The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-21
ga ,he Voters of ,,e Comfy of Marion
BARR CKsvHLE, w. VA, J
Sept. Is, 1866.


Sept. IL, 1866.
FELLOW CITIZENS Under the repeat
ed solicitations of my friends, have con-
scented to become t. candidate for a seat
in the ext General Assembly of West
Vnginl,; aAd il so doing it becomes
necessary that I stoold give my views on
some u the pc yical questions that
divide Jle Two great parties OF the
country Tho ii, that suggests itself
i, that Of restoration We are frequent
" asked, "Low ", shall bring the States
laIe in rebellion LEX into the Union ~
| aasw.r, tlolc Aas been no State OF
States uut Of the Union. The ordinance
Of secession aid uot take State Out of
tho Union, for The ordinances " ere mere
uuhties and tho states existed in spite
# them. The officers Of the rebelled
States perverted he trust committed to
them, bat that lid not carry them out
az the Tuion. TIE officers Of any State
NAV be guilty treason-the highest
crime known to .uau-yet they cannot
| carry the States eat of the Union This
was the doctrlle of the patriot and
Statesman, Mr. Lincoln; hence he sp
pointed Provision i Governors in the
room OF these reasonable renegades, to
SUPPORT the trust until the people were
prepared to cleo new ones. This was
| the intended policy of Mr.. Lincoln, and
il is the present l,7licy of Mr.. johnson.
| The question NC arises, how far the
| Southern people lave gone III the exer'
| else Of that trust ronGded 10 them. Mr..
! Lincoln advised 3 people of Louisiana
to consult togcth +, fern new constltu-
ton aud elect I cir officers, and they
! would bc admit. Consequently, they
| proceeded at ou,, 70 comply with the
suggestions OF IT, President. They or
nanlzed their late Government 10
| louisiana aud acted Mr.. Hahn to
| the Senate. He came up to Wash
| iugtop. but til radicals opposed
| him and denied that the new con
stitution was rmed by the people,
While The people yognized and accepted
! it. Accordingly. they held a second
election. in whc the former party Was
defeated aud a mo conservative element
embodied. To tbs the radicals again
objected, aud proi osed a new and second
State Convention rs it was contrary to
their policy to nj nit the State of Lou
isiaua to its legit nate representation in
our Federal relations AS Mr.. Fessenden,
of Maine. remark i, Ire thought the PEG.
ple of the South unfit to be restored
Accordingly, second State Convention
was caleb and OF its assembling, attend
ed by hundreds of negroes and negro
bands of music, marched and counter
marched the streets of New Orleans, aud
Back Niger reo against a white man
and riot eusued, in which there was
blood shed, for y bich the radical party
vainly attempts to hold the President re-
sponsible; if Their is any responsibility
for that blood apart from those engaged
in the riot, it must stain the skirts OF
those political a. itators who ignore the
people and seek to destroy our republican
form Of government by rejecting Union
of States and people, for which we have
been fighting and contending for the past
five years, If those people are not TO be
admitted into the Union, we have, above
all men, acted most unwisely. We have
sacrificed 100000 lives and millions and