The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-23
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The suppression and Resuseitation
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The suppression ana Reconsideration
ofthe Richmond Examiner. -
The immediate occasion for the sup
preston of the Examiner. was its ridi-
cule of military balls given by Union
officers in Richmond, and more especi-
ally its abuse of the Virginia ladies at
tending the balls. Subsequently some
secesh ladies of Richmond sent Mr..
Pollard aSnote, thankinghin for rebuk-
ing the women who danced with Yam
kee officers. The CONSEQUENCE was that
these ladies We're subjected to insult
and annoyance, and they addressed a
note to Gen! Terry asking protection
and saying that they wished, to con-
tinue their agreeable social relations
with the Union officers, If they could
be protected. Thereupon Gen. Terry
issued the order suppressing the paper.
The female imbroglio is not given, how
ever, as the reason for the suppression,
but only rs its occasion. The general
hostile and bitter tone of the Examiner
toward the North and sJtowardsl all
Union men is the reason alleged for its
suppression. The following paragraph
is quoted as an exhibition of this spirit:
tt1twould be eiinmeasurab1y the worst
consequences of our defeat in this war
that the South should loseits moral ana
intellectual distinctions as people, and
cease to assert its well-known superb
ority in civilization, in political scho-
larship, and in all the standards OF in
dividual character over the people OF
the North. That superiority has been
recognized by every foreign observer,
and by the intelligent everywhere. It
is the South that in the past penned
four-fifths of thelpoliticalr literature of
America, and furnished the list of names
best known in Europe either for COM
manding statesmanship or for personal
virtue. That superioIityJthe war has
not conquered or lowered, and the
South will do right to claim and cher
ish it,"
After receiving General Grants em-
phatic refusal to recall General Terry's
order, Mr.. Pollard Immediately wrote to
the President:
"If the publication of the Examiner
shall be Permitted 1 solemnly pledge
INV honor that it shall be devoted to the
support of the Union, the constitution
and the laws, and that journal Will con-
tinue heartily to support the Presidents
nolicv.,iG lltI E5fI ,OE
Mr.. Pollard also called on the Presi-
dent and made positive pledges OF 10y
atty and good behavior for the future,
and on the strength of these assurances
the President issued an order that he
be allowed to resume the publication of
his paper, which he will do on Wednes-
day. 2 1t does not appear that the Presi-
dent had seen General Grants indorse-
ment upon Mr.. Pollard's petition when
he took final action in the matter. Nor
does it appear that the ILieutenhnt-
General was aware. of that action, when'
on the same day, he issued this import
ant order to his department command
ers:
TED STATES, WAsHINGroN, February
II, 1856. .-You will please send 70 these
headquarters, as soon as practicable,
and from time to time thereafter, such
depnrtment as contain sentiments of
disloyalty and hostility to the govern
ment in any of its branches, and state
whether such paper is habitunl in its
utterance of such sentiments. The per-
sistent publication of articles calcutta
ted to keep up hostility of feeling be,
tween the people of different sections oil
the country cannot be tolerated. This
information is called for with view to
their suppression, which Will be done
from these headquarters only.
BY command of Lieut.. Gen. Grant.S's
T. S. BOWERS, A. A. G.
Putting these things together, with
out knowing their connection or order
of time, some jump to the conclusion
that the President and lieutenant Cen
eral are acting at cross purposes. But
it is impossible that anything of the sort
should occur intentionally on the part
of Gen. Grant. Indeed, it is not sup
posable that he would have issued an
order soimpoftant rs the above, and i, SO
aside from the regular duties Of the
army. without first Consulting the Pres-
ident. The reasonable presumption is
that it was examined and approved by
the President, and that he made nm ex-
ception in MIR. Pollard's case with n
view to give him one more chance to
prove himself a loyal editor.
THE French Emperor insists upon