The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-29
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1t dared to discuss fcarlcssly and
ireeiy inc state of affairs in the inSur-
rectionnry districts.
1t dared to investigate, by means of
sworn witnesses, before n joint COM
mlttec, the truth of reports respecting
the prosecution OF Southern Union men
and freedmen.
1t dared to exercise the constitutional
powers of legislation to secure protcc-
ton to the freedmen in the enjoyment
of their newly-acquirGdl liberty.
1t dared to enact II law making every
citizen of II State Il citizen of the United
States, and every citizen of tho United
States Il citizen of the State of his resi-
dCncc.
1t dared to make every person born
or naturaliZcd i'll the republic, of what
ever race, color or condition, II citizen.
1t dared TO secure to all the dwCllerS
within the borders of the nation equal
and exact rights of person, life and
property.
1t dared to establish for the benefit OF
all, without distinction, equality before
tho law.
1t dared to demand such an amend
mCut of the Constitution as would So
cure forever IAN impartial basis of rep
resentatiOn i'll Congress.
1t dared to require guarantees i'll like
manner against the assumption or pay
ment of rebel debts, obligations or
claims of compensation for slaves.
1t dared to ask II similar security
against tho reputation of tho national
war debt i'll any case.
1t dared to inquire into abuses of au-
thority wherever occurring, and under
whatever auspices.
1t dared to expose the iniquiIies OF
the Memphis massacre by means of an
official Investigation.
1t dared to set its face rcsolutelv
against any further use of arbitrary
power.
1t dared to establish fixed regulations
for the election of United States Scnn-
tors, whereby such outraScs as that
pcrpetrated in New Jersey should be
guarded against in future.
| 1t dared to reduce by gradual process
the number of Judges i'll the United
States Supreme Court 10 seven, so as to
make the Court less unwieldy.
| 1t dared to relieve the heavily OPP
pressed industry of the country by re-
pealing many of tho burdensOme taxes
imposed on it during the war, and re-
ducing large number of others.
1t dared to put stop to the frauds in
house, whereby that port was favored
mt the expense all others, and a pro-
teCtivo tariff converted into free trade
tariff mt that one port.
1t dared to equalize the tariff rates at
all the ports of entry, and to place
them on basis adapted to the best
revenue purposes of the nation.
1t dared to assert that periurcd Uni
ted States officers and red-handcd reb-
els, fresh from the slaughter of Union
| troops, have no constitutional right to
hold office under the National Govern
ment.
1t dared to think that States guilty OF
rebellion andwar against the Govern
ment have no constitutional right to be
represented in Congress while in dis,
| loyal condition.
1t dared to think that n great ana
sudden contraction of the currency
after the vast expansion of the war
period would precipitate II ruinous COM
mercial revulsion, and to guard against
1t by means of n gradual contraction.
II dared to establish tax on cotton
which shall make the rebcllious States
pay Il fair share of the cost of the war
which they caused.
1t dared to abolish the mischievous
/ powers of the government fiscal agents,
as developed in the bank case at WASH
! ingtOn and in similar cases elsewhere.
/ 1t dared to adhere to the test oath rs a
safeguard against the admission OF
traitors to Congress.
1t dared TO secure homcStGadS on the
! public lands in the cotton States to the
poor whites and freedmen by means O,
new homestead law, under which
mere Will be moro small farms than
large plantations i'll the South.
1t dared to reward Tennessee for her
prompt ratification OF the constitution
al amendment by admitting her dele.
CATION in both Houses of Congress.
1t dared to think that the Legislative
| powers of the nation reside in Con
SrcSs under the Constitution, and can
nor be limited by Executive dictation,
nor by any other process than an ad-
verse decision of the United States Sin
| preme Court.
1t dared to refuse to the Executive
| power to revise the list of members of
| either House.
1t dared to stand firmly by its con.
stitutional right to decide upOn tho
| qualifications of its own members, and
70 refuse to recede from its decisions
| thereon when made.
1t dared to regard all such attemDts
Mt Interference with this great right ms
purely deSpotic, and meant for no good
end whatever.
1t dared to prefer the protection and
| fostering of American industry to the
/ disastrous operations of British free
| trade.
1t dared to prefer Tightening the In Y
/ burdens of people who have suffered
so much from the war, rather than 10
continue them for the mere purpose of
| paying interest on useless temporary
loans of hundreds of millions, ruinous
compound interest loans, or the cancel
ing of our Grcenback currency, to
which all are so much attached.
II dared to prefer Il bold, vigorous
| and patriotic foreign policy to the easy
compliances of Mr.. Seward.
1t dared to think that our national
proceedings are not vitiuted by the
want of Endorsement OF the rebel States
amy more than they were during the
war.
1t dared to refuse assent to the dccla-
ration that the war was caused bv the
North.
And. finally, it dared to adjourn and
go before the people on these issues,
even at the risk of Gncountering vic.
lcnce on returning to duty in December.
Our News Summary.
Cholera is abating at st. Louis.
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