The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-09-12
VIEWS OF WILLIAM LLOYD
GARRISON.

A. Characteristic LCtt6Ts.The South
Charged with Rebellion and War.
[FrOm the Boston. journal
II the tragedies that are daily occur
ring were simply murder or assassination
to gratily personal revenge or to obtain 8
coveted booty, they might be left to The
disposal Of the local authorities, and nc
Government interference would be deem,
ed desirable or necessary; but they are
notably for disloyal ends, against the en-
jcyncnt ofequal civil and political rights
and in the interest OF that rebelllous
spirit which involved US in one Of the
bloodlest conflicts recorded in the annals
OF history, and which incomparably pre-
iers to rule in hell rather than serve in
heaven. They mean the suppression ol
the freedom Of speech, freedom Of the
press, the right pesCeably to assemble To-
gcther Tor redress OF grievances, the indie.
pendent exercise oil the elective franchise
in the hands Of ireeinep, and the over
throw Of all the safeguards OF personal
security. They mean rebellion and war
an impersHm in itnperiO, whereby Amer
lean citizenship may be trampled upon
with itnpunity. . Gla = Ss
OF course, the rebel justification Tor
these horrible deeds IS that the victims
were conspiriDg for the destruction of the
whites, Or proposing some other evil de-
vice; but the accusation Ia mRnilestly that
OF the wolf in the fable against the lamb.
In the end, 1t is always shown in such
cases that the aggressors arc the disloyal
and degraded whites, whose tiger terocity
Is untamSble. The ColOrcd people OF the
South are the least inclined TO blOodshed
Of any considerable portion Of mankind;
they lOrbesr and forgive, and meekly en-.
deavOr to keep the peace in manner
that would be regarded as lack OF man
hood in white men; they know full well,
moreover, that in any collision with their
satanic enemies they would be the chiel
sufferers, and u CircumSpeCtion, born oi
prolonged martyrdOm, leads to all posi-
BILE endurance on their part under the
most cruel prOvOCAtiOns. II in any case,
gOaded TO desperation, any OF their mum.
Der arm in sell.delense, or are nerved to
pull trigger, the act is magnitled into
diabOlical uprising OF the blacks to ex-
terminate the whites, whose passions arc
most easily "sGt on fire OF hell"
The real truth is that the South Is still
rebel in heart and purpose, devoid ol all
patriotic feeling, charged with deadly
malignity towards all Northern residents
on her soil who will not wear paddock
upon their lips, utterly anti American,
covered With gross ignorance and brutal
decentralization like pail, and closely
allied 10 barbarism. That in Georgia
alone torty.eight militia companies refuse
to carry the United States flag, while
bearing United States arms drawn from
the arsenslS Of the General Government,
Is symptOmAtic of her rotten condition
generally. In vain has her bloody rebel
lion been more than msgnanimously con.
doned by that government, and not a
single traitor executed for treason; in vain
has the North charitsbly contributed mil.
lions OF dollars to save the Southern peo.
pic from the horrors Of starvation, and
millions more to spread the light ot edu.
cation among them; in vain have North.
ern capital, enterprise and industry sought
to develop the locked.up resources OF that
and inert section Of our land; in
vain has every effort been made 10 icon.
ciliate our Southern brethren" by divers
ways and means not always commenda
BILE. Darkness has as much fellowship
with light and Belisl with Christ, as the
South has with the North. All her sui
erings are by her own iniliction, and she
is her one implacable enemy-besotted,
desperate, insane.