The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-15
WHEELING. WEST va TUESDAY MORNING, MAY Is, 1866

power of the State, they are denouncing
us, as in days gone by, as faratics, ne
gro lovers, &c. &c. The Maryland
Unionists, who are. situated in many
respects like ourselves, understand this
rebel sympathlzing element in tie bor-
der States. We quote from them as
follows:
Tho war, 1t is true, is over, but the
spirit that conceived 1t and invested it
with features of cruelty and barbarity
unknown in the history of the world,
is still alive. The men who left the
State to carry out the behests of trea-
son are again among us, and as bitter
rebels as ever. They have not i'm
proved in their tone toward the Union
men, unless it is in the newly invented
ways employed to show them how
much they hate them. They tell Union
men that they will never forgive them
for the part they performed in suppress
ing the rebellion. They repeat, both in
public and private, theirs was noble
cause, and that they were not whipped,
but only overwhelmed. Invest such
men with the elective franchise, and
what security have we for the future?
Grant them the privileges and immu-
mites they enjoyed prior to the war
and there will be no telling TO what eX-
will lead them.
In conclusion we commend to our
readers the reperusal of the following
extract from the address issued by the
Central Union Committee of West Vir-
ginia few weeks ago:
GAS matter of plain common sense
all of us know that the mere overthrow
of that great treason by force OF arms
did not change the sympathies of n
single person who in any way aided or
countenanced it. Reason teaches us
that only the character, not the spirit,
of the warfare has ceased. The animus
of the rebellion lives on. And the
source of our present danger is that we
no longer confront Il under its former
colors, 6utunder specious disguises well
calculated to deceive us at the first
glance. In this State tits now arrayed
under the name of the Conservative
party, alter having for years been the
ally of the radical destructionists OF
the South-of those who would not
have lett one stone upon another in our
great Government had they been sue
cessful. In the hope of dividing the
Union strength, aud thus gaining pow
er, it suits this party to profess the most
ultra support OF the President and his
policy of restoration. 1t denounces as
radicals the true men who stood by the
Governnent when this party was stand
ing by the Confederacy, simply because
the true men are determined not to re-
store to power and influence rebels who
resigned their positions underlthe Gov
ernuIent in order to attempt the disso-
luton OF the Union. Men who wore
the rebel uniform for years are now
leading editors and directors OF this so
called Conservative party. Men who
never recognized West Virginia as
State for a single moment during the
rebellion, are now aspirants for the
control of the State. And that large
mass variously made up from the over
5thrown and scattered debris of the re-
bellion, who voluntarily abjured their
allegiance to the Commonwealth, and
who never voted throughout the con-
test until after the surrender of Lee
and Johnston, are now nlarshalling as
of old under the lead of these organ
izers OF this Conservative party"