The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-10
The Future. ,err.Ihe union-->sinistel
Recommendations.
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.sIE5oDi me london Times, December 20.
1t could have. ibeen an easy task to
write the message just brought to us
from the New, World. A ghas tly woupd
yet unhealed, was not TO be laid open !;
the flowing lava and burning ash were
to be lightly. trodden on; but it was
impossible to forget wholly the four
most, terrible years in the ssSVorldls
history. So the shade is present, though
unnamed, like the one who was at the
table or, fireside yesterday,l anu VIII
never be again. From the beginning TO
its end the war is n horrid chasm in the
Presidents Message, TO the brink OF
which hes must approach again and
again, if only to turn away. He finds
necessary Ielie6im dreamy aspirations
and hazy commonplaces, which we can
only saw were never more eXcusable.
President johnson, while
CRYING down the notion of State sover-
eighty, points out thatift was expressly
provided no State should Levy sd9-
Ties to clog tho transit or check
the prosperity Of the neigh gn-
paotl whatever could prevent one State
from being SO differently ,oircumstanc-
eti from another that the same Union
tax and the same tariff might enrich
one and impove verish the other, andaeven
aggrandize one at the cost OF all the
rest. 1 ltSaIOT9 LuettWtlEAl5t
over, the President boasts that the rev
enue already paid by the loyal States
exceeds by many millions Gthat ever
t1hid before by the whole Union. But
fet ANYBODY. glance over the immense
and very irregular area covered by the
States, and say whether 1T VIII ever be
easy to devise a fiscal system, which
shnil press equally upon all, from the
Atlantic to. the Pacifici. from the st.
Lawrence to the Rio Grande. For the
lnFesent the American Government
looks with neigbborly pity on ths in
lternalltroubles of MeXicoi but 1t inyites
all nations to take refuge In Its charm
ed circle, and Mexico, we Presumes Is
an expected guest. But what system
| of taxation, or even. of government,
will serve -equally-for New England,
and the ancient empire; partly Spanish,
partly Indian, under q tropical sun? The
further the Union pushes from its cen
tire the moro will 1t encounter the vast
variety of conditions which tnx the ut
most skill. of statecraft and defy con-
stftution-mongers. When the material
|! ia widely different, and the ctrcum=
siances are still more so, the arrange
ment can never be symmet dcalr the
Union perfect, Ior the working quite
smooth. Nor canaanything be done Tor
all time, when the materials are ever
lichanging., The President breaches to
the States a homfly upon union disin-
terestedness and mutual forgiveness.
They are to acknowledge only one
sovereign, that is the Gonst titution of
the whole Union. They had. better
listen, for they must. The condemned
felon will never hear another ssern1on5
SO he may as well attentto this; It's
the only plan of life left. With all pnI
I heart We advise the Southern States 70
adcomrhodHte themselves totheir hard
circumstances. But their utmost sub
mission will not fuse and assimilate all
the races and conditions of the New
world, ,ior give. eternal aud universal
efficacy to paper constitution. we
not ourselves seesin that misfortune,
and its temporary cure, perfect seen-
rfty against another. vi