The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-24
THE RADICAL WAR.
Rxtroct. from Wendell PhilLips'
Speech in Boston.
CONGRESS CAN'T SAVE THE COUNTRY.

CONGRESS CAN'T SAVE THE COUNTRY.
At the bar of the House OF Representa-
tives stands Mcpherson, who has right
to make up his list and include eighty
four Southern members without Ques-
ton. He saws he will not. He says it
would be Infamous He says there is
law against it The National Inteli-
qsacer--the organ OF the Government
saws that law does not bind Congress.
What that Congress did, this Congress
need not notice. They cannot bind their
successors. Congress is tue sovereign
and responsible judge whether these
men are competent to enter. Suppose
the third of December the Republican
members hold a caucus. DoOlittle of
WISCONSIN would be there, or il he is not
elected so,ue man like him; the D0olit-
Ties are not exhausted Some one says
to him, the President looks upon this rs
an experiment Experiment why, |
have been all over the State arguing for
it. because Secretary Seward said it was
the best plan ever conceived by man,
and he must stick to it," Sixty to forty
vote that it is dangerous to quarrel,
dangerous to divide the party, aud say,
"McPherson. admit them or course
that gentleman will say, at is against
INV opinion; it is Infamous; but If you
saw so as an organization-siXty to forty
-0entlemen come ill.," Would not it be
sol Suppose the door is shut and stamp
ed "McPherson"-name immotal forever
if he does it-what then2 Congress as
sembles, Louisiana knocks at the door;
what shall we do with her!
LOUISIANA AND GENERAL BANKS.
When a man is about to ascend in
great balloon, he sends out little one
to see what way tue wind is. There is
vagrant mounteback laden with the cur
ses of every loyal mau. in Louisiana
! Massachusetts thinks to send him to
seat in that Congress. Louisiana knocks
at the door, better than he is thousand
fold. The President says: Gentlemen,
what will you do about it? Louisiana
and Mississippi have organized their
militia; they are all ready to govern
According to General Grants advice, we
have put the army on peace footing
Do yOu intend to raise another army OF
two hundred thousond men to subjugate
| Mississippi and control louisiana Says
distinguished Massachusetts represent
tative: These States should be held un-
der military control until they are fit to
come in. Mr. Banks rises and asks
whether the War Department has any
men to hold them in control Stanton
sends back word that the troops have all
been mustered out If You wish TO hold
them under control you must call Tor Il
hundred thousand volunteers.
THE PRESIDENT FORTIFIED.
Gentlemen, it is no experiment. The
| President has put Il rebel in every spot.
He has spiked every Northern cannon
| he has mustered out every black man
and almost every white man. 1t is not
an experiment it is d fortitication. The
slave power is already organized; like
the serpents around LAGOON they have
seized the Republican party and crushed
the life out of it already Applause.
In 1864 he Republican party looked Abra-
ham Lincoln in the face, backed by the
Border States, and quailed; to-day the
Republican party look Andrew johnson
in the face with the organized rebel
States behind him, and it has quailed.
There is not anything left. Trust in Con-
gress, when water runs up hill. There
are men sitting on this platform who
supported Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and
said to me you risk too much III oppos-
ing him-the breaking up OF the Repub-
lican party. How much have they gain
edl They kept the party together. |
was in danger of dispensing it. They
kept it unit, aud it hangs on the edge
of Niagara to-day, and on the point of
going Over. They kept it a unit and put
| Tennessee in the citadel They kept it
| -
the President does not mean what he
saws, and Congress will define his words.
blush to say it. Henry Wilson went
| to the President and said: Mr. Fresi-
dent, DO you intend to pcrsecute usI"
"Oh, no, ! do not mean to persecute You
do you mean to put Republicans ont Of
Office ?" "Oh, no, provided you only dis
cuss and let me act, shall not put them
out of Office" And SO the Senator from
Massachusetts, went to Philadelphia and
said, Don't distrust the President; he
is only acting and gives rs the right Of
talking" The great Republican leader
saws. Don't distrust the President don't
divide the party with it Every step
of the President is fOrtitiCation lie
puts his foot down and plants an insti-
| tuition. The President will meet his
Congress and say, Here | am; ration
behind Inc at peace; what do you mean
to do9" Why, they never resisted yet,
The people have detied the EXECUTIVE
| Congress never. The people checkmated
| Sherman when he surrendered To John
son the people can checkmate Andy
Johnson when he surrenders to Davis.
| IApplause Unless the people do it,
| il won't be done. Let Congress assem-
BILE. and there are six chances ont of sew
en- that the hands of eighty-four South
erners will be placed upon the helm Of
Government If they are not, Congress
| will merely register the dictates OF one
man to whom hitherto they have surren
| dered the Government.
ANOTHER WAR THREATENED.
Will you stand here and see the coun
| try driven into another civil war2 Do
Won own bank share warn you re-
| nudiation is behind the Presidents plan
Are YOU a merchant aud count on trade,
and think when the labor system Of the
South is finished you will have crop of
cotton You will have a harvest of
blood San Domingo never took life to
flee herself, but she deluged the island
in blood to resist reinstatement The
| ,,arro has felt freedom has 1sad arms