The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-22

\ MS old ueighborS and these
| marks upon his face and his person
were the result. Like the poor fellow
travelling from Jerusalem TO Jerisnos
he fell among thieves. He had been
shamefully handled. Ifyour country
| is right, and treason and rebellion are
1 wrong, land iEthey. are not wrong, then
nothing Is wrong,l things will uot be
1 properly adjusted, reconstruction VIII
not have taken place until Union man
who behaves himself ciVilly can travel
/ all over tIIis country, from one end Of
/ it TO the other. GApplause.l Now II Is
/ q great deal better for these mep-it
will be a great deal better In the enul
| that this principle have announced
| is declared irTevocably. Men suonit
quietly to the Inevitable whatever ca n
| man with heavy shackles, he passes
on Quiet and hopeless OF attempting
to obtain release. Bind him with
1 small cord of silk; il may be strong
/ enough TO hold him, but still SO sienGeF
/ as TO give him constant nope tnat py
struggling he may break u. II tness
/ gentlemen mean we'll, If they intend
| 70 come back and become good citizens,
| LET them submit to the laws which are
| made for Won and me aud our children
| az we'll as theirs. If their object IS
simply to get hold of power and ute II
to accomplish in another way what
thew. failed to accomplish In the field,
/ we cannot be too cautious in withhold
ing it.
\ own safety in our own hands. We
/ know where it is now. We know upon
| whom we can depend. We are safe as
things are. We do not SO we'll know
| how it will be when we give up to
another the staff upon which we now
lean. [Applause.l We have some lit
| lie specinens Take the case of Ken
| tucI,y for example. / have told you
| that among her earliest legislation dur
/ ing the war, was legislation disfran-
chising all who went into the rebellion.
Well, directly, the WAR was over, here
last summer, all that legislation was re-
pealed. Well, will not tell you the
condition OF things there. Every paper
! you read plainly indicates what II is
4 the strife still raging there and 1t must
continue to rage, and the rebellion will
| linger longer in its embers on the
soil OF Kentucky in my opinion
than in any other part of the land.
Some allusion has been made to the
early participation of mine in the for
nation of your new State. AS one OF
the legislators of The country acted
not from sense of favor locally
but as thought in a large way and
for the general good of the whole coun-
try. 1 think It is important to the
country that your State organization
should remain. We know that in the
formation of our government, taking
the condition of things that existed
when the government WAS ordained,
that there were several States that were
IterritoriaIly very small with popula-
lions that consequently must always
be small. Delaware and Rhode Island
are extreme examples. The Southern
States as they are usually called, that
participated in the rebellion are all ter
ritorially large, they are futile, habita-
BILE and Susceptible of a dense popu-
lation. They will in the end have as I
think the balance both of power and
wealth in our land. For the purpose
therefore of political equilibrium it was
desirable thatthe strength of this por-
tion of the country should be increased
as much as was practicable in the SEN
atorial branch of the Government and
in the Electoral College. The division
of Virginia to that extent SO operates.
I, therefore, as interested in the welfare
7ofthe common country, am in favor of
seeing that equilibrium preserved, to
say nothing of the effect it will have in
developing your local wealth, your
means ofsupportinga dense population,
and becoming one of the richest as we'll
as one of the most denselY peopled
parts of the United States.
have said already, we have opened
a new chapter in our history. We have
not yet lived long enough to see what
is to be the practical effect, perchance
few of US may. The effect of abolish
ishing that system of labor known as
slavery, we cannot foresee. We have
seen what the effect of that system was.
It was among other things TO keep the
population ofthe country where It ex-
listed, sparse. People didn't increase
in numbers as elsewhere. 1mmigra-
ton turned aside into other States,
and the native born population in large |
numbers left the soil and sought the |
MISUNDERSTANDING parts of the country. |
The result was that relatively the black |
population increased apace on the |
white. In my own State, from the be- |
ginning, the increase OF the black pop
ulation in the State has been more than |
fifty per cent. greater and more rapid |
than the white. Now, with my per- |
sonal predictions for my own race, I /
have ever been of opinion that white
man is superior and better than black
man, and a community of white men
superior to community of black men
lin saying which do not wish to be
understood as indulging in any mean,
low prejudiceS of color or feeling, and
TO award to the black man all the at
tributes OF his humanity, knowing 1t
was God that made him and me, yet
different. We have not seen the effect |.
of abolishing this system, and we have
seen the effect of continuing it. While |
among the native born men of Tennes-
see, as the last census shows, there were
in the United States more than q mill
lion, less than two-thirds OF them
were to be found on the soil of Tonnes
see. The young men, the men OF small
had gone away into the terri I
tories, and into the free States, and
for homes. Their little
farms were taken by some wealthy
and what had been cultivated I
by the hands of white men thenceforth
was cultivated by the hands of black
men. Evenin East Tennessee, in one
Of our counties where this state of
things had been going on, I asked a
gentleman. one day what part of the l.
land of the county he thought had re-
oelled. He said he hadn't thought OF
The subject. he began at one corner of
The county, knowing every body in it,
and came along in his own mind until
he had passed over the county, and he I
says, "0ver seVen-eighths.n Gentlemen,
that was the system of things that
went on in the Southern States, the
good lands We're taken possession of
and cultivated by the black men, and
The white man was thrust back on the
Inferior lands of the country, or else l.
eft altogether and went to enrich the
people OF another portion of our com
non country. Unless 1 greatly mis-
AXE, the movement will be turned.
The current will How back. White
II and cultivate the good land. Immi-
grafton Will ind It's way in that direc-
ION. Capital and population will lind
he wealth that lies hidden in the bosom
II your mountains, and we shall there
ieVelop power and a population and