The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-04

Some time ago at public dinner in
Mobile, the following toast was offered
and drank to:
f.Jeferson Davis, soldier, statesman,
patriot prisoner. Our tongues may be
mute, but our hearts are with him..
Gommentingupon this toast, the Phil
adelphia Inquirer appropriately re-
marked as follows: i y
hThe people are sick of hearing Da-
Wis called "a PATROL, ? and d.theylRre anx-
ious to have his claims to the title test
ed by speedy trial. This is what The
nation demands, and the sooner our
authorities bring him to the bar of JUS
tice the better. The longer he isde-
tanned in prison, the more false sympa-
thy. will there be engendered in his be-
half. Wirz has been hung. Let the
principal in his crime be also brought
to account. .naesEis7 jEis} ,sssH
The above remark of the Inquirer
stirs up the Mobile Register to great
deal, OF indignation. Both the toast
and its defense by the Register show
the appropriateness of the Inquirer's
comments:
The Register has put Gen. Lee in
nomination for the Presidency in 1868
according to the Memphis Argus. The
argus rebukes the Register for its pre-
cipitaucyii the nomination, but atthe
same time goes so far as to say that"i
is unquestionably true that Gen. Lee
is the foremost manof all the world in
the eheaTts'of the Southern people; it is
true thew regard him with degree of
veneration and affection hardly second
to that they bear toward the father of
his country, butno one ought to know,
no one does know better that the Hon.
John Forsyth, editor of the Mobile Reg
iSEcr, that The time has not yet come
alas! IL may HeUer conle-tDhelt u to0utd
be OtheTIeise than an injury and a cruel
Wrong to General Lee to propose his
name IoJ. the Presidency. The Presiden-
cy is not necessary; in an age like this,
to set off the niatchless character or
complete the splendid fame of General
Lee. CLAY, Webster and Calhoun, Will
be e'remenlbered long alter most of the
Presidents of their time are forgotten.
Those great men will continue to blaze
on The scroll of fame, and live III story,
song and tradition, and in the hearts
of the people, when those of all con-
itemporary Presidents, save one, shall
be found or heard of only in musty of
fetal documents or in statistical enum-
erations.n tal s#si 49,. =. u.
The 26th of April, being the anniver-
sary of Johnson's surrender to Gen
Sherman, the day was "becomingly
commemorated," in the language OF
the Columbus, Co., Sun, by strewing
flowers on the graves of the rebel dead.
The Macon Telegraph hopes that the
anniversary ".will hereafter be held sa-
cred and observed throughout coming
time"
"Letitbe an anniversary, ,whereon our
mothers, aud sisters and wives, shall
meetto decorate-the last resting place
of their sons, brothers and husbands,
and to lament their sad fate. We may
not hope to see splendid mausoleums
rise up all over our land, glittering gor-
geously in the sun, in honor of those
who fought to achieve Shouthern
indedendence; but we may be-
hold woman, in all her love and
sweetness, and purity, meet around
their graves, and with flowers and tears
reverencing7thetr memory,, ana ana nat nat
lowing their last resting place; from
those for whom so much was sacrificed,
and with cheerfulness and unantmity
the world never before witnessed, less
could not be expected.
On the oath of April banquet was
given in Mobile in honor of semmes,
the. pirate, whose return, liberated,
from Washington was the occasion of
great deal of glorihcation. Among
the tonsts drank ut the banquet was
the following:
"JeffersonaDaSisa and his speedy lib
eration."
Major, st. Paul rose to answer this
toast, and did it in few brief words,
referring to the past services of Mr..
Davis TO the American Union to his
henoic courage; to his mastery elo-
ouence and his private virtues. He
spoke briefly of the attempted revolution,
fadWgurated By the South in vi'ldicatfon
Of the principles of 1776, and the doc
trines advocated and upheld by the
founders of this nation. In the at q
tempt TO carry out those sncred princi-
pies the South had placed Mr.. Davis at
their head, not from his own choice, but
in obedience to their own will, and the
crime, If crime it be to seek redress and
flee from insult and oppression, was
the crime of the South, and not his.
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