The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-13

The farmer loses nOtnlnS iOF inc ITauS-
portation OF his wool or his agricultu-
raj products, and is charged nothing for
the transportation of the clt Tn he buys,
IT we add TO these considerations the
wealth and intelligence attracted within
our borders by manufacturing employ
ments, and the consequent relief III int
dividuaI taxation, the argument fol, the
encouragement of domestic manufac-
lures, If not complete, is unanswerable.
CIarksburg is displaying n degree of
enterprise for which it has not hitherto
received credit, and which, to our mind,
is the strongest inducement yet pre-
scented for the location of the capital
there. If the selection of the seat of
government of this State IS 10 be regard
ed as helping the point selected, the
choice should fall ON some place which
shows disposition to help itself by the
energetic use of every means of genuine
prosperity in It's power. =
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Tie President aud COngrc ss---The Po-
Hey TO be Pursued in Reference 10
Reconstruction. ~
WAsHINGToN, Jan. IL.
IN Inc SENATE, I1OWBt Oh w lSSOH-
sin, offered joint resolution declaring
thnt -,4,
WHEREAS, The people of the eleven
insurrectionnry States have declared
their independence of the United States,
and have made war against the Govern
ment. and abolished the political Juno
tions guaranteed to them; and
WHEREAS, Military tribunals are not
suited 10 the wants of those people;
therefore, provisional government
should be instituted, suited to their
wants and necessities.
Mr.. johnson, of Maryland, suggested
the propriety of referring the above to
the Special Committee on Reconstruct
ton.
Mir. Howe asked If when st. Paul
stood upon Mnrsi Hill, and proclaimed
that God made of one blood all the ma
tons of the earth, was he playing the
dcInngOgue? When the Congress OF
l77G assembled in Independence Hall,
representing constituencies few in num-
bers md poor i'll resources, but strong
in their own conviction of right, and
announced 10 the world that all men
IRE created free and equal, and that they
are endowed by their Creator with GER
tain innliennble rights, among which
are life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness, and that governments are insti-
tuted among men to secure these rights;
when the members of that Congress
pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred
hOnorS to maintain these assertions
against the whole power of the British
Empire, do you really suppose they
were talking for buncombe2 When
the American people declare that the
Constitution and the laws made in
pursuance thereof shall be the
supreme law of the land, and any State
shnll be bound thereby, anything in
theconstitution of any state TO the con-
trary Notwithstanding, do they really
mean II? put these questions be-
cause, however generally we may as
sent to these propositions in our
sDeeches there nre scarcely three things
deny Tint the constitution is the SUI
preme law, because the constitution it
self says SO. In my judgment, IL Is
time the American people adopted tho
constitution. We have been taking the
tincture of the constitution for nearly n
century, and am sure 1t has done us
great good. 1 believe now we ought to
Iry the sublimate. l am confident it
would cure the nation. Hitherto we
hive taken tho constitution in ii solu-
ton ofthe spirit of State rights. Let us
now take II as it Is, crystalized in the
flames nfthe most gigantic war III his
tory. The war WAS inaugurnted to
demonstrate that tho will of each State
Nynssupreme, aud that the United States
must defer to 1t. Before the conStitu-
ton was adopted, such was the case;
the several Stntcs We're sovereign, and
for that very reason the Union made
among them was worthless. Mr.. Howe
next proceeded, after arguing against
the doctrine of State Rights to demon
strnte that in seeding the Southern
States had destroyed their existence as
States. He denied the doctrine OF the
indestructibility OF State Governments.
State Governments were things of hu-
man origin, and were made and uumade
by mon. He denied tho right of the
President to restore the rebel States.-
The Presidents duties We're executive,
nothing else. The President could not
transfer an old muslet from one man
to another, nor fix the price of AN acre
orpublic land. Speaking of the effect
OF restoring the civil rights of the
States lately in rebellion, Mr., Howe
said il would add fifty-eight members
10 tho House and twenty-five to the
SENATE. Tho right OF the President 70
control this question would give him
the power, IL disposed 10 work for his
own reelection, TO add to the Voteof
the Electoral College more than one
third of its present number. The re-
sponsibility devolves upon Congress TO
say whether the functions of the South
cru States should be restored, and;for
one, he (NIr. Howe) would say no.
Congress had been asked to restore
these functions. The election of menu
beers of Congress was taking it for
granted that these functions had never
been suspended, and not asking for
their restoration. Mr.. Howe stated his
rcnsons for immediate restoration. The
neople of the South were unwilling to
Ia do Justice to the freedmen. They
were not loyal and they would not abide
bv the result OF the war. He would say
Ia the President that he and those with
whom he acted would stand by him If
he would stand by the United States.-
In conclusion he advocated the appoint
ment of Provisional Governors and
Judges for the lately rebellious States,
giving to Congress a veto upon all acts
calculated to Cypress any class, He
would give them delegates TO Congress
also. This was the only feasible plan;
for the Southern States were unit for
seIfEovernment, and anarchy would
ruin them. This plan he believed to be
the only one calculated to insure the
safety and welfare of the government
as we'll as OF the Southern States.
Mr. Howe moved TO refer his resoln=,
ton to the Special COMMITTEES on Re
construction. fs.'
Mr.. johnson obtained the floor, when,
on motion of Mr.. Sumner. the Sennte
went into Executive Session, and soon
afteradjourned.