The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-15
TUESDAY, MAY Is, 1866.
Reconstructed Loyalty in Virginia.


HENRY A. WISE has been making a speech
on the occasion of the anniversary of the
death of SToNEwALL JACKSON, It, is of
value as indicating the real spirit which still
actuates the most of the old Rebel leaders.
We have italicised certain parts of it, to direct
the readers more special attention to the
ideas avowed and suggested. "You call the
cause lost" he says-meaning thereby the
cause OF secession, treason, and Rebellion
"tt Is not lost" That is the key note of the
whole speech. And yet Congress is being
Villled all over the country by a certain
class of demagogues because it will not
admit communities utterly stepped in such
reasonable sentiments as these, to imme-
diately WELD an unjust and unequal power in
the affairs of the nation.
See, too, what would have been the fate of
Union men had the Rebels triumphed. "I
should haze faoored stripping them Naked"
says this polluted and unhung traitor; "they
might have appealed for pardon, but IacouId
haze seen them damned before WouLd hare
granted It,"
Truly it is matter of great injustice that
the Union party will not allow such speci-
mems of reconstructed loyalty as HENRY A.
WISE to once more lord it over us all in
Congress!
But read his speech
81 don't know that am a prisoner. Uaugh.
ter.) am bound by no chain. have pass
to go where please upon the soil OF my native
land. At least General GRANT SAYS so. NAV
be arrested, but want no man living to tell
me whittier might go. (Cheels.) / have the
proud satisfaction of saying that | fought until
we had won the privilege OF being paroed.
(Appldusc.) There is no authority here or
elsewhere to arrest me or to stop my mouth so
long as | obey the conditions OF that parole;
and upon tnat parole shall stand so long as +
live. (Applause.) You call me a prisoner of
war; | am not prisoner of war. 1t prisoner
at all, l am prisoner of peace. Among the
last snots hred by infantry at Appomattox were
those fired by the troops that | had the honor
and PRIDE to lead; and there at Apponsttox
peace was brought about" W.
You eaH the cause lost; it is not Lost IF ii
IS tost he cause OF ciod liberty IS doomed for IL,
700, as toSt There l1ds q Paradise lost and q
PARADISE regdened and there loiD be q Paradise
regatned in tbis country. The blood that has
0ee11 SPaueo as 100 precious 1 should not belteoe
N God If I did not be!ieue that a special proof.
dence tocatd get giue oicory to and secure tbe bi-
unlph of ciol liberty IN MiS country.
'One thing can be said, there was one man
who could not be driven to do that which he
did not consent to do. as long as one man in
this Common wealth-(a voice, what Common
wealthy What Commonwealth? There never
was but one Virginia. But l tell you, Old Vr-
glnia is not at home. She will come back some
OF these days, and then the devil will take the
hlndmost. | am watching, and will tell her when
she comes what has been done IN her absence.
vi say. Mamma, your children did not do that.
II wasIdone by impostors and pretenders.' Again,
| say there is but one Virginia. They have
taken and are welding her powers. If am
traitor, let them make the most OF it. II am
traitor, why don't they try me and hang me?
have lost my lands and property, but would
clean boots on your streets sooner than bow to
usurpatton. # I had triumphed I should hdoe
don They might haue appealed for pardon, but
aooold haze seen them damned before acould haze
granted 1t. For myself the boot being on the
other leg take no oaths! / ask no pardons
prolonged cheers.) l give you that brigade
The old, the lasting, the enduring WISE Brigade"
Cheers and applause.) ...