The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-22
0heQt1telliletrter.
washington Topics of Talk
A.out removing the CapItaI-Unex
pected Strength or the Movement
Supreme Court AfIected''- Why
Chase IS likely Not TO be
Nominated MT New York.
The Platform and the Two.ThIrds
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. New BOOK
where Does Butler Stand-.-
Horace Greeley.
Correspondence ortae Cincinnati Gazette.
wAsH1SaroN, June IA.
nEMoyAI OF THE CAPITAL.

| The last movement III lhSOE VI u re-
moyal of the Capital met with less en-
confinement than had been expected.
But il Is not to be denied that this
movement has already passed out OF
! the list of things to be laughed at. On
| a careful canvass it is believed that a
majority could, to-day, be secured IN
the House, and very respectable vote
| In the Senate, in favor of general
declaration that the Capital ought to be
removed to some point in the Valley OF
| the Mississippi. An effort that should
| be complicated with the interests OF
any particular locality, would fall still
| born. Tit were not for the debt, how
| ever, and for the general feeling against
| undertaking any expensive measures
| at present, there is no doubt that the
removal project would develop an I'M
expected and surprising strength.
| The feeling on the subject has al
| ready reached that most sensitive Of
! classes, the class of gentlemen looking
| for permanent investment in real es-
tate. Last winter an eminent member
of the Supreme Court, who expects TO
remain on the Bench for the rest of his
| life, while complaining ofthe discom-
forts of his present way of life in Wash
| inEton, told me that he had made ar
raneements to buy a house here, and
had fully intended to have the transac-
ton completed before that time. "But,"
said he, 1.-THE growing feeling in favor
of removal OF the Capital has alarmed
me. am growing old and indisposed
to run risks. II I should make this in
vestment, and the Capital should be
removed, my property would not sell
for IL fourth of what should now have
TO pay for it, and so, you see, instead
of having the comforts of home, am
living in chambers and taking my
meals at Il hotel"
TnrIn1p1Ny pnnuDI mann ms n
the Supreme Bench, though with life
appointments that require their pres
ence here every winter, has acted on
the same theory. The Chief Justice
lives with his son.in-law, Governor
Sprague. The Associate Justices ali
live at hotels or boarding houses. Not
one OF this body of permanent officers
the most permanent in the Govern
ment, has dollars worth of real es-
tate in the city of his official residence.
HOW THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IL TO BE
KEPT IN THE OLD RuT.
1t has been well enough known here
for months, that the brains of the Dem
cratic party were enlisted in the effort
to bring about the nomination of the
Chief Justice for tho Presidency. on
his platform. These men were wise in
their generation. They saw nothing for
their party but defeat in continuing the
old fight on the dead issues. They
wanted, at one step, to put slavery and
the war behind them; to accept the de-
cisiOn of battle as final, never to be
again questioned, and no longer to
serve as a cause of party divisions, TO
revert to the earlier positions OF their
organization, TO specie payments, low
taxation, revenue tariff, safeguards of
personal liberty, equal rights of alto
Democracy, in short, as 1t was when the
- tho NunrH n f1nrlU Hnptunnfinn
was not the bitterest of snrcasams.
The scheme was at once bold and
shrewd; the time was prOpitious and
the leaders 6elieved-perhaps still be-
lieve-in the possibility OF success.
But there are one or two cOnsidera
tions that seem to forbid ii. The lead
ers to-day undoubtedly want to nomi-
mite Chief Justic Chase. Butthe time
honored rule of Democratic conVen-
lions is to make their platform first,
and then to make their candidate stand
upon il. Yet, till the nomination of
Mr.. Chase should be assured, the adop-
ton of such a platform as has been in
tlicated above would be folly and an
impossibility. II the Platform is first
made, therefore, it must be somewhat
after the pattern OF the like structure
fonr years years ago. Then. the nomi-
nation of Chief Justice Chase upon
that would be folly and an impossi-
bility.
Scarcely less formidable is another
difficulty in the path of the Democratic
leaders. They knew we'll enough that
Mr.. Chase had not changed his well
known views one iota; that he stood
by equal rights, equal suffrage, the SUI
premacy OF law, national honesty and
specie payments, precisely as he had
done in the days when they were as
sailing him with the most enVenomed
bitterness. But they did not want the
rank and file of the party to know it.
They wanted to carry the party to
Chase, but wanted the voters to believe
that Chase was coming to the party.
Since the recent unexpected publication
OF MIR. Chase's private letter on the sub
ject of his political views, this is no
longer possible. AS result, Journals
like the World, which u week ago were
feeling their way toward the nomina-
.tion of Chase, are now busy declaring
that the project has never had any solid
basis.
Solidity nevertheless it still has, and
the Democratic leaders have by ne
means abandoned the movement. It's
prospects are by no means SO bright as
they recently seemed; but no man can
yet predict the result.
One thing seems conceded In the
Democratic circles at the Capital. If
Mr., Chase Is not nominated, 1t is gen.
orally agreed that no prominent man
will be. Mr.. Pendleton will undoubt-
eddy have the largest number of dele
gates, but Eastern men boast that they
will slaughter him with the two-thirds
rule. He, in turn, will slaughter Han
cock. The friends of Senator Hen
bricks, OF Indiana, are now quite hope
ful that he may be taken up as COM
promise candidate, while those who
favor the revolution in the party are
saying that II they fail on Chase, they
may bring forward Associate Justice
Davis ofthe Supreme Court, a oonserVa-
bosom friend and the executor OF Abra-
ham Lincoln.
CAMPAIGN DOCUMENTS.
Mr.. Mcpherson, the industrious Clerk
of the House, has another of his Yalu-
able compilations of political docu-
ments now in press. One of its chap
ters, entitled the "Politico- Military His
tory of General Grant," will excite
some surprise, by reason of the fullness
and satisfactory nature of the record
which Grant Is shown to have made for
himself. 1t begins with his earliest po-
litical letters, insisting that the war
must not end without the destruction
of slavery, and rejecting allsuggestions
of his own name for the Presidency in
1864, presents his various letters allud-
ing in any way to political subjects, de-
nonncing the Copperheeds; telling how
the rebels have robbed the cradle and
the grave to keep up their armies, COM
planning of the disloyal newspapers,
Sustaining emancipation and the like;
exhibits In detail his correspondence
with the Generals in charge OF recon-
struction at the South, and shows the
various good sense and discrimination
with which he oYerruled some, sus-
tanned others and directed all. Other
chapters give the documentary history