The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-04-15

speech Is merely ueienco VI HID ooSuo
and bastard offspring.
Upon Mr.. LINcoLN's favorite plan, one
in ten of the voters Of State are deemed
adequate to carry on State Govern
ment, A pyramid standing on its apex
would be as fixed and stable as this bur-
lesque on Republicanism If one-tenth
of the people of States are to form the
governing power, the government can
not exist without support from outside
sources. To support such governments
in the South, it will be necessary to
maintain standing armies, submit to ex-
cessive taxation, and to hold our liberties
at the will of the man who controls so
vast power for corrupting the public
franchise as the President will pos
sess through State Governments like
that established in Louisiana. Take
Tennessee as a case in point in the late
election. The citizens of that State,
whose loyalty to the United States was
not questioned, were divided in opinion,
as the people of all the loyal States were,
on the question of the propriety OF re-
electing Mr.. LINCOLN. Mr.. LINCoLN's
agents, who controlled TIE State govern
ment, devised an oath which no citizen
could take without pledging himself to
the support of the policy which Mr.. LIN
coin represented Certain citizens of
Tennessee waited on Mr.. LINCOLN and
respectfully complained of the manifest
injustice of his agents. They were told
by the President of the United States
that he had devised his plan of running
the election and his opponent was at
liberty to do the same. The consequence,
of course, was that there was no opposi-
ton to Mr.. LINCOLN in Tennessee, nor is
any possible under his, plan of recon-
structing State governments and run
ming elections"
If the Southern States are TO be gov
erned 10y one-tenth of their population
nine-tenths are proposed to be held in
the Union disatfected, and disfranchised,
and this is to be the new nation; the re-
generated Republics Can stable peace
be maintained in this way! Will not the
hour Of the nations difficulty be hailed
by this disatfected population as the
hour in which they may again strike for
the rights we purpose to withhold from
them We have trampled out organized
opposition to the government We have
opened the way for the civil authority,
and i'll the first hour of victory Mr.. LIN
coin has nothing better to submit than
aiplan for bringing over One-tenth of her
population to the support of the govern
ment! If the party in power can even
now propose no policy under which it
can govern the South peacefully, it can
not do better than abdicate in favor of
some political organization that will at
least give us the assurance of being able
to lay down some theory of government
broad enough for the people of the whole
Union TO live under
We cannot but believe that there is
something fn tho necessity which is now
felt to exist for imploring one man to do
something which the people appear to he
quite willing to do, in antagonism to the
form Of government under which We are
supposed still to live. 1t is possible that
the forms of Republican Government
have survived its spirit. The will of no
ruler in Europe is rs potent in deciding
the destiny of millions as that of Mr.
LINCOLN to-day. Possibly we cannot de
better than accommodate ourscl, es to-
the change We are playing ut cross
purposes apparently with oar rulcIS The
! raDple ar2 lOaAmg lur ruliri fr0n th"
, HardshipS which domestic hrojl> involve;
| Mr., LINCOLN is possibly looking mainly
to The election OF 1865. 1t is very qucs-
| tionablo to us if it would not he better
to declare Mr. LINCOLN President for life
than to make it his interest to keep
alive disafiect ion, through which he and
his adher1ntS are sure to profit We
shall be confirmed in this opinion if some
attempt is not made 10y the people, speed
lily, peacefully, legally, to secure that I'M
terstanding between this distracted peo-
pie, which Nil, LINcoLN's plan of settle
ment will make impossible