The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-06

mIttee-ssUnlOn Men OF Belmont
County Give One Day to Your COun.
try.
STATE UNION CEN. & Elk. Con-. Rocks. |
COLUMBUS, o., Oct. 1, 1866.
The issues involved in the present
campaign are OF vital Importance, in
volving the future peace and prosperity
Of the country! They embrace the
guarantees we demand against future
rebellion. The blood of our soldiers
cries out to us to guard the memory of
their heroic deeds as precious legacy,
and to fight on the good fight in which
they felll
The elections of this autumn will
decide the question still unsettled
tCqS the rebellion a sttcceSS2
We, therefore, appeal TO every Union
man In Ohio, to CLOSE HIS PLACE OF
BUSINESS ON THE SECOND TUESDAY OF
OCTOBER, and soIemnly devote that day
70 MS country! WORK! or we may los Q
all we have struggled for through four
bloody years:
Work or we will be at tho mercy OF
the men who showed at AndersOnviIle;
and Belle Isle, and Libby, that they
were merciless!
successfuII
The issues are. distinctly made up
and can be stated in a few words:
LIST. We demand the equal protection
OF the law for all our citizens, native or
naturalized, In every State of the
Union.
ID. We demand equality of represen-
tatton In Congress for all the States.
Sd. We demand the exclusion from
all the Federal offices of every man
who directly perjured himself by join
ing the rebellion, until Congress-, by n
two-thirds vote, shall remove the disa-
bility.
4th. We demand an equally solemn
guaranty that the National debt, in
cluding the bounties and pensions due
our soldiers and snilors, and their sur
vtving relatives, shall be paid to the
uttermost farLhing.
9th. We demand an equally solemn
guaranty that no portion of the rebel
debt Shall ever be assumed by the Uni
ted States, nor by any State.
These things we demand as condi-
ttons precedent to the admission of any
seeded State. = -
Opposed TO us is party, without a
name, which denies national protection
to our citizens; which refuses equality
of representation to all the States, and
offers the seeded States an in
crease of twelve members of Con-
gress as reward for their treason,
while it would deprive the loyal States
of twelve members as a punishment
for their loyalty. A party that is will
ling that unpardoned rebels shall fill
all our national Offices. A party that
favors the repudiatiOn of our national
debt by denying any and every guar
antee for its payment; while it is unwil-
ling to refuse to assume the rebel debt,
or TO prevent the States from doing SO.
These are the sole issues before the
people, clearly stated, and free from all
sophistry or argument. All other
questions are dragged in by our ene-
mics to distract us. Beware of side is
sues, and keep before you the real,
vital questions of the houri Present
them to your doubting neighbor, and
urge them upon him with all the zeal
their importance deserves.
Again we urge upon you to suspend
your business on election day, that you
may t0ork earnestly and faithfully in
the great cause for which so many of
our friends and relatives have suffered
and diedl This is solemn duty we all
owe to our imperilled country at this
hour, and it is a duty which we cannot
neglect with impnnity.
Very respectfully. B. r. CowBN,
Chm Union Ex. Com.
JAS. WILLIAMS. SacIyys9