The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-18

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3 "A southern eorresp lent sIt fheexe
act condition of the masses oil tie. outh-
efn people when he says they; me loyal
but not patriotic. They have abandon-
ed secession d believe that the Union
is tnyihsihle ~ rld ttual;; they felt
long ago that slavery must fall With the
confsd dstaey, and 50 inthe ae-
,eomplished fact as amatteri OF course,
and without any change of moral con-
iction on the snbieet. But they,do not
love- the Union or rejoice in the freedom
of the negro. This is not alls that we
could desire! but all that we should ex7
pectSeIf the people of the South honest
~ intend 65be loyal to obeyIthe cons
'stitution and 5thelaWs and to accent the
e0nseQuencesEof defeats n this tfRived a
sound and SO e basis for reconstruction
They iptotess all this, and the pfesi dent
has accepted their prof as sin
ceress y He coul6 dnot, aotharWise.S But
of late there have been indications
that the old seeesh leaders are too
much TRUSTED, and. are gel ting con-
troll qgain, The election srnf Worth
as governor OF ~ Sorth Carolina: the re-
peal the act of ion by the Georgia
convention, instead of de0la ring Il null
and svoids ther rdispositio manifest in
Mississippi to deprive the freedmen of
equal rights fore the law, and in the
South Carol Ina ature to hamper
the freedmen bys a special code which
shall mako their freedom little better
than slavery itself; these and other ex-
htiP htiPittons Snt the Old. lsax ven have im-
pressed the Pfesile It'll the q nhcessitY
of retaiping his hold upon the! reor-
gapizing States, and he has ordered the
Provisio ionalj G6yernuts of the Carolinas
and Mississippi TO retain their places
till dfufEhef notice. The newly elect
ed dlGovefhofsSmust, therefore, wait till
the President is atished that the re-
construction Is sound and likely to be
lasting. Z His tiFfnnesS has already had
q good effect, and the South Carolina
IegfaRture has hastened to adopt the
;anti-slaYery amendmentt to the United
States siconstitntion,s thus following tie
example of Arkansas, The tailOptioil
of The nmendmen is now fully II SIireGl.
apa 1 ! S!ith - IN time, everything else to
Themain point thus being won, "details
lafe ofminor consequenceETW Whether the
southern states shall be at once restored
70 their old positi and Influence in
the Union, becomes d matter Of policy
however Il may be dectded, the final
result willabe the same. The chief cues
tion in the case now Isl whether imme-
diate restoration is not most likely to
add to southern loyalty the higher ele-
ment of patriotism. The president eyi-
IDENTIFY thinks so, and In all his inter-
course with the south hern ID eople; has ap-
fpealed to thetr, higher motives, and has
thus won their confidence. But recoftE
struction Is only the beginning of the
new life of the South. The southern
MASSES, white and black alike are ipno-
rant and must be educated; nbrthefn
enterprise and capital must infpse new
life Into the industry of the South, and
the social regeneration of that tfsection
must be q gradual, though not necessa-
!rily "a slow work. Time, faith and
patience will accomplish it at last.
F'Some5 OF our best Union men have
feared that the reconstructi6ns of the
South would be tooTapid and sup6ffi-
cial to last. Suchanxieties may NOW be
dismissed. The president knows how.
to put on the brealSS when It Il neces-
sary, andIhewilI have the earnest CO.
operation Of Congress in imposing such
guarantees for the future assWi1 make
everything safe The democrats, hav-
Ing fully committed themselves to the.
support of the presidents policy win
be hnablesto organize an opposit tion to
any precautions, however, stringent,
against latent disloyalty. Itsis clear
that the president both comprehends
and commands the situation, and those
who have doubted and dfstrnstad will
Soonsee that his well geonsidered policy
has brought the South, voluntarily to
accept a more radical reconstruction
than Could have been force upon them
by years OF ilitary rnle. -, -