The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-03-24

B, ". BRICE, Paymaster General
Paymaster Generals Office, March ID
1866.
Pending tue New Hampshire election
and before the body of the clerks fror
that State had made up fund to pro
mote the interests there of Congress
men and others who are warning agans
the Government, and before they hat
left this city to exert their influence il
that direction, we stated upon authorl
ty the Presidents view of the matter
He referred expressly to his action last
autumn forbidding the assessment OF
employees in the navy yards for partisan
electioneerIng purposes 1t is known
that he did this from deep sense of con.
tidenee in the final action ofrhe people,
and also from faith in the old Jeffer-
sonian rule that Office. holders should not
go into the popular assemblies and ex-
ert the influence of their position to lead
or control the people. Again, the Presi-
dent being practical man and thought
iul of the sharp struggles of men in sub
ordinate positions to provide for the
present wants of families, to say moth
ing of prospective ones, scorrs the asses.
sing by partisan leaders OF persons who
often, from the mOderateness OF their
salaries, are barely able to support their
families in Washington Moreover, he
regards it a. the first and most impor'
tant duty Of public officers to attend
quietly and assiduously TO the ueeiful
discharge of public duties
The President expressed his views to
prominent officials very decidedly upon
The above points; but, for all that, his
almost unexaWpled spirit of forbearance,
under an indiscribable amount of parti-
san assault and obloquy, is relied upon
confidently a. certainly in the end to
cause him 10 overlook and forgive 4 vio-
latiou Of h.s express wishes aud senti.
ments.
Accordingly, the work Of detailing
Government officials To carry the eiec.
tion in New Hampshire in the interest
OF tie C0ngressmeu who, with perhaps
q single exception, have ranged undrr
The STEVENS star chamber lead, aud
have gone for all aud singular of his die.
tatorial and revolutionary measures, was
not for moment pretermitted. We
have heard of clerks who were opposed
10 pushing the President to the wall, nor
had they the means TO well meet the
taxation Of the cahal, but wero in the
end forced to !oregO such considerations
and Oin ia tue crusade, which was in.
terpreted III New Hampshire ~ OF Gov
ernment origIuation and approval
This, with the unfortunate letter of the
Postmaster General, which vas elicited
from simulated representation Of tarls,
Wa, proof positive 10 thousands ot
friends Of ANDREW JOHNSON among con
servatiye Republicans Of New Hamp
shire, that il was indeed true, as repre-
sented by Tue double dealing triCksters,
that there was no difference between
the President and the factions disuui9n
lists in Congress which was not at the
point Of being healed: or, to use plain
words, that ANDREW JOHNSON ~o"'d
bacL: dorn .fQm his position
Under these circumstances the election
took place Tho friends Of the President
and policy Of the Government could not
see that they would be sustained at
Washington, if they opposed the Con
gressional interest, which has bceu IN et-
feet tue appointing powT; or even II
they folded their arms, and stood alooi
from a contest that conscience Suggested
10 many as replete with duphcity and
Observation-Disclosures.
But when the STATE was actually car
lied, though with a considerably dnn,L-
ished majority by dint of these decep-
tive devices of the instruments of the
disuRon and revolutionary cabdl in
Congress, the conspirators and COntrivers
to that end burst forth in irrepressible
transports at public meetings IN various
parts of the St1to. ANDREw JoH&soN
was then nothing, aud Congress was
omnipotent The former was freely
spoken of in the harangres of dema-
gogues in terms Of defiance and obloquy.
At the meeting at Manchester, on the
night of the election, says the Union
Democrat OF that place
The result was claimed as a triumph
over him and his policy Gen. Hlnks
said that it meant that the Southern
States should await the pleasure OF the
Radicals. and that the President should
abide by their principles; another
speaker, IN the vOluptuOusness OF his JOY,
declared that the great Union party,
with Grant, and perhaps Sherman, at It's
head. could whip Andrew Johnson, the
Copperheads, and the devil. This was
the spirit of the meeting, and 1t is a fact
that nobody will deny, that the ranker
the abuse of Andrew johnson, the more
hearty was the applause.
This general view has beeu confirmed