The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-01-23
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abolition OF slavery, they then go on 70
say that underal1 the circumstances the
purpose now being to adopt a scale OF
prices for the labor of these people-uu-
der all the circumstances-beca
since the negro has been made free he
has proved himself rather inclined to
idleness and indolence, they will give
to the best first-ciass farm hands six
dollars-a month, and then they grade
it from that on down to nothing
Well, now, lust take that case,
first class farmer with a wife
and family to support, working
for six dollars a month, and
where will heifind himself at the end
ofSS,,the year Why he can hardly clothe
himself, much less support family;
And it is easy,to see his condition would
be far worse than If he had been LEFT
slave, because then the master, would
have been bound to provide for him and
his family. And in all the indications
they give of aspurpose in the treatment
ofthesepeop they show that they do not
practically and in fact accept the TACT oI
the abolition of slavery; and concede
that this man is a freeman, and entitled
to all the loyal rights and to a protec-
ton in, his personal and loyal interests
and rights. And everything they do in
this connection in the shape of legal
enactment, they are goaded to by q
pressure brought upon them by the
they have done only with view of get
ting back to their position as States in
the Union, and being represented IN
Congress. Why do they manifest such
hot haste and great anxiety to get back
/ into Congress? Why, they told US all
along-aImost up to the very day they
laid down their: arms, that they never
would come back into the Union under
any circumstances; that they despised
the Union; that they never would SUD-
NIT to its authority; that whatever fate
might befall them, they. never would
come back into the Union. Well, in
less than three months after laying
down their arms, we find. them urging
the thing to get back into Congress. All
you have got to do is to watch their pa
pers and mingle among them as have
done, and you will find out the cause of
their haste. It is this: They think If
they can get back into Congress-they
have got back this winter, because 1t
would have been glorious opportuni-
ty-if they can get back on the present
basis of representation it will give them
an advantage of three-htths more dele
gates than the white population would
more than they would be entitled to II
the colored population were not count-
ed. If they could get back with that
advantage in political power to which
they are not entitled, they would be
able by combining with the copperhead
deAlbcracy in Congress,-and If that
did not quite enable them, by skilful en-
cineering and finesse, and buying up
few scallawags of the republican
party-for they could find enough
directly, men who do not act from prin-
ciple, but could be induced by appeals
toltheir ambftion-promises that they
could control the policy of the nation
kI,nIr h ATVEAy1H hRE In.
President of the United States party
to this plot, doing it under the pretence
| of reorganization of the old democratic
party; and their purpose was to secure,
to retrieve, to get back by political
finesse and management everything
they had lost. ~ lI.s
Now, I do not desire to be uncharita-
BILE, and was disposed to takethe most
favorableiyiew I could; but these views
have been forced upon me. They were
Iunwelcome, but they have been forced
upon me by a close observation of the
tone of their papers, the teaching OF
their papers and the temper of their peo-
when you mingle and converse with
them. Take their papers. All the reb-
| ell papers almost throughout the South
| have been permitted to be revived, and
there is not one of them that is loyal
On the contrary they take it up just
/ WueTe Llty lelJ anu LSAO oAA
teaching and spirit and purpose is just
the same that it was in '6l, '62 and '63,
| and all through the war. Their great
effort is to make it appear that no crime
has been committed, that they have
done nothing wrong. They cannot see
that 1t was crime to Precipltate the
Icountry into a bloody war without any
justifying cause. They say they acted
honestly; that they took up arms in
support of certain political theories and
principles which they had in regard to
their rights; that they were honest in
this; that they thought they were right.
| They still say that they fought bravely
and fmanfully and honorably. They
| claim that they manifested Wonderful
powers of endurance and tenaclty of
| purpose; and they really have COM
/ 'mended themselves to the admiration
of the world. They claim this. They
say they would do the same thing over
again. If they had the power and were in
a condition to do it, because they think
they did right. They think their cause
was lust and ought to have succeeded;
and they encourage the people to hold
onby saying that everythingis is notlost;
a just cause must triumph in the end;
just hold on, these principles are COR
rect, we are right, do not give them
up. And then they hold out this
idea OF success by political management
and engineering and getting back, get
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