The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-22

Ringing Order from Gen. Thomas
---SOme Things Called by Their
Right Names---RebeIsC Cannot F'Iaunt
their Reasonable Flag with Impu.
nifty.
HEA22euARTERs 2lAER DEPT. OF THETESN., !
louisville, KY, Feb. 9Th, 1867.
General Orders No. a1.1
The following letter is nnhIisbe5 for
the information of all concera5 -
By command of Mai. Gen. Thonss
WN, D. wHIPPLE,
BUt. MAJ. CENT & 4. A, G.
HEADQUARTERS DEPT. OF THIS Tenn
Louisville, KY, Feb. 9Th, 1867.
CHARLES d. SMITH. AIayOr of the Ci,v
OF Rome, Ga; JAMES C. PESIBERroN,
Member Of the City Council, Rome,
dnd others.
GENTLESIEN:-The Major General
commanding the Department directs
me TO acknowledge the receipt of your
communication of the 25th ult., ad-
dressed TO Brevet Major General Davis
Tillson, commanding Sub District of
Georgia, giving statement of facts and
circumstances which caused the arrest
of certain citizens of Rome, Ga, for
being concerned in the display OF the
dag of the late Southern Con nfederacy
in that city, and asking that Justice
may be done and the prisoners released.
In your letter you stale that no dis
respect was intended 10 the United
States Government by the exhibition
of the confederate Gag, and that the
parties who displayed It, have accepted
in good faith the present status of af-
fairs, and do ack nowledge the jurisdic-
tion of the United States Government,
&c.
If that is the case it can only be sup
posed, presuming that they possess
ordinary intelligence, that they nisun-
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which is that the rebellion has been
decided 10 be huge crime, embodying
all the crimes of the decalogue, and
that it has been conquered and dis
armed, and that its very name and
emblems are hateful to the people of
the United States, and he must be in
deed obtuse who expects, without Of
Tense, TO parade before the eyes of loyal
people that which they execrate, and
their abhorrence of which they have
expressed in the most emphatic Lam
guage in which it is possible for great
nation TO utter its sentiments.
It ispretended by certain newspapers
that because no order has been Issued
from these Headquarters that the
flag of the Confederacy was not to see
the light, the citizens were not warned
that 1t would be a tTeasonatNN act.
This excuse is too puerile to answer,
and unworthy of a school boy even.
The young men arrested, as well as
other citizens of the South, know well
enough what is right and what is wrong
in such matters, without waiting to be
guided by orders especially naming
and prohibiting displays honoring
treason, and of course contemni low
atty. Were they so stupid as not TO
possess such innate sense of prophet V,
the order from these Headquarters for
bidding n rebel gloritication over the
remains of the rebel Brig. Gen. Hanson,
should have been sufficint warning
that such performances would not be
tolerated.
The sole cause of this and similar
offences lies in the fact that certain cit
zens of Rome, and r portion of the
people of the States lately in rebellion,
do not and have not accepted the stu
alton, and that is, that the late civil
war was a rebellion, and history will
so record 1t. Those engaged in il are
and will be pronounced rebels; rebel
lion i'm plies treason, and treason is a
crime, and heinous one too, and de-
serving of punishment, and that trait
ors have not been punished is owing
TO the magnanimity of the conquerors.
With too many OF the people OF the
South, the late civil war is called n rev.
olution, rebels are called 'confederates,'
loyalists to the whole country are called
id yankees and traitors, and over the
whole great crime with its accursed
EeCOEu VI SlhuBuJSEtu utTOest DhITlOlS
murdered because of their true hearted
love of country, widowed wives and
orphaned children, and prisoners of
war slain amid such horrors as find no
parallel in the history of the world,
they are trying TO throw the gloss of
respectability, and thrusting with con-
tumely and derision from their society
the men and women who would not
join hands with them in the work of
running their country. Everywhere in
the States lately in rebellion treason is
respectable and loyalty odious. This
the people of the United States, who
ended the rebellion and saved the coun-
try will not permit, and all attempts to
maintain this unnatural order of things
will be met by decided disapproyAl.
As however it is pretended by the
friends of the citizens arrested, that
they were so innocent as not to know
that il was wrong for paroled prisoners
and unpunished traitors to glory in
their shame, and fiaunt the symbol of
their crime in the face of the country,
they will be released from confinement
with the understanding that no act OF
treason will be passed unnoticed when
detected, and may they and others, who
think like them, profit by the lesson
they have received.
1 am, Very Respectfully,
Your obediept Servant.
WM. d. WHIPPLE,
BrUt. Maj. Gen. Y. s. A., ,tE 4. A. g.