The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-26
menclng with that delivered on the %
of February last.

| nato, unSCrupulOuS, ana unreNSonlnR
ambition. To one thcnlo the President
Is always constOnt,-to one idea he Is
always true,-"H0 hnS filed every
office, from that of alderman ofn village
To the Presidency of the United States"
He docs not forget, nor does he permit
the world to forget, this fact. In some
form OF lang uage, and In nCarly GVery
speech, he assures his countrymen that
ho cithor is, or ought to be, satisfied
with this measure of success. Buthnvo
not his own reflections, or Somo over
kind friend, suggested that he has never
been elected President OF tho United
States ? and that there yet remains the
attainment of this ono object of Hmbi-
ton?
Inauguration day, 1865, will no ro-
gRrdcd uS ono of tho snddeSt days in
American annals. We pass over it's in
Oidents; but It was frnuSht with an evil
suggestion to our enemies, and it must
have beon followed by n firm conviction
in the mind of Mr.. johnson that he
could not thereafter enjoy tho conf
dence OF tho mass OF the Republican
party of tho country. He fOrcSRw that
thoy would abandon him, and he there
fore made hot haste to abandon them.
And, indeed, 1t must DO confessed that
there wns scarcely moro Inconsistency
! in that course on his part, than there
would have been in continuing his con-
neCtion with the men who had elected
him. His nomination for the Vice
Presidency was an enthusiastic tribute
| to his Union sentiments; beyond
knowledge of these, the Convention
neither had nor desired to have any
information. Mr.. johnson was and is
II Union man; hut he was not au anti
slavery man upon principle. He was n
Southern State-Rights man. HU looked
upon the national government as n me-
ceSSity, and the exercise of any powers
ON its part as IL danger. His political
training was peculiar. lie had carried
! on long war with shareholders, but he
had never made war upon slavery. He
belonged to the poor white class. In
his own Language ho was ple6eian.
! The shareholders were the pRtriciRnS.
| He desired that all the white men OF
| Tennessee, especially, and of the whole
South, should DO of one class, = Nll
slaveholders,-n1 pn:riCians, il that
were possible and he himself, for
| time became one. Failing in this, ho
was satisfied when all became nom
shareholders, and the patriciRn class
ceased to exist. Hence, as fur as Mr..
JOhnsOn's opinions and purposes are
| concerned, the war has accomplished
everything for which 1t was underta-
| ken. The Union has been preserved,
and the patrIcian class has been bro
| ken down.
Naturally, Mr.. johnson is satisfied.
On the one hand he has no sympathy
with the opinion that the negro is IL
man and ought to be n citizen, and that
! he should DO endowed with the rights
| of II man and Il citizen; and, on the
other hand, he shares not in tho desire
| of the North to limit the representation
fof the South so that there shall be
| equality among the white men of the
country. He is anxious rather to in
crease the political strength Ofthe South.
lie fears the growing power of the
7 ~,
| drove calhoun into notification, and
Davis, Stephens, and others into rebel
1 lion and civil war, now impels Mr..
johnson to urge the country to adopt
| his policy, which secures to the old
] slaveholdiug States an eighth of the
! political power of the nation, to which
! they have no just title whatever. To
the North this is n more fragrant pOliti-
cal injustice than was even the insti-
| tuition of slavery. He once expressed
! equal hostility towards Massachusetts
and South CnrOliuR, and desired that
/ land and lashed together in the wide
ocean. The President appears to be
reconciIed to South CarOlinn; but IL tho
| hostility he once entertained to the two
| States had been laid upon MAssachu-
setts alone, he ought to have felt his
| vengeance satisfied when her represent
| Rtives entered the Philadelphia Con-
vention arm in arm with the repre-
Sentatives OF South Carolina, assuming
only, what ia not true, that the senIi-
ment OF Massachusetts was represent
ed in that Convention. AS II perfect
/ illustration of the Presidents policy.
| two men from Massachusetts should
have been assigned to each member
! from SOuth Carolina, as foreshowing
| the future relative power of the white
| men of the two States in the govern
ment OF the country. The States OF the
North and West will receive South Car
olinH and the other Rebel States as
equals in political power and rights,
whenever those States are controlled by
loyal men; but they are enemies to JUS
tice, to equality, and to the peace ofthe
country who demand the recognition
OF the Rebel States upon the unequal
basis OF the existing Constitution.
OTthese enemies TO Justice, equality,
and the peace of the country, the Pres
ident Is the leader and the chief; and ns
such leader and chief lie Is no longer
entitled to support, confidence, or even
personal respect. He has seized upon
all the immense patronage OF this gov
ernment, and avowed his purpose to
use IL for the restoration of the Rebel
States to authority, regardless of the
| rights OF the people of the loyal States.
Hc has thus become the ally of the
Rebels, and the open cnemy of the loyal
white men of the country. The Presi-
/
this unhOly project, cannot but know
that the recognition of the ten dislOyal
| States renders futile every attempt TO
equalize representation in Congress.
Tho assent of three -IOurths of the States
is necessary to the ratification of an
amendment to the Constitution, Tho
fifteen old Slave States are largely in
tcrested in the present system, aud they
| will not consent voluntarily to u
change. The question between the
President and Congress is then this:
Shnll the ten States be Mt once rccOg-
niZed, thus securing to the old Slave
States thirty Representatives and thirty
electoral votes to which they have no
title, or shall they be requiredto accept,
as a. condition precedent, nn amend
ment TO tho Constitution which provides
an equnl system of representation for
the whole country2 II is not enough,
in the estimation OF tho President, that
the loyal people should receive these
enemies of the Union and murdererS
of their sons and brothers as equals,
but he demands n recognition of their
superiority and permanent rule in tho
government by voluntary tender of
an eighth of the entire representative
force of tho republic. When before
were such terms ever eXnCted of the
ConquerOr in behalf OF the conquered
IL the victorious North had demanded
of the Vanquished South surrender
of n part of its representative power
In the government, as penalty for its
treason, that demand would haYe been
sustained upon the principles of justice,
4 although the proceeding would have
been unwiso as n measure of public
policy. As IL is, the victorious North
only demands eOunlitV for itself while