Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-05-18
Are We sri1l1ntWms

Il This question ia put by the N. 7. Tribune
.fnibehalfs0f Hsdir5y SSF6ote, fifteen years
ago 3 o, 8. Senator from Mississippi, and
afterwards Distinguished himself by his
suP PpOrt of the GOmpfomtser measures. ol
1880, in opposition to his colleague, JEFF.
DqyiEG as At the ensuing State election,
when these two Senators were pitted
against each other as ''Union" and estate
Rights" candidates respectively. tur Cover
NOR. FoOte beat Davis 1000 votes in the
largest poll ever had. in EHsiState, the vote
standing Foote, 2s,5ss; Davis, 81, ,T2s.-
F9ote was sent to the Rebel Senate, where,
the a4T6eEs argues, his antagonism to
Davis was so manifest that he probably did
the Rebellion more harm there than he
could have done by adhering to the Union.
"Becoming satisfied that the Rebellion
was failure, he abandoGehI It in disgust,
and was making his way to the Union lines,
when he was arrested Sahd taken back TO
'kichmonds he went to England, but soon
retnrhed, was Arrested and kept for some
ltime in jail, then relssed on parole, being
FequiredstO report himself to- General Dix
each alternate day. he so reported him
self one day last week, when he waaHhown
an order from the War Department that he
Eshohlda either stand trial for treason or
quit the country at once. he chose to 90,
and departed for10 canada, where we, pre4
sumo he still ia.
"Now," (says thsa a4si5abe,"y "if we
are still involved in terrible civil war,
which imperils the aifesof the Republic,
and If Foote is dangerous person, we
hold this arbitrary baRis hmentt to be jasli.
hhblei IL net 1otS5 Il every rehe1 force
tRis side Of the Mississippi is captured or
disbsuded, and trade with the late rebel
districts reopened5ss LthoRgh they ere- at
peaesiRith Us,Iaud If Fo0te is.no longer an
enemy of the U6ionI bnEt ready to deport
himself ohenceforth asi q loyal, peaeefuI
citizen, then We hold that there is not q
COW IN our Stats which, our Government
has less reason to- regard with apprehen-
sion aud alarm than this ooId man. 1t
might possibly be worth while to try aud
pun1sh him. though. We think not but
what good CAN be secured, what evil avert
ed by compelling hims to live in Canada
rather than in New York; And, II his
banishment bethsno sense necessity, is it
not clearly an}act Of tyTanuyRaL Sc. i 81.
OF course, it can be sort; o justified, or
blnstered, over, and, those who disapproRe
i charged with sympathy withFtFaitorsS
but how will il look across an ocean or an
interval cofaetenuy yeats7o The New York
1FUlet will turn q back summersault, If re-
quired, and protest sthat any generous or
manly seBtiment expressed throughtits ed
itorisl columns crept into them by acci-
dents the Union Lesgue will resolve, if du-
y prompted; that this -banishment adds
another toIthe inndmerabte proofs of the
Ishpef6uman wisdom and clergy that IRA.
date the War Department; and Captain
MArshalF will make speech to the C6atn-
Pherof Commerce, showing that Jack oede's &
month WAS the, perfectioG of all possible
paFllilamepts. ll We insist that a regime un-
ger which dEStrtet prOvost-mGr5kdI FGnks
the aGoVagaOr. of a STATE ought at onee to pass
0s.0ag. the privilege Of AG6eas corpus be 70.
stored, and tisr reign of Lap and Libaty, ,6s
r e'ta6ltshsa. HloE0 Rltle6 lOageT mast zoe
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