The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-01

QuG6IlOu. he ulh A4O1 90AANAs SNEf
head votes, and was not going to shape
his course in the House TO obtain them
Thereafter. He intended to do what ne
I Thought right, whether he was ever re-
fturned 70 this House or moi de pellev-
ed his constituents would endorse ms
vote for the bin. BE vas not aIrsla OF
being called an aboli toniskS DE never
was one. unless Il was 10 stand by his
conntryin 1851 If that made him an
abolitionist he was proud to be one
Col. Carroll, of Wayne, was perfectly
SURPRISED at the. course OF some
1 men with whom he had been acquaint7
ed in the army ofsthe United States. ri
He had frequently met them seeking
Inflammation aboutstilez enemy, and he
mad noticed that they Invariably went
TO the negro. for that information. and
they had told him they obtained their
most reliable information from those
sources, He believed the loyal men OF
WAYNE would vote for the bill, and he
intended TO vote forit. 5i8i;t1.. boai
Mr.. Hagans, Of Preston, had arrived
at the conclusion that the opposition to
this bill, at least as. far as disclosed,
was founded in prejudice and policy.
! Part Of 1t sprung from that spirit of
oppression in every age and country,
had done uiimeasured mischief in the
world He was not afraid that social
Equality could be produced by legtsla-
/ ton, but the negro ought TO be free TO
equal or surpass him III he could. AS
| for the concessions prayed he believed
| that the more concessions were granted
the more would be asked, and would
decide this question as far as he was
concerned on principles of Justice. q
Mr.. DarneI said it was very common
now-a-days, If anybody differed at Ill
from the radical party, TO stlgma1ze
him as a bntternut- He was not court
| ing the butternut vote, butit in doing
| what he thought was right he did what
pleased the butternutS, be 1T SO; he
could not helpit. II his course met the
appreciation of the Union party, all
right; But he could say one thing, II
the day does arrive when the negro gets
a vote the man that votes for this bill is
electioneering for his vote mighty
Mr!Maxwell, of Randolph and Tuck
err, said there were three kinds of equal
| ity, social, civil and political. This Dill
very nearly completes the civil equality
OF the colbred race, placing him on the
same footing with the most favored
class ofsthe white population and con-,
| ferring a right which one class of the
white population, under existing laws,
/ does not possess-the right. TO maintain
SUITS He warned the members against
the record they. were about to make
and announced his purpose to vote
col. Johnson, of Tyler, had always
looked upon slavery as the great curse
| of the nation His father who had been
a slaveholdersen his slaves to Liberia,
where alone they could be really free.
He urged that the passage of this bill
would induce the immigration of ne
proes to the State. He referred to the
| general prejudice against the blacks
and the laws OF different States refns-
ing them nsylumj and thought the
4 hill.
| inure to the benefit of those they were
! designed to beuefit. He favored giving
| the negro the right to testify in cases
concerning themselves, but not in cases
where both parties were white persons.
/ He thought this measure u. stepping
everything to protect them, but to do
| this 1t was not necessary they should
testify In cases where they were not
parties. He believed the people of the
I State would condemn the passage of
this bill. 1t was not a,question OF law,
but ofnexpediency. Could they hope.
by such measures to harmonize the
people and bring them to respect and
! love the government IL would work
| inIury.3 be repeated, to theHclass 1t was
designed to benefit. re io2 SUI e"
- Capt. ,McWhorter, of Kanawha, the
patron of the BILL claimed that the tes-
timony of negroes was not only Justice
| TO them, but was often necessaryiino en-
SEES between white men. We bring In
blocks of wood, and all inanimate
things as witnesses in court, and why
should We not take the testimony of, an
1 intelligent human being2 r
MIR. Trdiner was reminded by the tone
of discussion oil that w ich took place
in the Constitutional Convention, of
which he was ~a-member, when the
9"es.te;s yes debated -1Vhashar tho State
hot
| time had not come, and the people were
not prepared forit, The result wasthe
1 reverse then, and the result now would
be aNsimilar one. Measured the House
that the loyal people of the State were
not SO easily scared as some gentlemen
would have it, and he hoped, so far as
the opposition party was concerned,
they were not to be deferred by fears of
\ 1t from doing their duty this late day.
/ No gentleman had ventpred to assert
that this bill was unjust or improper,
but the argument was it was inexpedi-
\ ent-not the proper time. IN 2 ct1Iz :,
| Mr.. Johnson, interEupting, said in his
opinion the time never will come when
tthls Legislature should pass any. law
encouraging that class to- come and
locate in this State tfnd remain here.
Mr.. Trainer, resuming, said that was
a good deal like the argument heard in
Il other places and on other occasions,
that, in the opinion of many men the
time never should come when negroes
ishould be free, but that time has come.
i Mr.. Trainer proceeded to argue the
question at some length, and concluded
by saying that he had adopted the rule
to favor whatever he found the butter
nuts opposed to, for he generally found
N them on the wrong side. "a He found
them opposing this measure, and there
fore had no fears on the subject.
II Mr.. Cunningham, of Marion, said
that agood many gentlemen had taken
pains to say they were not candidates,
He took this occasion to say that he
was candidate for one bar and one
tel6ctlon. He said that he expected to
stand before the bar of God who made
him, and answerfor this days work.
All knew what was the burden of the
petitions that entgIinwn0 to Richmond
from Western Virginia forty years ago.
He referred to the declarations of WASH
! ington and Jefferson on the subject of
slavery and said that -forIour conduct
toward The African race, God has CON.
troversy with this nation, and we have
| gone through scenes in the last four
years that he hoped we, might never
witness again. 'A"''
| Men talk about abolilionism and
foreign votes. For himself lie conld
say that for n hundred yours his nnces-
tors had been Virgiuians. The class of
men who in 1851 told him he must pull
1 hemp and stand on nothing or leave
This native hills OF West Virginia, are
such as now oppose this measure. He
called on the House, in the Name of
God, to do justice though the Heavens
fall, nndjsnotsto adopt principle of
miserabl eexpe diency on, question of
this kind - = ssls,ii3f
The question being loudly called for
j all nEaE. the Hnmsn. fha- rnll 1rns callal