The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-15

/ OF ours 70 tue people, uuulet ING PeVple
decide this question calmly and quietly
at the ballot-box, that moment every
reconstructed rebel 10 the South, and
every fCoppSr head in the 'N6flh, hnd
creatureWhb led 70 Canada 70 avoid
the draft, were found g9tharipE tugpth.
or from one end Of the, land % the
other to organize q Natl0haE Uhloh
Democratic, Conservative Johnson
/ party; and theyare opposed, and have
resolved 10 in West Virginia ~ any
condition.. Well, we have placed
upon the statute books one conulttoni
they must send loyal representatives
l-man who have maven llttRd mp ithetl
hands voluntarily against their ieoups
trY-tnen who never voluntarily at1ed
this rebellion, aud. contt1 1butsd to that
atr0clons work ofsubiecting 70 untime'
ly death by the slow tprtures Of stnrva,
Zion, or ty pol son, thirty thousand oi
your braVede captiveS IN their
hands, We Sayito them by. statute, AZ
one condition, before yon are represent
ed IN tie Congress OF the United States,
\ In either brunch, you iin6st take care q
elect men who have not the blood Of
crifiInAlity on th6fr hands, who can
swear before God ind their country
that they have mot voluntarily ~ aided
or abetied this great treason against
the nations life, y Yj..,; (, y.4,yy 1.
These gentlemen are opposed 70 that.
JEFFERSON Davis Is opposed 70 IT. Robert
ToombS Is opposedito It. AlexRndera,
Stephens is opposed t9ik Dick Taylor
Is opposed, to II, Andy Johnson ts op-
posed to It. The whole copperhead par
| ty iS opposed to Il. A2Voicep "0sS.
Long d opposed to it.M gIshi slDH "
There Is another consideration. We
saV % these RentIemen, you must not
simply resolve that yo1lWilll abide by
theiaws, and that equal and exact jus.
tice shall be done 10 the people In every
State in this Union In the protection OF
theif lives, liberty and properly; but
you must put II as q perpetual aud !, IT.
repealRble covenant in the Constitution
of the United States; and having pn!t u
there, you must swear every man tnat ina
you send hereafter to the Congress OF
the United States, to support that pro-
vision In common with the other pro-
visions OF that great instrument. That
Is the position taken BY the peoples
representAtiv They thought II was
fitthe humblest soldlerwho had return
ed from the great war OF the Union,
should be protected by the national law
In every State Id the Union; that the Or
phan children OF the soldier, the unre.
turning soldiers Of the Republic, those
children who are orphans because q TINS
great treason, should, in their per.
sons, be under the protection Of the ma
tional law In every State In this Union.
In short they thought II was fitatter all
the sacrifice that had been made IN
those four years Of unprecedented con.
ilct, TO put into the Constitution OF the
United States what was never there be.
fore in the way Of express Limitation on
any State, but which WIS always there
| in the way Of an implied lilnitatol,T3-
than which dlYiper or better words
never were in, the Fundamental law OF
any people on this earth,-that here
after no State in this Union shall deny
10 anv person within Its Jurisdiction,
the equal protection Of the laws. APP
plause.1 There Is no doubt the dont-
nant majority Of South Carolina, every
one OF whom was engaged Ia this armed
rebellion, will give themselves protec.
lection by the laws Of their own: enact
ment. but we say to them now, In view
ofthe fact that you have broken through
ali the existing provisions OF the Con.
stltution, that YOU have dtsregarded the
yery oaths enjolned by It on every leg.
fslatOr. every executive, and every tus
dioial officer of,your State, we Will bind
Won bv a positive covenant never 70 be
broken. and 10 be enforced through the
forne and majesty OF the national law,
in case YOU disregard It, that you Will
never deny To any person within your
inrisdiction the equal protection OF the
law. And yet willie we demand that
ordeal OF South Carolina, we epiQin 1t
alike nm every State in tho Union;
for il n Il not the purpose or this great
nrgnniSation, that there shall be
vaSssI Stntes hereafter In the Repu Bile,
env i more than there shall be vassal
msn. The States shall be equal before
The American law, and the citizen and
the man. In respect TO the rights OF
n1anbood. shall also be equal before the
american law, [applause,1 leaving
evsry state the right 10 regulate It's own
Sonesttc affairs, but letting these rebel
STATES Ia now that hereafter they shall
not ahnse tho rlghtfuI powers OF a State
nv tramplIng on the unprotected rights
~ n minority, or Of the poor, or tho
IIlIferate or The stranger within their
gates. IEaual and exact justice to all
Iy1en.n Andrew johnson borrowed
those words from the great message oi
Thomas Jefferson, In his inaugural to
the Congress OF the United States, when
ho declared in his message of December
last 10 the 3gLh Congress, that the basis
OF American system WINS "eqnnl and
exact instice to all men," Andrew
Johnson has forgotten those words he
borrowed, and inserted so properly In
his message Of last December. In
travelling Ground the circle" seeking to
mako friends of the enemies Of his
country, he has forgotten those whole
SolnO words of Jefferson. The Amerl.
can people have not forgotten them.
And that 1t might be more than "a
glI,tcriuS generality" In the future,
tbey hive put into the form Of an amend
meIlt 10 the Constitution In so many
words. that no State in this Union shall
deny % any person within itS jurlsdic-
tiOn the equal protection OF the laws,
That is 6ne condition then that We
prescribe for South Carolina before she
comes in, II she Is opposed to that she
Ia not tit to be a member Of this Union
and exercise the political powers which
pertain to citizens OF the Republic,
while we say on the other hand she shall
never become a foreign power. Every
rood Of her territory shall remain sub.
lect 10 the Jurisdiction Of the United
States: IA voice, "Good;"l but II she Il
40 afflicted with this devil that did atillct
her five years ago and led her to COM
init this EroNt treason against the ma
tion, that she cannot consent TO that
lust and wise provision, that no state
shnll deny to any person the equal pro.
lection OF her laws,-let her do without
representation In Congress-; let honest
men lpvislAte over her until shO learns
10 submit with decent reverence TO the
popular will Of that greilt body oil 1rce'
men who trlumphCd over her treason
nud in TINT triumph saved for her as
il Hnvwl for us u Government and a
country. [Applause.l We say "a
7 Them further nn1 wO ask thal
question To hO bOrnC in mind
Az n pnrt of tho issue pending bcfoFethe
people, TINT tho representative power Of
the ppOulO Orevery state OF this Union.
North and South, East and West, snail
horpnller be exnctly In proportion 10
the whole number Of It's representative
nroportI0n. liN State, In tho oXerclse
hits reserved powers, chooses, by its
local law, to exclude men Rs CLOSES
from nny voice In Its representation,
HC say that hereafter tho majority or
minority, AS tho ease may be, In the