The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-23
FROM THE SOUTH.
what the Papers Have to say.

At Selma, Ala, few days ago, a
numerously attended Union meeting
was held, full particulars of which are
given in the Tunes OF that place.
Among other resolutions passed was
the following:
"ReSOtVed, That as Union men we are
DESTROYS OF maintaining unity and har-
mony in our common country. and we
are willing to uphold the Union party,
known as the Republican Congress, and
furthering its success by all legitimate
means, AS well as assisting and encour-
aging the efforts of all patriotic Union
men throughout the state"
The Mobile AdveTtise,- is alarmed and
indignant at the Selma meeting. It
says:
Let not n radical party be licked
into shape in tiOurishing town in the
heart Of Alabama without an Indignant
protest from the true men and women
who inhabit it,"
The Mobile Tribune is respondent
and hopeless. The day of.the South's
destiny is over. 1t says:
I'VE look forward to a complete
schism in the Southern press ut no dis
tant day. Panic, and the hope of get
ting government patronage, will induce
some that opposed the Constitutional
Amendment to lick the feet of ConOrasS
out OF gratitude for its military bill.
There has been a specimen conyen-
ton at Selma, the proceedings of which
are published in the Times of that
place, with panic-stricken comments in
good keeping with them. This meeting
was composed in part, OF men who
have been troubled with palsy Mt the
knees for several years past; and. in
part, OF men whom we expected to see
behave with more GOODNESS amidst dam
gers they cannot avert"
The Richmond Enquirer has come
down to the work (the sherman bin
with an exceedingly bad grace. Its
wry faces have been numerous. Here
is one OF Its last exhibitions
"Our condition Is war-a war in
which 'all things are fair Ambition
of dollars will be raised to corrupt Vir-
ginia- Presses will be subsidized.
Radical orators will pour in among us
at the first election. ThaE pacuIiarIv
Northern institution, 'ballot-stuffinp
has been provided for by act OF Con-
gress, and II chcpdlEr dc JT-iSe of oaths
has been constructed to resist rebel as
snults. Against all this, we have
nothing to oppose, but unity. But thar
is a sun ard shield to an honest mi
nority- With it, we shall vet triumph
Without il, we shall be-Tennesseea and
loyal. To secure this unity, the I.egis
lature should take the first step. We
need no platforms, no candidates at
this -time-nothing but "a word of FRA
ternal counsel and a pledge of union.''
The Wilmington IN. C.) Journal
makes the following remarks:
Then, if we are to have n conven-
ton, and we see no escape from it. let
il be called by the military power of
the government, and in obeying, peace
ably and quietly, mandates which we
nave no power to resist; let our sub
mission, now and in the future, be AN
earnest and honorable protest against
the injustice and tyranny of the gov
ernment.S
The editor OF the Lynchburr V;r,fn-
san thus expresses HIMSELF
UNJUST as the terms imposed upor
US are, and impossible as it NAV be for
US to swear attachment TO the men
who make might right, there is no al
Tentative left us but that of n choice
of evils. We can only counteracL in
part, the evils that were intended for
US by the majority of Congress, by nut
ting forth all the means in our poTer
to control them. The President is now
erless, the Supreme Court is a nuflity.
and Congress in omnipotent. What
then, shall we do but make the best Of
our situation"
The Jackson MISSY Clarion makes
the following remarks:
We would not have the people of the
South deluded into the belief that they
can adopt any line of policy by which
70 ward on the scheme of negro suf-
The Savannah tGa,) Republican de-
hvers itself thus:
appalling and revolving as seem the
PROVISIONS OF this bill. we have no
~ sNluI nope for any modification
VI epeaA Oh it-lt has become law of