The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-09
From the New York Rxpress.l l
q The Republican Party.1a

The Tribune is pleased to say that: q
"The Republic has still urgent need Of
the Republican party; nor will its mis-.
sion be complete till the, full rghts OF
citizenship are secured to every nanye
and every raturaiized citizen OF the
United States, and from the st. John to
he,Rio Grande, from the Bay of Fundy
to PHget's Sound, there shall be no de-
graded caste, no uutranchised people,
| but the rights of the whole American
people shall have been forever placed
under the protection and safeguard OF
the votes of each and all. 5 /
The Republican party, then, have a
long mission in view. ~ .Ee.+ fr..t a
T. WoMAN's RIGHTs.-The women OF
this country are "a degraded (political)
caste, in this Tribune lexicography. They
have no political 9rights. They are dis
franehised Women have no. political
safeguard by their votes.
3. ALIENs.-They are a degraded
CASTE" too. They have no political rights.
They are an unfranchised people. a
8. THE GREAT BODY OF THE NATIVE
BORN INDIANs.-They are plundered,
robbed of their lands, and murdered with
impunity. They have no votes.
A. The CHINESE, ESPECIALLY ON THE
PACIFIC.-They have no rights; they are
unfranchised; no votes protect them.
5. MINORS, OUR OWN CHILDREN
They are unfranchised. They have none
Of the protection and safeguard of their
own votes.
g FoIrAIJTy IN THE STATES The
eoualitg of twelve Senators from New
York as an offset to the twelve from New
England, having less population than
New York. Il Ne,U Yorker now only one
si1tk Of pure Yaakeemdn.
Z. EQUALITY IN TIE ELECTORAL COL
LEGEs VOTING FOR PRESIDENT.--New
York has but two Senatorial votes there;
New England has twelve.
6. EQUALITY IN THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE UNITED STATES, with number
of Judges there proportioned to our pop
ulatiOn.
9. EQUALITY IN TIE UNITED STATES
SENATE, where New England votes
twelve votes in ratifying treaty, or in
confirming q nomination, when New
York has but two yotes-and where New
England can cast twelve votes for i'm
peaching the President, and New York
but two.
"The full rights Of citizenship" in this
country are now secured OILY to about
one-ffth of the people.
The Democrats of the United states
are not opposed to constitutional
Amendments" in an honest, fair and
equal way. 4 RUMP CONGRESS, exclud,
ing eleven States, is no fair and equal
tribunal TO start an amendment OF the
Constitution in. Nor is any Congress
the proper body to amend the Constitu'
ton, more especially when, as ln the
New jersey Legislature, an amendment
is ratified in advance of, and In defiance
Of the people, because of consciousness
that the incoming Legislature would not
ratify. The proper way to amend the
Constitution, is in Convention OF all
EuIeuumenss sehefauy UeI6re II: -
The struggle now is, of high tariff and
| bounty men, through Freedmen's Bu-
reaus, South-created TO operate upon
the ignorant negro Of that South, and
through them to govern free trade men
of the North. Hence the negro Constitu-
tional amendment Give us a conven-
tion OF all the States, and the high tariff
bounty men can not then make, through
unequal legislation, tariffs to suit them,
and them only.
The real struggle ID for an exclusive
Northern Copfederacy to govern North.
ern men opposed to Congressional boun
ties, and to keep the South forever out
of Congress, the natural ally of Northern
free trade men, until, through Freed
mems Bureaus, Northern white men as
overseers can o,Ca the negro vote of the
South.