The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-09
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Territ0rIaI Government ASlxed.-.Ap-
peal orthe Virginia UnIonists to Con-
greRs, IN ---.7 ..-zTf-y TAs,f.
The Richmond Enquirer Of Saturday
contains the following memorial to Con-
gress, and; ;,prefaces it with an article
denouneing its authors as .infamous
and contemptuous" -
stIo Me Honorable Senate and HouSe
Of RepresentdtiUes, IN coA0ress assem-
bEed: ~ ,I.t1aa asJL =. III IEsy
eve, the undersigned, citizens of the
United States, residing In Virginia, re-
spectful1y represent. that as soon as the
militaryipower of the nation had con-
Quered the country SO long held by the
Confederate Rebels, which included Vir-
ginia, the same traitors who had set a
price upon the heads of many of us be-
cause we were Union men, who were
implicated in the murder of our neigh
bors for the same reason, and had de-
stroyed by starvation and other cruel
ties thousands of National soldiers, pos
sessed themselves or the political COM
troll of affairs within that portion of the
lately conquered territory known as
Virginia, and their legislature now
assumes to make laws binding upon the
people. ---=----1--
"one of the acts proposed, or already
passed by that Legislature, provides for
taxing the people of Virginia to pension
the widow Of ofStonewall jackson. Others
aim to disfranchise loyal men by re-
quiring residence of five years in Vir-
ginin, as qualification for voting.
Others are intended to degrade and
humlliate the colored population, to de-
prive them of the benefits of their free
dom, and to subject them to the power
of the whites, by means of unjust and
intolerable oppressive yagraDt laws,
and others, passed to satisfy the poSsi-
tiverequirements of the National Gov
ernment, ostensibly allow colored per-
sons the right to testify in cases to which
such persons are parties, but gives JUS
ticeS of the peace the power to decide,
arbitrarily and pereulptoIily, upon the
credibility of such Testimony, and to
exclude it from the jury without appeal
from such decision.
'eThe only comment on the above meas
ures that is needed is contained in the
fact that the body which is about to
enact them into laws received with
great applause, only a few days since,
suggestion from its presiding officer,
that Robert E. Lee should be made Gov
ernor of Virginia. Meanwhile, the ma
jority of the people who were lately in
open rebellion, are not behind their
Legislature in respect to disloyal con-
duct. Their feelings toward the Gov
=
illustrated by their demeanor toward
its friends. They are preparing new
indignities for their loyal neighbors,
and have, in an organic and official ca
pacity, through the medium of their So
called Courts of Justice, already gone
soSfar that-the lieutenant General of
our army has been obliged to interfere,
and prohibit the execution of the DEGREES
of these courts, during such time as the
military power of the Government may
extend to us its protection. .s
"They have with entire unanimity,
excluded Union men from all partcipa-
ton in the management ofthe so-called
State Government, and are even threat
ening to calla a State Convention, for the
purpose eofremovingits Executive head,
who has at length arrived at point
where he seems disposed to act more
firmly in dealing with these dangerous
men. They, assume, that they have
done no wrong, but acted nobly and
honorably in rebelling againstthe Gov
ernment ofthe United States, and still
wearing their Confederatel uniforms,
they demand, as a right, admission at
Washington to a full participation with
loyal men in the control of the General
Government. . -! 4 i+..5 lrl
"Finally, were anything more needed
to exhibit the state of feeling on the part
of the people of Virginia, we refer to the
report of Major General Carl ShurZ, to
President johnson, rs being a correct
and truthful description of It IN. every
particular. Nor has the Government
of the United State been an idle specta-
tor of all these things since the surren-
der OF the military forces of the rebel
lion. "A part of its army, which for i've
wears past, has been employed in subdu-
ing rebellion in the field, is now em-
ployed in subduing rebellion; in the so
called sLegislature of iYirginia, and
-.
by the notorious disloy ally of fthese peo-
pie, who are so anxious to be admitted
to the rights and privileges of State gov
ernment. s-
ieThe moment the military power is
Withdrawn from among us, and the 10y
al men of Virginia are left to the pro-
lection of the so-called State Govern
'ment, their only safety will be in imme-
diate flight. az p = eiI J . . !
HSuch being the facts, we respect fully
represent that the experiment. of State
Government in Virginia has proven an
utter failure, and our only hope lies in
a TeI7itortaL Government, under the
Immediate control of the National Ad-
ministFalion. = ~ ~ u 4nf llii.f {
-tswe,f therefore, pray your. honorable
bodies to set aside the Government of
which Francis ii. Pferpotnt is the head,
and to establish in its place a Terrific
rial organizations
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TEE Pork There has been
a fatal case of trichina1 or pork disease,
in Detroit, the victim being young
German woman. In Hedersleben, Prus-
sian saxony, nearly ninety deaths have
occurred, while several hu undred; per-
sons have been attacked, all from eat
ing the meat of one diseased pig.
Among those who died were the butch-
err and his wife, and the former coiessed
on his deathbed that he knew the pork
was diseased, though he does not seem
to have been aware of the fatal nature
of the disease. The Trichina Spiralis is