The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-12
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Wells and his Woes.
Tho tribulatiOns of Ex-Governor
MrLLs, of Louisiana, are just now the
rhrlne of kilograms and newspaper gos-
sip. His peremptory and not altogether
courteous removal by General SHERIDAN
has provoked the Governors deep dis
gust. and while submitting to the ejec-
tion which he could not prevent, q
r.lrur;,m states that he "has coBsulted
With eminent counsel as to the proper
course to pursue at law" If the COM
mon sense of the Counsel in question
Is in proper proportion to their
emnence, their advice will undoubt-
edy be of u grin-andbear-it character.
If there is any government on this con-
tinent SO far omnipetent that all ques-
ton of its DEGREES is useless, it
- the rule of "the awful bloody brig
adirrs" who have been commissioned
70 reconstruct the South. Better men
than Governor WELLS have complained
of the conduct of these military rulers,
and there the matter has generally
ended. Congress has made the sword
the great law-giver Of the South and
there doesn't seem to be any available
method of setting aside its DEGREES.
We confess to some satisfaction at
the fate of this Louisiana dignitary.
There is touch of poetic justice about
the affair, and better than all, there is
4 deal of practical and merited- -retribu-
sion connected with it which argues
that Providence still exercises occa
sionai supervision over human affairs.
As the World puts it, "the election OF
WELLS is only n fresh illustration OF
4 maxim Of more than than eighteen
centuries standing, that the measures
ineeted out are sometimes measured to
the measurers again."
WELLS supposed Conservatism made
him Governor of Louisiana. The con-
ciliarory and judicious tone of his
speeches made him extremely popular.
He was considered the man upon whom
all classes could unite, and by whom all
the warning elements of Louisiana poll
ties could be pacified, and he was elect
ed by q majority of more than twenty
thousand. Once Governor, he abjnred
the doctrines upon which he was elect
ed. Many had said that he was always
a rascal, and after his sudden summer
sault into Radicalism, many others
agreed With them. He became a will
ling tool in the hands of the Destruct-
ives. La December he assured the Leg
islature of his State in the most insult
III. manner, that their opinions upon
The Constitutional Amendment were
ru.irlrd to 10 respect, and would
receive Zone. He heartily approved
the Military Government scheme.
He actively aided its enforce
memt. He sanctioned the removal
of MONROE by military order, and when
No SRoE limited at an appeal to the Su-
prrmc Court, "the idea was treason and
the Mayor. "a traitor" So said WELLS,
but when the same axe terminates his
own official existence, "God bless us
all that's quite different thing he
promptly invokes the aid of "eminent
COUNSEL" and seeks 1.-The proper course
TO pursue at law" It's clear case OF
boomerang. The weapon has turned
back to wound the hand that hurled it,
and it's not in human nature to refraip
from applauding the result.
Says the Uorld of Monday:
so long as Wells was a willing tool of
Radiealism. and was an active advocate
of military measures for the subjuga-
tion of the people of his State, there
seems to have been no complaint
against him from the military powers
or from Congress. His own people, it is
Irue charged him with being n default
er in the sum of $4,000 while he was
State Tax Collector for the Parish of
Rapides, and articles of indictment
were drawn mp in the Legislature char
gng him with this dcfalcation, and also
with the sole responsibility of the July
riot, since he authorized an unlawful
assemblage calculated to create dis
turbance Trifes like these, as Radio
alism considers them, would never have
removed Wells, but when he is charged
with making himself "an impeachment
10 the faithful execution of the act of
Congress- of March 9, 1867" he is sum
marily removed: and is threatened with
forcible election, she surrenders to the
sword"
OF course, Wells don't like it. What
Is good enough for Monroe, according to
Wells way of thinking, is very bad for
Wells.