The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-19
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CAMPBRLL, FREw 8 co.
EpTToRs AND PRoPRtEToRs.
=-sATuRDAY moRNING, NAV 10
FOR TRiadIeIphia.

"A dispatch nom Prot. Ba1ne lasl
evening informs us that he will certain
ly be at Triadelphia to-day. he will
come down on the train from Washing
ton this forenoon Those, therefore,
who go out 10 the meeting to-day viii
hear a good speech. The cars leave the
Hempfeld depot at one p. NJ. Allmnst
be on hands at that hour who desire
togo. r
IT issa fact not generally known 70
our West Virginia people that the rebel
Legislature ut Rictm onds passed an act
ON the adiday of October, 1852, inrefer-
ence to our g usurped government
out here in Wheeling, as they termed
it. And that in that act it was proyid-
ed TINT each and every person who
g has been or SHAH be guilty of eatab-
g fishing or attempting 10 estab lish,
without the authority of the Legtsla-
ture, any government within the lim-
its OF this State, separate and apart
from the existing government, orwho
ithns held or exercised, or who may
~ hereafter hold or EXERCISE in such
"usurped government, any office
civil or military legislattyes eS
ecutive, or Judicial, or any au-
& = pendent on reeogu ton or establish-
seInent of such usurped government or
who has boon or may hereafter be a
ss surety in bond or otherwise, under
any requirement or practice of such
n = nsurpeti government, Tor any one who
has held or may hereafter hold any
"a such office or authority, Shntt be IN
% capable, bUi deed or otherwise, Of sell
i,iq, coigeyftg, depisillp or ellcltnlbe1s-
flig dllsi rcdt cstdte situate "a aste
Z. State 2
The persons who passed this act are
now heard condemning the constitu-
Honnl amendmen MS tyrannical. Conn
ment Is not needed.
The editor OF the South cdrolfIian In
speaking of Congress and Its refusal to
admit representatives from that and
other States lately in rebellion, says
that .sif the South were not completely
.texhapsted and worn outbyIher four
years. struggle with the gigantic pow
'ssee her again girding UP her loins
and preparing for another contest OF
;, arms''
This is a significant declaration and
one entirely expressive, we doubt NOT
OF great amount OF sreconstructedv
sentiment, so=calied, in tho sonth. Is
it not somewhat astonishing when
we think about 1t, that we have lived
toscc tho day when overthrown rebels
should consider their extension for y
season, from the counsels OF the nation..a
cusits bell; and that because of such
exoiusiseness they should dare to make
the actual threat ofwar against tho SUI
prenaacy of the government. One might
riehtfully suppose from the South Car
oiinian's article that the contest be-
tween the government and the rebel
lion. carried ON for more than four
wears. had ended ut last in a drawn
battle, and that II there was any diff
fercnee at all it was Ia favor of the
South. The real situation of the result
and their status by reason of that re-
suit. seems not al all to occur to the
rebels. They presume. as il upon AM
understood political standing through-
ont the country, whereas the
truth is they have none at all
none whatever. They are simply over
thrown rebels and nothing else, and
never can be anything else until made
so by the restoring prerogatiye of the
government.
II Is time that this plain view oftheir
situation was being explicitly devel= !
oped TO the rebels. They boldly as
sumo something very different indeed.
Il is time that those who lost in the