The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-24
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the principles of the President, and the
application that he makes of them to
current affairs. Let il be well consid-
cred that the strength of the opposition
to the President, by the Union party as
represented in Congress, and the appro-
baton which he receives from the De-
mocracy, do not affect the merits of the
case. and are incidents that wise men
will not allow to have weight in maxi
ing up their minds as to the duty of
good citizens. eGI i1Elas1 .sGa 'm7frH
AS for the Democracy. they do not
propose to abandon their organization
and go to the President. They hope TO
promote dissensiohs between heWhite
House and the Capitol, and then to
march up the broad avenue to power.
Who is TO blame for the mischief that
has been nader We believe it is the
deliberate Judgment ofthe masses of en-
lightened and loyal men, that there has
been an unhealthy extravagance in'the
proceedings of the present Congress
that we have had intiammatory parti-
sanism instead of prudent statesnan-
ship-that the ultHaism, ,intolerance and
violence embodied in Thlddeus Sthvans
has been distastefni to the country cou.s,;,,,,s.
which he had been for months engaged
in carrying out when Congress met,
and in. which he had attained degree
of success that gave him an honorable
and worldwide reputation and en-
HANGED the national credit in the mar
ketS of Europe has been contemptu-
ously spurned by Stevens d CO., and
the great work of restoration undertake
en- by the Executive checked in mid
career by the manifest hostility of the
majority in Congress. 9ls li54E4-i llsi ~
And Congress has had little to pro-
pose that approached practicability: In
a period when there is the most urgent
need for the reorganization ofthe army,
and the revision and adjustment of our
financial system, months have been
wasting in sounding and furious decla-
nation regarding variety of questions
growing out of the peculiar relations of
the African race to the rest of mankind.
Perhaps the shock they have received
may profit them and the country. ~
Few intelligent persons can have read
the Presidents veto message without
coming to the conclusion that there GER
tainly were very serious objections 20
the measure that was returned to the
Senate. And we should remember that
the veto of the bill does. not mean that
the negroes who have been emancipa-
ted are not in any respect to be cared
for. The essential question is, wheth-
er it is necessary to establish Pauper
Department, compromising one-thtrd
of the States, and providing for race
numbering millions, in order to give
Freedmen the protection that is their
due: and that, When the people are very
heavily taxed to pay for what has been
done, and while the great lesson that
Republicanism has taught the world is
that men may generally be be relied upon upon
incompetent to do SO, can mot be cared
for by Governments. H.fI
1t is charged that the President has
made an issue with Congress, and
should be rebuked for his want of COM
placency. Perhaps careful investiga-
ton would prove that his principles
have been fixed, and his policy pro-
gressive in a right line. If any per-
sons project themselves against fixed
object, they would be unreasonable to
complain that it declined to get out of
the way. The President has not pro-
voked a quarrel with Congress, but has
assiduously endeavored to avoid it.
More than this, the very extreme doc
endorsement of which is demanded as
a test of adhesion to the party of the
Union, are those that the supporters
of the Government We're, during the
years of war, charged by ths disaHected
with, holding, and which they emphat-
ically denied that they held. =. -, F.e
The main charge against the Prest-
dent is that he is in favor of thrusting
rebels into Congress. 1t is charge
that can not be substantiated. He
fayors the determination of the ques-
ton of the admission or rejection, OF
one who presents himself with creden-
tials of election to Congress, according
10 the individual case. That is to say,
If loyal man presents himself from a
Southern State, with evidence that he
has been legally elected a member of
Congress, he should be admitted, and
not rejected because he happens to be
from a particular State. as5. -
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bloody heresy of State Sovereignty,
this could not be bettered, 1t allows
the representation in Congress of a 10y
nj district in East Tennessee, and ,ex-
cIudes disIoyal district in Mississippi,
and it offers the Southern people the
great inducement of a representation in
Congress, to put their trust in men who
will command the confidence of those
who have defended the Government
when it was in danger by war, and who
are prepared to sustain 1t through the
perils of peace.
The doctrine ofdead States is danger
Gus. 1t opens the broad way for the
nation to go down to death. II prepares
for a disputed succession in the Prest-
dental office-for a quarrel as to what
is in the Constitution of the United
States, touching nearly the destiny of
millions-for q contest as to who COM
pose Congress, as to which of two boz
dies may be the House of Representa-
tives itself. The danger is Becoming
Imminent, for it will be upon us after
this Congress, which is doing pothlng
to prevent it. -ii,.s- -.-,l 49, ...t
Ifsomething can not be done to check
the DEVELOPMENT of conditions of dis
order, we may find ourselves drifting
into civil war that will not be sectional,
but general, and involve the country in
such strife and ruin as it has not expe-
\ . Ia FNfNt
therefore, that all the States should
have their place in the Union, as soon
as possible, is not inconsiderate; and
there are great many thoughtful men,
as true to the cause OF the nation as the
most "earnest," !" who believe he Is right.
He may not have taken the wiseSt
course, bnt his opinions are entitled to
respect: and the Republican Senators
who sustained him are the peers in
character and capacity of any around
them. --EiH r 1s.fl;s
But will the action of the President
result in throwing the political and
military power of the country into the
hands of. the copperheadsf Perhaps Il
will rather prevent that catastrophe. If
the leadership of Thad. Stevens were
followed through this Congress. the
people would, It is likely, pronounce
against it. Possibly the timely check
extreme policy has received may in the
end, when the phrenzy of the hour is
over, conduce 10 cooler counsels and
more deliberate attention to public
business. We have had radical leaders
full of distemper of theories, bitterly
opposing the constitutional amend
mient equaliZing representation, and
wasting the precious opportunity to get
that almost essential proposition before
the Legislatures for ratification. Can
not this dreadful foolery be stopped,
and the amendment put TO the country