The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-15
,r,ck,. views OF the situation.

The following extract is from MAcRs
letter to Yesterdays Cincinnati CONNER
eial. 1t is an interesting representation
in the political situation from o Radical
nd-point, The figuring on the next
election is particularly attractive. Con-
cede the Democracy SO electoral votes
and the result which MACK reaches be-
comes quite questionable:
CINCINNATI, November 10, 1867.
The most amusing, if at the same
time the most humiliating, feature OF
the effect of the recent election is the
spectacle presented by many OF the
would-be leaders of the moral idea wing
of the Republican party IN taking to
the bushes and offering to surrender
principle, organization, and every thing,
because the advance gOard ofthe party,
under indisereet generalship, has been
defeated. A year ago, every man who
wrote or spoke against the unjust and
ungenerous policy of Reconstruction
pursued by Congress, was branded a
rebel OF a Copperhead by the brainless
bipots ofthe Republican party; but now
that the people of the great States OF
the North have set the seal OF their con-
demuation upon the much vaunted
Congressional policy" one-haif OF the
leaders and indOrsers of Radical pro-
scription are for the immediate and
unconditional surrender of every idea
for which. the Republican party was
formed: for to that complexion the nom
4 ~ Eanpral trrHnt
will como at last.
Tho annals of history furnish no par
allel for such political cOwardlce. Ihree
months ago it was proposed to lmpeach
Mr.. johnson for betraying the Republl-
can party; now, it is proposed TO elect
as Mr.. Johnson's successor the man up.
on whose official report the hrSt act OF
that betrayal was based. No sooner
does Mr.. Eggleston, fresh from the adj
yoeacy of Johnson's Impeachment, hear
that his district has gone Democratic,
than he mounts the window of the Ga
zette office to nominate Grant for Pres
ident.
Whether this effort will succeed or
NOT remains to be seen. There are
few men in the Republican party, and
thew are not easily crowded to the wall,
who will insist upon q show of hands
FROM all Presidential aspirants. If they
should succeed, it is very well known
that General Grants chances as Re
publican nominee are at an end: for his
only hope is in being nominated on his
military record, and no questions asked.
From the Washington standpoint the
FIGHT seems to have been narrowed
down to between Grant and Chase,
as far as the Republican nomina-
ton is concerned. 1t is difficult to tell,
at this time, how Congress will stand
on the subject when it comes together,
but Grants friends claim to have ma
iority in each House. Chase will be
stronger in the Senate than In the
House, for the reason that many mem
beers of the latter think that Grants
name and reputation will help to drag
them through the next Congressional
canvass.
1t may interest q few of the fearful
souls to be informed that, even on the
basis of the late elections, the Republic
can party can elect its nominee with
out any bargain or surrender whatever.
Here is fair estimate of how the elect
oral vote will stand, allowing the DEM
ocrats to carry New York and Pennsyl-
vania, which they cannot do when Gen.
eral Grants Republican friends have
no interest in permitting it to be done:
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