The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-11-05
THE SEABOARD AND THE
NEXT PRESIDENCY.

the Valley Of the Mississippi, as to our
political responsibilities and duties
In point Of fact, their exceeding weak
ness have them nauseating to degree
no longer tolerable,
The Western Democracy are not weak
kneed slouches, that they would seek
to make point by the sacrifice of
principle, nor raw recruits, that they
will longer submit to be martineted
over by temporizing and red tape gem
erals, who cultivate the paymasters of
the enemy, and hold their own stuffed
money bags moro sacred than liberty
itself. 1t is the universal sense of the
Democracy Of the Mississippi Valley,
that the grasping East has had rs day,
that no "pent up Utica" shall longer
blight their vigor, while the boundless
West, with its greatness and grandeur,
unrolls itself before their vision.
1t is useless to try to conceal the fact
that the interests of the Atlantic sea-
board, north ofthe Chesapeake, and the
West are no longer identical. Who
made these interests diverse2 Cer-
tainly not the West, for it has been the
Pnctolus that heaped up the golden
deltas of the East, and laid the found
atoms of tho commerce that few years
ago made the canvas of its merchant
men whiten the billows of every sea.
The West has grown into giant in ig-
norance of its strength. Ienceforth
it is to be Hercules, and will cleanse
the Augeen stables in which the boy
inc gormands Of the East nave feasted
and fattened for so many years. II
will turn mightier than river Al
pheus, into the unclean stock yard
1t will no longer play second fiddle
nor accept a minor part. Its voice will
be heard, and it will lead the grand
chorus Of the songs Of Progress. The
East has presumed too far, and forced
its unpalatable dogmas upon a people
whose forbearance was only equalled
by their hopo for the better. TheiI
star in the East has been quenched
but brighter one illumines the 0cci
dent. The commerce of the world nc
longer seeks the setting sun, but be
gins to pour its resistless tide through
the gOteways of the West, and the Cm-
sar of the Atlantic can no longer levy
its tribute, and stamp his crest upon
the coin of the realm.
Tho Worlds position in regard Ia
Messrs, Packer and Pendleton, especi
ally Mr.. Pendleton, is a weak one
The defeat Of Mr.. Pendleton in Ohio is
no more a reputation of his peculiar
views, than was the nomination ofMr
Seymour by the New York Conven-
ton, an endorsement of his peculiar
views. Thereverse of the World pro
position as to popularity is true. While
Mr.. Seymour lost the State of Ohio by
Al GIT majority, in 1868, Mr., Pendle'
ton came within 5000 majority of car
rying it in 1860, showing that Geary
and Hayes combined were moro than
$4,000 votes less popular than Mr.. Pen
dleton, who ran for an Office in an an.
ti-Democratic State, with all the cor,
rupt power of the federal government
against him.
In New York, Mr.. Seymour, with all
his prestige and all the local pride ol
the State enlisted in his favor, ran H.,
$40 votes behind Governor Hoffman
and he barely saved the electoral vote
of that State. In Pennsylvania he was
more than $4,000 majority less popular
than Mr.. Packer. IN Western Penn
sylvania where Mr.. Peudleton's views
were strongly advocated, the Democra
cy made surprisingly large gains in
the Eastern part of the State, where
they were studiously ignored, they met
with corespondingly heavy losses, SC
that all the circumstances, if taken in
their proper connection, show that the
| Worlds calculations go for naught
The enormous falling off of Mr.. Sey
mour in his own State may be suscept
ible of an explanation, and we propos,
to put the World upon the witness
stand, and see if it cannot give it.
Did it not, Immediately after the Pres
idential election, pretty boldly init
mate that it was through the machan!
nations of the inner ring of Tamman!
that Mr.. Hoffman was forced ahead o
Mr.. Seymour at the latter's expense
Assuming this TO be true, we woulC
ask the World if there was not som,
ulterior object in view in cutting dowr
Mr.. Seymour's and building up Mr.
Hoffman's majority ? Was not tn,
Tammany ring looking ahead while /
was slOughtering Mr., Seymour Die
it not do it for the express purpose o
assuring Mr. Hoffman the candidao!
for President in 1872, upon the plea o
his immense popularity 2
We think that under all the circum
stanc es the World should be the las
paper to make fling at Mr.. Pendle
ton and damn him with faint praises al
1t did on Friday last, If it will go back
of the present little, and ponder the
letter of Mr.. Pendleton, written before
the assembling of the New York Con-
vontion, and read by Washington Nc
Lean, ESQ., before that body, favoPinl
the nomination of Mr.. Seymour, Il
might nossihlY imbibe the snirit of Mr.