The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-17
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| please.l In the name of God 1 ask YOU
u you viii not now defend the meT
VINO rallied to our standard, how viii
you put down anotherre6ellionY How
| VIII you ever repe1 another Invasion, Il
1 you punish your friends and load youl
enemies with honor3 II is simply {
question of justice it is simply a cues
ton OF gratitude; il is simply a ques
ton OF honori and any man who is MOI
willing TO pay the debt we owe to South.
ern ioyalists, whether white or black
disgraces the race to which he belongs
lApplause. How, then, do we, the
Union party, land / give those gentle
men notice that they can not steal oul
name) propose to protect the loyal men
of the South2 We propose to pro.
teet them in the first place, by ex-
aoove the rank of Colonel who
held a commission in the rebel
army; every one of those leaders of the
rebellion, who held Office under the
IGovernment. We propose to say to
them You, who waged four years OF
bloody war against this Government,
shall not control its destinies.n Loud
applause.l We say also to the black
man. and we say it because we don't
want to be inferior to the negro, and
because we want to prove our SUPERIOR
tty by having better hearts and better
heads; we say TO the negro who sheds
blood In our cause, SC You are citizen
OF the United States" LApplause.1 ]
me Constitution, the moment that Mr.,
johnson gets through standing upon
IT. viii protect you. EGreHt applause,
and voice, Three cheers for Inger-
soll,Tl We say to him that as long as
he stands beneath the sacred folds OF
the flag under which he fought, no hn-
man power can faSten upon him It's
chains ik,ss
and SOW, you shall reap" lAppIause.l
=" But, says the Democrat, Startled
into abjeet horror, &c IL you make him a
citizen of the United States, you make
him a voter. There isnot a Democrat
in the United States that understands
law, and that ever read, deliberately
and candidly, a law book in his life,
that will get up and say that this is
true. Not one. [Applahse.l But we
say that II the Southern States will mot
allow negro to vote, we swear that a
rebel shall not vote for him. CCheers.l I
we say tthlr. Rebel, it is enough that
we have forgiven you, and that we
have notstretched your neck with loyal
Ssnp.r LSheers.l 1t Is enough if we
allow you to be a citizen of the Govern
ment which yon undertook to destroy.
lt is enough, Mr.. Rebel, to put Won on
an equality with the man who made
you lay your mnsket down." [Cheers.l
Here is loyal man who went from
the city of Indianapolis to put down
this rebellion. He drives one of those
South Carolinians into his hole, makes
him give up his musket, and the South
CaroliniHn says that he,will not come
out except upon the condition that he
has twice the political power of the man
who drove him in. Then, I say, stop
upthe hole. LIQUID and continued APP
plause!l The members of the Demo-
cratic party are very fearful of being
put upon an equality with the negro,
but they have no conscientious scru-
pies about making a reconstructed rebel
twice as good, politically, as a Union
man. We say that shall not be done.
We say that Union men shall represent
the people ofthe South, and no other.
[Cheers.l We say that no man shall
walk tue halls of Congress who won
the title of Colonel or General in the
work of murder and starvation. Tap
plause.1 We tell those gentlemen :
lyon stand back. IF youlwRnt to be
represented, send to this Congress loyal
men, who never betrayed their country,
and never swore lie before their God.''
[Applause.l When a man has betray-
ed his country, and added perjury TO
treason-when he9ies to a whole nakion,
and lies to God--we don't propose totet
him have any more political; rights upon
credit. ECheers.l Now, then, that Is
the clause of the constitutional amend
tnent which is the platform Of. the Union
party. -, ~ i ,f5.s
[The speaker then further discussed
the constitutional amendment, saying
that every man should be disposed to
giveto every other man his Just rights. |
We say, II we cannot be Just to the
loyal men of the South, let us havesep-
aPation forever rather than union based
upon ingratitude. If the walls of the
temple of liberty have to be cemented
by blood shed by rebel hands, with the
flag of our country at the top, pray
God that temple may never be built.
lApplause. i would rather see the flag
torn into fragments, because those
fragments would be honorable. If we
cannot reconstruct this Government
upon the principles of eternal Justice,
better not reconstruct it at all, because
experiment of serving God and man
mon. We have tried the experiment OF
having free Government, with all its
stars upon its flag cleaning liberty to
our white men, and the same flag keep
ing four millions of men in chains.
This terrible war of ours, with its five
hundred thousand id ccorpse5! filled every
house IN the land with mourning. That
was the result of going into. partner.
ship with the devil to run a free gov
ernment. [Applause.1 implore, /
lieseech you, do not endeavor to repeat
that cruel experiment, Let is build
firmly the foundations of the new Gov
ernment; let us dig deep; let us get, for
the head. of the corner, that stone which
has been rejected by all the builders OF
governments in this world-universal
human liberty and equality before the
law. [ EApplause.l What more do we
say in this mngnihcent platforml2-
cause there is not proposition there
which is not self-evident, We say 'sIi
You want to send members TO Congress,
send them on a basis of representation
made by qualified voters Tor we don't
propose TO pay a premium on unsuc-
cessfuI febellion.' = st-
But they say:s' Do you want to disgrace
these Southern breihren2n No, SIR; we
want them honorable enough to live
upon the labor of their own hands, and
mot upon the sweat of other men,. We
don't want to disgrace them, but to dig
nifty them to such an extent that they
would scorn to live upon robbery; and
we have sworn, in our loyal wrath, that
Southern id1eness and treason shall
tnever live upon Southern labor and
loyalty, fApPlause.l
In that same platform we say that the
debt of our nation shall be pAids thai
the debt occurred TO destroy this Gov
eminent shall not be paid; and that the
South shalt not-b be paid for her emanei.
lpated slaves. Why3 Because, God
knows, they never owned them lap
| pIause.l
Now that is our platform Are we
/ going through the South to hang and
murderR No, sir. We do not propose