The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-07-10

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aware and Kentucky are sure against
ratification. Except in the latter two
states the lower House in every loyal
state is in favor of the amendment, the
trouble being in the Senate. This
! leaves but nineteen states certain for
/ the ratification.
To counteract the operations for this
purpose, movement is on foot to or
ganiZe thoroughly the Union party in
| all the southern states. Governor
Hamilton has succeeded already with
the effortin Texas, where it polled about
two-fifths of thevote. , a1g
The state of Virginia is about to be
canvassed, and North Carolina will
also be aroused. The Union men are
| perfecting organization, and hope be-
fore long to show results.
NoTwITHsTANDINat the recent heated
spell the religious circles up in Troy,
N. Y, seem to have been having a
warm time of 1t, according to one of
the papers, owing to the fact that the
Young Mems Christian Association
have recently opened rooms in which
the have introduced such games as
checkers, cards, dominoes and chess,
claiming that such amusements operate
to draw young men under the infiu-
ence of the association, and interest
them in repeating their visits. Some of
the people are insisting that Beelzebub
himself has been somehow smuggled
into the Association, and is running,
or going to run the machine on his own
account. Conferences have been held
in more than one meeting house
to pass some resolutions on the subject,
and to devise other ways and means of
having the young men put up their
dominoes, their cards and their check
ers: But little success, however, seems
to attend their efforts thus far. The
young men act as if they were going to
show fight. They are inclined to dis
cuss the question and to reason on the
subject. Moreover, they have called to
their assistance a clergyman by the
name of Vincent-who has delivered n
lecture on the points in issue from
which we make the following extract:
One of the spiritual wiseacres who
were opposed to amusement, said i:
"Can checkers. soothe dying bed?"
and another; "If Christ were to revisit
this earth, would you invite him to
game OF chessH" Now this is very
foolish logic. There are quite a num-
her of things proper for us, which
would be unbecomfng in the King of
Saints. For tnstance-and we put it in
the most serious spirit, and only as a
7'editctto Gd dbS,trdItm-ii Christ should
revisit the earth we should not ask him
to sing "HRil Columbia" or run for
Congress; and yet it will not be claimed
that these acts areewrong in men.
On the contrary, we have heard good
Clergynen join in that patriotic strain,
and we know good Clergymen among
our National Legislators. Checkers
would not soothe the dying bed; nor
would church fairs, nor sabbath school
ptcnics, nor a hundred other things
equally harmless or praiseworthy. To
Caesar the things that are Caesars; to
| God the things that are Gods. And if
II is the associations connected with
such amusements on account of their
practice by unworthy men that render
them Objectionable, why then our cata-
logue of permissible acts will be mar
rowed down so as to become almost a
nullity. -E 'H
Must good man never drive a horse
because naughty men race horses ?
Must good man stop his ears at a
band of music because it sometimes
E'plays on occasions which he cannot
quite approve? Must good man
never walk for health because profess
slonal pedestrians sometimes stake
money on foot-races2 The impro-
| pr1ety of such acts, not immoral
in themselves, consists in their excess
and abuse, and not in their use. A
clergyman whipped his child the other
day, because it would not say its
prayers; but must we refrain from COR
rec1ng our childrenR I knew man
once who was in the habit of getting
intoxicated on brandy but when am
threatened with summer complaints 1
n hNna arF4wy
Paul and Timothy did) and it does me
good. 1 suppose my strict friends who
| shudder at chess and checkers would
go out of the world in conscientious
cholera rather than use my remedy.
The truth is, we are beginning to find
out that 1t will not do to allow the devil
to monopolise all the allurements in
this world. Men become vicious main
~ because vice seems pleasanter than
virtue, and we must contriYe to make
virtue as pleasant as vice."
"A DRLEGATIoN of North Carolinians
is at Washington endeavoring to find
out upon what terms their State can be
fully restored. Thad. Stevens tells
them that the State must adopt the
constitutional amendment, and that it
win also be necessary for Congress to
/ pass dh GudDAlu& dCb ny u LWO-LQ1FQS
vote, setting forth who in the State
shall participate in "A convention to
form new constitution. The delega-
ton has agreed to the adoption Of an
enabling act providing that no one
shall be eligible to seat in the conven-
ton, or permitted to vote fol, delegates
thereto or upon the ratification OF the
constitution that the convention shall
submit to the people, who, in any time
| before the rebellion, as an. officer of the
United States or of the State, or in any
other capacity whatever, had taken an
oath to support the Constitution of the
United States, and subsequently volun-
tarily engaged in the rebellion, or in
tehtionally gave aid and comfort there
70, or who has held, under the so-called
| Confederate Government, the position
| of President, Vice President, member
of the cabinet, member of either branch
of Congress, Judge of the civil courts,
foreign agent, or officers of the army
above the grade of colonel, or of the
navy above the grade of lieutenant, or
the office of Governor, Secretary of
State, or Treasurer of the State while in
i rebellion, or who resigned any position
under the United States and took part
in the rebellion, and who at any time
voluntarily engaged in molesting, re-
\ straining, threatening, or iniuring any
\ citizen, his family or estate because of