The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-17


TEE Hon. HORACE MAxNARD in the
course of his speech here last May, made
apoint that occurs to us in connection
with the applications now pending in
the Court Of Appeals for leave to prac-
tice law without first taking the usual
OATH The point was that in settling up
the rebellion in South Carolina in 1859,
the great mistake had been made of re-
storing the status quo as nearly as pos
aiblo in every individual case. The
prominent traitors were RENTED to
their prominent positions. The ONCE
holders went Onas usual, and the law
yers went on as usual. There was no
disability Of any sort imposed. In other
words, the Secessionists OF that day
achieved a moral triumph, and at the
winding up the prestige was with them.
The consequence was that almost at
once, and, II possible, more completely
than before, they were the dominant
element in the State-the element that
was courted by society-that gave tone
to everything inte1leetual-While the
Union element, led by such men as the
lamented PettereW, gradually went
under, never to rise.
Suppose that in settling accounts with
the rebel leaders-with Calhoun, with
Hayne. with McDune, and their like,
1t had been declared that those who had
instigatOd the rebellion of 1852 should
never more hold ofice, or never more
practlco law in that State, would PETITE
grew, and all the noble band OF patriots
who acted with him In thai day, have
fallen Is 50 many political and social
saerihdasf Mol Neither would the
Union cause have Gallen. It would not
have happened at last that 70 be I'm
fon man In South Carolina was to be a
political Pariah. 1t would not have
happened 1t last that to be q Federal
or STATE once holdera man had 10 be
par excellence \ traitor. In hne, il
would not have happened at last that
treason TO the government pervaded
South Carolina like an atmosphere.
And yet such . conditi Vas BROUGHT
about BY restoration Of the status ql,o.
The expounders Of the law the ssconf-
dantial teaeheFsn Of society as Mr.,
Stanton termed them in his able argu-
ment "a ,6lday, were let loose IS Of old
TO occupy and possess the courts. And
thus let ioose and restored they sedu-
Loudly and eeinetively piled the people
In The court rooms and on the musings.
They knew the arguments-the nice
shades Of phrla eolory, WheroWith 70
auear-coat their reasonable anteee-
dents, and with TINT slIIll witch only
adopts a the bar can acquire In MAX
ing tho'Rorso appear The bGitor treason.
they gained control Of th6 beopla and
completely compromised them a I,iae
In their own ant dents
Ths wise King OF Israel has told us
that the thing which hath been Is that
which shall be, ana = standard maxim
Of our civill1afi1n s that history Fe-
poais ifsalE Anothsr maxim 8 that
history issphilo opliy teaching by ex-
ample, and those Who lrs moi tins
TAUGHT must them ltes undergo the
Of an Isliencs more o. less
SIMILAR We trust 4 d never TO be IN
We 5ViYainIn Is. it has 56on IN south
Carolina. Were our courts, however.
% m into the POSES sion Of those Who
oonllollad them in 1850, We should have
but illIehop that q very trying ordeal
or Union nlnn could be escaped. We
lhonld exect - see those who wore
lngaSod q 10 rebellion aequire a
prestige onld make not only
lh6ir 81 snis bnt The rebellion
- pcetahlo.