The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-15
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FxTRACrs FOR THE PEOPLE.
Short Paragraphs hearing on the
Election I'm West Virginia ON the
24Ih OF May.
The following is the proposed consti-
tutiona1s amendment upon which the
people will be called to vote on Thurs
day, the oath of May, 1855: 6f
"No person who, since the LIST day of-June
1851, has given or shall give voluntary aid OF
assistance to the rebellion against the United
States shall be citizen uf this State, or be
allowed to vote atany election held therein
unless he has volunteered INTO the military OF
naval service Of the United States, and has
FROM"
The following is an extract from the
speech in which Daniel Lamb, Esq, OF
wheeling, supported the principle and
policy of this amendmentt in the House
of Delegates in February, 1865:
"I have always contemplated that 1t
would be necessary for us here inv est
u Virginia, as soon as we could see GER
tainly the end of these troubles, to hold
a Constitutional Convention for the
purpose of amending many provisions
lof our constitution, aud i have always
4 Icontemplated that when such conven-
ton was held, or otherwise II 10 should
bv decided that q convention should not
be held, it iUould be necessary TO adopt a
constitutional restriction for the purpose
of preUentin1 rebels from coming here
among as TO exercise The right 0fSIigrdge
in attempting to control our AFFAIRS, after
being engaged for gears IN endedV0TIng
to destroy u.s."
The following is an extract from
Presidents. Johnson,s speech 10 the
people of Nashville, Tenn, on the 9th
day of June, 1864, and afterwards re-
peated by him, in substance, to the
Virginia Legislative delegation onthe
occasion of their visit to Washington
in january last. See how entirely it
supports and commends the proposed
amendmentto to our State Constitution I:
"But in calling convention to re-
store the State. who shall restore and
re-establish it? Shall the man who
gave his influence and his means to de-
stroy the Government, Is he to par
ticipnte in.the great work of reorgant-
cation? Shull he who brought this
misery upon the State be permitted to
control its destinies? If this be so,
then all this precious blood of our
poured out will have been wantonly
spilled. All the gloriops victories won
by our noble armies will go for nanght,
and all the battle fields which have
been sown with dead heroes during the
rebellion will have been made memo
rable in vain.
"Why all this carnage and devasta-
ton? 1t was that treason might be put
down and traitors punished. There
fore say that traitors should take a
back seat in the lDOrE of restoration. If
there be but five thousand men in Ten
nessee loyal to the constitution, loyal
to freedom, loyal to justice, these true
land faithful men should control the
tpork of reorganization and reformation
absolutely. I say that the traitor has
ceased to be q citizen, and in joining the
rebellion, has become q pubic enemy.
He had forfeited his right TO UOte
tuiLh loyal men Ohen ne Genounced ms CIT
eTnment." "We say to the most
honest and industrious foreigner
who comes from England or Ger
many to dwell among us, and to
add to the wealth of the country,
Before you can be citizen you
must stay here for five years II
we are so cautious about foreigners,
who voluntarily renounce their homes
to live with US, what should we say to
1.-The traitor, who, although born and
reared among us, has raised "a parrlct-
dial hand against the Government which
always proteeseISS ,,IS paei ba s,;bia:isS ~ a sa.
Hera Is snar ardaa1 @ before he is restored to citi-
zenship."
Had the loyal people of West Virgin
ia been conquered by the erebellion-had
the Government of the United States
been overthrown in the war-what
would have been the fate of all of us at
the hands of the secessionistsR We are
rot Lon In donbt Thev. themselves,
ia 4. % -. a.,
nave tolu US: AheS feSe"te" Az " 10 -
the hour of their conhdence-ln the ar
4 rogauces of their victorious prestige.
ffrS,ss loo, JSy I3nssa,l and other traitors
S.,,''',,'--- w. Ty;.o;,,is7 ;s-
from WheeIlng anu mess VIZ
sued an address from Rtchmondln feo-
ruary, 1888, in which they spoke thus ot
4 tho f,ta of the Union people:
1J,5e,, baye chosen to abide the event OF
IA tDd,: n iSItich tRey Hdue taken The part
of traitors and they must d6fde 6ytt."
.Itwas thus that this leading traitor
and his coadjutors announced the fate
of our Union people. And again he
and his fellows pronounced our doom
second time as follows:
.' Voluntary and corrupt eoniptictty
tglth treason eg'e 1leVe' 0s eFesea 0y stty
ss1es.s.s,eS I ,ss ,,o,s;h ~ Ir,v 1881 this same
cl-,as - ,us NJ 49, Pnssa,I % a. ~ tho I a,her nam.
az .a,,aI a,.N ranarsss a. Ricbmond
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