The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-27
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members of the Vermont Leoisla-
tnre1 aceiye s. per day. lyr,iF|s -
E-Persons Wishing to visit Jeff Davis
must first obtain a permit from WASH
ington. F,il4 q sl7Ei al r.
y -Ex-Governor a. g. Magrath has
written letter to Governor Orr in ia
vor of the adoption of the Constitu-
tional Amendment by the Southern
states as a measure of relief. n
Wendell Phillips advises Congress-
to stop the supplies il they cannot i'm.
peach the President. If Mr.. Phillins
were a member of Congress, and bore
the responsibility of acting as we'll as
talking, he wonld not indulge in such
nonsense.
"A cotemporary likens the effect of
the Chicago Times. new policy for the
Democratic party to that OF. castor oil
on the boy, who made wry face, and
said TO his mother, ST don't think Il
quite, ute, IKE castor oil, Il Is. q ltttte too
'S''' .Hgg.L .1s' susg-H lIngl 5.i4 bur at'f
1l-Gen. VIM. A. German, the Demo-
cratic politician of. Minnesota, has pub
lished a letter reviewing the political
Situation. "a good retreat,'l he saws.
"is said to be as good as. a victory ., ana
advises the Democracy to favor the
constitutional amendment, which. he
says, IS popular with the majority Of
the people North: Il9cl9SS
=-Itis stated that every Repu blican
in the State of Delaware has been turn
ed out of Office, and not Republican
newspaperin in the State receives a dol
lars worth of advertising or printing
from the Government. Everything has
passed Into the hands of the Salisbury
l-Gopperheads. 1.-THE editor OF the Wit
mtngton Gazette, whose Office was
mobbed during the war for reasonable
utterances, is now the United States
ITO the boast of the Chicago Times
that no newspaper article in this conn-.
try ever produced such a sensation as
its article on suffrage, the st. Louis
Times, copperhead paper, replies {:
"We know of no illustration of the
egotism of the boast-it is unparalleled
and should remain so. Bntthe case of
the servant girl, who left her employ-
ment N the country to enjoy a bit of
metropo pohtanltfe, furnishes a very fair
counterpart to the Times, parading the
notorlety Of its infamay as something
70 be'proud of Jane, who went away q
Pldnl and iyirtuouA. country lass, came
back to visit her old mistress in an
agony of crinoline and vulgar iewelrv
and decorations. BLESS me- jane,
said the old eLnplo oyer, 'swhere5 did YOU
get all those fine clothes p 'La, missus, ;
replied Jane, with a self-satisfied smile
and. glance Of approval, didn't you
know Use been ruined IN ~ -
The Memphis Bulletin has given its
neighbor, the AVGtanche, occasion for
more conyulsions' The Avalanche of
the 10th says: SIN its issue of yester-
day, the Bulletin comes out for the con-
tlonal5amendment, and cuts loose
from the President. Itstands souarelv
up. to Brownlow, Arnell, Stokes and
Maynard?l And of course iE, doesn't
wahtthe BGtLetisI % to presume longer
to counsel our Southern citizens whom
1t has betrayed and deserted,n II
would be marvel if the dubious BIL-
tetin should make up IFS mind with
sufficient positiveness to say precisely
what It does believe in. 1t does not
think that impartial suffrage would be
good for Tennessee and Missouri, where
the Radicals haye theasoendancy. But
"Kather than have Congress author
izeds 70 intervene in local '1iatters !;
rather than have State Boundary lines
obliterated; and local laws made
for us by Congressman of remote
States; rather than have the Fed
eral Government exercise these unde-
fined powers over States and citizens.
created by the proposed amendments
and by the. civil rights actS we would
approve, If speaking for Mississippi,
the Impartial Suffrage platform"
The AVaIaMehe's lament over this is
as pronounced and frantic as the BuI-
tettn'S utterances are ambiguous and
measured. sItsays: s3n 7Eafa ~
s"ShRme, eternalshame, upon 1 press
that can so betray generous people!
What. Mississipp ppian will endorse the
Memphis Bulletin and negro suffrage?
What Alabamian, or Georgian, or Ten
nessean will do it3 BY what right will
read, and prevent the white sold dier from
voting who cannot lfead2l The former
has been the pet of the Government. 1t
has expended millions in building
churches; SCHOOL houses, ying books,
and hiring Yankee teachers, that the
negro may learn to read. No other
class of all our population, has been
go fayored. To the negro thus taught
to read, and also TO hate the Southern
white man, by some disciple of Horace
Greeley, the elective franchise is offer
ed by Horace Greeley and the Memphis
Bulletin; while the poor Confederate
soldier, who may not be able to read,
gut WuO mas uuIoEIuuhIe4y 1oSt nnD
In defending a cause the Bulletin has
just deserted, is, driven from the ballot
box / Is was E1et fer BY faf, I'd taecept
'uhiVefsaf suHfage;ls Tor IN that the
Southern soldier would, at least, be the
kequdL of the negro soldier at the ballot
Fbox. Greeley and the Bulletin place
the white beneath the black in their
platform. What decent man in all the
South will endorse this co-partnership2'
II
cHARIEs q C6&Ne5B, the COUNSEL for
JEFF. Davis, and for the heirs to the es-
tate of the late widow of Aaron Burr
MADAME Jumell has; aeAteFedIa bril-
liant victory In the latter case, which