The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-14

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1zeel< has the following able discussion
q the Presidents policy, and the duty
q Christians in relation to il:
Not that we believe oar Church to Be
wrong in the position she = evidently
assuming on national Affairs hut il nav
need defending, as Watson thought the
Bible and Christianity needed an
apology. We had hoped with the
end OF the war TO be able to
retire from the arena, which some
have stigmatized as political - and
therefore affirmed to Be outside the
sphere of religions journalism The
time has come, however, when il be-
comes evident that il We maintain cur
work at heSOuth, with President John
sons policy, L must be at 3 vast ex-
peuse OF treasure, suffering and life.
II Is demanded that we shall be silent
and let the heritage God has given Us
be laid waste, our ministers murdered,
or veil nigh murdered, our people
driven from their homes and slaughter
ed, our churches and school house con-
sumed, because TO tell the eSuse Of these
evils would be TO Introduce politics into
our paper. If the power whose scepter
was a lash, whose practice Was % crush
out free spsech, who attempted BY null
LITIGATION and secession the nation s life,
shall again Be restored, without proper
Limitations and restraints, their nature
viii BE- found unchanged We already
! ind II 50. They hesitate not 70 say that
they expect the triumph OF President
Johnson's policy and the removal Of the
military, and then they twill clean rs
out" We have before US letter from
one OF orr missionaries, who says
fsHad II not been from mortal fear Of
my appealing, IS the last resort, 70 the
military for protection. the mob would,
months ago, have destroyed every ves-
ige OF my Work "A this place
A friend from New Orleans has lately
said 10 rs: Eve have lost since the not
My or sky Union families of worth
and position, and must lose more If
military protection is not given US"
A merchant IN New York, doing e1-
tensive business with New Orleans and
other Southern cities, consulted Us,
while On orr recent trip, as to the pro
priety OF getting out OF tia Southern
trade, s.EoF,T said he, '.thsy begin inSo-
lenfIy to demand = surrender my prin-
cipIes as the price of business
Before the poor negro a still darker
prospect rises il the power that broke
the rebellion does not subdue il The
President, whose veto of the Freed
mems Bureau bill was eonstitutionally
set aside, now seeks to render the Law
Intellectual, by removing its present
officers, and committing the poor freed
men to those who hate him because he
could not love his letters TheremoVal
} of Clinton B. Fisk, already determined
upon, viii be followed by the removal
I OF Howard; and tell rs where IN the
nation another two like them, for this
work, can be found a private letter
I from a friend at the South is before rs,
tBs following extEae4 which indicates
the result=
t.Hany planters, who hired freedmen
for the year, promising them fair We
ges, as soon as their crops were f'laId
by,r or sufficiently cultivated 20 dis
pense with labor. framed some pitiful
excuse 70 discharge their hands, and in
many instances they were tnrned on
without any paw for what they had
donel Although the crops have been
cut on BY the drought, yet many far
mers are now boasting that they viii
make more money han they ever did
before, because fteg CT thelr Ld50r 50
ekedp! II any of their neighbors re-
monsgrnte against their cruelty, they
reply: The did Yankees made the
niEgeH free, non lei them fed them; III
them 60 To-. The negroes some
times 90 70 the man they cali The Blu
ran here, and lay their casS before
him. He has not 80 lar, IN \ single IN
stance that have heard OF, done a par
tee Of justice 20 the negro, but IN eve
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HE'S one o1fhe bitferes1 enemies Of our
cause, and offered one Of my local
preachers twenty dollars IL he would
leave the Methodist Episcopal Church
OF couIBa the offer VAS spuFued.
AT a distance from the towns, in
country placesY many poor DeGross are
being constantly murdered. These
deeds are done BY Glass Of men who
style themselves the black cavalry
They disguise themselves BY backing
their faces and putting On shabby and
fantastic apparel Then mounting
their horses they set ont on their noe
turnal expeditions, bsnE apon the muir
der Of the poor. helpless blaeks.''
Scarcely q Union man, IN many sec
tons Of the country, but has received
anonymous missives warning him out
Of the country.
The AdUoeate quotes some well an
thenticated examples OF these oulragA
and CONTINUES.
We have a right to speak on such
subjects. We riI speak Our Confer
enoes that resolved, in the days Of
Buchaunn and the1cefOrTard, that We
are citizens of the whole country. and
have The rights and immuuities Of cfti-
1sns everywhere, are again resolving in
ike manner. he people are gathering
gflsfr strength for the reasser1ffsu OF the
The Presidential tour the evil
dent faEDF5tE Of the nation ara
TIE men WhD s1bdued The rebellion;
mere odieial respect, and scarcely hist,
Is awarded 70 olhers OIzr Christianity
demands We should stand by The ma
ZION. is SENS TIIIfealiug 70 say 70 our
brethren in The South tle.y muls4 not
atandpn ths dsld. fhsF mus brave
unlE9y ElidIll, they mus test By sheiE
Tvs IL neeeElrE, our claim % "A entire
eountEy;. In1eed- M his 3 true, Snd
t1eF VII do II They do nut mean 70
Be driven cut Of = land redeemed 70 as
b. % muEh pEeeiO1s blood. Molly
taeir TuieEs uonas 70 u GlEiug tlsF are
ready 70 die Il ned BE- bat tlla work
mus 60 On. Bat ne nIH54 net be iullif-
1sEE1t 70 der 9rials or their lltes We
ElEls1 ds1nand for them IIpdItedi51n. We
U1lse stall1 ~ ffeEn ard with them II
ned BE- Ms history aIfil ellsTlaier Of
tbs Squthern people show tllat ne must
llFs gEllrlules his cur CunSFI5Es e
lzlziIg. ll.d We mrs. sustain tileIn IN =.
A unauin1iiy manly as reuarizabte -
tllzE d1EIus- llls- rTlE VII ne believe,
tiistnKlfah the 1feihoifSf Episcopal
Church on this Guhiect. Specif1eits OF
Confersnce a1tion Viiii here fter Be pub
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