Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-04-07

Office was like that at the ticket Office of a
popular theatre on benefit night, about the
the time the crowd is beginning to suspect
there is only standing room left; and the eff
forts to smuggle in dispatches ahead OF their
turn were as dexterous as the operations of
the most accomplished thimble-rigger. In
the midst of the throng sundry little pages
scutfied for their places. 1t could hardly be
that they wanted to Operate +" for them
selves; and the malicious limited that they
/ had been sent up with dispatches from Mem
| bers, but of course that couldn't be- No
Member of Congress would speculate off his
own legislation-at least no one save one
Western Senator who has a lively interest in
the location of the Pacific Railroad. And of
course, the few Members who pushed their
own way into the crowd were not drawn there
| by the gold speculation at all-they were
merely anxious to get off dispatches about
their anxious families AGATE
| The Reason Why.
The telegraph has recently announced
that Gen. RosECRANs has prohibited the cir
culaton of the New York Metropolitan Record
in his department The following editorial
article, which appeared in its last number,
will show what kind of a paper it is:
THE ADDRESS OF THE [REBELl LEGISLATURES OF
VIRGINIA.
We recommend to the earnest considera-
ton of those who still suppose the South can
be conquered, the eloquent and thrilling adj
| dress of the General Assembly of Virginia,
that grand and gallant old commonwealth,
the mother of States and of statesman, the
| birthplace of Washington, of Lee, and of
| Jackson. The defiant tone in which it treats
| of the efforts to enslave the people of the
South, and the eloquent language of denun-
| citation in which it refers to the barbarous
| system of warfare pursued by the minions of
| the Washington despot, will meet with an
| echo III the heart of every man who loves
| justice and hates oppression. We trust in
| God we shall never see the day on which the
glorious old commonwealth will be subdued
and given over to the spoiler and the plum
derer; to the Buffers and the Schencks; to
| the licensed burglar and incendiary, melted
| and encouraged by "the best Government on
| the face of the earth"
| As to the freedom and independence of
| the South, we have no apprehensions Her
people can neyer be conquered, and, if that aoere
possible Abraham Lincoln is not tie man to oc-
| compliSh that su!jugatiOn.
The address of the Virginia Assembly is
proof that the resolution which animated Vir-
ginia all through this war is as unbroken as
ever that there is no faltering, no wavering.
In the eloquent words of this great document,
"VIRGINIA TAKES NO STEP BACKWARD"
\ Grand old State, may we never
see the day when you shall have to bow be-
meath the yoke OF the oppressor If that day
shall ever come, then will the friends of free
dom, the lovers of true heroism and man.
hood, mourn over the sad fate of great
people, who fell while fighting for liberty
and independence, fell on the same soil that
gave birth to Washington, to one whose
name should have been sufficient to save the
great commonwealth from the tread of the
heartless invader