The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-02-27

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Beecher Sustaining the President's
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| Beecher Sustaining the PrestdenGs
Veto.
| Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered
an address on Tuesday evening, Isus-
tanning the Presidents veto, and taking
the ground that the Southern States
should be admitted without further de-
lay. He thought fromra careful read
ing of the veto message he was free to
say that it had made on his mind a pro-
found impression that the bill was open
to serious constitutional objections. 1t
was not to be understood from this,
however, that the President was oppos-
ed to any proper measure having for its
object the protection of the freedmen in
the rights and immunities belonging to
them in their new status of full man.
hood. He has only vetoed that particu-
| cular bill, and from what was known
of him, it could be truly said that there
\ was no man more in favor of proper
legislation for the black race! He be-
lieved in leaving a great deal to be
wrought out by the natural working of
social and political life.
Mr.. b. said he did not see the propri-
ETY. or expediency in keeping the South
out of the Union one year or five. He
held that the Southern States ought to
be reinstated as soon as possible. 1t
might not be best to reinstate them to-
day or tomorrow, or this week or next
week. But any cause for delay WAS so
far an evil. In this respect he
could not agree either with the Presi-
dent or Congress.
The President would let them all in at
once. Congress would keep them all
Of In TNynn1H a mart nf
them in, and let the rest stay out and
see how they liked it. He would ad-
nit Tennesse, and Alabama, and Geor-
gia, and Virginia. But there were those
who wanted guarantees. They wanted
the South to give up the principle OF Sc
cession, tc give up the idea that slavery
was right, to grant to the freedmen suf-
frage, and own up that they ought to
have it. He held that these were nnrea-
sonable, were utterly nonSenSical.-
The South had acknowledged that Sc
cession was failure, and IL was not
necessary to attempt to make them own
that secession was wrong. 1t could not
be ex xpected in the nature of things.
|. Referring to the many exaggerated
reports concerning the feeling in the
South, Mr.. b. remarked that newsPa-
per correspondents sent to the South
had not found things of rose color, ana
had not been feasted on the tut OF the
lana. ana tneSe fellows lo1d uoASluA
stories about Southern sentiment. be
cause the Southern people did not
throw their arms around every Yankee
who came among them, and cry out IN
the excess of. their newborn affection,
so, Yankee, how I love you'll" there
fore they were to be kept out ofthe
Union until they would.
nut was it the very best way to create
love for the Union in the South by
keeping the South out of the Union
Every day that she was kept out had
the effect TO wean her from the Union;
She had been ont for five years and had
not felt the need of union with the
North. Keep out the Southern States
Ave more years, and they would learn
to get along out.ofit. They would learn earn
existence. He therefore claimed the
right to see the Union reinstated in all
its Integrity, and he should lose his
guess ii the South did not show us, with
fler fervid spirits, greater zeal for free
dom than we had ever shown our
selves.