The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-12

LiAOAN"NA@'Ia
WEprint elsewhere an article from
the New York Post on the subject OF
Mr. Chase's nomination by the De-
lnocrncy, partly from the novelty of its
suggestions, and partly as showing the
drift among sell styled conservative"
Republicans. The Post was known du-
ring the war, and is still cl"ssed, as Il
Republican paper. 1t was frce-trade
Democratic paper before, and is so
strongly free-trnde yet, that it finds 1t
very hard to be Republican. Indeed,
we have been unable to see for year
or Two past that II has anything in COM
mon with Republican policy except
hostility to slavery. lis bitterly OPP
posed to the protection OF American in-
dustry it was bitterly opposed TO i'm
prnchiug the President, aud If we I'M
urrsraud the drift OF tho article refer
red TO il IL considering whether it will
not support Mr.. Chase in the event of
his nomination by the Democratic
party.
The entire article, il will be perceived,
Is based on the opinion, clearly cx-
pressed in ore paragraph, that Recon
struction and Slavery inthe South, and
thpjustice or injustice of the war on the
part Ut the Government, are no longer
oucstion- before tire country. itthinks
lii. nomination ul Mr. Chhse would
lead lu ia reformation OF parties, and
IN Abandonment of 1.-THE old grounds oil
difference which tho events OF the last
seven years have already made obso-
Ieic" just hcsc. We conceive, is the
Fundamental error that underlies The
whole article. or course, every one
understands as well as the Post that the
questions oil finance, oftaxa:ion, OF the
management OF the public debt, OF the
restoration OF specie currency, and of
economical administration, are to be
looked infer; but these arc all 10 he
deal. with in the regular conduct
of the Governments. The question that
preccdcs them and outweighs them all
is whether we ara 10 have Il govern.
mcnt; and that issue, involved in the
rebellion, is not yet fully decided. The
purposes for which the rebellion was
inauguratcd are not yet, we fear, abso-
lutely aud irrevoCnb!y defeated, as
they must he before the integrity of "A
republican form of government here
can he fully assured. This might have
been accomplished before now but for
the lrencherous and unpRtriotic action
of the President. But us facts exist,
there are too many aud too patent evil
dcnces to permit an intelligent man TO
doubt thnt those who engaged III the
rebellion In the South, and those who
ENCOURAGED 1t in the North, do not yield
"the old grounds OF difference" They
are overcome by force, they tell us, but
are not subdued. They hold their re-
bellious intent in moral reservation.
Their theories OF State supremacy and
OF white supremacy in the South have
TO yield TO bayoneis, but are not exIin-
aished. 1t is easy TO assume a gene
raj proposition, as the Post does, be-
cause 1t dovetnils into pet theory; but
the honest, sober truth which every |
reading man recognizes is, that the
South is scarcely less rebellious to-day |
at heart towards the theories on which |
the Government rests than at any time
during the war; and it is apparent that
an appreciation OF this fact inspires the
majority in Congress with grave appre-
hension as to what may follow tho re-
admission Of the rebel States even with
the strongest guarantees that can be
devised.
Under the inspiration of Johnson's
treachcry 1--WE bellows treason "A filter
word) the Southern rebels, who COM
prise the educated aud influential
white people of the South, are re.
solved to have back the Egyptian flesh
pots, If any time. perhaps, within this
generation opportunity offers. They
have now for three years resisted the
policy upon which Congress sought 10
restore their civil government. They
are determined the Southern States
shall not be reconstructed on IL basis
oil loyalty 10 the Government, and
equally determined their old dogma,
that the capital of the South should own
mo labor OF the South, shall be again
w AS leet- They ara further re-
solved sE' that while the laboring class of
t"eH reputation shall have no voice
IN tue government. they will exact adj.
"ultion"l representation for tben sa,,os
IN congress on"coount orthut class so
tney had 1t before the war. 'rho,. .-o
determined, too, that their Ire,so,, - az,
yet be made respectable by ,ho T'a s 40"
complishment OF the ends sonn Az
Therefore they rejected with eonteson,
the proposition of Congress to restore
them on condition that if they disfrsny
chised the negro population thew
should have no representation for /, in
Congress; that the rebel debt should
not be paid, but that OF the Republic
should. and that prominent rebel.
should, for the time, be dIsfranchised
Congress being, therefore, compelled II
resort to a method OF reconstruction
under which the negro votes by proGec