Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-05-06

/ ROReA9G E4tS AEo AEl9uQty bOEtQGs GdUG9 OF
the Union, and hopeful of it's triumph.
They have been warm admirers of M. Lin.
1 coin, and to them the assassination of the
martyred President will be q personal grief
From the Liberals of Europe we may hope
for saa expression most tender and most
/ grateful for they have identified the man
and the cause even more closely than we
have been ableito} do.
The Spirit OF the BQ1thernaPeople.
II they are only let alone By the insidi-
GUS and reckless rebel politicians, there is
fair promise that the southern people will
at once settle down to their agricultural
and other industries, aud become pesoea-
Bile and contented citizens of the Union.-
The pareled men of Lees army, with few
exceptions. are making their way home
wards, full of good nature, and eager and
thankful to return to their families in
peace. We are informed by an officer of
Sherman's army that correspondent of a
Cincinnati journal, who left sherman's
headquarters, thirty miles from Raleigh,
on Tuesday of last week, rode with two or
derlies three hundred miles through North
Carolina, to Suffolk in Virgins, where
they arrived safely on Monday.
/ He was not mOlestsd in his journey
through what was a month ago snemy's
country, he met uHmbers of rebel soldiers
on their way South, who bade him "God.
speed, !" bat in no instance were even uu-
civil. The following extract from the N.
7. Times details the adventures of another
newspaper correspondent, who jourueyed
IN Southern Nirginia through q different
region, bat in equal safety
CATER witnessing the surrender of Lees
army at Appomattox Court House, had
great desire to know to what extent the
people of YEglnisr who were al home,
scquiesced in that event as return to the
old order. of things, foe such it was conaid-
cred throughout the rebel army. With
this object in view started of, accomps-
MED only by q servant, and thus travelled
through portions of Appomattox, Priace
Edward, NottoWay, Dinwiddie and Prince
George counties, eueountering the late
members of the Northern Army of Yir.
| ginis. W. q. T. Lee's men, Rosser's men,
! Fitzhugh Less meu-siDgly and in squads;
some who had been psroled; more who
carrying gun, pistol OF knife, and some
times all three-alf going home On the
line of the Danville Railroad it was no IN
common sight to see meu from both armies
walking along together as if they never be.
longed to hostile forces.
''The one absorbing idea with all was
lFthat the country was at peace again; and
I.they were intensely gratiied at the pros
Iipeet of Immediately returning to civil life:
they felt released fromJthe trammels of Lee
and Davis, and no power on the earth, I
venture to assert, can ever force these men
Iifrom their homes again to f ight against the
Union cause. Indeed, the rebel soldiery
Ifseemed to have been completely trans
formed by the capitulation of Glover Hill;
land they now talk as glibly of our eoun-
Itry' (meanings the United states) as the
l,most devoted Of the Union supporters.
siTThe people everywhere seemed to in
llterpFet, the surrender of Lee as q surRen.
deriug ofGthe whole cause for which the
country has been submerged in blood du-
I.ring the last four years. What g. change I
Gus week before this it would have been
bthe height of folly to travel about alone; nv
Iilife would not have been worth q Fush.
Now, without knowing exactly why, I felt
perfectly safe, and was safe; for, in a ride
Iof one hundred and fifty miles, did not
see one threatening look or hear one un-
kind word. The people were more prone
to tears than hard words-to agricultural
pursuits more than the pursuit Of Yankees.
sit seemed Impossible that 30 great q
change could have taken place in so brief
a time. Sod that had not been under suI-
tivstion for two years, owing to the tutbu.
llent times, Ws3 now being prepared for
seed on every hand. White flags were eV-
lerYWhefe displayed, and il Eaa mo- uncoTn-
mon thing to- see women in teaEs-some
overjoyed, others mortified at the result.
One lady, smiling through shower of
pearly drops, ssid to me, Well, sir, Ihope
you are now satisfied; we are at last sub.
ljugated' Did it hurt you muchP' I in.
j quited, pleasantly, and the person address
ed at once made herself agreeable, and be-
fore L left her, frankly confessed that sub.
iugatfou, 8fter all, was more buRbear
than anything else. This found to be the
prevailing sentiment. The people, almost
without exception, hold the fre.eaters of
South, Carolina responsible for all their
troubles in the Union, and Davis and Lhe
are now blamed for their final iiscouifi-
ture." -
The people Of the South are evidently
glad to get home again, aud willing to re-
turn to their peacsabls and long neglected
industries. It is possible thst here and
thers someone ofsthe rebel leaders will trv
to stir3 them up tG new Eebelliop, OF to
make them uneasy By Misrepresentation
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