The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-03-24

, pitch of influenza and power; but in a
moment of weakness Charles III. was
y restored. He surrounded himselfwith
his parasites and 1latterers, and so con-
Quoted the affairs of the nation that in
about twenty years the people of Bng-
} land were compelled to resort to u sec
ond evolution. Look at France,
where by the power oftoreign arms her
people were compelled TO submit TO the
restoration of Louis XVIII. The Bour-
bons, it is said, never learned anything
and never forgot anything; and Louis
came back to the throne with his old
Ideas, and his passions heated, to put
them in force, and the result was that
the people had recourse to another
Revolution to rid themselves of the in
cubus. Like the sBourbons our Demo
cratic party never learn anything,
though there are some things that il
tries hard TO forget [laughter;l and tell
ounowthat If in a moment of weak ness
the American people should be tempted
to restore to power that halt, blind bro
ken organization, they would be COM
PEELED in order to preserve their liber-
ties to resort to Revolution. Why, the
idea is fearful to contemplate, that in
an hour of weak forbearance and false
magnanimity the people of this coun-
try should surrender into the hands
of the enemies of the nation the fruits
| of our four years. STRUGGLED 1t can
never come to pass-never. / will now
tleave this view of the issue before the
tcountry and come a little closer to the
actual questions thatdivide US as Union
/ men, and eX plain to youus nearly ana
as plainly as 1 can the differences that
exist in our own ranks. IL IS SAID COM
monty in the newspapers, and said there
quite too much, that Congress and the
President are quarreliag with each
other. Now am about to show you
how the President and Congress do
i stand toward each other on every I'M
l portant political question of the time;
and if you or any one of you think
that 1 shrink or evade any hard or
knotty point in the controversy, just
| put me n fair question, and you shall
/ have a fair answer. LApplnuse.l There
/ are four different classes otproposltions
4 upon which it is said that Congress and
the President disagree. y wish now TO
present these points of difference briefly
TO your consideration, that we mny see
what the difference is-.whelher II IS n
mountain or n mole-hiil.
The first point is as to the representa-
ton OF, the States in Congress. You ali
\ know that there has been good deal
said, not only in the newspapers, bnt
i in various ways, about the representa-
tfon in Congress, and the right of the
| Southern States to such representation,
4 lnnd about the conditi on, the status OF
the States lately i'll neutrality-suspicious.
they are States or conquered territories.
| There is a great deal of theoretical dis
putting in regard TO the condition of
those States; some people say they are
States in the Union, and others say they
\ are conquered provinces; but mere the
| cries don't amount to much. NOW the
i Democrats in their Connecticut resolu-
tions say they are States IN the Union,
entitled TO representation in ConRressi
/ that they have right to elect whom
they please to represent them, and that
/ whoever they elect either to the Senate
or House of Representatives, we are
! bound to let him take his seat without
/ limposing any conditions upon MIN.
The test oath, they say, Is M unconsLitu, lsI,a.,,
| tional; and that II, any of the Southern
States should elect to either branch OF
| Congress Robert Toombs or Jefferson
Davis. or any other rebel, we would
have no right to takeany test oath or TO
| interfere in any way with his taking MS
seat. This is the copperhead idea OF
restoration. Another class of our pub
| lie men look upon the rebel States ts
conquered provinces, to be governed by
MS with absolute power, justns England
has governed Ireland, with what misery
and discomfort for both parties we al
know-misery and discomfort that VIII
never be obvinted until England is will
ing to do Justice to Ireland. This is st.
Patrick's Day, and feel inclined, ns l
always do, to say II good word for that
unfortunate and unhappy land.
know that manyof people who nave
come here from Ireland have been de-
luded by the name of the Democratic
party and the professions and appeals
of its leaders, md have thus been Sc
duced into voting with that party. al
ways against their own interests, often,
1 have no doubt, against their own con-
sciences, and certainly always against
what we might naturally expect would
be their Instincts; fer, bearing the ms
tory of their native land in mind, they
ought to be the truest Union men and
the sturdiest advocates of Justice Tor all
in this country But to return. have
stated two divers opinions that are helu
by our public men as TO the present
condition of the Southern States lately
in rebelIion. Now. my own opinion Is,
that the Southern States are States of
this Union, but States in insurrectton,
and while they are in insurrection, hay.
ingno right to choose representatives IN
Congress or to vote in the nlectoral COL
lege. Ajoint resolution, n,embraclng THESE
ideas, was passed by an almost unnnl-
NOUS vote in the Senate of the United
States, in July, 1854. Every Senator
Democratic or Republican,, except
three, whom don't know whether you
should class as belonging to any party,
yotedeJor it. The three exceptions TO
whom Il refer were Mr.. Salisbury, of
Delaware, Garret Davis, of Kentucky,
and Senator Powell,i of Kentucky
Those States, then, say, according TO
my Judgment, are yet in natnsurrectlon,
and not entitled to send representatives
TO Washington until they comply Wild
such conditions as may be imposed
upon them by the people OF the Onlteo
States through the law-maktng power,
and give to the people of the United
States such guarantees of loyalty in
the form of test-oaths or otherwise, as
that people may prescribe. (ApPlause)
But Il is said that upon this point the
President differs with Congress. Now
say that upon the main point the
and that he has always agreed with the
proposition 1 have Just stated TO you;
and can show you that i'll his last ot1l-
.ciall utterance, the veto message, ana
also In his unfortunate speech OF the
22d of February, he announced this
doctrine in Detter words than L nave
used to announce it. The President
stands to.dayupon that doctrine, that
the States lately in rebellion must pe
reorrAnized upon loyal basis before
they can be admitted to representation
in Congress; that they must send men
to Congress who can comply with every
law now upon the estatute-book, inclu-
ding the test oath; in other words, tney tNy
must send men who can swear before
Almighty God that they never directly
or indirectly aided in this rebellion
L fApplause.j You will ind this in the
veto message, and perhaps had better
read you short extract upon TINS lnl-
portant point. 1 quote this because 1t
is his last official utterance, so that no
one CAN say that have quoted old
speeches or Statements of Mr.. Johnson,
and that he has since changed his mind.
Here is what he says: "When those
who rebelIed comply with the Consti-