The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-01

AT this early day it is hard to say
how many Southern States will present
themselves by their Representatives at
Washington next December, seeking
admission into Congress. Conventions
have been already called in Mississippi
Alabama, North and South Carolina,
by the Provisional Governors, the pur-
pose of which will be to reorganize
these States, change their constitutions
so as to prohibit slavery, and otherwise
make them conform to the altered con-
dition of affairs. fit should SO happen
that men on whose Unionism any toll
cradle degree ofreliance can be placed
should be elected to Congress, we appre-
bend that little difficulty in their adj
mission will take place. All the wild
talk now being INDUCED in about keep
ing out any Representatives from the
South until the blacks are admitted to
suffrage indicates only the impractical
BILE ideas of those who indulge in it, and
not reliable public opinion. Ofcourse
the majority in Congress have the ply
steal power to vote members in or out,
with or without reason, but there could
be no graver mistake than to suppose
they can rightfully exclude members
from the Southern States merely be-
cause their freedmen are not allowed to
vote. Ifsuch an attempt is made we
shall have fearful political commo-
ton. But the attempt will not be
made, because the western republicans
will not permitit. Amember ofthe Ohio
republican state committee furnishes
an article to the Cincinnati Commercial
on the subject, in which he says =
"The moment five States (meaning
New England,) attempt to induce Con-
gress TO reject the representatives OF
other States, because these representa-
tives are not elected by the sumo fran
chiSe as their own, they proclaim war
against the constitutional rights of
Ohio and the thirty other States whose
constitutions exclude negro suffrage.
President johnson maintains that the
legal, loyal voters of every State are to
be treated alike. Ifrebels should be
returned to Congress, or the claimants
represent no constituency, of course
they must be rejected, and military 60
vernments continued until there are
enough loyal, legal voters to elect loyal
lIGLIs .SOAIS lGSSIIlSIl3 lOWtNeEI WHO NOlS
to reject claimants to seats from the re-
organized States because they are not
elected by universal suffrage, will find
out that their constituents, and particu-
larly the returned soldiers, who un-
derstand this negro question much
better than stay-Ht-home poll
ticians, will stand by tho president
and rebuke those who postpone
the adoption of the constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery, by
throwing out, by this action, the State
Publications of Arkansas, Louisiana,
Tennessee, &C., as recounted in Presi-
dent LincOln's last speech, on April IL,
1865, as justifying his policy i'll the case
of Louisiana. The sentiment of the
army i'll favor of sustaining President
JOhnson's policy, was emphatically a
unit ut the Union State convention Mt
Columbus, and the politicians who
think that the soldiers favor negro suf-
frnge, can fully satisfy themselves on
this point by submitting through the
legislature. an amendment to the con-
stitution of Ohio, striking out the word
white, before they ask other States to
do what they won't do ut home. Then
the arguments for and against negro
suffrage can be considered before a tri-
bunal that has constitutional power to
pass upon them.