The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-24

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Lesson that 4 beIng Taught them. i
- ..,2 From Rp4ers Weekly.
We have stated elsewhere the precise
people-and we use the word loyal not
ohensiYelyy but for distinction-are
willing to allow the return of the late
insurgent Statea. Those are the terms
they are willing SI0t0I to offer. Their
offer will doubtless be universally and
emPhah ratified at the rest Of the
autumn elections. It Will then be for
the unrepresented States to determine
whether they will accept these terms.
The Intelligent men in those States
know perfectly we'll, whatever the
Democratic Coppe perhead papers and ora
tors among us may say, that there is
no H1ndtctiye feeling whatever upon the
part OF the Union party, no desire of
personal revenge, no disposition to dis
regard the peculiar structure of our
political system. But they also know
quite as Well that 1t Is the very general
conviction of that party that there will
necessarily be serious agitation until
the country can see that equality of
rights among the people is In the way
of being everywhere established.
The Boston Adpertiser, in recently
speaking of this subject, truly remarked
that the progressive settlement of such
questions was like the offer of the 81.
bylline books. To-day you may have
all Tor price. To-morrow, you, can
have less for the same price. The day
after still less. Six years ago all that
was asked was that slavery should not
go into the Territories. The offer was
rejected, and the Slave States made war;
son the first months of the war some OF
our Generals returned fugitive slaves,
and offered to. suppress insurrecttons.
In few months afterward there was a
general demand for colored troops and
emancipation! In the second year
slavery was generally abolished by
PROCLAMATION. At the end of the war
the defeated States were required by
President Johnson to adopt the EmanI
cipatton Amendment. They are now
asked to guarantee civil rights. It is
Tor those States to consider. What
have they gained by refusing to allow
that slavery should not goiinto the Ter
r1tories, or by making war; What
would they have gained by rejecting
the Emancipation Amendment What
viii they gain by rejecting the amend
ment now 'odered2 sEatfittl iq1i 4
Had the popular leaders in those
States been wise, they would have been
early convinced that the, people who
had supportedsthe rebellion would not
suffer those who had opposed them in
the held or at the polls to settle the
terms upon which the Union should be
tOASust -4habl 1uueeu was doubtless
at hrSt the conviction of the Southern
leaders, which the Presidents course,
however, relaxed! But they; should
have known the loyal American people
well enough TO. understand that they
would not hesitate to repudiate Presi-
dent even of their own election If he
assumed to settle the great questions OF
the war without needing them in the
PERSONS of their representatiVes.' . AT
least they should learn by the eIec-
lions OF the autumn, of which we have
seen the beginning, that the terms.
offered by Congress can not be set aside
by the Presidenti nor by any lawful
power. DO the States in question inn
agine that the terms will-be made easier3
Do they suppose that the people are
likely after the canvass of this year toi
reduce their demands2 Let them re-
member the Sfbylline books. It was
not the price that was diminished.
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