The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-30
FROM WASHINGTON.

The Baltimore Troubles-GOY. Swami
Desires to be UnIted States senator
from Maryland and the President
Determines % Help IIim..-A PcW
Brief Remarks about the President
.-!The Best Political Document Yet
.--SeeretRFy MeClIloeh's RiHAheiaI
Policy .CoFFeapend.
enee Of the New York PapeFs.dr
wAsnINeToN, oct. "a, 1890.
Matters are quiet enough here, but
the excitement Is intense in Baltimore.
However, do not believe an outbreak
will actually occur. The Governor Of
Maryland Is trying to make himself
o. s, Senator, and he knows there is no
chance for him unless rebels and rebel
sympathizers are permitted to vote in
baltimore. The constitution stands in
their way, and this whole movement
aims 70 nlIlifyit. / have tried 70 look
the subject fairly In the face, and I cam
not escape this conclusion. Say that
the constitution Is severe upon the
rebel sympathizers, admit that 50 long
as the constitution Is enforced Il Sim
possible to change lis terms, yet IL Is
The constitution, and the republicans
have law on their side. Gov. Swami
land think there is no doubt that the
President is In the plot means 70 tram
pie the constitution under his feet by
removing the police commissioners, and
appointing men who will not enforce
IA. ,..n,,i.FnVa1 ,.oInNtR0s n TyANt1as Hba
Governor makes wTy faces over NEGRO
suffrage" in his address TO the counsel
for the commissioners, yet one would
suppose that he would be ashamed to
alIude to that subject. he and his
friends claim that 70 disfranchlse thou
sands OF white rebel sympathizers Is
cruel, but Is 1t not much better to dis
franchise guilty white men rather than
loyal, innocent black men2 These very
culprits who fights hard for the ballot
for themselves, won't consent that the
blacks shall have It. II anybody at
the North is big enough fool to waste
any sympathy on such knaves, trust
he will have good time nursing his
But the Baltimore radicals will act
foolishly II they fight, for the President
will crush them with the regular army
II they do It. The thing is fixed. Gov.
Swami Wfll call upon the President for
military assistance In case Of a riot
and will get It. The result Is evident
Gen. Candy will crush the radicals and
this will raise the passions Of the peo-
pie, and the President will be impeach.
cd and depOsed. Then comes q second
civil war md a speedy overthrow OF
johnson, Seward and all that sort OF
cattle. But the radicals OF Baltimore
will think better OF the idea Of fighting
when Gen. Canby's troops arc gathered
In Baltimore, and they can accomplish
their objects In an easier way, II the
rebels succeed in their plan OF electing
a Senator and two Representatives by
violation OF tho law, let the United
States Senate and the House OF Repre-.
Bentatiyes at the outset refuse 70 admit
them TO seats, This can be done ON two
grounds: first, OF frauds In the election,
and second, because Of the open at
tempt OF tho executive TO pack Con.
gress by the use Of the military, II
might be rather hard In the Senate TO
20 behind the action OF the State Legts.
iature, but 1t would DO better TO stretch
the point rather than get Into civil war.
/ donot mean by any means 70 suggest
this course, but simply 10 Intimate TO
our excited friends In Baltimore that
Il any great outrage Is committed
against their rights, there Is n way In
which evil-dOers can DO punished with
out any resort TO street fight.
TIE PRESIDENT QUIET BUT wATUHPUE.
The President Is little more quiet Of
late, but anybody who supposes that he
IL going 70 turn round and behave
himself, now that the elections have
gone against him, Is blind with i'm
mense faith. 1t isn't In the man. He
Ia bad, and he was bad when we all
praised hlm-that IL, he was u coarse,
violent, selfish man, and II Is an honor
10 the slavehOldlng nristOcracy OF Ton
nessee that they never could bear him.
Give them credit for that, as they do
serve precious little In any other rG-
spect. They knew Johnson TO be n
vulgar upstnrt and all the moro odiOua
for being exceedingly energetic. Now
we have got this coarse, violent man
over uE, and we may ny well give him.
rome. The pfan OF General Butler and
Wendell Phillips TO lmpOach and 70.
move him Is a crazy ono and will not
DO carried ont, unless tho President
commits some overt act. Should he
use tho military 70 put down the RAdl.
Gals In Baltimore, and II blood shall
dow, look upon his impeachment M
certnIn, Let him once use the army
against the loyal people for tho snke OF
F6b0ls and pOBGB cannot be preserved
Congress will try the issue with him
lWhelher prudsntly or unprudonilyD
and tho country must takO its chances.
| believe that In such q aqnaTrel General
Grant will stand with Congress- and
not with the President. sherman, az u
well known II mean the General and
not tho Senator, Is with johnson. Ho
hRH hated the Radicals ever Hlne0 n
great blunder at tho close OF the war.
TrE DEsT POLITICAL DoOUNRNrYET
Have You looked at Thomas East's
last picture in HdTpeT's RseklyH II IN
the best political document issued dur
InRtho campaign. II thoroughly Illus
tFStRB the sOhnFRUtsF Of Mr.. johnson, bis
hypOcriSles, BOlf.rightOOusnesS, Insult
ferable ogolism, tr0Roh0ry and stupidi-
", Punch huH never contained any
thing equal 20 NasvR picture. Wherever
seward comes there Is no mlstaklnR
that broken Jaw, nor tho will which not
only guides lLS owner but the President
also. Down IN ono corner WO SEQ two
dOgs led by johnson, and upon NJ care
mi look nj them We find that they nrO
UFnnC and Farrngut. Thus they were
iRj ont on tho western trip. Tho artist
who wanted 10 paint In nll tho nccessSo'
rieS oorlld not omit thoso gr0nt warriors
and Lhs part they played on that o1pur-
sion, THEIR bOst friends Glnlm thnt In
n certain SOnAn they were compelled TO
nCompany tho President. u lhoy