The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-21

|
Speaks It's Mind very PIaiDIy--.Itl
Opinion or Grant, sheridan and
Johnson. .-.
The New York Day Book claims Il
be an organ of the simon-pure, unadul,
terated, uncompromising democracy
1t does not love Gen. Grant. It says il
respects him, in the following language
The World also sneakingly hints that
possibly the Democratic party may
nominate Grant for the Presidency
Whether we speak of the fitness of the
man, or his availability as Democrat
ic nominee, such suggestion is an in
suit to the Democracy. We can under.
stand how paper which denounces
the Democracy of Jefferson should,
cleave to such satrap rs Grant. Why
not do the clean thing. and take Sum.
ner or Wade! Why take their tools?
Sheridan is also unpopular in the
Day Book establishments -
General Sheridan has made the low
est sort of political mountebanks his
associates III New Orleans, and has ap.
pointed negroes to official stations. He
is the friend and dsubordinate of General
Grant. ANY shame that attaches to the
former must be shared equally by the
latter; to say nothing of the contempt
due to Mr.. Johnson for consenting tC
be the tool of these Unconstitutional
revolutionary denominations. s.,
Neither is johnson favorite:-
The papers tells us that President
Johnson condemns, in the stronGes,
terms, the course of Sheridan in New
Orleans" The poor, unhappy Com
mander-in. Chief of the army Is in AL
awful way about the bad conduct Of
his subOrdinates, and satraps! And
this is "the second Jackson" just
about as much SO as a buZzard is like
an eagle. +.,+lll --.r-.f..- II.
The Day Book is firm believer in
the right of secession, and holds that
the rebellion was right, and that Its
suppression by military forcei was a
crime. The organ of the genuine De-
mocracy puts the case thus:
The people of the South having been
victims throughout, having proposed to
give up the government, army, navy,
public lands, flag, prestige, everything
held In common to escape the mon
strous madness of Massachusetts and
her sister States, have no sins to atone
for. They strove desperately for four
terrible years to beat back the invaders
and preserve the social elements in
their natural and fitting relations to
each other, and their heroism, devotion
and endurance would have purified and
exalted them and rendered them still
more fit for freedom and all the higher
virtues of citizenship, so that if Andrew
johnson could have risen above the
monstrous madness of the times, and
utterly refusing to perjure himself, had
disbanded the army and faithfully adj
miniStered the Constitution that the
North had professedly fought for, the
entire country, from the Potomac to the
Gulf, would at this moment be over
flowing with industry, life and pros
perity.
Its remedy for the troubles that vex
the South 1t states with considerable
boldness: . .-- ... -.
Negroes debauched and degraded by
Northern agents, schools, &c, and in
deed white men that resist the natural
law and become obstacles to social or
der, must be, and will be exterminated
of course.
It's confident that "subnegation," }" as
it styles slavery. will be re-established
ere long.
The great body of the Southern peo-
pie will, no doubt, stand firm by their
own honest convictions, and the instant
the Northern pressure is removed, So
ciety will be rapidly restored. The So
cial order is so simple-white men and
negroes-the latter natural minors,
with the intellect and moral sense of the
white lad from twelve TO fifteen, and as
naturally submit to the control and
seek the protection of the master as the
former does that of the parent.