The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-20
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Gen. Thomas report to Gen. Grant IS
one of considerable length, and viii be
found of great general interest. The
old hero speaks very plainly in regard
to affairs in his department, and does
not hesitate to use strong expressions
in regard to the late manifestation OF
rebel spirit in Tennessee He regrets
that law has so little power to punish
crime and protect innocence as it has
among the reconstructed rebels-and
that mob law rules to sogreat an ex-
tent, The Ku Klux Khan are shown up
historically, and those who denied its
existence come in for rebuke. The
great difficulty in obtaining Justice for
Union men In the South is treated of
and inveighed against. The railroads.
ofTennessee come in for share of at.
tention, and their diIatoriousness In
paying their indebtedness, due to the.
United States Government is condemn-
ed, and he recommends that they be
compelled to promptly settle. Refer
ring to the acts of lawlessness In the.
States of Tennessee and Kentucky the
report concludes as follows:
In Tennessee. where majority OF
late rebels are disfranchlsed, they and
sympathtzers with them, have q hatred
concealed and aggressive in localities
whsre the disfrHnchised element Is
strong. A spirit of persecution toward
those in sympathy with the auth critics,
those who recognize the political rights
OF the enfranchised negroes. and the
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itself in utter contempt of all respect
for law. Violence is openly talked of,
the editorials of the public press are
such as to create most intense hatred in
the breasts of ex-rebels and their sym
pathizers. The effect of this is to3cause
disturbance throughout the State, by
melting the rufIianly portion OF this
class OF citizens to murder, rob and
maltreat white ,Unionists and colored
people. In localities where there are
no United States troops stationed, the
local authorities often have mot the
viii, and more often have not the
power to suppress and prevent these
outrRges. In kentucky disenfrAnchise.
ment can not be alleged as reason
for the disturbances. Here Che mass
of the people are in sympathy
with the State authorities. and
tempt to resist them. The coloTed peo-
pie are quiet and peaceable, They have
no political rights, not being enfran-
chised, yet ruftiaus are permitted to
tyrannize over them Without fear of
punishment. The testimony of me-
groes is refused in the United States
Coul Is are difficult of access to an igno-
rant people without friends or intip-.
ence. In some Districts some ex- Union
soldiers are presented by their numer-
GUS rebel neighbors until they are
forced into a Resistance, which some.
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or they are compelled, in Belf-defenBe,
to emigrnte, An appeal to the courts
affords but little hopes of redress, as
magistrates and juries too often decide
I'M accordance with their preiudices,
Without regard to Justice. The controt.
ling cause ofthe unsettled condition of
affairs in the Department is that the
greatest efforts made by the defeated
insurgents since the close of the war
have been to promulgRte the idea that
the cause of liberty, Justice, humanity,
equality and all the calendar of virtues
OF freedmen, suffered violence and
wrong when the effort for Southern In.
dependence failed. ~ p -
This is, of course, intended as spe-
Giles of political court, whereby the
crime of treason might be covered with
counterfeit yarnlsh of patriotism. SO
that participators Of rebellion might go
down in history hand in hand with the
wiplng out with their own hands their
own stains, species of self forgiveness
amazing in its ehrontery when II is
considered that life and property, Just
ly forfeited by the laws ofithe country,
of war and of nations, through the
magnanimity of the Government of the
people was not exacted from them.
Under this inspiration OF the education
of the great body of the people, moral,
religions and political, has enturned
into channels wherein all might unite
In common, the impoverishment of the
South resulting from war andyits con.
comitants, the emancipation OF slaves,
and consequent loss OF substance, the
am biguity and uncertainty of political
rights and financial values, as well as
personal riyalries, have all comb
TO strengthen The efforts of pernicious
teachers. The evil done mas been
great, and it is not discernible that an
immediate Improvement may be ex-
pected."
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