The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-11-26
a slight variation

ID An editorial article in the .Intelligence'
issued last Thursday morning, contains the
following lucid paragraph:
"The Government now occupies position
from which it can afford to act with mag
nanimity becoming the representative of .
great and mighty people: 1t can at !rd
with parental voice to call upon Its errlng
children to come back from following after
strange. Gods. If they refuse let the con-
sea uences fall upon them. Upon their
heads and upon the heads of their children
let the blood of this terrible war rest for
ever and forever"
Of course, tho government and "the res
preventative" of the people are synony
nous institutions or individuals, whichever
you please, according to the prevalent po'
litical dogmas of the day. The government
is ABRAHAM LINCOLN, or, uice versa, AsRA-
HAM LINCOLN is the government, 'it's Of NJ
consequence" which. However, the spec
tacle of Mr.. LINCOLN, "with parental voice.
calling his erring children to "come back
from following after strange Gods" is per
tsctly stunning. Setting aside the mani
ifest impiety and shocking disloyalty of
calling JEFF DAVIS, LEE Il Co. "GOds," the
Iateltigencer' idea would afford rare sub
ject for the artists pencil. Knowing as
we do that the Wheeling Atheneum is any
thing but q comfortable snd convenient
boarding ,house, we trust the Provost Mar
shall will deal leniently with our neighbor
for the high crime Of awarding divine hon
ors to the rebel leaders, and will condemn
him to no other punishment than to so far
forsake his former practices as to tell the
truth, 1T least once week.
From the extract we have quoted above,
we were led to believe that our contempt
rary had been converted to the Butlerian sys
tenn of putting an end to the war, and was
about to 90 into the olive branch business
on an extensive scale. The nathems pro
nounced in the concluding sentence, against
oil who decline to hearken to the parental
voice of Father Abraham, the government,
has in it touch of the melodramatic which
Is quite Butlerian. We mentally congratu
lated our neighbor upon having so far for-
gotten its own teachings during the Presi-
dental campaign as to be able to endure
calmly the idea of peace, even without the
total determination of the Southern people.
We understood the Intelligencer to be in ia
vor of the government, Mr.. LINCOLN, calling
with parental voice" for somebody's Ger,
ring children" to come back. But what
was our astonishment and dismay, upon
finding in the next column of Thursday
mornings issue the following paragraph,
alao editorial.
GAny manifestation of magnsnimity and
conciliation on the part of the Government,
in the present attitude Of military affairs,
would only provoke the derision Of the
rebels, Nor would it be either polite or
honorable for the government to make offers
that are certain to be rejected, in order to
obtain Justification for visiting upon the
rebels the utmost severity of warfare toll
, Grated among civilized and Christian nations.
We have that justification now-have had
it from the first-and any device to increase
its weight with the people At home or with
8 foreign powers is pretty certain to react
against us. Especially would this be true
OF any such manifest trick as that proposed
/ by General Butler" 81 .-'-
Tho lsmentable uncertainty. as to which
h the emily simon pure" and 'loyal' opin
ion to adopt must be very distressing t
those who are accustomed to gather theiro
isidess from tue lats1igencer. The feelings of
such man. settled comfortably in one be.
lief ono paragraph and rudsly jostled
aisfasaDpposite epinioa BY another stroke
Of the editors Pen, must be wretchsd in thu
extreme. We bessech the editor to hsyu