The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-13

| the women of Georgia who have been
ravished, the families of Georgia children
who are now pining for bread, are all
very much obliged to them for this lib
eral sentiment. Georgian soldiers, who
have stood side by side with Virginians
and Caroinians on so many bloody fields,
for the honor and sovereignty of your
State, and for the security of these very
seventeen slaves, you who have trudged
through the SHOWS of four winters and
fronted the tempest of hundred battles,
while those seventeen were sleeping soft
and feeding high and speculating higher,
know now that you are "bygones;" if not
already "buried in the grave" the sooner
you are bnrried the better The seven
teen are, i'll a hurry to bury yon them
selves As you stand now. with arms in
your hands, do you not perceive that you
are disturbing an era of good feelpgl
Another resolution requests Governor
Brown to call a Convention of the State
to vote on the question of war or peace;
that is, on the question of submission To
their enemies or resistance; the question
of being free citizens or subjugated vas
sails; aud 1t is very clear how such Con-
ventiOn would vote if il were composed
Of such folks as the seventeen, After
ALL Notwithstanding the statement of
the gentleman from Savannah, whostates
TO an Augusta paper that only seventeen
persons attended the meeting, it is high
" probable that much larger number
of persons was present. There are III
Savannah enough of Jews, Englishmen
and Yankees, besides other foreigners, to
a. fNy
the Mayor and the few other real citizens
of the place who attended, they, no
doubt. are among tho fattest, sleekest,
richest people of the town, having good
wines in their cellars, valuable lots in the
city, and plantations in the sea Islands.
If they SEQ presented 10 them chance
of saving these good things, what To
them is the independence of their State
trampled under foot; the blood of their
fellow citizens poured out on the cold
hills of Virginia; their own personal
honor lying a bleeding2 For what is
honorl A word. Who hath itl He that
died Wednesday Bury the bygones
in the grave!
After all, we believe that Savannah or
any other city in the COnfederacy would
De WfOngeu anu CdluiIillatcu III ou'H "
meeting as this were taken as the true
representation of its spirit. The thing
comes through the Loyal Georgian. new
paper, which military officer, having
seized newspaper Office, is publishing
under orders Of Sherman. OF course no
Confederate newspaper can now be pub.
lished In that city, no Confederate word
uttered In the churches last Sunday
there were prayers for the Confederate
Government. Next Sunday there will
be prayers for its enemies; every man
must say and swear, and pray and sing
exactly as he is hidden; must clothe him
self with lies and hypocrisy; must curse
all that he blessed, and bless oil that he
cursed; must publicly denounce his own
children as rebels and traitors, and must
feel himself the most asject of the hui
man race. No matter his house is not
pillaged yet by Sherman; Geary's pro
vost guard has not yet driven him forth
to perish in the wilderness. Every day
he is spared he gains twenty -four hours
OF easy life, if he does not damn his own
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