The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-08-28

only to be felt, but to be understood.
Fortunately, we have such measure OF
value. And if Senator Sherman and
Mr.. Delano are correct in their estimates
of the amount of the public debt, then
| if all the farms in the United States, and
all the TERRITORIES, were sold at tneir
cash value, the product OF the safes
would not pay the public debt!
You look amazed, but turn with me ior
a moment to page 1877 of the "Prellmln.
ary Report of the Eighth Census" and
we find that in 1860 the cash value OF all
the farms in all the States, North, Sou TIA
East and West, and in all the Territories,
amounted to six thousand six hundI ed
and fifty million eight hundred and SOW,
enty-two thousand five hundred and
seven dollars. Hence, if our farmers
we're TO sell all their houses and lands at
their cash value. and apply the product
of the money resulting from their sales
toward the payment of the public debt,
and themselves become outcasts upon
the world, homeless, landless, houseless,
still. after all that sacrifice, the United
States would still owe more than three
hundred million dollars, and be bank
rupt [Applause.l
TIE REMEDY.
| have given these warnings before,
and will continue to repeat them so long
as there is hope of arousing my coun-
trymen to the calamity with which we
are all threatened. Bat what is the
remedy? A severe scrutiny into AL
claims brought against the Government;
a rigid economy in the administration Oh
our public affairs; and the honest app!l
cation of the public revenues toward
the extinction of the Federal debt
THE WAR.
President Lincoln in his proclamaticn,
and Congress by resolution, declared
that the object of the war was the sup
preston of instruction, and the preser-
Walton of the Union of the States 1t
| follows that if the war, on our part W as
a success, then the union of the States is
preserved The very moment that in
surrection-armed opposition to the
| Constitutional authority OF the Union -
was put down, that very moment the
relations between the States and the
Federal Government were preserve d.
| Why? Because the only element which
disturbed those relations, was armed a.
surrection; and that conquered, the
pnion of the States continued to exist as
though no instruction had taken place.
And vet the Radical leaders declare th ut
the war has destroyed, instead of having
preserved the Union; and acting upon
this heresy, exclude ten States OF the
Union from Their rightful representation
in Congress,
1t is for you, fellow citizeas, to sly
whether the Union formed by our faith
ers shall be destroyed 1t is for you,
| soldiers to deter mine whether Your brave
comrades died in vain-whether your
own blood was shed only to see divided
the Union which you fought to preserve
MANY TYRANTS MORE DANGEROUS THAN
ONE TYRANT."
The conduct of the usurping Con-
gress proves the truth of the adage that
many tyrants are more dangerous than
one tyrant; and the reason that the re-
sponsibility for the commission OF wrong
full acts is divided among many persons,
instead of resting upon d single head.
A violent collision is always followed
by rebound and extremes beget ex'
| tremes. The madness and folly of the
| secessioncsts of he South, as an inevlta
bic consequence, brought the madmen
and fanatics of The North and West to
the surface; and the Garrisons, the Stew
enses. and their adherent5, were elevat'
ed to power 4 I'D no sooner were they
enthrUned thar hey usurped control OF
the party which elected them, and caus.
ed a large and respectable portion of ouI
people to occupy the humiliating atti
tude of advocat ing doctrines which fol
a lifetime they lad opposed.
Nor is this tb" only instance in history
where those y 10 professed to be the
champions of liberty became the tyrants
of the people The arbitrary rule OF
Charles brought into power Parlla-
ment composed of greater tyrants than
himself Applause
CONGRESS.
. In IN able editorial, under date of
February %, 1866, the Cincinnati Com.
m~ciol, justly esteemed as the leading
Repu ullcan Journal west of the ALE.
ghaul Mounts IS, said:
~ 40 is to olame for the mischief
| that as been adeP We believe it to
b. i,e delhi, lte Judgment of the
ma-.r Of enl: hteued and loyal men,
.nat here ha been an unhealthy eX-
tr,->a.auco IN he proceedings of the
prcsent COngre that we have had i'll
| flamatory parii ,nism instead of prudent
craftsmanship hat the ultraism, in
tolerance andy ience embodied in Thad'
deus Stevens H. been distasteful to the
county.
. The declared policy of the President
which he had ben for months engaged i'll
carryiug out hen Congress met, and
III VIII ch he al aimed degree of sue
cess tat gave him an honorable and
world wide reputation, and enhanced
the National edit in the markets OF
| Euroy-, has b en- contemporary spurn-
ed 10y Stevens x Co, and the great
work of restoration undertaken by the
Executive CHECKED in mid-career by
the manifest l. >tility of the majority
in Congress-
The great boz, Of our people are sin
cerely attached 20 our free institutions
but the radical eaders seek to do away
with our State governments, and estab.
lish vast emrlre on the ruins of the
Union The cbnrge Is a grave one, but
| the proofs are numerous and unanswer-
| able.