The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-07


der the States. or any State, those
prominent and leading rebels, who,
having held important offices, in which
they took an oath to support the Con-
stitution of the United States, afterward
committed perjury by engaging in the
1t provides that the offices shall moi
hereafter be held by peEjured rebels,
and proceeds doubtless, upon the opin-
ion that 1t Is had enough to permit
rebels to hold office, but that when they
have added to their treason the violation
of their oaths it would be more than the
country could endure. Having taken
the oath and brokenit, having involved
the country in the horrors of civil war,
truth, justice and common sense alike
demand that they should not again be
trusted.
The Fourth section ofthe amendment
is In these words:
"The validity of the public debt of the
United States authorized by law incluClinp
debts Incurred for payment Of pensions and
bOunties for services in suppreEsing insurrec-
ton or rebellion, shall not be Questioned,
But neither the United States, nor any State,
shall assume or pay any; debt or obligation
incurred in aid Of insufrection or rebellion
tie loss or re emSncipation o any S Save e. but All All
such debts, obligations and claims shall be
held illegal aud void.' = ~
The first clause declares, tsthat the
validity or binding obligation of the
public debt, including debts incurred
for payment of pensions and bounties
for services in suppressing the rebel
lion shall not be questioned.n ~
The second clause prohibits the as
sumption or payment, by the United
states, or any State, of any part of the
rebel war debt, or any claim for the
any man credulous enough to believe
that the party which is to be formed in
Philadelphia on the 14th of August, by
confederate officers and soldiers, rebel
politicians, Northern Democrats, and
"SOns of Liberty,n will ever vote to tax
themselves to pay, the interest on the
National debt, unless the Government
will first assume the payment of the
rebel war debt, and agree to indemni-
fy them for the loss oftheir slaves
To prosecute the war, the Govern
ment had to borrow large sums of
money by the sale of stocks. The
Democratic leaders of the North, being
hostile to the war, were also hostile to
the stocks, and did everything in their
power to destroy their credit and pre-
vent the people from investing their
money in, them, we'll knowing that If
they succeeded in this, the war must
fail, and the rebellion triumph. The
debt having been created for the pnr-
pose of conquering the rebels, they are
IuEaAly luSItle W Az Au41 Cdu HoI 10
expected that when restored to politi-
cal power, they will vote to tax them
selves for its payment, nor can 1t be ex-
peCted that they will act with any
Northern party who will tax them for
that purpose. The new party to be
formedlat Philadel phia will inevitably
be, from the nature of the elements of
which It Will be composed, repudiat-
ing party, except upon the condition Of
assuming and paying the rebel war
debt, and paying the rebels for their
slaves. = tF N
I need not extend my remarks on
this subject, and will only further OBJ
serve, that whoever, understanding
this section, opposes it, must be in fa-
vor either of Eepudiation, assuming the
rebel war debt, Or of paying the rebels
for their slaves; and with him 1 shall
have noargument.
PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION.
The Democratic members of Congress
have published a call for "a National
Convention, to be held in the City of
Philadelphia, on the 14th of August,
and to be known as the National Union
Convention. This call is formal dis
bandment of the Demcratic party, and
renunciation of the name Democracy,
and an invitation for its members to
meet in Convention with such dissatis-
fed persons of the Union party as can
be induced to unite with them In form
inga a new organization. It is direct
confession that the Democratic party,
indelibly stained with treason as It is, q
name too grievous to be borne, and the
cunning signers of this call, who are
staggering under its weight, are striving
to relieve themselves from the dreadful
burden. :
This proposition to change its name
lisa humiliating acknowledgment of de-
ne IL fnHn
demnatton, which could have been
wrung from these men only by the
direst suffering and necessity. And
yet it will not avail The new party,
whatever name or shape it may assume,
will be the same old Copperhead con-
cern. Composed of the same men.
clothed with the same history, and plot
ting the same dishonors and disasters
to the country. tfst
The "calln establishes the fact, how
ever, that the recent revelation to the
Democracy of this District, s'that the
war was just and necessary" was local
in its character, and did not extend to
Washington, for it makes no mention
OF the war at all, and, for aught that
appears in 1t, the authors never heard
OF the rebellion. They discuss the dam
gerous situation. of the country, utterly
Ignoring the fact that there has been
rebellion, and innocently seem 20 ex-
pect that the people will be equally
dumb; apparently entertaining the
idea of the ostrich, who believes that
when his shead Is thrust into the dirt his
body is out of sight. But allow me to
quote a passage from it: s;i5
"At present eleven States are excluded from
the National Council. ForseVen long months
the present Congress has persistentiy denied
any representation to the people Of these
States. Laws affecting their highest and
dearest interests have been passed without
their consent, and in disregard Of the funda-
mental principle of free government
Here 1t complains I'm pileous terms
that for seven months eleven States
have not been represented In Congress,
but makes no reference whatever 70 the
manner in which the Senators and Rep
resentatives from those States went out
OF Congress, or the condition of those
States for the five years preceding these
seven months. - 4 -
II affects to treat the subject as ff the
Senators and Representatives from
those States had been rudelY expelled
from Congress, without cause or fault
on their part, and wiekedly kept out of
their seats for the long period OF seven
months, and very fooIishly- tries TO
ignore the iact that these Senators and
Representatives nVe years before that
time, and in violation. of their oaths,
had voluntarily abandoned their seats
and inaugurated q cruel war, in which,
after costly and bloody struggle OF
four years, they were overwhelmingly
defeated! 4G - is-s -.-la-s
The attempt to suppress the facts of
history, and keep out of sight the MANY
events which mark the annals of the
rebellion, is an admission clearly fatal
to the pretended honesty and sound
ness of their doctrines.
again they say:
.As e9sentlal g national union, we must
maintain unimpaiFed the rights the dlRnIfSi