The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-13
TnoRoUaH.
BY HORACE GREELEY
Elom ms NstD York Independent.

| GtSHt A4tG 2fsuN 4OTS LNuGpcIuEHt.
The Indications of the canvass appear
TO leave no room for rational doubt oil
| the election of Grant and Colfax. Thus
| far, the management of the Democratic
as well as that of the Republican marty
seems to have been ruled by deIermI.
nation TO make their majority as large
as possible. or all the men who might
have been presented as Democratic can
didates for President and Vice Presi-
dent, ticket composed of Vallandig.
ham and Forrest would probably have
been more odtous; but of all the per-
sons whom 1t was morally possible TO
nominate, there were no two better cal
culated to be badly beaten than Sey-
mour and Blair. Each has distinct
| and decided unpopularity while the
two combine to form u ticket more OBJ
noxious 10 all who cherish loyalty and
love liberty than we should probably
have made IL the naming of the Demo
cratic candidates had been deVolyed on
Republican Convention.
We are bound to beat them badl, /;
yet the struggle is and must be bitter
more vehemently, obstinately contest.
ed than in 1860, when Lincoln and
Hamlin received her electoral vote by
| popular majority OF nearly $4,000.
Ohio was never more closely contested,
and the Democratic mass meetings
"GIe utNtE huuGEOus uOE D6llGE
attended, than in 1853, when Vallau-
diSham was their candidate for Gov
ernor, and was beaten in the event by
| 1000 majority.
We shall elect Grant and Colfax-
not without much more hard work
but by means of that work. We shall
elect them, because the general and con-
fident assurance of their inevitable tri-
umph will not paralyze our energies,
but rather stimulate us TO greater and
| more general eXertion.
But mere success is not enough. We
need victory that shall end all con-
troversy with regard to those Repub-
lican axioms which are embodied in
| the preamble to our fathers Declara-
ton of Independence. We ought to
be relieved by this victory from all me-
cessiIy of arguing thenceforth that a
man, simply because he is a man, is
entitled toall the rights pertaining to
manhood, unless he has personally
forfeited them by crime. There are
children so young as to need a demon
stration that two and two make four;
| yet we must not be'kept demonstrating
| that truth forever. "Speak to the chill
dren OF Israel that they go forward.p
The tide is plainly with us. The
massacre at Camilla has demonstrated
afresh, when the massacre at New Or
leans showed two years ago, that no
race or class of men are fit to be guar
dians and arbiters of the rights of an
other. Trite as this truth is, the blind
| ing influences of pride and prejudice
are SO great that IL needed to be written
| afresh in letters of blood. So 1t has
| been. The proper answer to one OF
Frank Blair's base and brutal appeals
! TO anti-negro prejudice Is finger point
| ed toward the scene of the Camilla
butchery.
| lift were ever doubtful that we can
/ carry for Grant every State that Lin
coin carried in 1864, 1t is doubtful nc
| longer. Oregon we may lose, because
she is too far and too rude to be fully
responsive to the influence on the gen
4 eral mind OF our countrymen which
4 such crimes are certain to exert; but
i California and Connecticut, New York
and New Jersey, If they were doubtful
before, are doubtful no longer. They
| will vote next month (neyer doubt II !
that the Camilla massacre must not b'
repealed-that the power of the UnioI
| shall henceforth be interposed wherever
IL shall be needed to shield legal met
from wholesale manning and murde!
by rebel conspirators.
| What we have to do is TO render thu
Republican triumph not merely decisive
but conclusive. AS the Rebel threats
that they would maintain guerrilla
warfare for at least twenty years afte
the fall of Richmond were laughed t
scorn by the vehemence of Sheridan
pursuit after the victory of Five Forks
the completeness of Grants triumph a
Appomattox, so our victory in Novem
her must be SO crushing as to preclud
further controversy affecting The fun
! damental rights of man. Other topic
OF grave, though less vital, Interest pres
upon US for consideration; there is n
good reason that they should be turtle
deferred. II there is any room 70
cayIl as to the ratification of the -Four
tenth Amendment to the Federal Con
stitution, it would now be disposed o.
"Let us have peace"
Indiana, Pennsylvania, New YorI
and New Jersey will next winter elet
, United States Senators to fill, for 81
: years ensuing, the seats now filled b
Messrs. Hendricks, Buckalew, Morga
and Frelinghuysen, respectively. Rt
pnblIcans look to 1t that each of thes
seats be filed by hearty supporter {
impartial freedom and the Administrs
ton of General Grant.