The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-31
Oun washington correspondentin his

OR Washington correspondence his
letter this morning alludesto the rumor
prevailing there that, civil government
in virginia being deemed a failure, q
Provisional Governor will be instituted
in its stead, under the auspices of the U.
s. military forces The Richmond pa
pers of Monday referto the same ru-
NOR. The Examiner in a spirit OF
bravado seems to court the change, 1t
covertly abuses Gen. Terry for his re-
cent order, and openly sneers at Cover
nor Peirpoint as the man who was or
dered out of the Office OF Presidential
subordinate at Washington.
1t is evident that disloyalty is. about
atits climax ut Richmond. The traitors
there have fully disclosed their hateful
and spiteful animus toward the Gov
eminent and toward Union men in
their own midst. The present Legisla-
ture has scarcely grain Of Unionism
in it. "A correspondent of the New
York Herald says that "a more selfish
and less patriotic body never disgraced
the State" He also says that with the
exception OF two or three members
"scarcely a shred of compromising
spirit is visible;" also that the two
Houses legislate in a manner utterly
regardless OF what the State may suffer
from their indiscretions."
We notice that an attempt is being
made TO take the control of the Orange
and AIexandria railroad from under
the appointees, on behalf of the State,
who were selected by Governor Pier
point, and put back the road under the
men who ran it in the interest ofthe re-
bellion. And this proposition Is only
ono of several SUCH The demon of dis
LOYALTY Is rampant in Richmond. II is
probably the worst city in the South at
this time.
The plan of Provisional govern
meut for Virginia We like. She has not
been cured of her treason yet. Let the
woke be put on, her once more, and see
finer rebellious neck cannot either be
bent or broken. While we and others,
here and elsewhere, are giving aims to
her destitute people, those who appear
in public, either in the press, or in tho
legislature, or in the prominent places
anywhere, are deriding and defytng
the loyal people OF the country,
using every Odious name, and seek
ing by every arttfice TO fan into a
flame the spirit of sedition and reeusan-
CIV. The unhung editor of the Erdmfn-
er and the unhung Speaker of the
House of Delegates vie with each other
in their devilish work. Only one feeble
voice ofprotestis heard in ali Virginia.
Ofwhat favor, or of what further toler-
alton, are such u people deserving? Too
long they have been trifled with by va
rious expedients looking toward their
Cancellation. A correspondent Of the
last Republic, the only Union paper in
Richmond, informs the editors that in
certain neighborhoods in Prince Ed
ward and Mecklenburg counties, "the
. few real Union citizens there who de-
sire TO tnke the paper, arc actually
afraid to do 50, because of the violence
oftheir anti-union neighbors, who will
associate with no family that dares en-
courage n Union sentiment
These things being so, we think with
our Washington correspondent, that 1t
Is about time the experiment of civil
government wac boins given ovcr in
Virginia, and the more vigorous and
summary law OF the sword instituted in
its place. s..45