The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-16
GRANT.
what is Wanted BY tho Country.

that Spirit of charity and fair play for
all, and that sound and clear common
sense, which makes Mr.. Beecher's po-
litical instincts SO true.
Mr.. Beecher described exactly me
needs of the country, politically, when
he said, "What we want now is an dd-
niniStTdtion." We do not need more
laws, new laws, different laws; the
country would only be injured and en-
dangered by renewed ttnkertng with
reconstruction by either party; and be-
cause the people feel this they have re-
ceiyed with such disapproval the prom
Uses of General Blair and the Tamma-
nv platform, to reopen the whole re-
construction business. To change the
figure used so well by Mr.. Beecher, the
ship of state needs not new spars, new
rigging, new sails, she needs skilfuli
calm-eYed, sure handed helmsman,
who will keep her upon her course and
put an end to the lubberly backing and
| filling, the vain lacking and wearing
which. she has endured under her pres
ent pilot.
nWhat we want now is administra-
tion"; the faithful execution of the
laws; the fulhlment OF that one duty
which is the chief and most important,
If 1t is not the only proper function OF
government, the protection of the lives,
liberty and property OF all the people:
We need man in the Presidential
chair whose character shall be n guar
anty for justice; man of known firm.
ness OF character, of clear eye, OF
sound judgment, faithful TO liberty,
| flowing Justice, and not the slave or tool
of any party or faction.
Such man will, without the least
trouble, calm the purturbed waters.
His mere presence in the White House
will encourage the right minded every
where, and dispose the fnctious, the evil
ldisposed, to cease from their bad
courses.
And such a man is General Grant.
Honest, and lover of economy in the
administration; entirely unselfishi as
record; animated by no bitter feelings
towards those who lately rebelledi as
was shown by his conduct towards
General Lee and the confederate ar
mics in 1865, and by his report upon the
condition of the Southern Statesi a
manly lover of fair play and equal
rights; with no private ambition OF MS
own TO crafty; no friends TO reward or
enemies to pursue; with clear ideas OF
Iha province of government to main
tain order and execute the laws; a
lover of moderation, and generating
the law, Grant is the man who can
and as We may now confidently anticl-
pate, who will guide US to a sure and
lasting peace.
what we want now is administra-
ltion"-Rnd Mr.. Beecher might have
added, justly, this is what the country
has needed during the whole OF Mr..
Johnson'B administration. That policy
of reconstruction which he made so
hateful 10 the people that they cast 1t
away two years ago by unprecedented
majorilies, could have been carried out
with safety and honor to the country,
and with satisfaction TO all lovers OF
liberty, II Mr.. Johnson had been man
~. r,,I 60 Of
temper, and without selfish ambitions
and unworthy resentments. 1t WAS his
failure to perform those promises which
elected him, his sudden friendship with
the least reputable of the old Southern
politicians, his subsurvienCy to their
schemes, which first aroused the ambi-
tious hopes of class, the oriSinntors
of the rebellion, the men who "hred
the Southern heart" in 1850. These
men, cast down by the result OF the
war they made, first saw hope of re-
establishing their power over 1.-The
South" in Mr.. Johnson's attitude to-
wards them. When the war was ended
they were ready 10 accept their lives
with grRtitude; they desired only the
permission to live in obscurity at home,
10 earn their bread in silence.
But Mr.. Johnson's vehement pas
sions, his vacillGting COURSE his loud
threats of punishment, and ready favor
+ ed, all these things gave courage TO the
evil minded in the Southern States.
And what has fed the flame of dis
content in the South, except Mr.. John
sons course and conduct? Again and
again the demagogues in those States
have been discouraged and quieted by
the voice OF the people at the elections
or by the firmness of Congress-, only to
be rearoused by Mr.. Johnson's schemes
in their favor; by the hope that he
would in their interest wear out the
people; by the belief, destined to be
disappointed, that the President could
cripple the Congress, and the faith, but
too we'll founded, that he would go to
all lengths to re-establish the bad rule
of that class whom during i've years he
denounced as the cause of all our trou-
bles, and of whom, until he came into
power, he constantly asserted that, as a
first preliminary to any right recon-
structiOn, they must be put out OF the
way.
What we want is administration. We
need citizen in the White House who
will not, out OF personal hatred and re-
sentiment, turn against the right and
consort with the enemies of order, the
men who, as he himself taught the peo-
pie to believe, and as the last four years
have shown, are mischievous, and only
mischievous self-seekers. We need a
President with more public spirit than
J to sacrifice the country TO his personal
enmities: with more character than Ia
choose as his most intimate associates
the lowest and most charaCterless OF
trading politicians; with more indie.
pendence than to appoint to office OF
trust, at the demand ofsuch politicians,
men of notorious dishonesty; with
more deCency than to pardon the great
er number of the convicted counter
letters and revenue swindlers; with
more self-respect than to stoop TO petty
intrigue.
Weneed another Lincoln; one as de.
void OF resentments, as firm in the
right, as simple hearted and unselfish
ms Lincoln. And such a man is Grant.
BE is n national man; the extremists of
both parties have pursued him with
their enlnity and their ISLANDERS, but
the people have always found him
their faithful servant. His election
will give us peace; without the use OF
any material means, without new
laws, by the mere force OF the belief,
which is as strong in the bad as in the
good, that he will do right and faith
fully execute the laws.
DIED.
GARRISON--On the morning of the 18th,
: ats o'clock, N. II. GARRISoN, in his saith