The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-07
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been preserved, without the aid of the
Democratic party, and in spite of IL,
that portion of Il which inhabits this
Congressional District came together in
Convention in the year of Our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty
six, and resolved that "the war was
Ijust and necessary to prevent the dis
ruption of the Union and the overthrow
lof the Constitution"
They never discovered the fact until
after success had crowned our arms,
and defeat had overwhelmed their al
lies, and their every effortito secure the
success of the rebellion had failed and
the question now submit to you, and
which is already present in your minds,
is, whether these men have had an ac-
tual revelation of new truth, and have
realized a change of heart, or whether
only the circumstances have changed
by which they are surrounded, and to
which they are now, for selfish and po-
lttical purposes, seeking. to adapt them
When Democratic leaders now re-
solve that the war Hwas Just and neces-
sary" on our part. they stuItify all they
have said and done for the last six
years, and contradict and nu1lify every
other plankin theit platform, but they
can not blot out the story of their mis-
deeds, nor erase from the page of his
tory the record of their crimes against
the country. = -{.1
EQUALIzING REPRESENTATION.
There are two kinds of representation
in Congress-the representation of the
states and of the people. Each State
has two Representatives, or Senators
in the Senate, while it is intended that
the people shall be eqnitably and equal
~ represented the House. . IL
In the original formation of the Con-
sutut1on, Representatives We're appor-
toned among the several States by add
ing to the whole number of free per-
sons "excludings Indians not taxed.
Ithree-htths of all other PERSONS" These
three-dfths of all other persons were
slaves, and, in effect, every FIVE slaves
were counted as three free persons, in
making up the ratio of representation.
Thiswas a very hard provision for the
people Of the free States, but it was de-
manded by the Shareholders, and con-
ceded by our fathers in compromise,
they believing that slavery was fast
passing away, and could not endure a
quarter of century, and it became
finally an almost intolerable burden
and injustice, as it gave to the South u
representation of twenty-five votes in
the House of Representatives and in
the Electoral College for President and
Vice President, on account of their
property.
According to the census of 1860, the
eleven rebel States, not including in
their number Kentucky, Maryland,
Delaware and Missouri, had a white
population of 5, ,OO2, 2,O51, and had negro
population of 8, ,T5O ,031. By the last ap-
portionment, which allowed one Repre-
sentative for every 125,000 people, the
white population of these rebel States
would entitle them to forty-two Repre-
sentatiYes, and the colored population,
now thatslavery Is abolished, and each
negro counts as oneperson, would en-
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more, making seventy-two in ALL &
By the same census the seven North
western States had a negro population
of 65, 600, IL. 600 of whom lived inIndl.
ana, and altogether making but half
enough for one Representatives. And
now In these eleven rebel States the ne
groes enjoy no political rights or con-
siderationi whatever. They have no
more voice in making the laws by
which they are governed, or in choos-
ing their rulers, than the beasts of the
fields and yet as the Constitution now
stands, their late masters will have
thirty votes in Congress and in the cleo
toraIg college onf their aecoufit-iust
equal to the united vote of Indiana and
Ohio. In other. words, the white men
OF these rebel States, -nineteen-twenti-
eths ofwhom are rebels, and were en-
gagged in the late rebel lion, can vote
down Ohio and Indiana, by represent
ing the negroes, who are stripped of all
political rights whatever. ri Hi
The negro, for himself amounts to
nothing, counts for nothing, and his
existence is utterly ignored; but he
amounts to q man, and counts for a
man, Tor the benefit of White rebels, by
whom he is surrounded. The white
people of the rebel States have forty-
two votes for themselves, and then will
have thirty votes more for the negroes.
Democratic politicians appeal TO the
vulgar prejudices of the people; by
claiming that this is white MANS
Government; but what kind of white
mans Government is It which has
thirty votes in Congress and thirty
votes In the Electoral College, based on
negro representation This advantage
which the rebel States now have is
munstrous, and is MOTTO be quietly en-.
dured. No Northern man, who has the
least respect for himself, can for
moment consent that they shall retain
1t. Even IL they were loyal-if they
had tried to sustain the Government in
stead OF destroy it-they could have no
possible claim to it. ii'se 7ltii7sIt-
They have thirty votes in Congress
that have no constituency; thirty votes
as from thirty rotten boroughs under
the English system. And these thirty
votes just balance and set Off the thirty
votes sent mp by three millions six
people from Ohio and Indiana.
These eleven rebel States have other
advantages in the government, which
1t seems to me ought to satisfy the
most avaficions Democratic politician.
They have twenty-five votes in the
Senate, while Ohio, Indiana aud Him
ois, with joint population exceeding
theirs by a quartef of a million, have
but Six,voteS. u. ~ = - rsl y --sf-F
This is a gross inequality, and would
seem to have hut little foundation in
reason, yet it was: part of the original
theory of the Government, that the
States, without regard to the popuIR-
iony should have equal representation
in the Senate, and we are not seeking
to change it. <, aesis go ~
In order to correct the shameful
abuse and injustice + have been des-
resolution amending the Constitution
ofthe United States, the second elRnse
of which provides that Whenever the
right to YOtets denied in any State to
any of the male inhab abitants OF such
State, tWenty.onei years of age and a
citizen oftheiU United. States,a oriris In
any way abridged, except for partict.
patibn in the rebel lion, or other crime,
the basis of represeptati therein shall
male citizens shall bear TO the whole
number of male citizens tweptY-one
yeafs 6fsAgei in such Staten . 3adLIi'sa
The effect Of this amendment will be
to exclude the negro population from
| being counted in making upl the basis
| ofrepresehtation IN any ,State In which
negroes are denied the right of suE-
frage. It assumes that the male me-
groess over wenty-one years aof age
bear the same proportion TO the whole
negro Ppppllat ion that y Yhtte males oyer
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