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

THE dispatches yesterday morning
give ms sort ofan outline of the speech
made by Hon. J. Raymond in Con-
oress ON Monday. Mr. Raymond IS
credited with being the Administration
organ in the House, as his paper is in
the city OF New York, and, therefore.
both command attention when they say
anything on the subject Of reconstruc-
ton these days. Mr.. Raymond, we
find, lays down the following PROPOSE
lions in his gpeech: 9 | z aLlij liltlD /.
Ffrat-That we ought to accept the
status Of the Southern States as having
resumed, under the Presidents gui-
dance. their function Of self-govern-
mentin the Union.l - - ss'if - .
ISecond-That the House should de-
eide on the admission of representatives
by districts. admitting none but loyal
men who can take the oath Prescripeds
holding all others rs disqualihed; the
Senate acting in the same way IN re-
gard to Representatives OF states:
THird-That we should provide py
law for giving 20 the freedmen OF tne
South all the rights OF citizens IN courts
OflaW and elsewhere. as.oo.
- FoMTth-Exclude from Federal otnces
the leading actors In the rebellion:
FI0h-Adopt such amendments 70
the Constitution rs may seem WISE 70
Congress and 70 the States, acting freely
and without coercion. 5tt5 . 4
ISiLfh-Take such measures OF precau-
ton ms will prevent the oyerthroWy in
any State OF d Repnblicanform OF Gov
ernmeut. 2 HIl1a p f1ubg1I =
1t is on the first proposition that Mr..
Raymond comes in collision with the
mass of the Union representatives. BE
assumes altogether too muchr in de-
cInring that the States have resumed
their functions. Even the President
and his Generals do not assume this.
They proclaim it, and then they show
by their acts that the South needs
guardianship, inconsistent with the
idea of State sovereignty, and not at
tempted in any other part the Union.
The great question to be solved is whe-
sther the South is loyal and devoted to
the Union. Facts do not seem TO war
rIlnt this belief, and until they are
loyal. those communities should be
held, not under military rule, but as
territories, selEgoverning, and when
thoroughly republicanized, admitted
again to the roll of States. The sena-
mental star and stripe view Of the case
is Justly subordinate to the. fact Of a
positive Unionism, a cordial aequies-
cence in the Constitution and Laws OF
the Land. 1-nG aiiig
The Capital Question---Its Latest
shape
In paragraph u day or two since,
we noticed that the Joint resolution fix
lug February 9th sforr discussing the
location of the Capital had been indefi-
nitely postponed, and in doing so we
were under the impression and no
doubt conveyed the impression to our
readers, that the question Itself had
been postponed indefinitely. In this
we were mistaken. The resolution was
thus disposed of because the Protean
question had taken another shape and
been embodied in a House bill, in
which the name of the tnvored spot is
LEFT blank. That bill comes uprto-day
In the House for second reading, on
which reading the blank must be
filed If filled Mt nil.
We suggest that a section be added to
the bill providing that, from the date of
pee perRfm n1n senI or Government for the
state shall be known as "Lincoln"-
"the city of Lincoln,"-if it be acity; or
by courtesy, II 1t is not. rlb
Gentlemen, OF the lobby, IL yon have
deeds for donations of land or money
to shed, prepare TO shed them now. II
Won have inducements to offer you
ought to be ready to plank them down
to-day in n tangible shape. II you want
the capitol to Gloom up smnjestically"
in your neighborhood,5 come down
handsomely with your donations, and
perhaps 1t will consent to dose.