The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-12-15

possible. 1t embraces the gist and pur.
pose of the whole letter:
The President asks us to ostracise our
friends and place oar enemies over their
heads 1t is vain to attempt to ever
such iniquities. 1t is impossible / re-
publicans to recognise the Presidents
governments. Nor ought they to feel
the least hesitation in rejecting them; for
the Presidents intermeddling is wholly
illegal; it is an assumtion to dictate to
Congress respecting its members; ana
what has been done is a vain form, leav-
ing no claim to legal authority I'LL Con,
gress by recognizing it gives IL legal
force. These mushrooms governments
PLAY at governing Southern states. IL Is
plain the President treats them not as
legal and authoritative governments, but
as his puppets. whose acts ne annuls
wben thev don't suit him. Congress,
then. IS free, and bound to treat them as
mere nullities-to brush them away as
40 many cobwebs; and on the cleared
field to mark out the foundations OF re-
publican principles on which the govern
ment should be erected. The objects to
keep in view are to break the force and
unity of the rebel vote in Congress- to
rescue the States from its domination;
and to place in the hands of the colOred
population political power for their pro-
lection and our safety. Retaining the
States under military power postpones
the first danger, but it involves a great
er, Such rules continued long over such
vast populations must destroy every YES
tage of Republican government. The
military commissions which still defy
the law, under the authority of the Presi-
dent, and, without the frivolous apology
of actual hostilities, infict punishments
unknown to the law for acts displeasing
TO the President are now fast unsettling
the foundations of national freedom and
personal security. If military govern
ments be continued in the rebel States,
the idea of government by law will die
out from the land, and the Presidents
will he the only law. We prefer to
risk the negroes under their masters,
and the country to the rebel vote IN
Congress, rather than subject loyal ne
groes and disloyal whites to the COM
mon despotism of military government,
and expose the North to the dangers OF
tolerating and organizing such des-
potism
1t is necessary, therefore, at once TO sat
isfy republican principles, rescue the States
from rebel domination, secure Congress
AGAINST their uRdipided and hostile rote, pro-
tect the rights Of the negro population, and
create q body of friends for the United
States, interested to fight for its supremacy,
that Congress should require the States to be
reor9aai9ed OH the basis Of universal Suffrage
and that it should refuse to recognize any
government that does not recognize that,
1t should then secure the foundation OF
American republicanism against the mu-
tations of political life and the local hos
tihties in the Southern States by propo-
sing an amendment to the Constitution,
consecrating it forever as the criterion
and condition OF republican government
in every State"
Such is the plan OF this apostle OF the
pious order of Blood Thugs representing
the organization of the Republican party;
and, In brief, it is the programme by
which all such as he expect to retain
power. What care they for the condi-
ton of the people and the welfare of the
country, so they are retained in place
and office? They would convert the
South into another Jamaica-a desert
waste and the Launt of robbers and cut
threats, for little longer lease upon
public life.
In the United States Senate, this clar
is led by SUMNER, the learned fool, il
whose eyes common sense is treason ant
a black skin is a passport to glory, Tt
reason with this class is folly, for to me1
wholly absorbed in self, what are the suf
ferings of their fellow man.