The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-06

tinent rocked beneath the earthquake
tread of the gathering legions of the re-
bellion2 The peoples representatives
amongst whom it was my own good
fortune to be one, in the name and by
the authority of the American people
in solemn form of law made the pledgt
to the gallant braves of the republic. 9o
forth to the battle and If you perish bv
the way or fall in the storm and tenn
pest of the great conflict, those who are
dependent upon you shall be under the
nations care and protection. propose
that that promise shall be kept with
the three hundred thousand braves
sleeping in their martyr graves, Ipro-
pose it shall be kept-not for their sake
for the dead have all the glory; but for
the sake of their little children who are
watching by theyXacant chair, for the
coming morning when father shall re-
turn from the war. / propose that part
of the debt shall be inviofate Who is
there here or anywhere to object to it9
1 propose the pledged faith of the nation
to the young wife who gave her husband
to the country shall not be broken; that
the pledged faith of the nation to that
childless woman who in her old age
lifted up her withered hands and in
Yoked Gods blessing on the youngest
OF her house and the last refuge of her
declining years, when he went forth to
battle for his country's life, shall not
be disappointed, but the contract shall
be kept in the letter and in the spirit,
If 1t should exhaust the last dollar oi
this nations means. Who objects to it ?
Jefferson Davis obiects to ft-[sensa-
tionl-'t Bob" Toombs objects, Howell
Cobb and John @. Breckenridge object.
Thet little paper-faced scoundrel, Alex.
Stephens, and that hatchet-faceds vii
lain Slidell, of Louisiana, who plotted
treason these four years at the Court OF
I'd rNkaf aSRE -, n
who voluntarily supported this nm
matched rebellion North and South,
East or West, objects to it. Who cares
If they do, if the Union people of the
land who saved the nation only wake
up to the issue and become informed
of it. Their breath will speak as the
voice of God and fix this question be-
elections. 6,s5 r
That is what want you to ratify
and put in the Constitution.
What more is there of sit2 These
other words, that no man. who ever has
taken an oathqof office, either federal
or State, to support the Constitution OF
the United States, and who broke thaI
oath 70. engage in rebellion, shall ever
hereafter hold any cflSe civil or mill
tary, either in,the National Govsru
ment or in any State eGovernmento of the
nation. EApplause.J That is the way
to make treason "odious.D ~ ask the
American people to do ito do it in
some sort with the authority that the
first murderer was made Odious by the
hand of God-place perpetual mark
on his brow. Put it in your Constitution
that no man who broke his oath-that
chain of adamant which binds the con-
science of man to the Throne of Eternal
Truth and Justice, turning to dust in
the hot breath of his perjury-shall
1,p H.
or abuse any office, civil or military, in
the Republic or in any State.
And the whole is concluded with
these words, without which the whole
would be utterly useless The Con.
gross of the United States, by the au-
thority of the people of the United
States, shall have the power by law to
enforce these provisions. 5lii ~ 53r5s
If ther3 ever was a just proposition
on this earth, that is just proposition.
If there ever was Rneedful proposition
on this earth, that amendment is a
needful proposition. It is essential to
the future safety of the republic, and to
the future safety of every man, woman
and child in the republic. Let the peo-
pie between these two oceans in their
majesty and might write it as the law
of the Republic. For myself, shall
cherish the conviction living, and shall
cherish the conviction dying that the
virtue which places a law so Just and
so humane, and with all SO essential, in
the Constitution of my country, will,
from age to age, perpetuate these insti-
tutions of ours until empires and ma
tions perish and the heavens and the
earth shall be no more. iss-
What answer is made TO this greet
measure? None whatever. There are
some babbling orators who say there is
not enough spirit of charity in 1t. Be-
wolves no deprivation of life, no depri-
walton of property, no deprivation OF
liberty; and 1 say it would require a
charity broader than the charity of the
Gospel to go further towards these trail
tors than that amendment goes. Is it
not enough, in Gods name is 1t not
enough, in the name of charity, the
6ivinest of all the virtues, is It not
enough, that these men who are red
with the blood OF murder and assassi-
nation shall be permitted to live here
after in, peace, under the protection of
our laws in the land of their nativity
Why all just men would say that all
they deserve anywhere on this side Of
the grave IL the Eal loWs and the halter.
CCrfes of ssThat's SON Present execu-
ton and future damnation, in my opin-
ion, is the just Judgment of the en-
lightened conscience of the world,
touching the leaders of the rebellion.
No, sir, i shall waste no time on the
'fcEiarity'h part of this question.
WELL, what party is there TO oppose
me and those with whom J. have the
honor to be associated in this great
movement for the future safety of this
Republic? Not the Democratic party,
for that party dissolved and ceased to
be, in the presence of this great armed
conflict. Not. the Republican party,
for that party dissolved and ceased to
be in presence of this great rebellion.
In that moment Of peril, men ranged
themselves on the side ofbfeason, or on
the side of patriotism, and thencefor-
ward there were bnt two parties in the
country-the party for the Union, and
the party against the Union; the party
of patriots, and the party of traitors.
And so iE is to-day. CVoice: i'That's
so." The flower, and manhood, and
virtue of the Democratic party in over
wlIelming numbers, went over to the
party of The Union, and fought the
battles OF the Republic, and remain In
the Organization OF the Union 10 this
hour. - But that miserable sContriVanOe
called the Democratic party, led in
Ohio by that miserable creature, Glenn
ent L. Vallahdighatn, had no more De-
mocraoy about it thRhithe devil has OF
Chrfstianity. EEaughteF.l Well, It
ceased to be-as showed at the outset
of NV remarks-and had no power in
the land anywhere; surely it had none
in Ohio. What has taken placer This
creature, Johnson-and do not L now
but It disgrRces everything that lives
by the name Of "oreaturen on the face
of the earth, even to the creeping