The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-23
President 6I,SVieTs ON Recon.
struction-.--=What the Rabid Seces-
sionfsts3Are to Expect.
CHILLICOTHE, August 16, 1865.

1 8AOnlsLA are 10 Expect
CH1LL1coTHE, August 16, 1865.
A far larger audience than is usual on
such occasions in this rather undemon-
/ stratiYe town, assembled this evening
to hear General Schenck. The City Hall
was crowded, whereas usually half its
l benches are empty.
The General was received and greeted
| in his remarks with gratifying enfhusi-
asm. He sale, he was here more by acci-
dent than design, as he was on his way
| to attend reunion of the soldiers of
Sciota and Pike counties, where he had
j promised to speak Tomorrow; but he
was gratified to meet again, after an in
terval of ten or fifteen years, the citizens
| o Chilli oothe, especially sT0h Of them
as had, with stern resolve, stood by the
/ Union through the four years of terri
BE war that had so tried the hearts of
patriots. Although the rebellion was
broken, SO far as its physical power was
concerned, he felt It to be his duty to
say to his late fellow soldiers that the
work in which they had been engaged
/ was still going on. The spirit of the
rebellion has not yet been extinguished.
The idea that one or more States of this
Union has the right to break up the
whole government at pleasure, and
bring upon us all the horrors we have
just passed through, still prevails. I'm
til this is eXtinguished, and the work
the establishment of a harmonious
national organization, our work will
not be completed. The speaker then
considered the difficulties in the
way OF reconstruction. The Presi-
dent might have held the rebellious
States in military subsection as con-
quered people until satisfied of their.
entire loyalty, and until reinstated in
their former positions by Legislative
action; or he might have withdrawn
the military force altogether and left
them to exercise their civil functions
locally, and in their relations to the
lother States. From the start there were
objections to ench of these courses, and
the President combined them, holding
n military force over them Mt the same
time TINT he allowed them to reinstate
these civil powers, and begin again the
exercise of their loyal functions. This
latter privilege, however, was only an
leXperiment, and the speaker assured
his hearers that President johnson so
regarded it. Only ten days ago, in IL
full and free interview with him, the
President said he regarded the local
governments set up in the rebellious
States as temporary experiments, sim
/ ply to give the people an opportunity
to show whether they will develop the
right spirit and policy necessary for a
full restoration to their proper position
in the government. While regarding
them as experiments he intends that
the military power of the government
shall hold them in check, SO that If
they be found straying back into rebel
lious ways the military will be there to
prevent them from again making the
trouble they have heretofore caused.
The President, in this conversation
referred to the course that had Just been
pursued in reference to the Richmond
election, where the citizens manifested
their rebellious spirit by electing to Of
fee the very men who had recently
been in arms against the government.
1t was with his sanction that the mill
tary authorities had set aside that
election, and this as an example of
what might be expected in other cases
of similar kind. Approaching the
question of suffrage, the speaker said it
did not trouble him in the least. The
only question with him i'll regard to
the restoration of tho rebellious States
to the full privileges of citizens, was MS
to the loyalty of the people. When
satisfied on this point, whether one year
or ten years hence, Congress should re-
store them; but then would come up
the question of representation. Slavery
was abolished, and the rule allowing
three-tifths of the slaves to be repre-
sented in Congress, so unjust to the
North, would have to be abolished with
it, and representation must be accord
ing to voters, and not according to pop
ulation. IF no one else did, the speaker
would Mt nm carly day in the next
Congress, offer an amendment to
the cc:onstitution, by which this
away with, and certainly no democrat,
any more than republicans, could OBJ
ject to tho fairness of the principle that
representation should be according to
voters. If, under such amendment, the
South wished to have its vast colored
TNn inn tod
ellis of the nation, in order to approach
somewhat the political power of the
Northern population of voters, should
inaugurate negro suffrage, nobody had
any right to complain, and If they
could allow their thousands of negroes
under some conditions of education or
property, to vote, there would be no
great objection in the North if the few
/ negroes we have among us were AL
lowed the Same privilege; but this was
n question for the future and for the
South itself to determine, not for us,
and there was no need of the Union
party being disturbed by n discussion
of the subject. 1t had enough else to
look after in regard to what privileges
ercise. III
General Schenck's remarks on this
topic We're very clearly and forcibly
put, and were heartily responded to BY
his Intelligent aud appreciative audi
ence.
TRADE AND CoanrERcE OF CncAooy
THE Board of Trade of Chicago has
made its seventh annual statement.
from which it appears that there are
seventeen grain warehouses in that
city, with total capacity of 9,035 600
bushels. OF these, two have aicapacity
OF million and n quarter each; the
lowest is "a, 600 bushels. The business
IN produce shows slight falling Off in
of the year preceding.
THE PorATo RoT.-The Calais fNfe.3
4dreTttser says that the rust has struck
the potato crop in that region more SCI
Nerely this season than it Inns for many
years past. Many of the farmers have
commenced digging them llp. boninf,-