The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-04
.yIReINIA's INaRATITUDE."
what she HAS Done.-A Resume Ol
Her Recent HistOry.-.GenerAl TuF,
neIss Course Endorsed.

l what hlle Has DoueNsA AbesuAAN VI
Her Recent HistOFy...GeneFaI TuF.
neFs Course Endorsed.
Under the heading Of "virginia's In
gratitude" the Norfolk Post Of Monday
last discourses Of the events that have
occurred in Virginia since Grants cap
ture Of Lee. Tho article Is drawn forth
by the action Of the SecessiOnists in the
recent election, and, though very se-
we're in many points, contains more
truth than poetry. Tie article will re-
pay peruS9l. The Post says:
At the time when Grant, Meade and
Sheridan had completely surrounded
and cut OF all hope Of battle, or success
lhil retreat, from Robert X. Lee, and
! Grant, instead Of opening his artillery
and pOuring in death and destruction
upon the deInOraliEed forces Of the Con.
federaOy, kindly received TN offer OF
lcapitulatlon, and accepted the Snrren-
der Of the boasted army OF Northern
Virginia, there was not voice raised
throughout the entire North, but ap-
planded the magnanlmity Of the great
General. He gave them such terms as
no other c0nqueror, who had u foe In
his grnsp as he then, held Lee, would
have given. Indeed, II furnished n
new precedent In history, for hitherto
tho maxim OF UG Victis-wo to the con-
quered--had been therule. RUt Grant,
actuated by those fraternal feel
ings, with which every bosom In
the North is filed, said: '"These are
our brothers they are Of the same race
from which we sprung; have attended
the same schools, learned their alpha
bet from the same spelling book; play
ed the same plays Of youth and child.
hood have the same feelings, thoughts,
aspirations and faults that we have
therefore, why should press them
Sorely ?" There, upon that field Of
surrender, he f0rgave them everything,
and taught his soldiers to reCeiye thom
I back, and welcome them AZ they would
have welcomed a long absent friend or
brother. These were the kindly views
and sentiments that governed General
Grant, and the same feelings pervGded
the army commanded by General Sher-
man, when Johnson surrendered TO
him the last hope and stay Of the Con-
fedeFaCy. Were these feelings recipro-
Gated? We answer they were not and
events that have since transpired prove
that the surrender made at that time
was not An honest one. The rebels
gave Iip only because they We're driven
| TO the wall, and had not the courage or
the fortltude to endure further trials Of
war, hardship and destitution. They
might, had they, been mnde Of clay
tough as that Of which the men Of the
North and the West are moulded, have
fought on for years but they yielded
\ at the first misfortune that overlook
them, and cried peecdBi even before
they were hurt, These men now re-
Turn to the city Of Richmond, a place
to which, but few days before, they
had applied the ineendiary torch,
and destroyed the fairest portions OF
the city; they come Haunting In the
light Of MONDAY the insignin Of their
treaSon-foul Gs the dagger of Booth,
the assassin-wearing the fine gray
cloth furnished by England, the brass
buttons and the bars and stars Of their
late traitorous Government. They look
down with scorn and contempt
upon the blue-coated defenders OF
1.-The Republic, and appear sur
prised that they should have
the audacity to place their foul foot
steps upon the sacred soil Of Nirginil.
II one Of them deigns to converse with
a Yankee, It IS in order that he may
boast Of what Lee, L0ngstreet, jackson,
ISemnles, or some other distinguished
rebel general or pirnte did. How they
i slew the coWardly Yankees In this bat
Itle, and how they routed them in the
OthoF, They never experienced defeat
themselves that was an iinpossibi bility.
Ask them II the Union forces had any
1 generals, and the only ones they ever
heard ofweEe Fremont and Mcclellan.
i About Grant, Sherman and Sheridan
they know nothing. All they know Is
Il that Lee Is the greatest General In the
world; and in this belief they have
been confirmed by the English and Cop
perhead press. Soprejudiced are these
\ fellows that they honestly believe there
are no people living on this continent
north Of the PotOmRci and notWith-
standing they were whipped, and ac-
lSnoWledged they were whipped,
and badly whipped, they cannot
tell where the forces came from
that whipped them, or who commanded
them. They are actually so ignorant ~
to suppose that Grant was butcher,
i Sherman brute, and Butler beast,
and they think they walk on four legs.
All these things, however, must not be
laid ut the door OF these unfortunate
VirkfhiAnS. II was mot their fault thnt
their education was circumscEibed, that
their knowledge Of geography and his
\ tory eFextended beyond the confines
Of their native State.
! But we will discontinue this strain,
land endeayor to find q bill Of indlct.
ment against this people, for one ofthe
basest crimes known TO society
the crime OF ingratitude. Since
WeltAela soldiers displayed their hat
red and malice, by extinguishing the
fire that had been kindled by rebel
hands, and saved millions Of pro
EpeFty for the people Of Richmond,
down 10 the present time, they have re-
Ceiyed nothing but kindness and indul.
lRence at the hands Of the soldiers and
IofiCers Of the United States. Even In.
lsult and contumely have not been no
tIced, but the largest allowance has
: been made, that magnanimity could
: make, for the Ghagrtn Of defeat. Our
ofTleefs and people have patiently list
ened to their nhuseating panegyrics 0I
} Lee and Mossby and other great cEiml'
mails, without Offering TO offend against
!, the fules 0f good breeding by suggest
ling that they were no better than Other
TRAITORS OF whom history furnishes uI
tI,a yoNor1 ThaV have bRan allowed