The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-11

at Gordonsville, the other day, to a
large crowd. The Richmond papers
intimate that he is amer the Governor
ship.
article expressing very just views in
respect to-'the relations which should
exist between the whites and blacks,
declares in favor of system Of COM
mon schools. ltF
General sehoHeld proposes TO appoint
members OF the Richmond City Couu-
Gil. Elections are dispensed with for
the present. The Wing falls in with
the idea rather cheerfnlIy. Indeed,
that paper and the Dispatch are keep
ing abreast with the rush of the recon-
struction current with facility that
must astonish themselves at times.
The former has an editorial in its issue
of Tuesday, 10 show that the Repub-
lican party, not the Democracy, is the
party to trust, and the one that has
kept faith with the South. The style
OF putting this idea is not the most
complimentary in the world, but new
ertheless maintains the fact stated.
We quote as follows from the article:
.twehave had from them no hypocrit-
ical professions of love and brother
hood. Our complaint has been that
they always spoke ill OF us and acted
harshly towards us. We have pro-
claimed TO the world, time after time,
that it was their insults, abuse and per
secution that postponed the revival of
Southern loyalty and delayed the sub.
utdauCa nf aArffnnaI a01mnaflU ThaU
have never oourted us, nor sought to
entice us by fair promises. They have
never for moment turned their amia-
ble side towards us, IL they have one.
Their countenance has always been an
CRY, their words always full of wrath,
and their actions always harsh. They
have not deceived us. On the contrary,
they nave been bluntly frank and bar
barOuRly honest. They said that we
should not be admitted into the Union
under the Presidents plan, and they
have kept their word. They said that
We should be punished, that our lead
ers should be dIsfranchised, and that
negro suffrage should be fixed upon us.
Here, also, they have kept their word.
They did not promise softly, and per-
form haTshly. Their words and their
acts have been in strict accord.
we demand, In Justice to
the dominant party, from tender re-
gard for the well being of the South,
that we shall, in this instance, trust
that party, and do what they require.
They will accomplish their purpose.
whether we trust them or not, and If
they do so against our efforts, either ac-
tive or passive, 1t will be, all the worse
for us. They promise, IL we will second
them and comply in good faith with
their conditions as laid down in the
military bill, that We shall be restored
TO the Union. To this Congress has
pledged the good faith of the nation in
the face of the world. This Is the first
promise made to us by the Radical Con-
gress. We have seen how .GdftltlitL II has
been In executing Its threats, let us now
SEQ II II will not DO as faithful In OBJ
serving the only promise 1t has made
us. In conclusion, with the declaration
from the lips OF the prominent Repub-
lican leaders that the refusal of the
Southern people to nccept the situation
aud to comply with the condition offer
ed, will be regarded as "renewal of
the rebellion,n and will be punished
accordingly, we would ask the passi-
vites whRtIheyhaveto expect from their
do.noihing policy3 Is II not too peril
GUS, as ii policy, for eight millions of
people with their women and children?
Shall they risk their safety, happiness
aud means of living Just 10 crafty n
proud whim or feeling OF blind spite?
We call the above hopeful article.
1t amounts, we should say, to an ac-
ceptance of the situation. And 1t is a
pretty good specimen of the prevailing
tone of the Southern press just now.
Public opinion is becoming rapidly
aequiescent not only in Virginia but
throughout the rebel States. The con-
gressional bill is doing its work like a
medical specific. AT the rate of present
progress alIthose States will be reor-
ganized before next December, and at
that time will be ready for representa-
tlon In Congress. But 1t will not be
the Rhetts, the Keitts, the Pryors, the
Calhonns. or, in word, the fire-eaters
OF the South, who will present them
selves for admission. A very different
element, a class who know not Joseph,
the men elected by a mixed vote,
some almost wholly by the
negro vote, will constitute the
Southern congressional delegations.
They will all be men who can take the
oath. Not only that. but they will be
in substantial. IL not perfect, accord
with those already in Congress from
the North. The "aneieR nobLesse"will be
out in the cold. Some of the elected will
be men OF Northern origin, and others
such tried native veterans as Durant of
Louisiana. And thus the difficulty that
once stared us In the face OF having the
old regime back again, or even such
men as Stuart, Sharkey, Perry, and
that class who say they can take the
oath, but who would doubtless crimiS
nate aud recriminate in endless debate,
will be avoided. N4'
One session Of Congress thus made
up, as It will be, OF homogeneous ele-
ments from the North and South, will
work a change In the situation that we
can now but family picture in our i'm
nglnations.
The formalities of DEMONSTRATION will
end and the essence OF it will COM
mence quietly, we trust, to cement the
Joints and fittings of the new regime.
The era OF a better feeling and high
err career will dawn upon us. The peo-
pie will ne at work recuperating their
broken fortunes. Industry will pre-
vail throughout the South. The Popn-
1atIon will be swelled year by year from
the North and from Europe. The old
preJudices will fade out. The alchemy
OF self interest will be powerfully at
work. There will be no class Interest,
no peculiar institutions, any longer.
Great internal improvements will
identify aud unity the States as never
before. cog
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