The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-18
Political News.

Henry Ward Beecher is against
The temperance men of Michigan
propose to make prohibition the issue
in the next State election.
The New York Times advises Gen.
Grant to issue a daily bulletin of his
opininns, as the only means of avoid
ing being quoted on all sides of all
questions. The General certainly
needs protection in some way.
President Johnson was asked by
Bostonian how he came TO appoint Mr..
Bancroft-who Is non-resident-collec-
tor of Boston. Sir" replied the Pres
ideut, ''it has recently been officially
declared in Massachusetts, if am not
mistaken, that non-residence is not a
disqualification for Office"
The Missouri Senate has rejected an
amendment to the constitution provid-
ing that no person shall be disfran-
chised unless convicted of treason or
felony: also a resolution referring TO
the people an amendment repeating
the test oath for lawyers and preachers.
The Georgetown ID. c. board of
registry has decided that under the
District suffrage bill all persons who
went South during the rebellion are
disfrauchised, whether they did or did
not take advantage of the Lincoln am
nesty, or have or have not been pardon
ed. This decision gives great otense to
a considerable number OF residents who
two weeks ago, and who expected to
vote in the coming election.
The Chicago Tribune considers the
impeachment movement a measure to
deter the President from yetoing the
new tariff, which 1t declares to be a sys-
tenn of wholesale plumber of the people
to pamper an aristocracy of specula-
tors. That Mephistopheleso of the press,
the New York Herald, takes the cue
and advises the President to make a
grand flank movement by vetOing the
tariff, assuring him that he Will thus
turn the popular current in his favor.
f. Howell Cobb of Georgia, is at
Washington, and converses freely with
the Republicans on political affairs
He frankly ayows that he thinks it the
true policy of the South to submit
quietly to Whatever is imposed by Con-
gress, but to form no political alliances
and devote herself wholly to the work
of recuperation.
This is what the Nav York World
has to say about Gen. Grant as presi-
Dental candidate: ''The great strength
of Gen. Grants position as a candidate
tor the presidency lies in the fact that
he can be supported without inconsis-
tency by either OF the great political
parties. He has kept so aloof from
politics, and borne himself with such
distinguished discretion, that he seems
to be the one man capable OF uniting
and harmonizing the country. If the
republicans should have the good sense
and moderation to run him for the
presidency, the democratic party would
make no opposition. If the democra Is
should run him, no candidate brought
against him by the other side would
have any chance of success
The ten delegates from the Arkan'
sas Legislature, sent TO Washington tc
INQUIRE as 10 the prospect of restora'
tiou, have returned to Little Rock and
made their report Their general con
c1usion is that there is no prospect, and
that the only thing to do is to wait
/ They saw that the President and th'
supreme Court will protect them II
| their constitutional rights, that ali nm
/ constitutional laws Tor their injury VII
| be inoperative, and that laws merely
oppressiye must be submitted 20 til
/ they can be changed. They rePose un
bounded faith in the influence OF TIM
I and events They forget that the tid'
in the affairs of men does not lead OF
TO fortane, unless taken at the Hood,
and atime and tide wait for no man.
Their faith and patience may be com
meudable, but their policy : bad