The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-18
AN ImPARTIAL REVIEW

from Lc Ns Il SuUl an tHugpeuQeJH paper.
The result of the election in Maine
confirms anew the opinion we have
constantly expressed respecting the
Presidential canvass. It is destined to
end in the election OF Gen. Grant. Sey-
mour and Blair have to-day not a
single chance of success; and the whole
power of the Democratic party, but
now so proud and SO confident, will
of necessity presently be concentrated
upon mighty If not q desperate ef-
fort to save the Safe of New York,
where year since their majority rose
to so, 600.
In this condition of affairs it may not
be unwdlcome to those fair minded,
thoughtful men, who are never carried
awSy by the blind rush of partisan en-
thusiasIn, to consider in what respect
the election of Gen. Grant will, under
the present circumstances, prove more
beneficial to the country than that of
the great Democratic chieftain of New
York could be.
One of the chief points In which the
success OF Grant appears TO us very
Seymour in his letter accepting the
Democratic nomination.. TT must be
clear to every thinking man." he says,
THAT n division of political power tends
to check the violence OF party action,
and to assure the peace and good order
ofsociety. The election oft Democratic
Executive and a Iajority OF Demo-
cratic members to the House of Repre-
sentatiyes would not give to that par
ty organization the power to make sud-
den or violent changes, but IL would
serve TO check those extreme measures
which have been deplored by the best
men of both polical organizations"
The Governor means here that it would
be good thing to have Democratic
President and u majority in one House
of Congress, because, while they could
not carry through any measures of
Democratic policy, they could neutral
ize the Republican majority in the
Senate and check the consumation of
Republican measures that are alre ady
partially completed.
What singular recommendation of
a party, that even in its success it must
be substantially impotent! This is the
first part of Gov. Seymour's PROPOSE
ton; The second is. that it would be adj
VnnIRgeous to continue for at least four
years longer that conflict between the
Executive and Congress which has
been going on for the last three years.
But where would be the advantage
Would it be In delaying for that period
the settlement of the South? Would it
be in keeping the business of the whole
country in feverish and doubtful
state2 Would it be in the opportuni-
ties it would give to demagogues of all
parties to go up and down the land dis
Iurbing the public mind with pha ntoms
OF new revolutions, new civil wars, new
intrigues, and new overturns? Would
it be in tho ppralJ sis OF every branch
OF the public service, and the robbery
of the pablic revenue by incompetent
and dishonest officials, such as the one
party can't punish and the other won't
turn out?
We can see no advantage to the peo-
pie of any portion of the country in
such state of things. On the contrary,
we believe that the now assured etec-
ton of Grant must be of great benefit
precisely because 1t will close the con-
t1ict between the Executive and Con-
gress, and produce n permanent settle
ment of tho Southern States. That set
Element may not be the best that might
be devised. II may need improve
ment and alteration from time to time
hereafter. But Il will put an end to
the turmoil and collisions that now
render those States little better than
the camps of hostile factions. 1t Will
give peace to the country, and allow it
once more to start in the career of in
dustry,. commerce, and progress.
But If we turn from the programme
of Gov. Seymour, as quoted above to
that of Gen. Blair, the satisfaction OF
judicious men with the election ofGrant
will be exceedingly increased. While
Gov. Seymour proposes merely to con-
linue the struggle against the lsgisIa-
tive power with which our experience
under Mr.. Johnson has made us famiI-
iar, Gen. Blair contemplates an active
military assault upon the work of Con-
gress In the South, to be followed by
the complete subjugation ofthe Senate.
The execution of this revolutionary
scheme would at once set on foot civil
war moro bloody and possibly more
protracted than that which was COM
full that the issue of the election will
stfve the nation from all danger of such
a catastrophe.
at the Same time it is comfortable TO
be assured that in other respects the
Republic will be safe in the hands OF
Gen. Grant. He is a firm, magnani-
nous, disinterested, modest, patriotic
man, endowed with extraordinary
common sense and judgment, who has
succeeded in the discharge of every
duty that has yet been laid upon him,
no matter how weighty or important.
Following these antecedents, we doubt
not that he will, in the great Office to
which he is about to be elevated, seek
exclusively for the prosperity and
honor of the country, always prefer
ring the public welfare to every other
consideration. AS he himself has ex-
planned 1t, "he will have no policy of
his own 10 enforce against the will of
the people;" or, in the language of Gov.
Seymour, he will be "wiIling to carry
out the wishes of the people expressed
in constitutional wsy."
A GRUMBLE.