read
ers for emitting the details of the Presi-
dental progress, as they are given at
length i'll the morning papers. The re-
cord is not very satisfactory. and one
turns from the repeated speeches and
the interruptions OF evil disposed peo-
pie and the retorts OF Mr.. Johnson and
Mr.. Seward, to contemplate the length
of the journey, and to feel grateful that
each day brings US nearer the end, and
will reach home and be housed for the
season.
The Springfield Republican uses still
more forcible language. In its issue of
the 18th inst, il thus speaks of John
sons and Stewards speeches en- route to
Chicago:
The vices of our party politics, and
the weaknesses of the Presidents char
k1F
tour OF the executive through the
Northern and Western States. Mr..
Johnson is badly afflicted with himself;
added to which are a sensitive, irasci-
Bile temper. want of self-control and
self-resPect, and a vehement, passion
ate, hHranEuinE style of speaking. AL
together. these qualities are making a
sad muddle of his speeches on the jour
ney. He talks as the editors Of the
New York Tribune write, coarse vul-
carly. vituperatively; like a Tammany
hail orator, or a crossroads stump
speaker, rather than the President of
the United States; like cheap, weak
partisan, rather than n statesman or "A
patriot. He has no patience with peo-
pie who differ from him: no belief in
their honesty or loyalty, and does not
hesitate to exhibit this Impotence and
iHtidelity in the severest and most ag-
gravating language.
The scene at Cleveland, repeated in
less degree at other places, reminds us
of the way misunderstanding young Lon
doners worry the traditional fish-wo-
men, and set them of into n TRADE of
billngsgate, uttered amid the chokings
of anger. His arraignment and char
acteriZation OF Congress, the press and
the people, TOR their opposition TO his
policy, are so wild and false and vulgar,
that they would excite only ridicule
and contempt, coming from other lips
~ hn
our politicians of all sides have the
same habits in speaking and writing;
BrOwnlow and Greeley are conspicuous
and sad instances; but nobody who
ever got into the Presidents place car
ried them there before.
II is impossible to expect respect from
the people for either Office or man un-
der such provOcatiOn, however much
we may demand it. There are plenty
to forget themselves and his station,
when he is so lost to all sense of official
dignity and personal respect 1t is no
wonder that Mr.. Raymond said, early
in the trip, that the Presidents speeches
were killing his party; or that Mr.. Sc
ward made excuse of danger from an
over-crowded balcony at Niagara to
stop the Presidents speech there.
Nor are Mr.. Stewards speeches on the
journey worthy himself or his position.
He seems to be acting a part; there is
often an affected, ill-becOming levity in
him; and though never so vituperative
or undignitied as his chief, he is some
times as weak and unconsequential in
his arguments and appeals. His bear
ing and his speeches are indeed more
foreign to his character and his prece-
dents than Mr.. JohnsOn's. The Presi-
dent simply preserves in his exalted
position the manners and habits of his
provincial career and partisan training.
1t will, indeed, he a relief when this
PFGai1HnfinI lg Il
ing bad passions, and intlaming the pub
lie mind, all over the country. II in
adding to, and not abating, the comDIi-
cations of the political position. And
until it is safely over, We shall be APP
prehensive of some outbreak OfpersOn-
al violence. There is n lawless and RI
otous spirit abroad in our politics,
North as well as South, and the PreSi-
dents speeches are acting as n tenptR-
ton and prOvocatiOn to its outbreak, on
one side or the other. He is tanning
the flame of party passion into n white
heat by his Incorporate language.
And finally the New York Times,
whose editor figured so extensively in
the Copper-Johnson Convention at
Philadelphia, on the 18th of August,
and who was vain enough TO suppose
that his detection from the great Union
party would be followed by its disrup-
ton, changes very suddenly it's full
some twaddle about the popular hon.
age" everywhere paid Mr.. johnson,
and proceeds TO lecture the "humbIe
individual" in this wise:
president Johnson, in his speech at |
Cleveland, remarked that he did not
care about his dignity In our iudT- |
ment this is greatly to be regretted. |
The American people care very much |
about it, and can never zee it forgotten |
or laid aside without profound sorrow |
and EoliCitudc. Mr.. johnson ia moi |
speaking or travelling as simple citi- |
zen. He Is President of the United |
States at Cleveland as well IA at Wash
ington,-while addressing mass meet
ing RR we'll Rs when presiding mt n Cab
met council and Whatever no may do
or say at either place carries with II all
the weighL~nnd influence of his high
position. 80 far as its effect upon the |
public mind is concerned, what ne snys |
In a public speech has precisely tho |
Hnme Importance as what he says in IA |
message TO Congress; and he should, |
In iuHltCn In hfmRnlf IN tho DpODln and /