The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-08-31

| race in the South, SO ii has elected hlm
as an agent to complete their destruction
and set up foreign race to take their
place in the national commonwealth
According to the programme ofthe
Stevens resolutions, there are no loyal
men i'm the South but the enfranchised
blacks or the white man who suecumbed
to the usurpation and obeyed its behests
| and this every man was compelled to
| dds disfranchised as dislOyal In log
ical sequence from this state of facts. the
national legislature is to absorb all leg
islation, state and national, over the
whole South 1t is to assume absolute
power over everything sonth OF Mason
and Dixon's line-and how is ii To he ex-
| ercised
Mr. Stephens, forgetting that our gov
ernment was bound by the Constitution
to protect the people of every state from
all domestic violence and usurpation, as
as well as foreign invasion, and in fail
ing to do it might be justly held to in
demnify the loyal people who have suf-
fered BY the rebellion, has the hardihOod
to declare in his resolutions that the
people Of the South en- mdsss, cOnfounding
the innocent with the guilty, are bound,
ont of their substance, TO pay the whole
national debt incurred by the war. Ills
is somewhat like tying milestone round
the neck of every man of the commonal-
ty and throwing him into the ocean. Ii
certainly overwhelms him in flood from
which he can hardly swim ont with such
a weight.
But this, as it may he said, is only
lifelong incumbrance of generations,
which makes the poor white posterity
who have lived in slave states expiate as
the children the sins of their forefathers
But lest some men who have considera-
BILE substance in land or other estate that
has survived the war may go 10 work
and build up again an independence for
themselves and their devoted country,
Mr.. Stevens has provided another sweep
ing resolution, which cuts down at one
blow all such aspirations. The resolu'
tion is that confiscation, like our great
reaping machines, shall he driven by
steam engine of our absolute government
absolute over theiSouth- and reduce
all fortunes to $4,000 value. 1t does not
say whether the valuation is to be con-
federate paper or greenbacks. Bnt wheth
field will be little worth the cleaning
when we shall have first extracted the
war debt from the unhappy subjects OF
the rebellion TO get government sui
ficiently hardened to execute these de-
crees Mr. Stevens appeals to the soldiers,
and tells them that no man is ever to be
nominated for any Office unless he has
served in the field So they are to be the
dispensers of ali the spoils of the stript,
the naked children. How little this vet
eran politician knows the magnanimous
patriots who fought their battles for the
liberal and merciful institutions Of onr
country They are the last men in the
world to urge to cruelty in cold blood
These men, when hungry, took the bread
out of their own haversacks and gave,
with their canteens, to their PROSTATE
foes. Let them judge the South, and we
are all brothers.
Mr.. Stevens next promises the manu-
facturers unbounded protection if they
will help him to strip the South and re Il
duce it to utter ruin The manufactpG
ers, so far from doing this, will lend their
capital, at least credit, that they may
clothe them and enable them to produce
fresh material for their operatives and
rich markets for the result Of their sue
cessful industry He appeals to the
holders of the government bonds, saying
the plunder of the South is to pay their
debt. They will reply, We will not kill
the goose that lays the golden egg.
But who is to execute the Draconic
DEGREES of Thaddeus and his omnipotent
Il hA 10 fn ha
taxes from the desolated South to pay
the whole war debt? Who is to carry
ont the sweeping confscation through
ont all rebeldom and divide the lands
among the only loyal people of the
South-the negroes
The resolutions name the President as
proper sort of man; but he is plainly
told that his scheme of restoring the
Uniou will not do. 1t is too rose-water,
milk waterloo lenient and yet Mr.
Stevens says the rebels reject it. But
Thaddeus knows man who can do the
business, who can compile his dOOmsday
book of conquests and confiscations.-
Who could be better fitted for it than
the man to whose prodigious energies
and excellencies it would seem all our
successes are to be ascribed2 He has q
resolution of extollation in the platform
all to himself, exalting him by name, in
contrast with the poor cital made of the
President, to make him like Hyperion
to Satyr." The rest of the cabinet are
thrown in the same lump, not named but
as the Colleagues" of Mr.. Stanton
They are worthy gentlemen that must
pass
Now this is not altogether an absurd
distribution of parts in the executive
power considering the work cut out for
it by Mr.. Stevens He is radical from
the foot to the crown of his head. He is
a root and branch man, and could spare
nothing of the government but the body
the Congress-and that he would turn
into revolutionary club. He wants
revolution-he wants Marat to work it
ND. Who can fill the function so well as
Mr.. Staunton He wants gullotlne.-
He wants a Santerse, the butcher, to
reign on its scaffold and ply its axe. Can
any one doubt that Mr.. Stanton would
take this part2 And if Mr.. Stevens
would add peculiar bitterness to the exc
cution of the process of the revolutionary
tribunals in wasting the South aud har.
rowing the feelings ofits victims, could
there be better selection of an agent to
pour gall into wounds than Mr. Stanton.
| have already referred to his urging on
the rebellion. He was the new member
brought into the cabinet, when Cass left
on the ground that it would not "coerce"
-..no;a11u that II yofad Sumfar ehorfd