The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-07
FRoMTHEs SOUTH.
Comments of the Rebel Press ON the
AItuafIOn.

on its probable passage over the veto.
We presume the news of its passage
will not take any of them by surprise,
as they were evidently apprehensive
and almost certain that such wound be
the case. We quote as follows from
their remarks;
The Staunton (Va.) Spectator thus
graphically sums up its idea of the sit
uation:
ga large athletic man, clad in armor
and armed cap-a-pie, stands over the
PROSTATE body of small though gall
liant man, unarmed; helpless, exhaust
ed, and, fearing the small man may
arise and overcome him, the large one
pins him to the earth with a bayonet."
The Newbern Journal of Commerce
does not take things so much to heart:
I'm anticipation of this bills becom-
ing the law, in despite of Presidential
veto, we are inclined to exclaim, in the
language of Macbeth, as handed down
to US by one William Shakespeare, or
by the author of Shakespeare works,
whoever he may have been las some
doubt is now expressed as to the said
authorship:
Lay on SIacduh,
And DID be he who first cries hold, enough
Better military rule, with all its
evils, than to be governed by renegade
southerners. We would trust Grant
to-day, and the gallant man who fought
us s0tdieriy in the field, rather than
those of our 'Kith and KIM who have
deserted us in the hour OF our dire ex-
tremity, and have sold themselves to
the Dutch"
The Augusta Constitutionalist regards
the case as desperate:
Verify, we are between the devil
and the deep sea. Escape seems almost
impossible, but may come miraculous
ly. AS the case stands, the supreme
or Ceesar7 which shall il be? The days
of the American republic have been
numbered?"
The Petersburg Express looks to
Providence for help: --..sl
sis man, in this nineteenth century
of the Christian era, utterly incapable
of governing himself? Are the desti-
mics of this mighty empire to be mar
red by handful of madmen, with no
more reason than Turkish dervishes7
| I'VE trust In Providence that either
by the executive veto, or some other in
terposition, the renegade course of the
country may be arrested, and that the
day is not remote when the Govern
ment will be again put on its right
| track"
The Louisville Journal, which is one
of the most ultra of rebel sheets since
the war closed, hints at little resis-
lance:
"The people of the South, If wise and
prudent, can live for time under such
a damnable tyranny as this, but, if
they consent to 1t, they deserve it. They
don't deserve it, and they will never
consent to it.
what are we to expect What is
before us2 Who can answer Presi-
dent Johnson is bound by his oath of
office to maintain the Constitution and
the laws. If Congress make an auda-
cious attempt to destroy or paralyze the
other two departments OF the govern
ment, what will be his duty? The
answer TO this question, if made by
him, demands the noblest courage and
the highest craftsmanship. We do not
assume to render the answer. We have
confidence in the President and his
trusted advisers"
The Wilmington Journal takes the
Indifferent tack
"We, the people of the South, have
become quite Indifferent as to the
course the present Congress may pur-
sue toward us. Hence II is only neces-
sary for us to keep quiet and see how
far fanaticism will lead them.'
The worst feature in the whole thing
in the eyes of the Richmond Times is
the fact that, noLerls VoLens, the South
has at last come to negro suffrage, and
a wall over this fact has been the bur-
den of nearly every leader in the COL
umns of that paper for week. The
following is a sampler
1.-THE most hideous and revolving fea-
tnr0 of that inVaOtiOn Of the davil tho
Sherman bill, is that whether we con-
sent to return TO the Union, or prefer to
remain at the mercy of the military,
we cannot avoid the outrage of negro
suffrage. The charter of our city and
the constitution of the State compel us
in few weeks to elect city and State
officers, and at these elections the
cleaning bayonets of the soldiery at
the throats OF 6isarmed people, will
force negro suffrage upon us.
Il SAT one time we turned dispairingly
10 every military role for reliefI but
now, with malignancy at which u
half-civilized Cossack conqueror would
blush, we are required to submit to
that insult which has just been inflicted
upon the people of Georgetown. We
may have to do it in self-defence, but
We will do it with clenched teeth and
a prayer for vengeance as terrible as
the red lightnings of Heaven upon
those who have thus tortured a dis
armed foe, and in due season retribu-
ton will fall upon these Oppressors."
The whole view of the Richmond En-
quirer is contained in the following ex-
tract. 1t sees no resource but an ap-
peal to the Supreme Court, and is re-
markably sensible in its advice as to
what shall be done meanwhile -
eve earnestly advise, therefore, on
the score of expediency, as we'll as i'm
perative duty, that the legislature pro-
vide for testing, at as early u day ms
possible, the validity OF the law which
assumes TO strike the State, and to
strike every right of every citizen, out
of existence at a blow. We will care
| fully obey the law meanwhile. We
Will give no cause of complaint or at
tack by any opposition; but we shall
| be false to every sentiment and obliga-
ton OF duty to our State, to ourselves,
and to the Constitution we have sworn
to support, If we fail to invoke its ar
bitrament in the vital question of the
life of the Commonwealth and the lib
erty of her people,"
A desire is manifested in some quar-
tiers even to accept the situation, and
this feeling is actually growing outside
of the class which, like Governor Brown
or Governor Patton, are naturally lib
eral upon this subject. Thus the Fred
| ericksburg Ledger makes the following
sensible application of fable -
1.-THE fable of Tarquin the Proud and
the Sibylline books is not without its
application here. The Sibyl went TO
Tarquin with nine books. He declined
to take them and turned haughtily from