The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-20

WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUaEa 70.
THE first section Of the new article OF
the Constitution, proposed by Congress
TO our own and other legislatures, viii
override and annuiI that portion of
the amendment 10 our own Constitu-
ton, declaring that certain persons
shall not be "citizeEs of this State"
We are not aware that any OF our peo-
pie object to this. We believe it was
not the design Of the legislature which
inst adopted the amendment to our
Constitution, nor was it the wish OF the
loyal people whom that body repre-
scented, 70 decitizenize, In the proper
sense Of the term. the persons described
in the amendment At that time the
subject of citizenship had not been dis
cussed or the term defined; and the cur
rent idea Of ''citizen" was the rather
crude one that 1t was a person entitled
to vote. The object of the legislature
was simply TO deny the elective fran
chise; and coming from the hand OF
Mr.. Lamb, the most exact lawyer in
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clsss of ,,srsons a e-eribed in the amend
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came from the Legislature; and
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nro,sc.;on of tbs laws ;, Tho aTticle in
this Language, having been passed
by Congress, shows that Com
gress regards suffrage as a separate and
distinct thing from citizenship and as a
matter which the people of the States
regulate for themselves, providing, at
the same time, that in future there
must be, with one exception, rednc-
ton OF representation where there is an
abrideement OF suffrage. With such
an Interpretation by Congress, our
conservative friends can no longer
claim that there is any question about
the power OF the people of the State to
withhold the privilege of electors from
their allies; and when that article is
ratified it will be a matter OF direct au-
thority from the Constitution of the
United States. What has always been
a matter OF law and practice Is thus
y a. O., rsn.,, SO. IT,