The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-24
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| and priestly Christians toward the Jews
| in the thirteenth 'eentars. $50 farsfroni
desiring in thas age to convert atbsni,ys-
says Hume, 1T %Tl enacted by law, in in
| France, that ifavy jew embraced Christ,
| ianity, he forfeited all hisgoods, without
| exeeptishJ to the king, or his superior
| lord, These plhhaercrs were carefil1est
| the profits accrhing from tReir dominion
over that unhappy race should be dinin-
| ished by their eonvefsionpa m
Obedience to the Constitution and the
laws is not what eamsjority of the Re-
publican leaders wish toaoompel the
southern rebels to, any more than to
propagate belief id Christ as the Mes
siah was the objecttsought by the extor-
tions of Philip ApEpstus ip France,
or the tVranuy-aad Tapine of English
King john ThehsE anessage Of Jefer
son Davis is the best possible proof that
Democratic administration at Wash
ingt6a; Or even a, wise Regdbiitan one,
might make stable peace with the reb-
els and restore the authority OF the gov
ernme6t over the seeded States al once,
honorably and completely Davis says
substantially: President Lincoln has
declared that he will not treat with the
Confederacy, that he will not treat with
the States separately, that he Will not
give his Ueuteuant-General authority to
treat He wilthave nothing from asbut
the voluntary dispersion Of our forces,
which are all that shield oar property
and our lives. declared by the laws ofthe
United States to be forfeited and lost for
our guilt As rebes . Therefore to talk or
think of submission IS TO choose the
worst of two evils to abandon our one
only future hope, To accept and invite
the VERY worst of human evils, which by
fighting We may possibly yet escape. -
That is the substance of Jefferson Davis
message to the Confederate Congress-
The skeleton is padded out With diplo-
matte phrases, bat not one shrewd rebel,
not one acute Yankee, reads in any 9th
er sense. To ;he same effect precisely is
this most significant assertion in yester-
days TribNne:
"We are confident that this rebellion can
be crushed, and further bloodShed useless.
OnIy let President Lincoln epiHce an earnest
desire that the Wdr shall nOW end-let him
appeal to the people of the South to stay this
useless, tCastefu eGasioR Of blood, and hrOr
herself on tie clemHey 0fCt country, and
,ce frmly Jeliere that ttSs aGt thirty days
may see The close Of the lrGr.'
Every drop of biO9d split hencefOrth
is a crime every life lost on southern
battle fields hcnceforth is a murder, Of
which President Lincoln and his present
trusted ad yisers are guilty552gsgN Y
But these Republicans, like their very
Christian predecessors, have been ex-
tremely, careful lest the profits accruing
| fromtheir administration of the superior
power and yesources of the North. which
now are forcing the South TO the wall,
should be diminished hy rebel repent.
ancc. If any Jew embraced the Chris
tianitv 50 pionsly propagated by those
Christian priests and kings, as means
of escaping the pillage and the extortion
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faith. he forfeited all his goods 10 his
lord And so these Republicans are plan
ming to profit themselves, either by the
contumacy or the repentance of the
southern rebels. If the rebels choose the
least of the two evils, wlienare the only
alternative Mr. Lincoln holds out TO
them, and continue fighting, then these
Republicans hold Oh to the adninistra-
ton and glut their greed with the profits
upon the vast expenditures of the war
and the numbeiless appointments in the
army, and offices at the North, which 1t
hi, opened to their ambition and to
their avaricc. II the rebels make choice
of the sharpest horn of Mr. LincOln's di-
lcmma. the Republicans profit equally,
for the con6scated plantations OF tue
South they can buy at government safes
for a song; they can use United States
troops to drive the emancipated negroe
70 their work and to keep them IN sub s
lection, as has been done in Louisiana;
and the hundreds and thousands of Fed
eral, State, county, city, and town offices
which they would Al once MI WITH thelr
northern partiSans, woold bc 4 new ana
gigantic bribe TO corrupt Che public NOR
ais of the North. to win the Yenal, and
retain the allegiance of the faithful here;
while at the South it would be most et-
fecsive and easily welded machinery for
forcing the vote of half a continent into
submission, or foregoing it into accord
ance with President LincOlns will.
Again we warn Onr readers and the
country that Democratic institutions
cannot, among us at least, survive either
the successpf the Republican war policy
OF the success of the Republican peace
policy, il that can be fifty called peace
policy in any sense which four years ago
made use Of peace convention TO pre-
cipitate war, and te.day makes use of
peace conferences TO prolong war.
And we warn those of Vur political np'
ponents who, disagr6eing with the Dem
ocratie party on all otber points, agree
with ~ on these-that civil libertE shall
not perish here; that free institutions
shall be rescued alive out of all the per-
lis Of civil war; that local seli-2overn-
ment shall be the law of this land IN
great things and small things from the
Splendid Capitol OH the Potomac to the
humbIest school house in Florida, in
Maine. or in Oregon; that we Eip have
states and not an empire; that our chef
magistrate shall be a President IN fact as
we'll as IN name, President, and nothing
more, as well as nothing lessi-these
men, our political opponents, We ~am
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