The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-11-04

TE Suppose !; Is generally cooce1ed
H.; Grant Esi Wils71 xii Be elected 10.
R7:.9E. No o5seTv- cxu Dab; that IN.
Pg:tss; caEoges have beea going On il
:es2sc; 70 The Presidential cSnvkss, and
AsI the Grift, pretty uais9rnly II ooe di.
Fec;iou, LIS t,seH greatly increased Eeoe
TIT Oc:1Ge. eIseiior8 May men who
we're a. drst, Impressed with heiGes o.
restoring fEi=ndjg relations between the
t~g ssci01s Q: -clssqiog hands .c:oss the
bloody chzsn," hsrebeen shocked By the
EeoeTIi TiEl1g Of The ytbel sentiment all
Over the sygiA, 81 the lrst csEring Of
political h0P= Il IS plain tbs; re csn
c!ssp LsnGs scrcss the bloody ch&sm
only By filling ii up Eiih the principles
that iTiCmPhsi c. with the principles
that were vaDquished in the great coz
test There can be 10 common gro1ad
between them. They DO no: admit Of
compromise. Submission on one side or
tue other, is an essential condition. When
Sir. Seward first declared the "irrepressi-
Die conflict" between freedom and slavery,
when, Il; later day, Mr.. Lincoln decIaG-
ed that the country could not so on, half
free and half slave, one great snd genera!
bo%l rose from the Democratic and pro-
slavery organs Bloody and brutal" was
the term that the New York Herald ap
piled TO Mr.. Stewards practical and phil
GsOphicai annunciaiion OF truth which
he had the ssgaci;y 70 foresee; and Mr.
Lincoln was denounced is a disunionist,
because he laid down the only condition
on which the union could be maintained.
Now, these truths, CT this truth, !or the
two are but one proposition; arc Just is
apparent, at this time. as they were when
they were fist uttered. The bloody chasn
cannot be bridged over; it must be filled
up; 70 structure Will stand ovez il. Ii
must be flied In with the principles Of the
rebellion or with the principles that we're
Yindicated in the suppression Of the rebel.
lion. The government cannot be carried
on upon the theory Of a quarrel between
man and his wife, that one side was
about as much 10 blame as the other, and
that We viii kiss and be friends, and say
nothing about the causes Of the dispute.
The north and the south did rot trv the
bloody issue Of war On any such trivial
grounds. They were IN earnest about the
graves, matters that can engage the atten.
lion Of the citizens 0! tree government
The great question that included the
others was the nature Of the coy.
eminent itself, whether it was a
national government or q mere voluu-
tary and tempoary compact between
cnn!ederated governments 10 be broken A,
the pleasure Of any one Of the parties TO
it The argument on the question having
been exhausted, the issue was made up in
the field. The victorious party does no,
propose to ignore II, or rather 10 do worse
than that, 10 surrender It by placing at
the head Of the government a northern
man who held to the right Of secession in
the beginning, and who now stands out
the representative Of the men who declare
that they regret nothing in their course o.
treason and rebellion but It's failure. II
the men who were beaten in the war
should take up representative Of the
principles which triumphed, and accept
ing the situation, should support him on
those principles, the bloody chasmp
would close by that Gci. Bat taking Mr.
Greeley as tlIeir candidate they avow that
their only purpose is TO re.cs;ablish The
Lost Cause" TO use him as the ips;ru.
meut Of apurpose for which man Of their
own is not available.
All this is not LEFT 10 conjecture or in
ference. It is NOT discovered by any