The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-10-30

LOUISIANA has been the first of the
Southern States to formally reorganize
the ''Dcmocratic' party. A "Demo-
cratic" Convention has recently been
held at New Orleans. OF course It re-
solved that radicalism must be over
thrown, meaning by radicalism the
spirit of those who are not willing to
see the negro now that he is free, treat
ed as II he were still slave, as regards
his rights to the protection of his per-
son and property OF course the Com
vention also resolved that s'this Is a
white mans government" But fnrth-
ermore it resolved that ''the institution
of slavery having been efectually.
abolished in the Southern States we
cansider it right to petition Congress
for compensation for all losses sustain
ed by the emancipation policy" We
find in a recent number of the Rich
mOnd Wing the following language:,5
"That slavery in the South Is dead
beyond the hope or the power of resur-
rection, no sane man can deny. How
ever WrOngfully done away with, we
arc compelled to submit to what Is irre-
vocable; and let us submit like hons
Orable men and patriots, calmly await
ing the time-if such time should ever
cOme-when our Northern fellow citi-
zens may be willing to compensate us,
in part at least, for a pecuniary loss, SO
sudden and SO Overwhelmingly : = 3
The same idea expressed In the LOUISE
ana resolutions isvery plainly limited at
in the foregoing extract from the Wsig,
We may reasonably conclude that there
will be u party In the South which will
urge that the former holders OF slaves
shall DO remunerated by the General
Government for slaves that have been
emancipated. Must we infer from
what we see in Louisiana that the
Democratic" party propose to make
this doctrine of compensation of slaves
holders one OF the planks in their next
platform? Commenting on the present
look of things in that State, one of our
exchanges remarks as follows: IN
If the Southernersprom theirs sup
port to TINT party, will the Northern
Democrats assent TO the demand, which
IS now so mildly put forth? If we may
Judge by their conduct before the war
there IL great danger that q large pro-
portion of them may be tempted to do
So. But the Southerners greatly mis-
Judge the temper of the North, II they
suppose that any except those party
hacks, who would sell their souls for
an Office, will consent to this great in
EQUITY. If they had not often dis
played such impudence, that no mani-
testation of that quality can now as-
tonish us, we should be utterly astoun-
ded at this resolution OF the LOuisi-
present their bills for the houses we
have burned during the war, for the
corn our armies have taken from South-
ern granaries, nay, for tho powder the
rebels have burned in fightingu us !? Such
step would not be n whit more andn-
ctouS and tmpeftinent than the Feuueet
that We pay for the slaves that the war
has liberated. When the SOutherners
have paid the debt we have incurred in
nghttng them, when thew have CONE
Iorted tho hearts they have broken. \
When they have restored to our widows
tnelr slain husbands, to our mothers
the sons, who lie beneath the sods OF
SouLhefn fields, to our orphans the
lathers, who have fallen beneath ref5al- |
bullets, then, but not till then, will we |
near OF paying to Southern slaVeholders
the value OF their former slaves. let
the true men of all parties speRl, ont
promptly and clearly on. this point. 40 |
that not even a Democratic ConYention
IN any other Southern State will have
the tmpudence 70 hint at the remunera-
ton OF shareholders"