The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-11
OF the southern states


The Memphis ApalaHehe and other
Southern journals favor convention
OF the Southern States, for the mutual
Consideration of their affairs and inter
ests. The A6dEaaehe says. ~
ssTiIe great concern OF the time Is to
restore the seeded States to the Unton,.
todetermine the terms of retroc ession5
and 70 devise some method in the preIn-
in its results. So far, the Federal au-
thority has chosen in this matter to deal
with the States separately. TINS course
has certainly been one of slowprogress
and painful detailk. The fields of2dis-
cussion have been multiplied; the ques :
-tion has been brought under the infiu-
euce OF local prejudices; the conditions
Of festorafion have become numerous
and confused; and in the absence of pre-
eiseiand common views on the subject,
the Southern States are falling into a
condition OF bewildefment and suspi-
cion, the great consequences of which
1t may=not be easy TO estimate. Restor-
alton. 70 the Union, in the sense of re-
turn to civil liberty, even without Con-
Rressional REPRESENTATION, is at once the
chieFand common coneern ofthe South-
ern States, and why may it not De set.
tied on one common field OF dtscussaohF
There never was time in our history
when 70 these States were presented so
many common questions and common
interests conjuncturs SO MT Tor a can
of a general convention of the states !;
nor a season so propitious for their
friendly counsel 1t is not only Tor
such convention to determine what
conditions the States are willing to ac-
cept on;tiiefr return to the Union but
the occasion may be improved In con-
suIting other interests now common 70
NM, y,f thu nOInPa6
population, the rights and wants OF
freedmen, the status of the negro. new
systems of labor, new methods of agr1-
culture. the repair of the common raw
ages of the war, plans of immigration,
all these are new concerns which the
close Of the war has thrust upon the
Southern States, and which would be
best to consider in some common as
sembly. .l;slii!.s -siif -
Let such q convention be called under
the countenance of President johnson
himself; let him freely and distinctly
communicate TO II his views; let IL be
assured that neither the safety nor the
dignity or coilnsels shall be disturbed
bymilitary nterference1and we pledge
our jud snlent that the convention will
coneede all that can be reasonably de-
Inanded; that each State will readily
accept whatever terms it may decide;
md that, in sixty days, the Union VIII
be restored at least SO lar aS 70 ESuuI
the States TO their ordinary civil condi-
ton, by a method alike honorable to the
South, safe to the Federal authority, IA
tai 10 faction, and replete with the noble
auspices of new national life. a ~
IT appesfs from the latest adyices that
the cattle plague is still spreading in
some parts OF England. The markets
at Colchester and Ives have been closed,
and WIN not open until the end of jan
uaryii by order of the local govern
ments, and the disease Is also spreading
at Bradford. Yorkshire, and the coun-
ties of Buckinghamshire, Cumberland,
Essex, Suffolk, Herefordshire, Hunt
ingdonshire, and Worcestershire.
A letter to the London Tunes says
"By the last returns issued the num-
Der OF deaths may be estimated at 40.
OOO., There's upward of 5000 attacked
Jyeekly!!4We- are therefore losing each
week sufficient for Y, oOo, COO persons for
one day"
lItwould appearthat our law prohibit
ting the importation of cattlesh had been
passed none to soon. icy - ssssF