The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-07-10

us.Xrtly from policy ana partly IIom
Ley; but the time ID drawing nigh when
tkey can cloak it no longer. :,
ALI the talk and all the excitement tnaS
has been raised about Constitutional
Amendments, equality of Civil hgnts,
status of the Rebel States. DO &c, mas :
been simply dust thrown in the eyes OF
the public to cover the approach to the
grand, fundamental, = int ispensable prln'
oiple of universal negro suffrage, as the
condition without which no Ssutnern
State should ever again be admitted TO
the Union. This is The secret OF all the
elaborate legal endeavors to prove that
the Union is destroyed-thst the States
went out Of it, and that they can get
back only on such conditions as Congress
may prescribe. This was the reason
why Stevens proclaimed them oonquese9
States, deprived Of all rights, exoiuoeo
from the protection Of the Constltutlon,
aud to be dealt with as conquered sub.
jects, at the sovereign Will and pleasure
of the couquerors. This was the object
of Mr.. Shsllabarger's studied legal argu-
ment in support Of the doctrine Of State
suicids, and of his more recent effort to
prove that, evon if the Rebel States are
in the Union, they may rightly be held
to have forfeited all the rights of citi.
zenship under the Constitution. The
feebler but still more Jealous efforts Of
Hart, Ward, Holmes and other Radical
members from this State, have all Simed
at the same thing.-namely, to lay Q
foundation for demanding, at the hanei
of the South, universal negro suffrage al
the condition OF restoration" gso.5
Mr.. RAYMOND, the editor Of this paper
being a member of Congress, ought tt
know what his colleagues are after.
New YORK TRIRUNE-lhis paper ex
plains its position as follows: D..
"Our programme is well known. UNI
NERsAL AMNEsTY-IMPARTAL SUFFRAGE
such are its conditions, and the who'll
of them" which the editor explains al
follows, ..a'
There is large portion of the Amer
lean people who have forfeited thel
political rights by rebellion and treason
There is another large portion who, haV
ing mainly been slaves till recently
have not yet been politically enfran
chised. We propose that the pohtica
disabilities under which these tw,
classes now labor, shall be at once ant
absolutely removed, so that no man shall
hsnceforth be disfranchised in any STATE
because of his color, or because he ha
been rebel" ....,
MAINE-The Republicans in this Stats
held their Convention on the 2lst O.
June, at which the following resolution
was unanimously adopted:
"ResolUed, That the Union party O
Maine plants itself upon the doctrines
Of the Declaration Of Independence, ani
that we hold that all men, iUithout dis
tinotion Of race and color, are entitled to
the utmost civil and political rights"
vERMoNT.-The republican convention
held in this State on the goth Of June
declared
"That while approving the oonstitu
tional amendment lately proposed BY
Congress as q present political measure
to,UaYd securing just ends, we yet insist
that every scheme of restoration is i'm
perfect that is not based upon equal anG
exact justice to all, and the equal rights
personal, civil and political of all loya
citizens, irrespective Of race or color"
, Our West Virginia Radicals may q
| well too the mark. They will have t.
, swallow negro Suffrage.