The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-11-22
supporting the Administrator.

The Pittsburg Gazette is the organ OF
the Republican party in Western Penn
sylvsnia. However it may be rivalleu
OF excelled by its more enterprlsing
neighbor, the Commercial, as live Re'rS'
paper. still the Gazette retains its hold
upon the party and is recognized as the
exponent of Republican opinion. 1t has
held this position during many years,
leading and being led in the path Of rad
icalism. until now it is one of the most
impractical and rabid of Republican
Journals, and its party in Western Penn
sylvania is not one whit behind it in its
adherence to the destructive heresies of
the radical faction. The Gazette speaks
for the Republican party, and speaking
er cathedra, in recent issue, concerning
the reconstruction policy of the freS'-
dent, it supports the administrator 10
follows:
"Tbere is no doubt now as to the sen
t;ment of the Republican party OF thlS
state and that declares, as strongly as
words can convey it, that the policy OF
the Executive is not i'll accordance WIN
;ts wishes or expectations. The Presl-
Jeut has confidence in the loyalty OF the
retnrninr rebels The Republican party
nf this State has not, and Is unwilling
10 trust them. The President wOuld adj
nit them upon the simple recognition OF
the fact that thenegrOeS are free. The
Republican party will not consent thai
they shall be admitted without the ana
plest Constitutional guarantees not only
Tor freedom of person, but for the mai
ienable rights of every man. The PreSl-
dent is understood to hold-very incon-
sistently, of cOurse-that these States
forfeited nothing by their rebellion, and
have a right to come back, upon the one
condition prescribed by himself, who is
to govern them until their return. The
Republican party Of this State insists
that having conquered them in war of
their own making, we have right to
hold them in subsection until they shall
have furnished these guarantees, and to
govern them in the meanwhile by the
Jawmaking power of the nation as the
only rightful authority therein
If ANDREW JOHNSON were copper
head" elected in spite of the earnest OPP
position of the Gazette and il the editors
of the Gazette instead of holding half a
dozen Federal Offices and lining their
pockets with the pickings from the fat
little sinecures they have held during
the past five years, had been the most
disconsolate outs they could not ar
ray themselves moro directly in opposi-
ton to his policy or speak more dispar-
agingly of his administration. No news
paper in Pennsylvania denounced those
who questioned the wisdom of the poll
CIV of the late administration with more
bitterness and abuse than did the Pitts
burg Gazette. It's columns teemed with
insulting and offensive epithets applied
to all who did not endorse tho measures
which ABRAHAM LINCOLN saw fit to
adopt, and it used to put forth frequent
ly frothy substitute for an argument to
show that all who differed with the adj
ministration were necessarily traitors
and were opposing the government
It's own present position is proof Of its
past error.
And as the Pittsburg Ga>ette was not
alone il its past fanatiCism and intoler-
ance, neither does it stand alone in its
present opposition to the policy pursued
by the President of the United States.-
There are newspapers in this State which
claim to represent the opinions of the
Republican party, and who have hereto
fore denounced the opponents of the Fed
eral Administration with less ability
than the Pittsburg Gazette, but with
ity, Some of the editors of these newspa-
pers hold Federal appointments, and are
to-day as bitterly opposed to the policy
of the Federal administration as arc the
editors Of the Pittsburg Gazette, and
would, if they dared, talk as openly in
opposition to what they used to call the
government, as. any, OF their fellows of
the radical press. They are too coward
ly to proclaim their sentiments as the
editors Of the Gazette have done. but
while protesting friendship for ANDREW
JOHNSON, they stealthily DO what they
can to thwart his wishes, and render his
administration barren of good results.
An open foe is always more honorable
and less dangerous than secret one;
and men justly eXecrate the assassin who
approaches his victim with an air of
friendship, and, like JoAR of old. asks
"art thou in health my brother" while
with the sword in his lett hand he perc-
es his heart
Oil; Gold and Lead.
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