Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-06-16

l
eracy much more at heart than the rebels
themselves. True, the English have bet
ter opportunities for giving expression to
their feelings than the southerners. But
the latter as . class do not in privats con-
VersatiOn, if we are rightly informed, be.
tray so intense feeling as the former
Americans at London and Paris say that
the southerners there are less bitter than
their Tory friends. The fact ia, a large
part of the fstcest rsbelsin this country
have suffered SO many priVations that
though disappointed at their failure, and
unfriendly to US, they are not altogether
sorry to have peace on terms, which all
must accept and can accept without dis
honor. But those Euglishmen, who treat
ed US quite as badly ss the rebels did, have
INDUCED their passion at no expense and
and at no suffering. Many of them have
been enriching themselves by means of the
war. They might therefore well wish for
it to continue inde6nitely. 1t cost them
nothing to purse their indignation. We
are not surprised to see the English tory
papers raging over the arrest of JEFF, Da.
Wis, while, according to all accounts, the
rebels in the south care but little about ii.
The London Standard of May 9th, goes on
in the most frantic style about the capture
of the great rebel:
"If any honorable or English feeling. any
sense of shame, any shadow OF manliness
or self respect, still linger in the breasts of
those English journalists, and politicians
who have made common cause with the
Yankee and taken General Butler by the
hand, the news brought by the Scotia must
have filled them with regret and dismay.-
The chosen snd'rusted leader of the south.
ern people, the noble and generous enemy
for whose blood the northern republicans
have clamored with o ferociry that will
stamp them with everlasting disgrace, has
fallen into the hands of hIs PuEs1ers. JEFF
terson Davis is the prisoner of Andrew
johnson. The man who, under the bitter.
est proVocation and amid the iercest and
most reasonable cries for retrlbution, re-
fused to shoot an enemy in cold blood, is at
the mercy OF men who have never spared
cspuVes of non-combatants, women or
children, in their revengetul fury. We
need not say with what feelings Of horror
and alarm this news inspires those who
eympRthiEed with southern cause, and re-
garded President Davis not only az the
heroic chief of a gallant nation, but as the
champion of sacred principles and the
representative of interests dear to mankind
al large"
We hardly know which is the more ex
traOrdinary, the charge that the men, in
whose hands Davis now is, shave never
spared captives or non-cOmbatants, wo-
men or children, in their revengeful fury"
or the statement that Davis is "the repre-
sentative of interests dear to mankind at
large" They show how much value is to
be attributed to sny assertion of that pa.
per. Let us think with shame how long
we have consented to view European poll.
tics through the eyes of these English
journals.
OF course the Standard proceeds to
paint Davis as a moral paragon, the in.
carnatiou of nearly all the virtues. Listen
uOW to this lovely passage:
1.-THE Federal Government repeatedly
murdered Confederate prisoners in cold
SASSNI AuS OOulG0eEALcS WeEo HpXlOQS TO
retaliate; the President alone prevented it.
AS for the charges of starvation of pris.
oners, aud so forth, they are all simply and
VIGOROUSLY unirue-the ISLANDERS propa.
gated by the same men who sent forged
State papers TO the British Foreign Office
tor the same purpose of damaging the
Confederate government. No prisoner
10 the south was ever worse off than a
Confederate soldier, even at time when
Contederatss in the north were sent to
freeze on the lakes, or wore immured in
noisome classmates, or were shot in cold
blood BY Burnside or Payne, a M'NeiI
or a Milroy."
Could iusolence and falsebood farther
got This vile stutf in the Standard is now
of no sort of consequence, except as show
iOg the spirit of the class that journal
represents. In its wretched state of mind
it concludes its article by saying "nothine
can be hoped from the mercy or the mag
nanimity,-little even from the personal
tears,-Of Andrew Johnson" The Standard
may be sure it is right in believing tina
little is to be hoped from the personal fears
of the President. All the believing and
Dragging of these foreign editors will not
disturb him much. If it amuses them and
their readers, why, let it go on.
THH Sherman.HalIeck controversy in