The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1864-08-23
From the Toledo Blade.
The Wade.Davis PrOte~t-.Iss
Reception North and south.

The Wade.Davis PrOte~t..Iss
Reception North and south.
The Cleveland Herald says it hrs been
authorized by Senator WADE to state that
the assault on the administration which Is now
giving so much aid and comfort to Copper
heads aud rebels. is not to be regarded rs
the work OF the two Congressional Commit
mittee on Reconstruction, but only of WIN
TER DAVIS and himself That being .. Mr..
WADE should explain how he and bis accom-
plice came TO sign their names pc Chairmen
OF said committees, and thus give the direct
implication that they were acting in behalf
OF their coleaguo' Nobody knows better
than he the limits within which official posi-
ton may justly be used. The late explana-
ton has much the look OF forced work, 10
save the necessity OF public population of
the imposition by tho other mombers Of the
Committees.
The enthusiastic reception which the pro.
pronunciamento Of these constructing Chair
men received at the hands OF the Copper
heads Of the North Is already known. We
are just beginning TO get the response OF the
rebel organs OF the South, OF which the fol-
lowing from the Richmond Esamiaer, Of
August l2th. is sample:
whatever may turn out To be the mean
ing OF the fact, the fact itself begins 10 shine
on. clear-that Abraham Lincoln ~ lost:
| that he will never be President again: not
| even President Of the Yankee remnant OF
States. 10 say nothing Of the whole SIX aud
| thuty-or. how many are there. counting
Colorado aud Idaho and other Yahoo com
monwealths lately invented2 Tho obscene
ape OF Illinois, is about To be deposed from
washington purple. vnd tho White House will
echo to his little jokes 10 more.
zone cannot but arrive at this conclusion
from several Indications from the greatly In
creasing excitement at the North touching
the Chicago Convention, which Is 10 nomi-
nate Democratic President: fiom the dar-
ING violence with which some newspapers
counsel resistance in arms against the draft
Of half a million OF men; and from the singu-
lar movement OF some OF LiEcoln's own
Black Republican supporters ia The WASH
iagton Congress. as yesterday detailed in the
Examiner. They waited for the moment
when their sovereign's fortunes were declin-
ing from their apex To give him treacher-
ous shove down the hill Two Of the most
vehement and effics-st allies, Chairmen re-
spectively oi the Senate and House "Cou-
mittee on the RebeIlious States" Wade, OF
Ohio. and Winter Davis. Of Maryland. give
h.m this blow under the fJth rib: They pre-
sent, IA their official capacity, what almost
amounts to legal impeachment, save in
matter OF form, against their fond aud too
indulgent master. nov totiering 10 his fall,
charge him with arrogance. usurpation
knsyery. Ia Withholding his assent TO bill
touching the future sfafss OF these Confed-
crate States-a matter which. though of no
small importance 10 us, s of the deep, 4 mo-
ment. Il seems. in that country. ins ssrnach as
he has plan Of his own for re admitting
STATE 10 the Union on the application OF one
tenth of their population. and this would.
they say. give BIN the control OF the Prssi-
| dental election. So they informed him that
an clc ton carried by this auifce must be
rt siSt' !: and that he = inaugursting a civil
sar Tor the Pr idency. II Grant bad only
taken Richmond. would they have dared 70
se' Their nam TO such document ~ the Z
Ii Il De any consolation ts Me--rs. wADE
and DAVIS 70 see them thus ranked With the
Copperhead leaders Of the forlorn hope OF
totteriog rebellion. ne trust they may enjoy
ii; but We apprehend they will get little en-
couragensot from any other source. Had
the q two gentlemen went 10 Richmond and
rendered their service 10 JFsF. DAVIS. they
could not have done a. much harm 70 The
cause of their country their rash and NJ
advis' q attack on the Administration has al
resdy effects 4. AERsusx Lsxootx i Lost =
The ol ocne aP, Of limos i about 10 be
depo~i I" deriaissly boast tie orgsss II re-
beili~n. aud point 70 the ',rcacherous shove,
the blow under ki- fiftA rib.' given BY these
Union Chairmea asd the Coppsrhead thre4ts
OF rcisiznce 10 the drsit. % jastisy their
exslla''oa
We have aid that Mesars- wsDz ed DA-
vs. -iil Get lit-is oon-olzfion frcss ruy source
Il noi from the ret -, Tbs We. = absn-
dsniy sustaias J by tie sctsoa cf the Unio-
Conventions Of Ashisball. lMr. W xpE's ovn
eounty } ood Of be (the lssh) oonrrc-~sonsl
District The sormer BODY nrs si Jeaenor
ca the 18th. and si.er making T.. nanina-
tiens. adop<s ssries Of rssolusior-. among
-hsch .<s the following.
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