The West Virginia journal. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1864-1877, 1866-08-15
Political Facts Worthy Of COnsid-
,......' Grafton. ''''

f. The following points naoe uy oo''
Morton in a speech rece htly delivered
to large audience Of Ihdiapians and
Kentuckiaus, ut New Albany, Ind, come
so near to comprising the whole issue
NOW before tho people, that We nsk for
them o careful perusal. .'.
The effort that is now being madc by
tho conservative or robcl-sympathizing
pnrty to get up false issuesin order to hide
the true one, makes it doubIy important
that tho true state Of the casc should be
undo clearly apparent. This VIC think
Gov. Morton hus happily effected, as
follows:
/. When Democratic leaders now re-
solve that the war was Just and ncces'
sury" on our part, they stultify all they
have said and done for the last six years,
and contradict and nullify every other
plank in their platform but they and
their party will be held to tho record, and
can not be relieved from the crushing
load Of popular odium which must ere
long carry them to the bottom.
2. Tho people, like men and patriots,
will meet the great ISSUE: Shall tho con.
s,i.utionul amendment be adopted? Shall
the Government be kept in loyal hands ?
Shull the Union soldier be preferred mud
honored over the Confederate? Shall
security bc taken against future rcbcl'
lion ? If tho war was "just and neccssa'
ry" on our part, was not the late rebellion
wicked, and ought not the rebels, who
for Eve years stuid out Of Congress on
their own account, and warred against
the Government, to be punished aud ex'
cludcd from Congress?
3. AS tho constitution now stands,
their late masters will have thirty votes
in Congress and tho electoral college on
the ncgro's account-just equal to tho
united vote Of Ohio and Indiana, with
3G42, 900 white people. The white people
Of the eleven rebel States, nineteen twcn.
ticlhs Of whom are rcbo!S, and were en-
gagged 10 the rebellion, and whose every
Senator and Representative elect in nine
of said eleven is = rebel aud wholly un'
able to take the test oath, can vote down
Ohio and Indiana by representing tho
negroes, who uro stripped of oil political
.:cL.- ."hutcyer. Yet the par excellence
"Dcmocratic" friends Of "white mo n g
government demand that Southern
rebels shall retain this enormous advan.
tagc Of negro representation, whereby
each one has GO per cent. more Of power
in the Government than citizen Of
Indiana, Ohio, or any Northern State.
i. To correct this monstrouS and in
tolerablc inequality, Congress passed the
amendment to I'd section, whose prin.
ciple is, wherever there is race Of pco-
plo deemed unworthy or un6. for poit-
icul rights, they shall not be made the
bnSis for comforting political rights and
powers upon others. This section ia in.
tended to cquulizc tho representation,
and proceeds directly upon The hypothesis
TINT suffrage is regulated by tho several
States, md makes the basis Of represent.
alton depend upon tho action had by the
States on thut subject.
S. The rights and immunitics Of q
citizen of the United States arc to enjoy
civil rights, and to 90 into any and all tue
STATES and there acquire that citize nship,
and enjoy such political rights, in addi'
ton to civil, as the States respectively
NAV confer on their citizens, and the
amc dmcnt's first section meets these
two obligations. II only defines 'oho shaA
be recognized and equally protected Us
citizens of the United States; therefore
does not ronfrr negro suffrage. No proPo'
si,ion Of constitutional law is better
settled than that person may 10
citizen Of the United States, and yet not
citizen of any State; that what cousti.
tutcs citizenship in Stuto depends
upon its constitution and laws; that the
right Of suffrage is no: n privilege or
immunity of citizens Of the United States
us srch, nor of the citizens Of State as
such; but it is regulated BY tho several
States, conferred upon such citizens OF
tho State as the constitution and laws
thereof prescribe. o.,
6. The justice Of the Sd section, DO
barring from office pcrjured rebels, op
pcals to the hear, Of every loyal man as
selc.evidcnt. .-. ,... $50,
7. The 4.h section explains itself
clearly and satisfactorily to every loyal
man. Whoever understanding It opposes
| it, mus. be in favor Of reputation, as
suming the rebel war debt, or Of paying
the rebels for their slaves. .'...,,
8. Tho Democratic party, or sbe new
party to be formed out Of 1T 10 Philadel.
phia, under whatever name or shape, will
bo tho same old copperhcad concern,
com posed Of the sauo mco, clothed
With the same history, and plotting, tho
,amo dishonots and disasters to tho
country. twill Inevitably bc, from tho
" Democratic" origin and terms Of its
convoution call and the nature Of its
component elements, pro secession, pro-
slavery, and pro. Reputation. :. We sayto
the Democratic. party, you: :h.ye"lesied
these taxes; you. bays created this public
debt; you bave inflated the price ofgold
and, il you were placed 10 power thi.