The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-07-29

4 LlOuElaA assembled 1t VIII adopt q con-
Esdtution Tint shall provide, WHOM the
! Governor and members of each branch
| OF the General Assent bly, shall be elec-
tee, how the State shall be distristed in
order to be represented in CONGRESS,
thus putting in, operation the whole
lmhaehllneryT IN Of government. When un-
DER their order the Governor and lnenl-
1 1ers OF the Legislature shall be elected,
then the Legislature may meet and
make laws for government of the state,
Georgia viii then be once moro invest
ed With all the rights and authority be-
longing to sovereign State. Tanow
Zee! bound to declare to you one thing
which you must recognize as ACCOM-
pliShed and the sooner you know it
and conform toit, the sooner you will
K ne relieSed from military rule. Slave
ry exists no more. This is decfeef -
Its restoration, tundera any form 1t-
terly out of the question. Thoss who
Indulge hopes to the contrary are la
boring under deltision. In 5ortier to
convince you. of this II will Isca1 your
atteHtlon to- certain facts which have
ialready transpired. Twenty-Five States
i'll the Union have already accepted the
proposed amendment to the constitu-
ton of the United States, Fby which
amendment it is declared that slavery,
orinVoluntarys yserVitude, shall no longer
exist 1nthe United States, and that Com
gress may mako laws to carry this into
effect. Twenty-Five States have ratified
andiadopted this'prOpOsed amendment;
only two are wanting to pass it by a
constitutional majority, and when it is
so passed lit will bg the law of the land.
These two Will be obtained. There is
no possibility of defeating it. And when
It shall have been done, the constitu-
ton Will declare that SlaVcrVt in the
United States no longer. exits. But
furthermore, slavery hnS been eXtings,
tnished by sthe operations Of The. late
war. L do not propose, in this conneG-.
tlon, to enter upon a lengthy argument
to provo it. simply state what is uni-
versally acknowledged by all writer's
on national law that belligerents
sons and property, and that they may
make what disposition they please
of the property captured. TheVanQuish-
ed are at the disposition Of the condIe-
rors and may be disposed of as they
tnlnk proper. Such is war, and it is a
SIN against God and humanity that it
should be waged. We must submit to
the result of the war. Congress; by the
constitution of the United States, has
the power to give to the President the
regulation of captures by sea and land,
and the President, III The exercise OF
tins power, given to him by the cbnsti-
tuition and by Congress, issued his pro-
clamation disposing of their captures.
declaring that all the negroes who were
slaves in the revolted States should, by
virtue of that proclamation; become
emancipated.. Such is, in my Judgment,
the law, and believe that the Supreme
Court will so decide. I come to anoth-
ertpoint. Tho constitution which tile
people OF Georgia shall adopt in con-
Yentlon will be required to recognize
this fact. The convention will be call
ed upon to agree to this amendment to
the constitution that slavery shall no
longer exist in these States. They will
be called upon to decide this before
their restoration to the Unibn,; in order
that this quarrel iaboUb slavery, Which
has existed from the beginntbs OF the
government to the present time shall
never be revived, and in order that there
may be no dispute among the people of
this State on the subject. They must
provide for its extinction now; and so /
tell you to-day, if you wish to beadmit-
ted into the Union, this convention Of
the people of GeQrgia mustbe composed
OF such material as will recognize the
fact Ofthc ieXtinctiOnO of slavery in GeOr-'
gia, and agree to the amendment to the
constitution Oft the United States, which
will eXtinguish slavery throughout the
country. So, then, L sayto You again,
under Whatever view You may take OF
the subject, slavery is eXtinguished. 1t
ls Eone-it is gone forever. I have heard
complaints upon this point, fellow-citi-
Zcns, that in passing from the state in
which we have been into the new order
of things n great many difficult
ties and inconyenienccs will arise.
Nothing else could hive been expected.
It is said the negroes will struggle
through the country, commit depreda-f
ttonS, many of them be impudent. All
this may be true. Butfor the purpose of
rectifying, these evils we must have n
Legislature that will make laws to
punish them, and punish them severe
lyi for the commission of crime. That
y your remedy; complaining viii not
do any good. And not only that, but
1t is clnimed by some that the negroes
Will not work. I know that those who
have been driven Off the farms do not
work, because they. have no opportuni-
ty of working, and some of them will,
not work where they were not, driven
ot. For this latter class the Legislature
must make laws declaring them va
grants and punishing them as such.-
The negro will not work ! How do you
know they will !not2 II saw them
working very well in New. York, and,
other places where have been. 1t is
true they sometimes commit crimes in
those places, and they ARE punished for
1t. They must worLI-they can work
they must either work or perish. What
IS the diftieplty2 Do not the people
~ NOAhA III III
in New York, in Ohio? -.What.is the
reason they will not worlSP I1hll you
ihcy will work; and must say that,
under the Peculiar circumstances by
which they were surrounded, no people
ever behaved better than they have
iidonelT Those who tell you, they will
not work have hopes OF continuing
their control and dominion over them.
They will work undeFcOntracts Of hire, /,
and 1fthey fail they become Migrants
and may be punished or exiled, us the
laws of the State may direct. Let the
Legislature meet and pass The needful
laws for their regulation and everything
employed by men of humanity and
have fair compensation given Them
and in my Judgment no difficulty viii.
lie In the way. We have lost our capi-
tai IN negro property. It is gone. We
are REDUCED as a people to ban hkfuptcy.
we have been in afhuence and our riches
have flown away. Butwhoisto blame?