The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-03-08


men of Georgia. That man was
in favor of the reconstruction of Geor-
gia at once. What wss his touchstoDe
1t was, he could net get his SIS, 900 in
terest for arms he had sold in the State
of Georgia. He (Farnswortb) felt that
the passage Of the bill and prolonging
the terms of Office of men who nsw con-
trolled the State, authorizing Governor
Bullock to commence de moro, putting
the power of the State in his hands,
would be the most Internal outrage on
the tax payers of the State. He be-
lieved the bill was in the interest of the
people who desired to perpetuate their
reign so they might put money in their
purses.
Speaking of the policy pointed out
by BUTLER, in his speech favoring this
Georgia bill, the Cleveland Plain Dealer
says:
We hear a great deal from the satir-
lists about the "beauties of recoustruc-
tion." BIN. BUTLER, the bully of the
House, developed one, on Thursday,
that will be little startling to common
people at first sight. The people have
ftlicitated themselves upon the near
completion of reconstruction, and upon
the belief that Radical malignity could
not much longer prevent all the States
from assembling once more under the
flag of a common brotherhood. Bat on
Friday BEN. BUTLER, in advocating the
Georgia bill, readmitting that State,
incidentally limited at new
phase of reconstruction policy
Substantially it was nothing less
than a design to take away from
Tennessee her State government and
place her back again under military
creature of Congress. Of course there
must be semblance of pretext for this
bare faced scoundrelism, and BEN. But
LER finds it, in the assumption that a
state of anarchy exists in Tennessee,
which her civil administration cannot
suppress. BUTLER plainly forshadowed
the Radical plan with reference to Ten
nessee, when he said that "if the judg-
ment of the House went with his own,
he proposed to exhibit to Tennessee the
power of Congress against wrong, ra'
pine and murder" If Radical Con-
gress consummate this plan, and we see
no reason to doubt that it will,
it won't be because there is
any greater prevalence of "ra-
pine and murder" in Tennessee,
than elsewhere, but because: 1st, Ten
nessee is not perfect hot house for tAe
cultivation of SUMNERIsM, and I'd, be-
cause complete reconstruction weuld
sound the death .knell of the canting,
proscriptive party now in the control OF
the Government. That is the negro in
the reconstruction wood-pile." 1t can
not be doubted that it is the true policy
of the Radicals to obstruct reconstruc.
tion to the utmost; the Virginia and
Georgia outrages attest this; and 1t
looks as though, in order to accomplish
this object, they were trying their ut
most to worry the South into another
rebellion, or into such state of insub'
ordination as will give the Radical
leaders an excuse for continuing an ac-
cursed military surveillance over al
least portion of her people.
Possibly the South has been so weak
ened by years of war and enervating
Radical sway, and the North has acqui-
esced SO long in the high handed pro-
ceedings at Washington, that piece OF
startling usurpstion like the overtqrn-
ing of the civil government in Tennes
see, and the substitution therefor OF
military rule, might be contaminated
quietly; but we are very much mis-
taken if it would not create such a com
motion as would engulph the party that
dared undertake it, even if nothing
worse followed.