Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-04-14

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ING. APRIL Ii, 1865.
dectlssrti1g emancipation for the whole STATE
l practically applies the proclamsti stion to the
part preYiousIy excepted II does not
adopt apprenticeship for freed people, and
/ is silent, as il could not wen be Otherwise.
about the admission of members to Con
Igress. So that as 1t is applied to Louisi.
s?al every member of the Cabinet fully ap.
proved the plan. The message went to
Congress, and received many commenGfa.
ti9ns OF the plan, written and verbally, and
not single objection to it, from any pro-
tessed emancipad donists, came to nv
knowledge until after the, news reached
Hashtpgton that the people of Lo6isiana
had begun TO move in accordance with it.
About July, 1882, 1 had corresponded With
different persons supposed to be interested
IN seeking q re- construction Of State
government for Louisiana When the mes
sage of 1868, with the plan before u3s6
toned, reached New Orleans, Gen. Banks
wrote me that be was confident that the
people, with his military co operation,
would rs=constrnct substantially on that
plan, wrote to him and some of them to,
try 1t. They tried 1t and the resuIttis
known. Such has been my only agency 10
getting up the Louisiana government. AS
to sustatding it, my piohise is out, as beb
fore stated. Butas bad promises arebekf .
ter broken than kept, / shall treat this as a
bad promise and break it whenever I shall
be Convinced that keeping it is adverse to
the phb bic interest, but have not yet been
convinced. ''''. tf'5. '''ieg.'a
| have been shown letter on this sub
ject, supposed to be an able one, in which
the writer expresses regret that my mind
has not seemed to be definitely fxed on
the question, whether the seeded States!
so called, are in the Union or out OF it. Ill
Would, perhaps, add astonishment to his
regret were he to learn that siu6e 1 have
found .professed Union. men endeavoring
to snswer that question have phrpbseIy
foTborne public expression upon it.. AS
appears to me, that question has not been,
nor yet Is q practically material one, and
that any discussion Of it while It thus re-.
mains practically immaterial, could have
no efeet other than lheim imisChieVous one of
dividing our ,Fiends.T As yet, whatever III
may become, that Question is bad as the
basis Of controversy, and good for 10th /.
Ing at ALA merely perniclous abstFac-
tion. Weall agtee that the seeded States,
30 called, are out of their proper practical
relation with the Union, and that the sole
object of the government, civil and mil.
itary, in regard to those States, is to again
get them into their proper practical rela-
ton. bellows that It is not only possi-
Bile, but, in fact, easier, to do this without
deciding, or even considering, whether
those States have ever been out Of the
Uuion, than with it. Finding themselves
safely at home, It would be utterly imma-,
teFial Whethersthey had been abroad. Let
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restore the proper practical relations be-
tween those States and he nation, and
each forever after innocent1y indulge his
own opinion, Whether in doing. the apts he
brought the, Slates from without into the
uuIon1 or i0EitYl gave them prnnee assist.
.ance, they never having been ont of it,
The amount of constituency, SO 70 speak,
on which the Louisiana aGoYerhmentFesis,
would be more Satisfactory to all if it cou
tained so 900, or 5000, OF even 20 900
instead of II, 900, as. it does. Itia also IN
satisfactory to sUme that the electiVei fran y
Fchiseis not given to the colsred man. / would
myself prefer that it were now conferred
on the very intelligent and nThose who
serve our canse Ra.soldieFs. Still the
iqgeetion is not whether the louisiana gov.
'ernment, as it stands, is quite all that is
desirable. The question is, will it be wiser
to take it as it is, and help to improve it,
or to reject and disperse? Can Louisiana
be brought into proper practical relation
with the Union sooner by sustaining or
by discardiug her new State government?
Some twelve thousand voters in the here.
tefore slave State OF E6Gisi8ua have sworn
allegiance to- the Union; assumed to be the
ffg6tfuf political power of the State, held
eiections, oFganfBed a State government,
adopted Free State constitution, giving
the benefit of public schools equally to
black and white, and empowering the Leg
islature to confer the elective franchise up-
on the colored man. This Legislature hasisl.
ready voted to Erbtifyf the constitu utioaal
atned6 dent recently passed by Congress, Il
abolishing slavery throughout the nation,
These twelve thousand persons are thus
fully committed to the. .ppion. and to per-
pet1a,e freedom in the, State; com nitted
TO the very, things aaIpd nearly all things,
the nation wants, and they ask the nations
Recognition and 1ts assistance to make good
this committal Now il We reject and
spurn them We do our utmost to disorgau-
ize and disper5e them. We in fact say to
the. yhiteman, you are worthless or worse;
;Rs will FSneithet help you, nor beihslped by y
you. To the blacks, we say: This cup of
liberty Whi6h these,zyour old masters, held
to your lips, we will dash from, you, and
leave you 10 the cuRuces OF Ratner1pR the
spilled and scattered contents in. some
vague and underlined when, where and how.
If this course, diseouragiug and parslizing
both, white ana black hss any tendency to
bring Louisiana into proper practical re.
laiipps. with the Union, l.haye 50 far been
unable to perceive it. If, on the contrary,
1We'recognize and sustain thepeW govern
CmenE OF IIohsians I sth6 h6.conVerss OF all this
is made true. We encourage the hearts and
nerve the arms of 1900 to adhere to their
work. aud ,sEEne fOEit, and preselyte for it,
and fight forsit, and feed it, and growait,.
and rfpen tito q complete success. The
colored man, toO1in seeing all united for
him, Is inspired With vigilance, aud energy,
a6ds daring to the same eend. 9Grant that
he desires the elective franchise, will hes
not attain 1t sooner by saving the already
advanced steps toward it, than.byrT yrTuuuipg
backward over them? Coucede that the