The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-31


The Characssr or the Men Whs OPP
pose Reeeastruesisn. = ~
Gen. Blair, in his recent speech st
Rolla, pays his respects to those mon
who still CRY for blood, and would per
petuate the evils of anarchy and disunion
for the sake of furnishing the Late rebel
lious States. He gives an aspect OF the
case and character to these men, which
suggest itself to every candid man IS en-
inently Just and deserved, He should,
however, not have done injustice to the
Indian character by instituting the IL
lustration he has. The animal kingdom
furnishes the only complete parallel in
the peculiarities of the hyena and the
yulture. These snuff the battle "afar
ofa'-snd only approach when calm and
peace have succeeded the uproar and
danger, for the purpose OF gorging upon
the dying and dead After speaking OF
the cotton stealings and official robber-
les perpetrated by Provost Marshals,
Treasury agents and party hacks" he
says:
But that is not all. Pains. penalties,
punishments and executions are to be
hurled at the heads of these penitent
rebels. The men who have conceived
this device for furnishing the rebels were
never the men who went out to fight the
rebels. Applause. They are not the
continuance OF the soldier who met the
powder of the rebellion in battle array
They are not the suggestions of Grant
nor Sherman, nor Phil. Sheridan, nor OF
Thomas, nor of any one man who Las
won distinction on the battle-felds, and
indicated the honor, glory and integri
ty of his country. They are the devices
of the men who staia at home. They are
the devices of the men who stuck close
at home, and now prove their loyalty by
the animosity and by the acrimony with
which thew denounce q rebellion which
they never confronted. Applause.
NV friends and fellow-citizens look al
the leaders of the radical party Behold
them Did any one of them, probably
with one exception. and he not very
4 ulSOluH uiSuCu ohC, having hoiACh ooAAy -
the action-did any one of them ever dc
more than command regiment of home
guards? Laughter And they ceased
to command them just as soon as they
could get their regiment to vote then
into congress or the legislature. Laugh
ter. That is the truth, and you can al
ways account for the animosity of these
people just upon that hypothesis.
Now, you know, among uncivilized
people like the Indians, when the wal
parties 60 out, put their paint on: and
capture prisoners from the enemy, they
bring them home to the squaws to tor
ment them, and they make them run the
gauntlet. They infict every injury pos
sible, and all the insults that they Cal
heap upon these victims of the prov
of their husbands arms. Thank Goo
that civilization has made our ladies diff
ferent from the Indian squaws-that i,
has left them touched with refinement
and brought them to know that those
who suffer are not to be scorned-that
those who have been defeated and are
lying prone i'll the dust are not to bt
trampled upon.
But in lieu of the squaws of those un
civilized Indians. we have class of mel
who never go to war, (laughter,) who
are at once devoid of the manliness O.
warriors and the tenderness of women
but who make amends for their poltroon
cry by the vigor with which they perse
cute the down.trodden.