The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-07-11
The Two Parties.

" been the subject of well deserved eu-
logy. The policy these soldiers would
recommend for the adoption of the gov
eminent and the northern people, is III
strong and honorable contrast with the
blood thirsty course which the super
excellent people who have carefully staid
at home and industriously made money
during the progress of the war would
have the President to pursue. The opih-
ions which we furnish below are samples
of the spirit and expressions of the two
parties
In recent speech at Chicago General
SHERMAN said:
"You all know well that / have lived
much al the South, and say that though
", have been bite, and fierce enemies
war, ,re mast tast this people again IN
peace.
On the Fourth of July, in Rochester,
New York, General M,RTINDALE said:
These men (the southern people) must
BIZ reinstated IN their former relations TO you
aid me as co-equal coNntiymen and BRETHREN
| repeat it, that home word BRETHREN
By all the hallowed memories OF this day,
LET il be renewed and consecrated in yonr
hearts
On the same day General BUTTER
FIELD, for long time chief of General
HooKERs staff, presented to Governor
FENroN, at Albany the battle-fags OF
New York regiments. In the course OF
his remarks upon that occasion he said,
in relation to the terms of surrender OF
tue southern armies, which have been so
bitterly and nnreasonably condemned by
certain parties in West Virginia:
The war is at an end The brave and
noble chieftain whe led our armies to
victory in the field prescribed the terms
hy which the conquered foe might rest,
vested with full power; when war by
force of arms had superseded evil law,
yonr chosen General told the fallen enc
nv, Lay down your arms, obey the law,
and war shall end-you are unmolested
during good behavior
Rather than that the implied faith and
honor of the nation should be broken,
better that all should escape"
Tia. Grafton delivered by General SICK
LES, at Saratoga, on '.the Fourth, was
still more explicit. We commend the
following extract to the consideration Of
the radicals in this neighborhood and
State:
Let me say to them European crit
ics) that we need not to initiate their en-
ample. nor will we take their unsolicited
advice. We will not initiate the perse-
BUTTONS of the proposed government OF
Scotland and Ireland by England when
rebellion was put down there. We will
not initiate the cruelties practiced by
Austria upon Hungary; nor will we FOL
low France i'll setting tire to taggots at
the mouths OF caves to burn, mutllate
and destroy thousands of fieeing Arabs
who had sought shelter there. We will
not initiate Prussia in erecting scafrold
for patriotic Poland No-we will imi
tate the fathers and the heroes of our
own Revolution, who after that struggle
passed a generous and magnanlmous act
of oblivion for all who had faltered in
the struggle, welcoming them back
CHEERS and applauSe) Those of us who
were in the army, who have met orr enc
mics in the tield, can respect them, he
cause we know them 10 be brave. Gap
plause and cheers That's So" and
cries of Good False TO their ilag!
Yes DiSloyal to their country! Yes!
BETRAYED into those crimes by baser poll
tcians? Yes But brave and generous
foes we have found them. We have con-
fronted them in the field Then let us
initiate this bright example and accord
mercy to those who have been so lately
our adversaries, following the example of
the lamented Lincoln, and the example
still more recently Ofour General-iu Chief
Grant -(applause)-who, in his conquest
of Virginia and III his defeat of Lee add.
cd yet brighter chaplet to his crown of
honor, by proving himself to be a knight
of the old days and of the best school in
generosity, profering to the conquered
terms which could be promptly met by a
gentleman and Christian. If those who
have served their country III the field
can sincerely look with these sentiments
upon those with whom they have been
SO lately engaged in battle, then. think
tecially the politicians, rhO haze done so
much TO get as into this rar-can do So
(Applause) If they will lay aside some
thing of their radicalism, something of
their eXtravagant pretenSions, and after
four years and half of diScord and a ma
tons conflict, permit the return of orr
erring brethren once more upon terms of
concord aud affectionate amity, no more
questions OF political difference need
keep us asunder The South accepts her
fate She accepts the abolition of slav-
cry She accepts future loyalty Ia the
Union She abandonS the dogma of sep
arare State sovereignty and the right of
secession. She acknowledges sud recog-
nizeS that this land and this Union of
ours. through all time, is and must ever
lie united. In that faith let us receive
the South. Let bygones be bygones; and
while we pronounce the doom of an un
forgiven traitor upon him who breaks
the peace, let Us pass over tho errors aud
even the crime of those who have paid
dearly for the terrible wrongs anG suffer
iugs which they have brought upon their
own section of the country (Applausel
The preceding extracts serve to illns-
tgate the general tone of sentiment
among the officers aud soldiers of the
army and the conservative aud rejecting
portion of the citizens at h,me. 1t is in
accordance with the reconstruction poll
-. olnntaI l,,- tho prnSi don't ouninsf