The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-05

| tion Act" will have the effect of ale.
| WAITING much of the bitterness caused
by the war, and he twill faithfully
execute" what he says is subversion
OF the Government and Constitution,
which he has taken an oath to support
and defend. And such is President
Johnson-such the man who has lured
us on to our destruction.
Let us have done with all this knave-
/ ry and folly. We prefer trusting our
fate to open enemies to trusting it 70
| false friends. We prefer old Ben. Wade
and Thad. Stevens, and old Horace
Greeley. to Johnson, of Tennessee, and
johnson, of Maryland. True, the
President has talked finely in our be-
half, and so has the "little villain" OF
the Times. But as Raymond has al
ways voted againstus, SO Johnson has,
at least not acted for US. Let him go
his ways. The South can trust him no
longer. We must find other guarantors
| for our safety, and that safety we must
ind with the Republican party, or not
at all. President Johnson has no
strength, moral, political or physical.
He represents nothing, and he repre-
sents nobody. Let him go, like "the
Confederate note"
Representing nothing on Gods earth now,
And naught in the waters below It.
But we have to complain of the Dem
ocratic party North as much as we
complain of President johnson. Next
to President Johnson, we owe all our
present troubles to 'the unterrified"-
''the iron-ribbed Democracy" In the
first place, TIE Northern Democrats al
ways agreed with us in our ideas con-
| cerning secession, and often encouraged
US to exercise our right. Many of them
declared that the South could be coerce
only over their dead bodies. Andit was
so, but not in the sense in which thew
| intandaI n tn I,ni, u
alton. The South was coerced over
some of their dead bodies, but they had
enough living bodies left to enforce
the coercion.
Since the war the Northern Demo-
cratic journals have continually fed us
on the false hope that the Democracy,
in conjunction with President John
son, would give us our rights, If need
be, with the bayonet. Witness the
more ultra Democratic journals, the
Day Book, Metropolitan Record, free
ma MS Journal and Daily NeipS, and the
more moderate journal, the New York
World.
cont on such friends'-friends who
encourage us 10 get into trouble, and
then whip us for doing what they told
| us to do.
Senator Sherman declared that if the
Southern people complained that the
Military Act was harsh, they had their
II
Tor 1t, since they had voted down an
amendment which was quite mitiga-
ton of the severity of the original bill.
This is so, and we have a good many
other things to thank our Northern
Democratic friends to thank for. We
| have to thank them that they encour-
aged us to secede, and then whipped us
for doing SO. We have to thank them
that since the cessation of the war they
have again fed us upon false hopes. We
have to thank them for keeping up the
evaporation of the Northern people
| against us.
Some Republican remarked in Con-
gress that the more Democrats resisted
Republican policy, the more decided
come. Brooks, of New York, a recent
convert 10 Democracy, answered that
this might be true, but the Democrats
would continue to resist. Bully for
MIR. Brooks. Living in a "loyal" State,
as he does, it costs him nothing to "re-
sistj" but his iniquities are to be visited
upon the Southern people. He can
pursue his partisan policy with impu-
nifty, but the South Is to be made the
victim. Party tactics make il necessa-
ry for the Democrats in Congress to de-
feat, If possible, such a thing as Blaine's
amendment, and to oppose Republican
| policy generally. In the meantime the
most vital interest of the Southern peo-
pie is the playrhing of the politicians,
the shuttlecock that is tossed back and
forth between the battledores of the
two opposing factions, the football that
is kicked about by two hostile parties,
the unhappy grist that is ground be.
neatE the upper and neither milIstones.
or this We are tired in the superlative
degree. President Johnson has tried
to reconstruct" us, has most sfgnally
failed, acknowledged his defeat, and
| surrendered at discretion. The iIittle
villain" Of the New York Times, and
men of his ilk, calibre and kidney,
with their milk and cider policy, have
also tried and failed, The Northern
Democracy have lent a helping hand
wherever failure has been certain to be
the result; and now the exigency de-
mands new men, new measures, and
new policy. Men who formerly led at
the South, are not up to the demands
of the crisis. We need an infusion of
new and vigorous young blood into the
veins of our government policy-blood
that has been generated under the pres
eut circumstances-our immediate sur
ronndings. The old fogy politicians
and fossil remains of an antiquated
press are not capable of approaching
our present position. Nourished in
their infancy and fed in their prime
upon ideas which have been forever
destroyed, they are starving in their old
age, by endeavoring to live upon the
shadows that yet linger behind the
substance which has eluded their grasp.
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