The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-30
sSThe Reconstructetl. .,

promenade" ~ = iAi'f'
! sSThe RecOnStructetl.' i..i
From Lte ATIy and Naty Journal,
Rather more than four years ago the
rebels threatened to invade Washing
ton, and take possession of that CITY,
There has been a long interval between
the promise and the performance, but
the latter seems now likely to be made
good. a perfect army of insurgents
has, in detachments, lately infested the
National Capital. It is true that these
people have been RECONSTRUCTED" in the
interim; but whatever other qualities
were eliminated by reconstruction, the
quality known variously as assurance,
impudence, and "eheels, !" seems to have
been lett intact, and, indeed, to have
SO swelled as to fill out all other losses.
Even MIR. Johnson, who has been LISTEN
| ing SO serenely to the opportunities of
Southern gentlemen hitherto, is said to
have concluded that the reconstructed
rebels are little pertinacious and pre-
tentious in their claims. Ono is puzzled
to tell what we are coming to, when he
| hears that George A. AIagruder of Va.
who was Chief of the Bureau of Ord
nance in the Navy Department at the
breaking out of the rebellion, and who
was dismissed because of his active CO.
operation with leading rebels, is now
seeking to have his dismissal revoked;l
that he may be permitted to resign his
office aud change his status ON the ofii-
cial record. Pray how long is it to be
before we hear of all the dismissed rebel
officers asking to come back, and beg
ging the President mot to remember
their career"
OF piece with this presumption was
the conduct of some other rehabilitated
rebels, who have fled claims at the
the Treasury Department for balances
due for services in the old army and
navy before they Joined the confederate
service. ana they have not only filed
such claims, but insist on their settle
ment with the greatest pertinacity,
pushing by some gallant loyal officers
who have not the assurance to make SO
daring raid: We do not object to Gov
erpWent officials dining prominent in
surgents while the latter are ION proba-
Ion,Y but we do object to restoring the
rebel officers to the same level with the
loyal, In the view of the Government
| When one hears of subscriptions raised
at regular meetings in New York for
defending Jefferson Davis against the
Icalumntous charge of treason; when
South Carolina barely fails to elect
| Wade Hampton Governor, and North
Carolina defeats Governor Holden:
when people in Richmond drink "the
memory Of Wirz," and people in Mis-
sissippi refuse to repeat the PRAYER in
the church service for the President of
the United States, we begin to have a
suspicion that the loyalty OF. some parts
of the South is not very healthy.
fa Southern deliberative body, which
owes Its only existence to the suferance
of the military authority of the Presi-
dent and his representatives, can de
clare itself inRhlted by the mere pres
1 ence OF negro sentinel, sentthither nv
\ authority on an errand, and If the
speaker could announce "that this
House shall not again suffer such an in
dignity, particularly from United
States soldier" what may not be expect-
ed from body which does not have ANY
| such dependence on military suffer
ance II the various Southern loyal
Legislatures can deliberately vote down
the President's "terns"-mere affairs of
milk and water, compared with the
medicine the South expected to swallow
and would once gladly have swallowed
-7and only reversed their action on
rebel war debts, on negro testimony,
and on slavery, when the President
threatened them-what will the people
do who don't claim to be loyal enough
yet for the work of legisIation2
F1tz John Porter was cashiered and
sentenced to be disqualified Thereafter
rom ever holding any Office of trust or
! profit under the General Government
But General Humphreys, whom Porter
fought, is elected Governor of Missis-
sippity and General Wade Hampton
barely lost the Governorship of South
Oarolinai and more than a dozen CON
tederate officers, who have just dropped
theirl uniforms, are already elected to
Congress. Pray, what did Porter more
than these? He was convicted of dis
| obeying orders; they took up arms
| against the flag they had sworn to pro-
tect, and tried to trail it In the dust.
As a matter of fact, rebel officers and
men are now foremost in pushing them
selves into notoriety for Government
place. The conduct of such exceptions
as Lee, and johnson, and Nfagrpder, is
eommendable in being g.exceptiohable,
In defiance OF common decencv bitter
secessionists have even been elected to
Congress, who cannot take the prescrib-
ed oath, and even because they cannot
take the oath. Hadthis happened next
summer, or next spring, &c might be
endurable, but It is a little cool lust
now, with the smoke hardly curled OFF
from the battle fields, where these Com
greSsmen trampled on our flag. We do
not see why, according to the present so
called system of Reconstruction" T." rebel
officers may not attain as high posi-
ton of honor and profit under the gem
eEal Government as loyal officers. The
New YORK correspondent of London
paper writes to England that, accord
ing to present appearances, General
Lee, If he Will overcome his we'll known
modesty, can be tTiumphantly elected
President of the United States, to sue
| ceed President johnson # i
We only wish it wotild enter into our
worthy President's head that General
Lee would be his chiefrivaI for the next
term. With all our heart, we wish all
honor and profit, all comfort and hap
piness, from private sources, to all good
men in the late rebel armies, be those
=.
believe in their receiving the iFWell
done, good and faithful servant" !" OF the.
General Government, by an election to
ITS othees Of trust and profit, so long as
anybody can be found to suggest that
lit IS time the American people should
be taught that treason Is a crime, and
must be punfshed.' - - =
A cargo of slaves from Africa was
lately landed at Cuba. The authorities
winked at it.
The capitalists of Erie, Pa, aretrying