The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-26

| put on New Mexico, Nevada and Col
orado.s You can never keep States out
of this Union. The present distrusts OF
future States, or existing States, have
no substantial grounds. They are be-
| gotten transferable fears and, factions.
4 If ever This thing of keeping out States
/ by joint resolutions of Congress could
4 have had chance of permanent sue
Il cess, that time has passed away. No
State has ever been hindered in coming
into the Union, except on the question of
/ African bondage, which has now gone to
thedogs, and issurely finished. estate
\ win ever hereafter be hindered in
coming into the Union on the ground
\ ofstavery. It is idle to suppose the
tendency to Union have described has
anything alarming in It. A territory
4 wants to be a State becauseit is pleas
ant and good thing to possess the privi-
4 legesof a State. would not keep a
i State in a territorial condition any
longer than compelled. In the begin
I ming, practically, every State had slave
/ ry.- We abolished it in some States
without disorder; and when slavery
lernment we destroyed it altogether
We have done all this in ninety years
| without an imperial government or
| proconsular territorial system; but in
Eequal States, presided over by a federal
or restricted government. They are set
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/ West Indies just aswe are. gu
Conflicts of opinion between the Pres
ident and Congress, in reference to the
| Freedmen IS Bureau, is in its conse-
quences comparatively sunimportant,
| and would excite little interest if it
stood alone. Both agree that this Bu-
reau was created for II transition period
between war and peace, and should
cease at the end of that period. The
| President thinks that period nearly
passed, the original provisions are suth-
cient; while Congress thinks the ortgi-
nal provision needs enlarging. agree
with the President in the hope that the
extraordinary provision, which the bill
makes, will not be necessary; but that
the whole question may be simplitied
by q simple reference to. the existing
law. The law of March Sd, 1854, which
l.created the Ereedmen's Bureau, pro-
vides it shall continue in force during
the war of rebellion and one full year
Thereafter. When does that year ex-
pire3 In the Presidents judgment, as
/ understand the matter, the war of re-
bellion has been coming and Is still
coming to an end, but is not yet fully
closed. It is on this ground that he
maintains an army; continues the sus-
pension of the writ OF habeas corpus,
and exercises martial law. When these
things, FUND necessary in the rebel
States during the existence of the rebel
lion, legally announced by the Execu-
tive proclamation in 1861, cease, the end
ofsthe rebellion ought to be, and may
be ex xpected to be announced by COM
petent declaration by the President, or
Congress, or both.-FOr all practical
purposes the rebellion will, in law, come
to an end If the President or Congress-
one or both, Officially announce its
termination. Now, suppose this an
nouncement to be made by the Presi-
Il L.. oft NknnN- fAf
them, tomorrow. In that case the
Freedmen's Bureau is continued by
virtue ofthe limitation prescribed in the
'act of March 3, 1865, one year ttter such
proclamation shall have been made.
Thus the Freedmen's Bureau would
continue by the original Limitation un-
til the 22d of February, 1S6I-a very
proper day on which to bring 1t to an
end. If Congress should find it neces-
sarylto prolong its existence, it can at
once take the necessary steps, for 1t
will Mt that date have been in session
nearly three months. Ought the Prest-
dent of the United States to be de-
oF p hs ne2ase e Is 81 pe eSd
in the house of his friends for refusing,
in the absence of any necessity, to oc-
cupy or retain and to exercise, powers
greater than those which are exercised
worldH
Judge We! I trust this fault of deolin-
ing imperial powers, too hastily tender
ed by a confiding Congress, may be for
given by generous people. 1t will be
II sad hour for the republic when the re-
fusal of unnecessary powers and pat
ronage by the President shall be held
to be,a crime. When it shall be so con-
sidered, the time will have arrived for
setting up at the White House an impe-
rial throne, and surrounding the Exec
utive with imperial legions:
The meeting was also addressed by
Postmaster General Dennison, Henry
j. Raymond, Francis b. Cutting, Dam
fel s.. Dickinson and George opdyke,
and dispersed at a late hour.