The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-19

Sucna one on IulS river, 1IWOulu TeCelYe
the patronage of every pound of freight
and every passenger it was capable of
carrying, and a line of them would
monopolize the commerce of the river.
Sooner or later the reform we havein-
dictated will be made. 1t must be made;
for sooner or later people will get tired
of risking their lives in the daily pros
ecution of business and of having their
friends and relatives murdered through
culpable carelessness or culpable laxity
of regulations. Whenever public opin-
ion demands it, it will be made. The
demand ought to be made at once.
A BugIe Cali from Loyal Maryland
something for the Union Men OF
West Virginia 20 Think Of
a mass meeting of the Union men OF
Carroll county, Maryland, was held on
Saturday at Westminster, in that coun-
ty. Speeches were made by Senator
Nye, Ex-Gov. Frank Thomas, Colonel
Mckee of Kentucky, and Hon. j. L.
Thomas, member of Congress from the
second district of Maryland. The sit
uation in Maryland is almost identical
with the situation here. Maryland is a
border State, with interests homOgene-
Gus with our own. Like West Virginia
she sent many men to the rebel army,
and had many abettors of the rebellion
at home during the war. The loyal
men, to protectthemselv there, passed
a registry law and enforce test oaths as
we have done and do here. The return
ed rebels and their stay at home con-
federates there, now seeking restora-
ton to political power and the control
of the State, are denouncing these meas
ures, as they are denouncing similar
measures here, as vindictive, cruel, and
unconstitutional. The views of loyal
MaryIander then have peculiar inter
est for our people, for they echo the
views of our own loyal people. Read
the ringing, clarion declarations of
Hon. j. L. Thomas, at the meeting re-
ferred to:
A new idea has grown up in this
country of late as to what is loyalty.
Gentlemen, never had but one detini-
ton of LOYALTY. Loyalty never changes
with me. 1t never changes with you.
Loyalty, in my opinion ought to be,
and is, the same to-day as 1t was IN
1861. Show me the man VINO, IN tn 19
wear. aud at that time, had the bold
ness the manhood, the devotion, the
natriotism to announce that he WIS
lover of his country, and preferred that
this Union should be preserved rather
than It should be destroyed show me
the man who was willing TO SEND ms
son, or go himself to the battle field for
the purpose of protecting the honor of
the country; show me the man who
was ready to spend his money as freely
as water to equip and provision the
men when once in the field, and VIII
show you man that, according to my
definition, was loyal nun. LGrent
onniausej Show me the man who
hung his head when the news came
over the wires that there was Federal
victory; show me he who would trip
pingly upon his lips denounce the
course of Congress when voting men
and money to suppress the rebellion /;
show me the mnn whose eyes gazed
with delight upon SeceSh uniform /;
show me the man whoreJoiced at every
| Rebel victory, and that almost Rroaned
within himself at every Federal vic
| tory, and will show you man that,
| whether he had the nerve or not to take
the gun in his hand, and togo to the
field and shoot your countrymen be-
cause they were defending that flag,
mas been a traitor, a disloyaIist, and un-
| tit now, as, he was then, to be trusted
Immense applause.l But, say these
| gentlemen, weawant Cancellation.
say Cancellation. L want cancellation,
i but j don't want Cancellation at the e&-
Il pense of the life OF my country. In
i the Language of Andrew johnson,
ENERGY to the men who plotted this
4 rebellion, and who, for four years, car
ried it on, is treason and cruelty to the
N1FN1NI ea fFNNn
Il worthy of a noble man, one which you
endorse, and which the American Con-
! Cress to-day is trying to. fulfill by its
i Legislation. Would to God that when
the man that uttered the sentiments,
after he had become clothed in tho ha-
biliments that once graced martyred
i hero like Abraham Lincoln, lapplausel
had carried out that sentiment as fully
as understood 1t, and as loyalty ms he
| understood it when he uttered 1t. He
may have an Interpretation of what he
| means by loyalty, and doubtless has.
| A loyal man, now-a-days, is defined to
/ be any ed-handed traitor who takes
the oath of allegiance for future securi-
.lty. lLaughter.l Any man who was
4 fighting in the rebel army for the last
4 four years, fiery of she can't come
there, ., and accepts the Presidents am
nestys proclamation, and intends to
II abide byit, is a loyal man. But, gentle
enough to live here, to make their mo-
ney, 70 sue and be sued, to make their
Il contracts, TO hold their property, to
TRANSMIT IL. But, when 1 am told that
such men have right to the same pri-
/ vileges as i have, say IL is an insult
thrown into the teeth of every loyal
man that stood true TO his country
when his country. needed the nerve and
strength and support of true men.
/ CApplause. That Eis not my loyalty.
We have gallant soldier here to-day,
who will address you, from the State
OF Kentucky; a man who, through fire
and blood, stood up on the battlefield,
as he stands up in the halls of Congress,
battling for the rights of the American
people. The Union men of Kentucky
once had Registry law, which, in a
spirit of revenge, or blind zeal for
their security, as these conservatives
acted TO exclude rebels from par
ticipating in the elective franchise.
The war ended and these Rebels come
back, under the Presidents Amnesty
Proclamation. just as full of treason
4 when they returned into the State as
they We're when they LEFT. And the
Union men, with their spirit of concil-
iation, and by listening TO the same
mad counsel that would ask the people
of Maryland TO repeal our Registry
i law, repealed them. Now what is the
i resultf Men who are fresh from the
\ Rebel army are members of the Iegis-
1ature OF kentucky. Union men have
been turned outof the Legislature and
Rebels sent in their places. The Rebel
majority in that State is SO tremendous
that the men who tried to take their
i State into Secession are now the men
who have the control of the political
~ that SSfnfa nd az. Mr.