The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-26


Virginia will send her quota OF troops
without waiting for draft.
The Restoration Of the Union.
The control of the radical party is i'll
the hands of its most radical members.
Whatever these men demand, the party
will do; whatever course these men
mark out, the party will follow. 1t is
to these men, therefore, we are to look
for information concerning the plans
and intentions of the party; and upon
them we must rely for the proper III
terpretation of its acts.
The proposed constitutional amend
ment has been called by some of the
Radicals condition of restoration :;
the leading men of the party say it is
not. They disclaim and repudiate the
idea that the Union is to be restored II
the Southern States ratify the proposed
amendment. They do not wish to be
understood as pledging themselves to
the admission of the Southern repre-
sentatives, upon any condition short of
negro suffrage and complete negro
equality. The following from the New
York Independent, whose editor is one OF
the leaders of the party and whose
ideas control many of the Radical MEM
bers of Congress. sets forth very clearly
the nature of the demand the dominant
party is determined to make:
"We know personally every prominent
member of Congress; and we know that
the leaders do not mean to admit the
unadmitted Southern States on the mere
adoption of the amendment. Moreover,
,re knor personally the leading Radicals
of the Republican party outside OF Con-
gress, and we knoW that THEY HAVE No
INTENTION OF MAKING THE AMENDMENT
THE FINAL MEASURE OF ADMISSION. 10
say, therefore, as the National Commit
tee say, that, on condition of adopting
the amendment, as Tennessee adopted
it, "the door stands invitingly" for the
ten other States, Is TO MAKE A PROMISE
TO THE EAR To BREAK IT TO THE HOPE,
Il To say, with the Syracuse
Republican Convention, or with the adj
dress of the National Republican Com
mittee. that Congress riil restore the ten
rafting; States If these States adopt the
amendment, Is TO MIsREPRESENT THE
ISSUE.
Slavery was not abolished under the
mild influence of temptation, but under
the strong influence of cOmpulsion; and
the negro's enfranchisement will not
be achieved by such temptation, bMt by
such compulsion. Accordingly, THE
RADICAL PARTY, NORTH AND
SOUTH. WHITE AND BLACK, CAN
ASSENT TO NO RECONSTRUCTION
SHORT CT IMPARTIAL SUFFRAGE
No leading Republican in Congress
means TO admit the ten rafting States oi
the adoption of Unconstitutional amendment
These States are to be admitted on nc
conditions short of the equal political
rights of their loyal citizens, without
distinction of race. A reconstruction
of the Union on any other basis wOult
be a national dishonor. Until the rebe
States can come back on this basis
| Hev shall not come back at ALL
But Mr.. boutwell,, of Massachusetts,
one of the Start Chamber Committee OF
Fifteen. and candidate for reelection
to Congress, in recent speech, said:
eff the present Congressional platform
expressed the whole claim to be de.
manded of the South, it was one that
he would not support. 1t was well a,
far as it went, but it did not go fal
enough. There would be no safety il
the South came in and these demands
were only complied with. Our only Sc,
! curity in the future was in endowing
the colored loyal people of the South
with the elective franchise, and the
speaker said he did not intend to rote tO'
the admission of either Of the ten States no
at present represented in the Congress Of IL,
United States until impartial suffrage WG
secured to all the people Of those States
| He believed that when the Thirty
ninth Congress assembled i'll December
next, there would not be found five men
who were identified with the Republi-
can party who would not be in favor OF
impartial suffrage in every one of those
ten States as condition precedent to then
admission"
BY the admission of these men and,
indeed, by the admission of the whole
radical party in the House of Represen-
tatives, the constitutional amendment
as condition of restoration, is direct
and wilful cheat. When the amendment
is ratified, negro suffrage is to be de-
manded; when that is conceded, pos
sibly some other idea even more fanat'
ical and dangerous than this, if there
he any such, will be proposed as a condi-
tion precedent to the restoration of the
Union and the admission to Congress
of Representatives from the Southern
States. No such thing as reunion is at
present in the radical programme.
Tur refurns from North Carolina in