The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-28
WHEELING WEST VA FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER

uOlllty, luu locIS JnuL unless LnO negro
Is kept down by law, and deprived of
his rights. tho negro will not only be
his equal III tho race of life, but will be
his superior. Now, my friends, it don't
hurt you, it don't lessen the dignity of
nny one, IL your nCiGhbOr who lives hy
your sidc gets along we'll. We have
these colored people here; only IL small
number of them, it Is true; but they nre
here. We can't emulate the example
of tho butcher of Fort Pillow, and mas
Sncre them. We cannot eXterminute
them. They are here, and some Of
them, perhaps, Will always bC here.
ask every sensible man in this crowd,
is it for your interest to have these peO-
ple Intelligent, industrious and self
supporting, or to reduce them to tho
lowest level, deprive them of all self
respect, and mako them live by Stcnl-
ing your chickens and pigs2 This is
tho simple question, when you talk
about giving to tho negro his civil
rights.
As said before, tho question of po-
liticnl rights is one not involved now
II Is one TINT you cannot raise, oven If
you want to raise 1t.
THE CONDITIONS UPON WHICH THE
REBELS MAY COME DACK-THE AD-
VANTAGES OF THEIR PrESENT SYS.
TEN OF REPRESENTATION OVER OURS.
l have already spoken of one of the
conditions upon which we say that
these men may come back. Now |
come to tho second. We say, before
these rebels shall come back they must
consent to an equalization of represent
alton both North and South. 1t is not
equal now. In the United States we
have nearly five millions OF negroes.
Four and II half millions of these peO-
pie live in the rebel States. a portion
of them are scattered Ill tho Northern
States, and II small number in Indiana.
In some of the rebel States these people
are III the majority. Slavery existed
when the Constitution was formed; but
1t hnd already gone out of seven of the
thirteen States, and our fathers found
that 1t would go out OF the other States.
Ii was said that it could not live TWEEN
ty-tiVe years. Cotton had not then been
grown, and slavery WAS not then made
profitable by the cultivation of cotton,
sugar and tobacco. Slavery was fast
paSsing away. Yet the Shareholders of
South Carolina and Virginia came for
ward i'll the Convention of 1857, and
said 1--WE Will not consent to the for
nation of new Constitution unless
you give us some representation for
our slave property" Our fathers said !:
''You have no more right to representa-
ttion for your slave property than we
have for our horses or our CATTLE But
they said "SlnVe property is different,
lection for ii, it cannot live. Although
we believe, with you, that slavery is
passing away, we don't intend it shall
die before its time; and, therefore, wO
will not consent to come into the Union
unless you give us protection for our
slaves" Our fathers agreed that every
five slaves should be counted AS three
persons. 1t wus II provision that was
thought to be IL trivial one nt the time,
but il turned out to be an important
one.
Now slavery is abolished, and every
five negroes are to he counted as five
white men, while they were only count
| ed ns three before. By counting every
five slaves AS three freemen, they had
twenty-five members of Congress, and
twenty-five votes in the electoral col
lego i'll lSGO-6l. But now those three
have become five, they will be entitled
| to thirty votes in the Lower House and
thirty i'll the Electoral College, on nc
count of the negroes living i'll their
midst. But these negroes are not rep
resented for themselves. They have
| no more voice i'll choosing members of
| Congress than your horses have. But
the white people by whom they are
surrounded have representation for
them. They have thirty members of
Congress on account of the negro, but
not for the negro. or the white people,
twenty-nine out OF every thirty are
rebels. Is there any equality of repre-
sentntion in that? We say it is great
wrOng-thut we cannot submit TO il,
and will not submit To IL.
| Under the nppOrtiOnment of 1850 it
takes l24,UOO people to give one repre-
! sentntiVein Congress. In South Caro-
| lima they have one district with l2I 900
people, and but -, 900 of these are white.
Now these 5000 people, the rest being
cOlOred, have just as much power i'll
that district as l24, 900 white people have
i'll the Eleventh Congressional District
in Indiana. Is that right? Cries of
| "NO."1 Is there any man here-1 don't
care what party he belongs tO-who
will stand up and nrgue for moment
that this thing is right?
Now, we are seeking to change that
we say to these people, if you wanted to
have your negroes represented in Con
gresS, give them the right TO vote. But
| If you don't give them the right to vote,
| you shall not have IA representation Tor
them. We don't ask you to give them
the right to vote. Weare not forcing that
question Ht all, but we say that n race
of people who are not good enough to
vote are not good enough to give repre-
sentmtiOn to others. A voice, "Thnt's
SOL We don't ask TO take any adVan-
| tage of them; we don't ask any thing
| from them that We don't accept our
selves. We don't give negroes the right
no right to count our ten thousand me-
rOegs in making up the representation
| of Indiana. II don't make any differ
cnce to us here whether we do it or no,
but we have no right to do 1t. So, we
say to those people down there, ii you
don't give the negroes the right to vote,
| you shall not have representation for
them. If South Carolina wants TO have
three members of Congress on account
OF her negroes, she can have them, but
she must give them the right to vote.
Ohio has nineteen representatives, In
diann has eleven, and yet the South, by
means OF their negroes, can have repre-
States equal to that of Indiana and
Ohio. 1 will ask any candid Democrat
hero today, any right-minded man, if
he can get the consent of his conscience
to this thing. l ask him If 1T is right.
| want the white man North to have just
IA much power as the white man South.
! want the Union soldier to have just rs
der Forrest or under Dick Taylor, or
under BeaureRard. That is what We
are asking, and we say to these South
crn rebels, before yOu can come bnck
into Congress you must consent that
this equality shall be established. For
my part say will never consent TINT
| these men shall come back until they
consent that representation shall be
equHlized.
THOSE OF THE REBELS NOT ELIGIBLE TO
OFFICE.
Now, we demand that every man who
| has ever taken an oath to support the
| Constitution of the United States, and
nfterward committed perjury by going
into the rebellion, shall not be eligible
to any office in any State, or under the
Government of the United States.-
| TVOiceS, EEhut's true."1 If n man has