The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-07-18
The Counter.Reaction.

We are on the eve of a heated aud
excited political campaign. The NOM
ination OF Horatio Seymour, the en-
bodiment OF copperheadism, for Presi-
dent of the United States by the Demo-
cratic Convention is an aVowal of the
determination of the democracy to re-
nounce none of their old heresies and
prejudices.- but to fight out the battle of
the next election upon the issues en-
b.aced in the contests of the past six or
seven years. The popular demand for
an obliteration of all the old political
lines and a hearty union of the conser-
vative elements against radical misrule
have been disgarded; the Demo-
cratic party has Withdrawn itself
within its own lines, and. nothing Is
left to tho people but to choose
between the old sympathiZers with
secession and the men who stood true
to the Union and fought out the war
against rebellion to successful termt.
nation. Under these circumstances
there can be no question that the reac-
ton which manifested itself last year
in several of tho Northern States, and
especially In New York, against the
revolutionary policy of Congress, will
receive serious check, and that, de-
spite the heated appeals OF party or
Rans, the people of the Union will unite
In electing to the chief office of the re-
public the general who three years ago
led their armies to victory over the
Confederate forces, rather than the man
who in the darkest hour of the coun-
try's peril denounced the war for the
the Union as failure.
So far as the State of New York IL
concerned we have no doubt that her
fifty thousand majority cast last year
for the democratic ticket Will be entire
ly wiped out next November, and that
the State will go about the same mum
ber the other way. II is possible that
in the several Congressional districts
where sound conservative men are
nominated the vote may be cast against
the radicals: but there can be no ques-
ton that the people will show at the
ballot box that they have not forgotten
the lessons of the war, and that they
are not prepsred to Stultify themselves
by refusing civic honor5 10 the geEerRl
who led their armies to victory, anC be-
slowing them upon the peace politician
who rendered himself notorious above
all his conTTeTeS by the ingenuity aud
consistency with which he denounced
the war as failure. Indeed, 1t Is more
than probable that the nomination of
Seymour, forced upon New York by the
disappointed and defeated Democracy
or the Western States, may prove the
III ems of bringing about an entire po-
lilicRl revolution In our local AS vel as
in our State politics. The large major
iLy by which General Grant will carry
the State next November will be likely
10 Iake with it nearly all the Assembly
districts, thus giving the Legislature
In both branches, as well as the state
Executive, to the Republicans. In this
event we may anticipate general
wiping out of the municipal depart
menIs now in the hands of the Tam
many leaders, and a change OF patron
age that may efectually overcome for
the next twenty. five years the enor-
Democratic ring candidates, whoFver
they may be, in the great meIropolis of
the United States.-N. y. Herald.