The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-06-08
Negro suG age Endorsed.

llcan party are uaAihS an ohoio WINS
claim all utilization with WENDELL PHIL
lips and the doctrine Of negro suffrage
another portion is coming promptly
I'D to the position PHILLIPS has
marked out, and boldly opposing
the policy of President Johnson
Our neighbor here. while lacking con-
age 10 define explicitly his position in
reference to that which is fast becoming
the great question of the day, takes oc'
casion. once in a while, to indulge In q
brief sonib at PHILLIPS and his fellow re
formers. The Washington Chronicle, has
an editorial in Mondays issue denoun'
cing THE abolitiOnists" and charging
Them with all manner of folly and I'm
practicability. The Chronicle is nothing
however, unless cringing to an admins
t,ation which has a few crumbs of pat
ronaee "a hestow. Not very long ago IT
was loud and emphatic in its praise OF
the abolition ~agitators, and commended
LLOYD GARRISON for the work he had
done Bnt a change has come owe: the
policy of the administration, and FOR
My (more properly called FAwNEY) has
discovered that 1.-The abolitiOnists" are
altogether wrong, and haven't much IN
~lnence. nor ever had.
On the other hand, the doctrine of ne
gro suffrage is being embraced by large
masses of the Republican party who
scent to have no more regard for constr
t~utional obligations and the declared
policy of the President than do "the Alb,
nlitionists" of whom FORNEY speaks SO
contemptuously. At convention OF the
Union party, so-called," held in Pitts
hurg, last Tuesday, the following were
among the resolutions passed and put
forth as the platform of the party IN
Allegheny county Pennsylvania.
Fifth. That it is the Imperative duty
If the Government, as well as the best
means of establishing peace upon a sure
and permanent basis, and of %insuring
tranquility throughout thel seeded
States, to do justice to their friends as
well as to punish its enemies; and thai
therefore it is the part both of wisdom
aud Justice to protect the loyal people
of the Sonth, Uithout regard to either race
or color, IN the I'm enjoyment Of M
yjqhts and priririlegeS Of citizenship
and to prevent the late leaders of the re
beIlion from assuming control OF public
affairs in the States they have mlslet
aud betrayed, and from establishing
system of caste aristocracy on the ruln'
of tue late Shareholders Confederaey.
sixth That the people of the loya
STATES who have prosecuted the war to q
successful conclusion, and preserved the
Government, have the right through
their representatives in Congress. to de
termine the conditions upon which the
ueople of the revolving States shall bt
permitted to reorganize their State Gov
eruments, and to exercise the rights ant
powers of States under the Constitution
Seventh. That to permit any OF the sc
coded States to resume the exercise Ofthef
rights and powers in the Union, while
refusing to guarantee, by Constitutions
enactment, to the loyal cOlored people o
such Statas,t,h eNiorrg ute elective fran
chise, on the same terms and to the SAINT
extent as they may he guaranteed to thu
white people of those States, would b'
inconsistent with sound policy and the
dictates of true patriotism. they having
performed well and truly theirpat in tn
great struggle for national life.
WENDELL PHILLIPS himself could no
have prepared resolutions more to hi
liking than these. They come fully NJ
to the position he has taken, and prov
that those whom the Wheeling lHtelli
gcRclr sneers at as radicals" are reali,
not more than three mouths i'll adNanc
of the Republican party Whatever Ia
natical NOTION enters the brain of PM
LIPS, SUMNER 4 Co. Is sure to becom
part of the political creed of the Repnb
licans before many weeks %elalne afte
its PRONUNCIATION.
The sixth resolution, quoted above
distinctly enunciates the doctrine tina
the will of the majority is the supreme
law of the land, and that, as a natnra
the document known a
the Constitution of the United States i
a dead letter, possessing no binding
force whatever. To say that Congress
shall determine the conditions upor
which the Southern States shall he re
organized and enjoy their constitutional
right, and powers in the Union, is to pul
the authority of a majority in Congress:
higher than that of the Constitution it
sell, which is generally supposed to reg
ulate all these things. This, too, is ont
of the advanced positions" of the radi'
Gals whom FoRNEY denounces and the
Inteligenoer snsers at. The Republican
party is marching on" like John
Browns body, and the day is not fal
distant when it will endol Sc the whole
programme Of the abo~litionists, negro
suffrage, negro equality, miscegena alton
and all.
1t is little singular, but nevertheless
characteristic of those who want to hold
fast to their public plumber, that the
same convention which passed the reso'
lutions We have quoted above also re
solved to support the administration Of