The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-06-13
The Radical Plan.

Structl0n, allowing eacn otdte to uoloi-
mine the qualifications of its voters, is
exciting quite disturbance in the Re
publican camp. The great party OF
opposition" which Judge CHASE proposes
to build up, is having its foundations
laid, and it's plan marked out. We have
seen that WENDELL PHILLIPS has de-
manded negro suffrage or reputation of
the national debt, (since explained to
mean only reputation of the rebel debit
aud even Mr.. CHASE has endeavored to
enlist all the holders of United States Sc
curities in favor of negro suffrage, on the
plea that without the negro vote, the
money obligations of the government are
in danger of being declared void.
Failing, however, to compel the Presl-
dent to rccede from his position, and not
being able to convince the people that it
is necessary to permit negroes to vote in
order to maintain the national honor,
they have hit upon another plan to COM
pel the Southern States to comply with
their wishes. 1t is this: They propose
t. so manipulate the members of the Con-
gress which meets next winter, as to pre-
vent the admission of members from the
Soutborn States elected by the white
vote alone. Congress has the exclusive
right of excluding or admitting its own
members, and when those who have
been elected in North Carolina, Alabama,
Georgia, and other Southern States that
may he reorganized during the summer
upon the North Carolina plan, apply for
their former seats, it is expect
ell that the abolition majority will vote
il solid phalanx against their admission,
and hus thwart the Presidents design.
This idea is suggested and urged by the
Chicago Republican. Mr.. DANA's new pa
per, and Senator WILSON, Of MasSachu
'"tts, goes so far rs TO declare that MEM
"e'S 6 Congress from Tennessee shall
hot I've ""'i+ted so long as shat State re-
tanS upon her sta,Ste books ccrls>in ne
GO laws offensive to his royal pleasant.
There are certain acts Of Congress, and
Customs which have become law, which
may stand in the way Of the fultilncnt
OF this radical programme of which they
Sem to have lost sight Among these
may he mentioned the law passed so late
a. March 3, 1868, requiring the clerk of
~. ,I,4t-. ,f u, +nt ~ ,,la
upon the roll the names OF ali persons
whose credentials show that they We're
ryHIUly clcciCd a. dcc2r1ancc Nth tie lnCs
Of their States respectively, o. he lars Of
tie Uaicd States" II will inanifesfly he
the duty of the clerk TO place the names
Of Southern members upon the roll, and
they cannot be prevented from participa-
ton in the organization OF the House
and all its subsequent proceedings.
There are other provisions Of law, equal
l. explicit, which will stand as insuper-
able barriers in the way of the advocates
of negro sovereignty.
But look at the arrogance of Senator
WILSON, and the character of the doc
triue he puts forth. The speech to which
we referred above was made recently in
Boston Referring to the law OF Ten
nessee, ANDREW JOHNsON'S own State
excluding negroes from voting and from
giving testimony in the courts of Justice
ia eases in which white men were con
cerned, Mr. WILSON said, He would tell
the people of Tennessee, Governor
BROWNLow, and President JOHNSON,
that Representatives from Tennessee
..iinot bs receired "a Congress 'riH hat lac
lJoa ber statste b0oh The Senator of
the United States who could utter such
language as that we have quoted, and be-
lcve that he or his associates have any
right, in compliance with their oath of
Office, to dictate 20 Tennessee what laws
her Legislature shall pass is unworthy
of the high position he occupies There
i. Capitalization for you, full grown and
defiant. 1t illustrates how far the deni-
al III lllt N'bNlluN w D'NN' Tx N2 van
90. Senator WILSON evidently considers
himself Monarch of all he surveys"
born "to threaten and command" and
expects the people of great State to
stand still when he speaks, and the Pres
ident to tremble at his frown
There is something so completely I'M
reasonable and unjust i'll this whole at
tempt of certain persons in the North
to force negro suffrage upon the South
ern States, as to excite the disgust of all
reasonable men. What right have they,
who will not permit the negroes to vote
in the Northern States, to even recon-
mend it to the South3 They should FIRST
east the beam out of their own eye be-
fore they seek to pluck the mote from
their brothers eye. The northern ne
groes are tenfold more intelligent than
those of the South and tenfOld better
fitted to make the experiment of negro
sovereignty successful. Then why not
try it at home These men know very
well that the white people of the North