The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-12
TIIE SOUTHERN PRESS,

reconstructed into tho tone and style
which they used during the war. The
Richmond Examiner thinks "thO tribe
of apes, better known as radicals, will
need to got up tour III imitation OF the
PrEsident's progress. but suggests TINT
II leader is wanted. The paragraph
which follows is quite in tho familiar
manner of two years ago;
"WC arc afraid that tho apes will
have to ~" hack tO tho middle ages for
u suggestion. In those days there were
fanatic Nilgrim0gNS in which certain
holy relies WCrS borne to attract and
inspire all the dGVOmt along the journey.
Wherefore not ONhumN tho bones Of tn"
king ape him who played such mntHS-
tic tricks hCfnrN high heaven as mad"
tn" angels wCop,l and par"d" Ih'n'
through tho land
Yet the Examiner is II supporter al
MIR. JOhnSon'S policy. AMI that P"Ilcy,
AS its author has many times declared
is only "a continuation of that Ot MIR.
Lincoln.
Tho Petersburg Express thus shows
that tho South understands tho prompt
iuuS OF tho Philadelphia address, and is
ready to iuuuEurHtTN new Rebellion II
her present demands are not complied
with:
{" 1t the philadelphia Convention tho
south mad" every concession that she
ever intends To make To the North. II
moro is CNIctCl from hCr, it will have
Ia br Ivy force; but she will never Il" II
willing party to her own degradation"
Tho Shreveport ll.U.D NcICN aNOws
that the South is hiding her time t"
strike another blow for Independence
Its words arT as follows:
"lmpatiOnt, VcuCrabl" SOMthr0n, wC
hay" all to gain amt nothing I" lose in
the contest brewing i'll tho North: the
tair-hHIrCd sou you mourn, who fell i'll
the dark C0pSeS OF tn" ChickNInHuGu,
or perhaps upon the bloody heights of
Gettysburg, looks over the crystal bat
Elements Of Heaven and smiles, as the
cloud OF iutestiu" war br0Hd"ns over
the sky of tho North. for the day of re-
| tribution drawcth near.
lie patient, young StHlwart hero of
many u well-iuuEht field, tho day of
your tlcliVCrauCc is nigh; the hour
comcth when tho shaCkIes which dos
E"iism has rivGied upon your proud
limbs shall be hurled aside, and once
more you can step forth in the pure
sunlight OF tho newly risen sun OF iu-
dependence, CmRnCiPatCd aud free. Let
us wait and hope; let us not forget that
when thieves fall out, honest men get
their due; for as sure uS effect follows
cause, the convention assembled to-
uNN Ht IhllRuSlphlO Is III" entering
! wedge TO innuguratc civil strife"
The article appeared August 18th,
and III" closing words of til" quotation
refer TO the yJirSt Philadelphia COnVcn-
ton.
The clamor for the release of Davis
| continues. The Richmond Examiner
says:
custody Of the radical party, and MS lit
! tie to that of Congress. Congress has
As little jurisdiction over his tate as the
! mulattO convention will have which
meets i'll Philadelphia i'll September.
i II is too late To mince matters. All the
| world knows 'rh" has the liberty of the
| illuStriOuS prisoner at his disposal, and
although we have heretofnre forbOrnc
to discuss this aspect of the business,
knowing that the President deferred To
/ the proposed action of the Judiciary
! Committee, II is now high time to place
| the responsibility where ii Belongs. We
| call upon the President To do right in
spite OF the Radicals, who ARE not like
| ~ tn love him more because he still
I confines Mr.. Davis.
! The statement of the Augusta Chroni-
| Gle, to which we have given the pub
/ LEFTY requested, that 'NOrthern men
are as safe i'll Georgia as in New Eng
land" is qualified by what follows in
| the same editorial. The CHTOHICI, SAWS:
.
that those who come To tWunt and in
suit our pcopl" ON account of tn" war,
and To advocate negro equality and ne
gro suffrage, nr'' neither welcome nor
would we promise them security"
This can mean only that a surVcil-
lance will h" maintained over private
opinion as in the old times, and that,
III the words of another Southern pa
! per, Northern emigrHmtS must "lctvc
| their cOnSCicnrcS behind them"
The Wilmington DLxputch shows the
spirit i'll which the reconstructed COM
rnuuities receive the efforts made to
teach their ignorant masses:
This Southern land, it seems, will
| never escape the wrath of the AImigh-
ty, levelled mt ii because Of the neglect
To employ those means which He had
given, st lack of appreciation OF which
caused the defeat that We sustained in
our ,'nortS to achieve Independence.
curse after curse, like those which
descended on the Egyptians, came
spreading disInny throughout our land
Military rule first, Frecdnen's Bureau
insolencC, Yankee imPcrtinencc, all
have been unOn us, and all have been
borne with very commeudable pa
thence.
"Thc worst Of al the curses which we
have been called upon to submit to,
however, is the insuPPOrtuhlc, intolcrn-
bic nuisance of school mnrmS i'll our
midst, teaching the infant idea how TO
shoot We had hoped that this pcsti-
lentinl race would give us the gO-by.
We could stand anything else that was
sent, but when the benevolent societies
| OF Boston sent out enliSSHTicS, we felt
that we should sink under this, the last.
the worst of all our punishmcnts TOR Il
criminal failure to accomplish our own
salvation when the means were at
| hand"
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