The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-11
Revolutionary FIXTURE win the Dem.
nernIa-4eYmnnrsa Denial.


OeraIS-SeymOuFssD Denial.
From the Net0 York Herald. tDe5aoeTGttel
Mr.. Seymour has accepted the Demo
cratic nomination again by formal
letter. his letter WAS scarcely neces-
sary, as he accepted the nomination
personally before; bat Il may be that
as he declined 1t great many times ne
intends to accept an equal numoe5I'
An unnecessary letter would be 1901
| ish ming from almost any other candt-
date: but Governor Seymour Is one OF
! the few who may be safely trusted Win
mems and paper, for his thoughts are SO
tattenuated, SO vague dim ana lu1 pal
pabIe by the time they are %5lIten
! down that acres OF theu 3OuIu nO1
ySIth effect either for or against him.
If sevmour,s letter faithfully presents
tbe ooerations of his brain, that must
6s the least positive and effective organ
/ fSat was ever encased in the Uranium
| of q man of respectable position.
| There is but one point in his letter
I that touches an important fact OF the
present canvass. Dir. Seymour has EVIL
IDENTIFY seen the harm that the Southern
fire-eaters have done TO the democracy
| He has felt that their revolutionary
declarations were alarming the people,
and in view of this, frightened Ior the
cause, he ventures come sentences In
reinsurance he gives? He only tells
us that revolution cannot follow a
democratic victory, merely because the
democracy cannot ge. all the power OF
the nation into their hands at one cleo
ton, 1.-The election OF a democratic
Executive and a majority OF demo-
cratic members to the House of Repre-
sentatives would not give TO that party
organization the power to make sudden
or violent changes" There is to be 30
revolution, therefore, because the Sen
ate stands in the way. Not that
Wade Hampton, Toombs and the rest
are wrong in reviViug the old ante-War
slyle of Southern harangue; not that
the Democratic leaders of the North and
South do not pant to tear up and de-
stroy the whole present organization
and Tetrace the steps we have taken
towards peace; but merely that the
Democrats can at most elect only a
President and House of Representa-
tives, and with these can do SO little
harm that the people need not be push
ed by fear OF The result to act against
them. This is the best reason The dis
tinguished gentleman has to give in
favor OF his party. This looks very
much as II the Democratic trainers,
frightened at the way Northern senti-
ment takes recent Democratic speeches,
mad put Seymour TO correct all that by
some smooth sentences in his letter, eX-
pecliDg confidently that he could erase
from the public mind all the impress
sion made by the Southern tre-eaters.
But this is the most laundering correc-
ton we ever saw.
From the candidates own utterance,
therefore, we are assured that the limit
10 the democratic disposition to make
"sudden and violent charges" will be
the power that party possesses. We
know what that limit lie; for we have
| lamentable experience that party pos
sessipg two branches of the govern
ment viii not be stayed in It's extraya-
| gance by the opposition of the third
| branch. The democrats, If the case
arise, will find way TO do without the
Senate, as the republicans found 6
way TO practically thrust the President
aside. The people, therefore, must no
rely upon the Senate in venturtng Il
trust the democrats for change. They
mean nothing less than an absolute
change of everything that party car
lay hands on, and a change conceived
in the most violent and anti-nationa
spirit; and the lame denial of their can
iidate strengthens the evidence OF this
Bad enough these past years with th
radi caI faction, we should fare Infinite
lly worse in the hands OF the democrat
fc faction, and our only chance is tn
election of Grant, and the hope that b.
will put down all the factions and Civ
a grand assertion OF the law.