The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-09

The Richmond Enquirer revived Is
likely to do much mischief by intlam-
ing the old sectional feeling of the
South. It's leading purpose seems to
be to misrepresent the spirit and pur-
pose OF the dominant party in the
North, and thus, in fact, + to prevent that
prompt submission at the South to the
new order OF things, which Is essential
to its recovery and its future peace.
Says tho Eaqltirs', in Q rocent article:-
-i'These Southern States are powerless
to protect themselves against fannti-
cfsn. Their effort with arms failed;
their voices ut the polls are unheeded ;
the country must he saved from this
black crusade by the conservatism of
the North throwing itself between tho
fanatics and their victim. They have
determined not only to rule these States,
but to ruin them; to make them the
scenes Of social experiment without re-
gard 10 consequences. TO the viCtors
belong the spoils,' Is their motto; md
having plundered us Of rights md pro-
perry, they now seek to degrade us In
social life. Our destiny and that Of the
whole country Is involved, and whether
this Is the government OF the white
man will depend upon the defeat Of the
Republican abolition fanatics"
The Richmond RpuJlielsa paper Ofn
dIfEerentstamp and Is exerting healthy
influence. It devotes itself with intelll-
gence and earnestness to the promotion
OF the material interests of the state as
well as to the propagation of sound
principles. 1t gives good advice about
the division of tho land into small
farms-a process necessary TO the sue
cess of the free labor system:-
1.-THE iacts should be kept before the
people that the prosperity Of the old
Commonwealth will be rendered certain
by the subdivision OF large estates,
improved and unimproved, into In
Vulnerable small hUInestends, within
the ability Of men of moderate means
TO purchase, clear II necessary, stock
and cultivate. The more ditfuse the
proprietary interest In the soil, the surer
prospect, as logical sequence, OF It's
Welding It's most bountifil returns, diff
iusing general prosperity and adding 10
the material wealth and prosperity Of
the State. In the immense State Of
New York there nre about 200 farms Of
rs many IN 800 ncres, in tho State Of
Pennsylvania but 81, and In the new
and ti0urishing State OF Minnesota
there ure but two, whilst in the State OF
Virginia and West Virginia there nre
more than 1900 flrms containing over
800 acres, and OIL containing loo and
over"
The San Antonio tTexas) EpresS dc.
cIares itself fully for the Union md
against the theory Of secession, and
says OF the immediate duty Of the peo-
pie of the South:
"Flrst-EtluCate tho people. Second
Give dignity to labor. Thlrd-Plnnt
upon lmmovnble foundations the lib
crty Of speech md Of the press. DO
these, and all things Shnll be added UNI
TO n.y."
Joseph Barker, OfNcw Orleans, in ac-
ceptIng n nomination 10 Congress, says:
"The grcnt question to bo decided will
lJe the recognition of this State, with all
her constitutional rights restored, TX.
Ceptlng the institution Of slavery,
which has boon abolished by the war,
not TO he revived or discussed. The
Stnte being recognized, II will become
the duty OT the Legislature, among
other important questions, to pass such
laws ns will protect the freedmen In
their rights to contract with whom they
like, md to appropriate tho fruits Of
their labor To the education Of their
children, or otherwise, to suit their
fnncy."
Perhnps thcrcnl feeling Of the major.
ity Of the reconstructed rebels Inns not
been moro frankly expressed than by
nm old planter Mt Fayetteville, North
Carolina;
am Just ns loyal M anybody, and
I'm going TO bg good citizen, but ! be-
lIeve we've Ind II government here this
last four years. There's good many
trying to make out TINT they've always
been sound Union men, when tho fnCL "
wo were nll rebels together. nm IN
favor Of acknowledging wC'TB whipped
md asking forgiveness, md then " the
United States wont tnkC IN bnCk, why
itH not our inuli. We've got to Cnt dirt
anyhow, m Vance snya, hut blamed II
think much Of n Innn TINT prOtundS hG
likes II. never could keep up with
tho politicians, though"
While tho question Of distributing tho
State for Representatives to Congress
was before the Georgia Convention,