The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-16
PHILADELPHIA.
E,o,n the Prlss ok IHednesdau.

HTODl Tue GTtSS " HSuNSSNNS'
The Judgment once already rendered
by the American people after four
years. wrestle on the banks Of the APP
pomattox, and deliberately opened by
the Democratic party, has been re.
afhmed. Yesterday, after months Of
severe and desperate conflict the old
line closed for a decisive struggle, and
thank God, the shadows of destiny
have fallen as they did on the fields OF
the rebellionl .t.r .-..as!
At this late hour, when in our own
city all night long the balance has wHv-
cred, and over the land the electric
wires burdened with messages OF
PRAYER and hope from every quarter,
have Welded but meagre returns, we
have but time to tell in brief words The
story of our triumph and count its cost.
Pennsylvania, the hand on the dial of
the Union, points to prosperity and
lbeace. Eighteen thousand mojority for
the Republicans-a majority that au-
guTs forty thousand for Grant and Col
fax-is the testimony of the old Com
monwealth which in Revolutionary
DAYS testified her war.tried loyalty and
gratitude to the boys in bun by the
Overwhelming election of Major Gener-
al Mif1in. To-day mindful'of her re-
cord of yore, she places in her seats OF
honor and Office two gallant boys In
blue, and lays Ier electoral vote Mt the
thy the State which sent to the field
three hundred and sixty six thousand
of her sons.
Indiana, from her prairies and bar
rem woods, sends greeting and ten
thousand contribution to the great ma
it's savior. Egypt has been redeemed,
and even the Democracy that borders
on the land of Kentucky is looking to-
ward disenthralment. The colonists
from the State of Nasby have failed 10
even stain the escutcheon of Hnosier
loyalty. Perhaps the Indiana soldiers
have not yet forgotten Col. Jefferson
Davis and the battle of Buena Vista.
Ohio, the cradle of aggressive Repub.
licauism, grandly retrieves the dis
crace of last year, when Wade went
down bearing the colors OF his party,
and reapproaches the fealty of 1854 and
1865. The lines are reformed, the
country is saved-Grsnt goes In next
March, and the day of promise dawns.
Philadelphia, that city founded in
prayer and the birthplace iof. of.independ-
ence, has been apparently carried
against US by a small majority-a maj
ority which Judicial decision can easily
rectify. Perhaps it is we'll that we
should be taught by bitter and expen-
eripg fidelity and staunch loyalty are
for ever the price of our liberties. It's,
perbaps, well that we should be forced
10 save our city only by severe and
determined struggle in the courts, Last
year, through our confidence and Grim
inal negligence we admitted the Iro.
ian horse-Judge George Shaswood-a
man of eminent respectability and un-
impeachable honor. Thisiyearithe arm
ed men-twenty-five second mannfac.
tured citizens-pour forth at his judicial
fiat. and we are well nigh ruined. 1t is
lesson we will not soon forget. II one
Supreme Judge, gentleman OF high
personal character and general estima'
tion, has SO stained our honor and i'm
peTilled our safety, what might we not
expect from a Mayor, courts, and COM
plete city government of like faith and
morals2
we are saved as by fire, but at what
cost2 The civic lines we have but
barely held, IL that, have been helo at
not the risk only but the sacrifice OF
life. Citizans of Tepute and substance,
in large numbers, were driven from the
polls with insult and violence. Ohcers
OF the law were shot in Chestnut street
and the halls of the Continental. Quiet,
unofendlng citizens were cut down and
trampled on in the very heart OF the
city in broad daylight, while in the out
er districts the polls were regularly
held, stuffed, and not Union man al;
| lowed to approach them. a hurried
estimate of the killed and wounded o.
the day and night, made by our repor'
torial force, foots up six dead and tWen'
ty-five wounded, many fatally.
Four years ago there was an electio1
held in the rihe-pits around Richmond
under the very cannon OF the entIench-
| ed Confederate camps, where life wa'
safer and law more sacred. Think o.
it, and reflect what We are coming 10
and then let every loyal man nerV'
himself for the struggle in the courts
that Philadelphia, the historic city o
| love and peace, may be saved from th'
/ present fate of New York and the ia
/ ~ Gonnrrah