The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-15

are the texts of copIous newspaper
comment and comparison. The New
York EVeiliHO Post, (ultra Republican.
speaks of these two views us follows:
The two addresses are not much Mike
except in the frnnkness in which both
deal with their subjects. Mr.. Stevens
does not trust the Southern men, and
believes VIC are not safe unless we ex-
erclSc all the rights and privileges OF
conqucrors,b by despoiling those we have
conquered. President Johnson, on the
other hand, believes that kindness may
be even more effective than VfolencS.
and that we are strong enough 10 nc.
cept the professions Of tho Southern
men, and trust them to reconstruct
tneir local governments under the
Union. -.
Mr.. Stevens is for confiscation of
Southern estates, the Acknowledgement
OF OF southern southern mon; the total suppression
OF the class which hnS, no doubt, been
the leading class in the (rebellion-the
former SHAREHOLDERS namely. The
president, on the other hand, address
ing number of persons of that very
class, told them that he would trust
their professions of conversion, their
assurances that they had seen tic error
of their ways; that he would leIp them
and the Southern people in general to
TO re-establish law, order, society. i'm
dustry, nH under the Constitution.
The Presidents ideas of recOnstruc-
ton, or reorganization, ns he prefers,
we believe; to call it, seems to us those
OF statesman, ready TO work with the
means placed in his hands; wise enough
to see TINT his place is to oil the ma
chinery of government, to prevent
friction, and thus to get the ponderous
and important engine to move with
even more than its former smoothness.
MIR: Stevens cares nothing for friction /:
he believes in what seamen call tItnnin
strength and stupidness." Mr.. John
son would reeve the easiest possible
gear; Mr.. Stevens prefers Paddy's pur-
chase, IL rOpe-yarn over a nail.
We are in the condition of n man and
wife who have had n quarrel, to whom
a divorce has been refused, who cannot
live apart; The President says: True,
we quarrelled, but let us now net sensi-
bly,; let us join hands in friendship; !;
we have destroyed that which bred dis
cord between us; we have reason to
hope for many peaceful and prosperous
years; let us forgive offences, and try if
by mutual and joint efforts we cannot
do better and live more happily than
ever before. No, cries Mr.. Stevens
thnt's not the way, we nre the stronger
and we ought TO keep our partners
hnnds tied; we ought TO bent her daily
with new stripes; we ought to disable
her enttrely-no other course eau make
us safe.
Copying the Presidents kind words
TO the south, the Post says:
Are not these words of true wisdom ?
And wherever we find them cordially
responded TO in the sonth,is it not wise
10 give Il trial to those who profess their
readiness to be good citizens Some
day or other they will have to be trust
eu--ls not now II better time than any
other likely to come in the future is
it for the public benefit that we should.
under MIR. Stevens ideas, maintain n
state of war i'll the south? WIN not re-
turning prosperity, renewed inter-
course, the voice of n free press, have
their influence, all potent for uOod ?
And If South Carolina does not become
Massachusetts i'll six months, need we
he discouraged Our work down there
is not that of months, but of years; it
IS not 10 be completed by armies, but
by the spread of knowledge the dis
semination of correct principles; lv
convincing the people that justice and
liberty are profitable. H-Iluf
And the New York Tribune meets
Mr.. Stevens on confiscation as follows /:
Earnestly striving for n true, lasting
peace between North and South, white
and black, treemen and freedmen, we
regard every scheme emanating from
an. earnest and prominent "Radical'
which will be deemed hnrsh or unjust
by the South as, while fore-doomed to
failure, certain TO work vast and endu-
ring mischief through its influences on
Southern opinion and action. We trust
oven Mr.. Stevens will think better OF IL:
and in tlis hope commend to his
thoughtful consideration the following
passage from speech of Mr.. Summer
on contiscatiOn, in the Senate, June q,
1862: 4l-
let me confess frankly (said Mr.. S.l
that 1 look with more hope and conf
dence to liberation The would now say
enfranchisementl than 10 confiscation.
To give freedom is nobler thnn to take
property, and, on this occasion, it can
not fail to be more ef1icncious; for, in
this way, the rear-guard of tho rebellion
will be surely changed into the advance
guard of the Union. There is in confis-
cation, unless when directed against
the criminal authors of the rebellion, a
harshness inconsistent with that mer-
Cy which it is always sacred duty to
cultivate, and which should be mani
fest i'll proportion TO our triumph
'nightiest in the mightiest.' But lfber-
alton is not harsh; and it is certain, If
properly conducted, to carry with it
the smiles of n benignant Providence"