The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-04-27
The Feeling in Richmond.
Especial Correspondence Of the n. Y. Times.l
BEFORE TIE MEMS WAS RECEIVED.
RlcHMoSp, Va, April is, 10 P. NJ.

i hlCHMONBif va at'iH io, io 'i'
1t was only last evening that the
Northern papers came in,' bringing ms
that important order of the War Depart
ment, dated April 18th, and to which
you so appropriately gave the electrlfy-
ing heading, "The Era of Peace.
Filled with the ideas of the happy fti-
ture thus opened before us, sailed forth
OH this, the loveliest Spring morning
that ever smiled from a benignant Hea-
ven The sky seemed brighter the air
more ballny, the budding aud blooming
trees more beautiful. the grass greener
AMI fresher than they verseemed before
to me. since the gl1dsume days OF hoy
hood | was not alone in the feeling
Every beaming face | met - rhsfhe''
Northern o. Southern seemed to me ia
share the all-pervading joy. Groups of
citizens were lounging in the seats scat
tered about the pretty grounds aronnd
the capitol, chatting and bantering with
our merry faced soldiers on duty COM
pairing notes, exchanging nieasins com
pliments upon the worth AMI bravery of
both sections, mutually voting Jetf. Da-
Wis and his hireling minions a SET OF van
dial wretches for firing so lovely city,
regardless of its inhabiiants-andg going
through all that pleasing interchange OF
thought and opinions which VIII go illr-
ther toward Soothing the rude wounds OF
the past than all the laws that leglsla-
tors can concoct Men on their way 10
and from church, stopped to grasp each
Others hands, to talk over that excellent
order" and the fmtnIe ones promised, and
showing what innumerahle blessings
must necessarily dow from such wise
and magnanimons government.
AFTER THE MEMS WAS RECEIVED.
RICHMOND. Tuesday, April Is. l6G5.
II must not 10 supposed that
the Intense feelings | have described as
raging here are confined to Northern pco-
pie only. Even the most rampant rebels
of only fortnight ago-men that, per
haps, would have gladly slain Mr.. Lin
coin with their own hands, in open hight
how shudder and tremble ut the con
temptation of s0 untimely a deed. Al
most my entire time has been spent IN CON
rs,sing rith Southern men Of all classes, for
the express purpose Of eiicihhg their opinioHs'
and / found them all as paraiysed, and near.
ly as doWnhearted as oW orh people, but. OF
course, from sources of feeling widely diff
ferent. While wecannot expect them to
share one particle 0f the love aud veneer
alton which mingle with our grief over
our great national leader, they, too, are
bowed down by sorrow, because they see
distinctly as We do, that the assassln's
nand has robbed them OF their BEST
FRIEND; of that great and good man who,
by Gods blessing, was destined, 50 sure
ly and so speedily, to vault over the hor-
rid abyss of the past for them, and bring
them forgivingly and magnanimously
through all the troubles they have
wrought upon themselves, as, perhaps,
no other Northern statesman car now do,
even ifhe would Jtgre get - speak to the
first SoutheiE nGa--f care not ho'r intensely
SoHfsfra his procliriieS may hare beea-,rh0
does not openly arolr that this ddmaable deed
is an infinitely more terrible bloW for TIE
South than the North.
J. H. HAMILTON.
Every right minded man at the North
halls this intelligence coming from the
South through such channels as the Phil
adelphia Pres and New York Tines with
ioy. 1t proves. if men like Col Forney
and the experienced war correspondent
of the Times can ha credited, that the
0as5es OF the people there are properly
disposed and only require to be treated
-, ha g, llxy raclai,naI