The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-14
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The aCQuillhl Oh the FIeSlueul Oh tue
charges before The Senate would no
tiUuul, be the occasion of saturnalia
for the Ku Klnx Klans from The Poto-
msc- TO the Rio Grande. And why
should it not? They are organized for
the determination OF the Republican
party in the States lately in rebellion.
by inaugurating reign OF terror, and
II need be- by assassination. While
andrew johnson, the great enemy OF
the Republican party, Is President,
they feel that they have not much TO
fear from him, who desires the same
result, though he processes not to
approve the means by which they pro-
pose to accomplish it. They under
stand perfectly that the officers charged
with the detection and punishment
Of their crimes. HTe fully aware
that they will not commend
themselves to the favorable notice of
Andrew Johnson, by extraordinary
diligence in ferretIng out and punish
ing thyir crimes. They have every reH-
son to hope that in the event of their
arrest and conviction their punishment
may be commuted or unconditional
freedom granted them by the President.
They have seen that the wholesale as
snssinntion at New Orleans Is still un-
punished, though the guilty parties are
known and accessible whenever the
authorities desire their punishment.
They know, too, that General Sheridan
was removed from the command oEths
department of Louisiana and Texas
because be sought 10 punish these as
sassius and protect Union men In his
department. And therefore they know
they have the countenance OF Andrew
johnson in their bloody work.
1.-THE President shall be acquitted by
the Senate, we may look for carnival
OF blood and slaughter in the
States lately In rebellion, from
which we fear our own State
may not DO entirely exempt; for these
'conspirators have their organizations
within our borders In Monroe, Marion
and Jefferson, and perhaps other cOun-
ties, and have been sending their
threats of assassination to prominent
Republicans. And these threats which
SO far have been mere bravado may
become stern realities under the slim
nIus to deeds OF violence which the as
sassins will receive from the acquittnl OF
the President.
We have hoped that the removal OF
Johnson from office would lead TO the
speedy acqulescence of the South In
tho y,tur, ~ rsoonstr,,,go., a1oatol a.,
Congress. We haye believed that when
the Southern rebels should witness the
conviction of the President, and the
defeat of the party upon which they
rely for sympathy and support in
the coming Presidential election,
they would quietly submit TO
the constituted authorities and make
the best of the position in which
they End themselves. But II the
President Is to be acquitted and
made, IN he will be, virtual dictator,
the loyal sentiment In the South can.
not maintain itself amid the persecu-
ton and violence which will make u
reign Of terror there as terrible as that
which characterized the opening of the
rebellion. The reinstatement of civil
government in those States would be
indefinitely deferred. and life there
would be as cheap as virtue now mp
pears to be in tie Senate, in whose
careless and 1t may be cruel hands
repose the safety and lives OF the loyal
men of the South. What perils and
calamities the entire country might be
called 10 endure growing out OF
perturbatIons in one half our domain,
time alone could determine.