The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-05

law anu uALAAAElA We'll
all other persons, he shall be entitled to
th esame protection as the most disiin-
guished member Of the Commonwealth.
There Is something divinely beautiful
IN it-sOmething that never would have
been dreamed of amongst men but for
the teachings of that divine Injunction
uttered eighteen centuries ago on the
hills Of Judea: 'sWhatsOever We would
men should do unto you, do We even so
unto them" II is an attempt to put
that elemental principal OF christianity
into your Constitution. It is present.
ing to the world the sublime example
Of q great and powerful people sec
ond to no nationality on the face of
the earth declaring by their national
law that in the hereafter the humblest
human being anywhere within their
limits shall have the same protection of
the law as the President himself. II is
a recognition of that divine Word,
which in the infant days of the world
came to men as a voice out of Heaven
. Ye shalt have the same law for the
stranger as for one of your own coun-
try.n 1t IS a proclamation that hereaf-
ter Lazarus in his rags shall be as sacred
before the majesty OF the American
law as the rich man clothed in pur-
pie and in fine linen. ] desire to see It
put there for the sake, above all things,
OF the five hundred thousand orphan
children who are this day the wards of
the Republic-Who are fatherless to-
day because their fathers laid down
their lives on every stricken field in
this great conflict for the life of the ma
ton. wish it to go out 10 the
world that in the hereafter no man.
though he be Il devil incaTnate, after
the manner of these conspiratOrs who
plotted against the nations life and
waged four years Of reasonable war
against It, can mock, and jeer, and
deride them whe n they wander father
less, hOuseless and fFiendless through
the streets and say that they are not
entitled to the protection of the laws,
leaving them no other refuge at last
than to lisp with their infantile tongue
the prayer they had learned at their
lost mothers knee "Our father in
heaven, give us this day our daily.
bread" want the Government by its
laws to say, the huDibleSt child in this
land is hereafter under the care and
protection of the twenty millions of free
men who saved an imperiled nation
and conquered a million Of men IN
arms, and made every tongue confess
the supremacy Of the Republic, so at
last established by such q sacrifice as
never was made by mortal man before
upon this earth. If there be any man
here stupid enough, or weak, or wicked
enough TO object to the righteousness,
and justice, and necessity of this pro-
vision to the Constitution, I would
thank him to rise in his place and let his
neighbors look upon him and see what
manner of man he Is. Laughter and
a voice, mot many of them here."}
No; not many of them anywhere. The
truth IS they attempt to hide this Issue
from the people. You see it nowhere
in the columns of their partisan Jour
mails, in no part of that long address is
sued by those conspiTsitors and traitors
4 . - - - ~.
delphia on the 18th of August, TO re-
store this Union under the lead of Dick
Taylor. the murderer of your soldiers.
fADplause.l Simple and plain and Just,
1t viii go direct to the heart of the
American people. No man can for a
moment resist it.
What else in this amendment? That
hereafter the several States of this
Union, whether North or South, east or
west, shall be equal in political power
in the councils Of the nation in propor-
ton 70 the basis OF their representative
populaton. It does away with this
miserable aristocracy which has
been the curse of the land and
bred this terrible dfstemper which
eliminated at last in this armed
rebellion Let no man be disturb
ed az what say, and go away bawling
IN the ear of his prejudiced neighbor
that this fellow who addresses them
is one of those miserable fanatics, -
niger Worshipper'' and an f'abOlition-
ist-n 1 worship mono, sir, but God,
the rather OF us all; ard as for aboli-
tom If you mean by il the emaneipa-
ton OF 50 many OF our countrymen
as were slaves IN the persons of their
ancestors, through many genera
TONS i have only to say that that. |
thank God, IS a closed question. Every
letter thai bound every human limb
grNn-T HFgs awnzzN -
contest; and when the clouds lifted |
from all your stricken fields of battle. |
the sun IN his course over the heavens |
looked not down upon a siayel The |
question IS not one OF abolition at ali. |
II Is a question OF the equalization of 1
political power amongst these |
States; whether in the future, as in |
ne past now that this war for the |
Union IS ended South Carolina with !
ler little knot of aristocrats and men
who neither toll nor spin, nor gather
MO Darns-Who are accustomed toi
cap where they had not sown. and |
sather where they had not stpown, |
hall, under unequal laws in this land.
AVE four fold the power of the same
rec white population of the North.
Ny good friend who extended to me the
iospitalities OF his house to-day, was
,ood enough to remind me that there
ire some people in this Land whose pre-
udices are SO narrow and bigoted that
hey Immediately get mad whenever it
8 named to them that this is an attempt
o convert this into black mans gov
rnmenL For my own part, / never
lad any sort of respect for that man
yho did not know that human
character depends Infinitely more
N the whiteness of the soul
han on the Wilderness of the skin, 4
Laughter and apPlause.l When 1
lear these creatures talking about
]. cannot but set them down
s vulgar fellows, and remember re-
mark made once in the Senate chamber
Fhen that very same utteranee was
nade-l believe it was Mr.. Seward who /
aid it: THAT fellow will never be
resident who spells negro with two
e" II Is a vulgarism. It is appeal
ng to the Prejudices OF men on a ones
ion of this sort. These men whose
Misfortune It is to have taYny skins
AVE suffered enough without being i
made subjects of persecution or the CEN
re OF Political faction IN this country. /
When man talks about "niggers'' to |
ne turn to my lexicon and ind il is
word that does not represent any
amily Of man-a mere yulgarism. The /
gord niger" comes from "niggard, -
, mean fellow-so that a sheep thief |
" a traitor IS a HniggerD though his I
kin DO white as driven snow, Laugh
er-l
But TO satisfy the prejudiees of these |
elbows who oppose this second propo-
ittiou in the constitutional amend 1
nent, I tell them that they are attempt
ng two things: first, to have men in the !
in the State of their nativity /
represented by. the vote of tho minority |
AL the while calling themselves /
democrats" And in the next place, l
70 far as it is in their power, while do
ng an act injustice, they convert that