The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-30
SOLDIER.

The Cincinnati Commercial of the
18th says in reference to the Prcsidcm-
tial Pilgrimage:
AT 100 this morning the President
of the United States, with his Cabinet,
will commence swinging on the cir
Gle" and climbing the dizzy round" to
Chicago and back, going by way of
New York and Buffalo, and coming bv
way of Cincinnati and Pittsburgh
The Presidential party will arrive in
Philadelphia ut $50 this afternoon, and
remain until o'clock tomorrow morn
ing, when they will leave for New
York. The contact that the President
Will have with the people will permit
him to throw aside that official reserve
III which lie has wrapped himself so
closely in the White House, and culirh-
ten the people Il little as to his policy.
He Will see many anxious inquircrS for
truth, and may perhaps mt least find
time To tell them something of his past
history as AN individual, and To point
them to his record to illustrate bv the
heretofore what will happen in the
hereafter. He is swinging on large
circle, and the roar OF the multitudes
Will he about him for some thousands
Of miles, and it is TO bc hoped he will
not neglect to maintain, for the encOur-
agement of persons willing to hold
office, that he has tried a surieit of pub
lie trusts, going the giddy round from
village Alderman to Presidents; and
that, as his course is ncarlyTuu, he has
nothing to gain by doing wrong. This
is the sort of talk to edify and build up
sinners and make the righteous COM
Portable. The philosophical Seward
will swing on the circle with the Presi-
dent, and the beloved Stanton will also
swing, and likewise our financial friend.
McCulloch. We hope Father Welles will
not be left behind. His beard is needed
to ornament the special train. The os-
tensible objective point is the grave of
Douglas. 1t is a happiness that all
parties may meet around it in good
will, and join i'll the inauguration of II
monument to his memory. 1t is posi-
BILE that it would not be impcrtinent TO
imagine that the real object Of the Jour
ney is to seek for an Administration
party. In this view of the case we re-
greet to sec that the pilgrimage. though
rather vast than otherwise, still is sec
tional. The South is ignored, as it We're.
How can the President suppose himself
to be n National man and not swin,,
entirely around the circle? A trip
through the pcrturbed South would be
more interesting than one in the placid
North. But as Cincinnati is not omit
ted from the programme, we ought not
to prOtract \ geographical complaint.
and will not. The President will he
absent from the White House for nearly
month. This is Il source of the deem
est dissatisfaction TO those who believe
in his principles so far as TO be willing
TO accept a nice slice of bread, buttered
with gold, from his hand. lie cannot
be distributing those slices while on the
wing, and now, right away after the
formation of the new party, and Con-
gress out of the way, he Is losing pre-
cious time, and the beautiful declara-
ton of first principles made by General
Geiger-which far exceeds the tame
bread-andbutter decree of Gov. Ran
dali, viz: "IH0Sc lChO drink the sriU
gre the nlIk''-passes away among the
neglected axiOms.