The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-19

BUT before 1t worked openly; now it is
undermining. / want you to remem-
Der that you have willy enemy. They
are organized as thoroughly as it is
possible to be, and while we have the
majority we also omust have thorough
organization TO effectually defeat them,
Next October let the hills and valleys
OF the Keystone State reVerberate from
hilI-top to hill7top with the news that
people are faithful to their old-time
principles, and an equal Union of the
states, which will, in truth, be INSOFAR
able.s LLong-c cheers.
HeadIOnE Course OF the PresIdent..-
A Calm VtsyE of the situation by a
Conservative Republican Paper.
2 From the Philadelphia ABl. Of AoINldy
Time, instead of softening the asperi-
Ilty of tone held by the President
toward the Republicans who elected
him to power, seems rather to increase
his bitterness, and to display more of a
malignity of temper, which was sus-
pected before, but never so well known.
He appears to have worked himself uu
INTO perfect frenzy against Congress,
| the Republicans, their principles, the
Northern States, the press, the Union
Leagues, and all not identified with the
Southern reaction, and his latest speech
es leave no room to doubt that he would
undertake any ultra course that might
be urged upon him by his, not
| over scrupulouS adherants, All eff
orts to keep terms with "a person ami
mated by such impulses and feelings
| seem to be useless. We have studied
TO preserve our respect for him, for the
sake of the high office he holds. and we
nave supported his administration as
FAR as it was possible without doing
| violence to our own convictions. Bu1
he displays not one particle of consider.
alton for those who; while differing
with him, have held toward him LAM
guage of moderation, dignity and defer
ence. Indeed, how can we expect it of
MIN when he candidly avows in pub
nc speech that he cares nothing for the
dignity of the great office he holds No
one could be more fully persuaded than
he appears to be that all is going his
way swimmingIy. He is by long odds
the worst self-deceived man we have
ever known. Others do not delude him
half so much as he deludes himself,
and all the attempts made to restrain
or mOllify him only serve to persuade
him that he is cock of the walk, and
that no one can stand before him.
Extraordinary and astounding as his
twenty-seeond of February speech ap-
peared to be to all Union men, it really
turns out to have been no osudcen ebuI-
opment of his policy, feelings, dispose
ton and purposes. All the speeches he
has delivered since have been but vary
ing phases of that one, and even. the
scurrility has been aggravated rather
than restrained. To say now that Pres
ident Johnson belongs any more to the
Republican party, or that he has any
claims upon it, is the boldest impcsture
that can be conceived. Yet precisely
this is attempted by the renegade Re
publIcans who follow him under the
pretext that he is supporting the Balti-
rt,1s Z
1854. The Republican party has never
at any period in It's career had an enemy
more nnscrupulous, malignant or dau-
gerous than he appears ambitious to
show himself; and surprising as we
lind many things of his doing, they
bear no comparison in moral turpitude
TO what some of his own organs allege
that he stands ready to do. Never be-
fore within our recollection have the
newspaper representatives of any of
! our Presidents boldly announced the
readiness OF the Executive to attempt
TO establish II bogus Congress in order
to get rid of the regular body, as the
New York Daily Times has done in a
long and carefully written leading ar
ttole, which seems to be but the echo of
another published in Mr.. Seward's
home organ at Auburn, and of the
speeches of Montgomery Blair.
We have used the word dangerous,
pear to ordinary people, and dangerous
they would beif Johnson could succeed
in perverting the elections so as to aug
ment the Democratic vote in the House.
fortunately, however, he cannot do So
as the results in Vermont and Maine
sufficiently attest. Had we ever dream.
ed that there was a possibility of his
accomplishing his scheme, we should
have sounded the alarm in tones not to
be mistaken. But knowing the popu-
lar sentiment of the north, and contid-
ing in 1t, we did not think il necessary
to increase the political excitement or
arrest the currents of business by Civ
ing any countenance to the idea that
there was real peril. All we do re-
coguize in these declarations is a new
form of the old raw head aud bloody
bones that used to be held up to fright
en- timld Union men in the days before
1870. IL being no longer possible to
alarm people at the spectre of dissolu-
ton, resort is now had, by those who
wish tOappeal to the fears rather than
the convictions of the masses, to the
IhkelihQod of attempted despotism and
4 violent dispersion of Congress. The
New York Times advises people to
avoid this danger by submitting to the
schemes and the usIrpatiOns of john
son. We, on the other hand, advise
Them to rebuke such threats rthe out
set and make an example of all who
EeSOES 70 bnem. we ADVISE the people
to deprive of official trust and RESPONSE
btlity every man tainted with the sup
port of a President confessed to be de-
signing such things,
When the Times and its associates
| prove to us so circumstancially that the
PRESIDENT really means TO do this out
rageous deed, il he gets chance, the
revelation does not breed in us any
! feeling of alarm at the possibility of
such stupid attempt proving success
| ful, but stern determination to stand
by our principles, and to do our utmost
To midtown the party weak and base
enough to aid the President in such
designs. Truly we have achieved very
little as the result of our fearful war. if
| now, at its close, we are to have our
any chance Wayfarer who manages to
straggle into the Presidency by acci.
dent or false pretence. b
We live in republican government,
OF which the cardinal principle is that
The majority ought to govern. This is
q government of law and order, where
the autQcratic principle has never been
established, and where its support by
any party should be resisted to the Mt
termost- As we understand President
Johnson's position, it is purely auto
cratic. He arrays himself against the
Will of the majority, and while prating
OF constitutions aud laws, attempts to
overthrow the spirit of all republican
governments, and make his own des-
potic will the only law.
TRADE AND DEBr.-The Atlantic Ca
bic, the New York Times believes. is
used for duplicating. orders for PFitisI,