The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-21

tax payers of the city and county to see
the levy authorized. The city and
county together owe the best part of "a
million Of dollars, and five per cent. de
Quoted from the interest will afford a
saving in the way of taxes not to be
dcspised.
THE Richmond papers, and the vir-
GINA press generally, are having good
deal to say about an equestrian statue
or monument TO the memory of Stone
wall Jackson. We observe that Mr.. S.
Bassett French, ''Secretury and Treas
urer Of the Jackson Statue Association
has issued an appealt to the "admirers OF
Jackson" calling on them to subscribe
literally, inasmuch as an engagement
with the artist who is To do the work
requires the payment Of twenty thou
sand dollars very shortly. 1t is a ques-
ton, or rather IL is not, whether such u
statue ought to he allowed. If there is
not force enough in public opinion to
prevent IL, there should be force enough
i'll some other direction, either in the
executive or legislative arm of the gov
crnment. We are not to look Mt this
matter squeamishly, nor with ''sickly
sentimentalisin," but as plain issue
between what is right and what is wrong
between what is patriotic and what is
dislOyal-between what is faithful and
what is unfnithful to the honor, welfare
and Integrity of our country. Stone
wall Jackson died II traitor to the flag
Of his government. There is no deny
ing that fact. Because he fought brave
ly, pcrsistcntly and efficiently, because
lac was an energetic terror to the Union
army, because he came so near at criti-
cal Juncture, when providentially n
bullet sped to his breast, turning the
fortunes of the entire conflict against
us, urc we therefore to look on COM
placeutly and see his dishonored name
canonlzed by outward symbols, in
the very heart For the Union he
sought to destroy? Who ever heard of
monument to the Duke OF Monmouth,
or TO Guy Fnwkcs, or TO Lord George
Gordon, in England? Wellington,
Nelson and Marlborough have their
noble shafts piercing every sky through
out the British domains, but no trait
orous memory Is anywhere honorably
pcrpetunted on the same soil And this
is right. The lives OF men, the security
OF society, the rights of property, de-
mnnd that treason should, if not made
odious, ut least not be made something
to be emulated. To build monument
10 the memory of StonewaIl Jackson is
to set premium ON his deeds-to erect
II brazen idol for false worship=-to re-
commit tho folly and the wicledness of
the Israelites mt the Mount. We say
let his good and evil die with the rebel
lion, so far as they can thus die, and so
fnr MS they cannot, let them live only OH
Z their proper page in impartial history.
There is n supineness of sentiment in
thus looking complncently on while an
altar is being set up in his name,
whereat the votRries of treason, rebel
lion and slavery propose to worship,
and TO teach their children to worship
after them, that does not speak well for
our appreciation of the woe and desola-
ton that is now upon the land by rea-
son, in no small part, of this same
JOckson's treachrry to the government
that had warmed him into life and Gu
pRcity through Its charity. 3
We hope, therefore, the Government
will not permit monument to be erect
al TO his name und memory. Let his
admirers meet, as those of Wirz are re-
ported to have met the day following
his execution, and drink, in silence to
his memory in some back room where
the blinds are closely drawn down. 1t
is fitting that treason should be hon
ored only in this secrctive way. Let Il
not flHunt its brazen presence in life
like proportions ut the gates and in the
squares of our cities. Where shnll the
statues orthe noble dead, who died that
the treason of Jackson might not pre-
vail, he set up, if thus the cause in
which they died is TO be disoredited i'll
our chief places.
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