The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-10

| mlgnG 1nSLancey tne SIaCeOI SOuuSS
ticuLi fhBfii iiHstraGi ISM G giTterejwere TWEEN
slave pUyeE cpntrplle led that Sister Let
us talk about the matter as it is. Al
though the ,colored man was, A 4, slave
and 6Whed as pr6perty I'M the sense and
in the language Of that locality and ot
that eoihmudity Jet aint comparing his
non.siavehoideis Re tris6aiIy estimated
his Importance just in PEopoFtio TO
the number OF slaves that his master
owned, with the non-slaveholder.-
Have YouyueTer dJuppn q pfa7nttai7
tle& 8F. 3 Bodgialgsa44t gAialgsa4ttlKd have, y6dE IL H1ta1=
t T6e PiifResidsHtt tt2ewHe 1SS you W SGld look
family SegiiHg faIdl Upon 8 I6or
piece OF land, you thought great deal
less of him 7thanfyon dtRof.your own
master.
The rssfqii PpesideStT%eii, I know such
was stheecase with aslarge maj jQrity of
you in those dseebionsss Where such. is
the casestwe know there Is hate. THE
poor, white imany on the other hand,
was opposed 20 the slave and his master,
| for lthg lcoI6red man, and his master
combined kept him m slavery, by de-
priying HIM of a fair participatiQn IN
Z
lands OF the country: II o. isi.iis.,I5J
Don'tyop know that the cOlored mRn,
| in going to-. hunt. a master, as they
called it, for the next year, preferred
hiring to; u man who owned slaves iira-
ther than to one who did notP Ik1ow
| the fact at all, eYentsltJ 10 noi5su;ei!at
Mr.. Douglass Because they treated
The President-Th did not consider
I it quite as respectable to hire IA man
who did not own. negroes as to hire TO
onelwho did. ..-'-.----'- y. ~ iis,
Mfr. Douglass-Because he wouldn't
be treated as well.
THE President-Then. that is another
argnment in favor of whatI am going
to say. 1t shows that the cblored man
appreciated. the slave OWNER more high
ly than he did the man who did not
own slaves. Hence the enmity between
the colored man and the non!slayehold
ers.i The white man was permitted to
vote. The Government was derived
from him. He is a part and part of the
political machinery now by rebel
lion or revolution, and when you come
back to the objects of this war you find
the abolition of slavery not its object.
Congress and the President declared
that it was on oqr part 70 suppress the
come az an Incident to the supp fession
Of the great rebellion. AS, an incident,
We should give, the proper, direction.
The coloredi man went into the rebel
lion slave, by. the operation Of rebel
lion he came out q freedman, equal 10
a, freedman i'm other portions of the
country. There isa great deal done for
him on this point. The n 7slavehold
er. who WINS forced into the rebellion,
and was as loyal rs those that lived be-
Yond the limits OF the State WAS car
ried into it, and hislproperty, and in a
= T.. .HFkH
were: saprificed, and he who has sur
vived has come out of it with nothing
gained, but II great deal lost. Now,
upon aiprinciple OF: Justice, should they
be placed inba condition different from
what they'were before ni ...'i'i i..., q :.
ION one hand one has gained a great
deal; on the other hand one has lost a
atdeal, and ini a political point OF
yfew,scarcelyii stands where he die. be-
fore. Now we are tai king about where
We are going to begin. ,sfWe haye got at
the hate that existed between the two
racesatfrRW Ioi1a OOQ,O95
The query comes up. whether these
fyyo races, situated as they were. before
the war-withoutl preparation, without
timelfor. passion and texcitementt to be
lappeased, and without time for the
A Slightest improv ent4whether the
one should lie, turned loose npon the
other, and be thrown together atths ball
lot box, with this enmity and hate ex-
listing between them. . 9 ~ -, -
commence a war of races I think
h brifitl efstAhd this thing, and especially is
\ Ifhfs ihe it5ase when Sou, force it upon d
peopie et 5 with out their consent & oui have
the government. Where
lis power derived from2 we say it Is de-
and refer. TOT -theT District of Columbus
nv viofillustration. -. sol. 4sGG ]
| SfSs,,piyS Al for insf4iieel here IN this
lnS6iitfeai toinihufiity which, TO q certain
aStant must, have ,poyernment.s must
IbFosiest asS lei basis yonean putt, takeint
considerat ation the relation which tie
SThits Bak heretiore borne to the color
led rside us itproper1 to force upon this
n,nmuniIy.iwithou theirlconsent, the
lelehfiVh franchise, without regard Ito
color iaSiiiRi IL IiniyersaIY PiH iT';z si.'y-
NAV. Where do YOU b bekinS The Gov
nment mnsthavea controlling power;
must have a lodgmenb9 For instance,
snDnose ConpreSs should mass law au-
thorizinfr an election to be held at which
ii ~ et Yea "a of age wit
omt 1IragSa,Ifld fo Color. ishouId be allowed
\ ~ yntsSSnci fine majority should decide
NJ snIsi3 "a III an int the elective fran
chise be- universal, Wliat would you do
ahouL lip Who ~ ctiId settle it2 ~ r "a z :
no fynn1 deT1y the first great principle
or ,Ss S3I ,I,f 1s - he sisS I ISs & eoSefh them
seiv6sl 6Will;yot resort to an arbitrary
power, and say a majority OF the 'peo-
ple shall receive a state of things they
are Opposed tol -
The query to which I have referred
still comes up When undergoing a
.fdndat mental Change, the Government
commeneed upon this principle, and
has existed upon it, and now You pro-
pose 20 fncorporate an element that did