The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-28


We say, therefore, that while these
States are in the Union, tho people have
forfeited their personal rights, and can
not be restored to them except on these
conditions.
Mr.. johnson speaks of Union of
thirty-siX States. You remember that
in December, 1865, Mr.. Seward issued n
proclamation that sent thrlii ol 10y
throughout the world, announcing that
enough States had ratified the constitu-
tionnI amendment to make it n part of
the fundamental law of the land.
Now, if twenty-five States can not
mako legal Congress, the other eleven
States having gone out, they can not
mako legal President. Mr.. johnson
spoke of this Congress as changing on
tho verge of the Government" If this
is no Congress, then Mr.. Johnson is no
President.
But they talk of thcir Representa-
tives being kept out of their seats. A
law wns passed in 1862, declaring that
no man who had been concerned in this
rebellion, either directly or indirectly,
should take n seat in the Congress of
the United States. They passed what
was called the test oath, requiring every
man to swear before Almighty God that
| he had not been concerned in the rebel
| lion. Every loyal man in Congress
| voted for that law.
The other day Judge Claypool was
pinned by the question whether he be-
lieved the test oath should be enforced,
and he came out and said that the Dom
Ocrntic party regarded the test oath as
the Democratic doctrine, Il man who
may have the lives of thousand SOL
diers upon his skirts can now come
| forward and take his seat i'll the Con-
gress of the United States.
Gentlemen, this is the feast to which
you are invited. 1 ask you to come
| forward aS men, and stand by the great
| principles of this amendment. This is
not II question of the present time; it is
II question for all time to come. If we
lose now, We shall be forever lost.
What do they propose? They now
say that if they can elect enough Dem
ocrnts in the North, added to the whole
number of rebel Representatives from
the South, to make n minority of the
whole number in Congress, the Presi-
dent will recognize them as the legal
House Representatives. II has been
SO stated by Montgomery Blair, by
George II. Pcndleton, by Henry J. Ray
mOnd, who prepared Il g address Ofthat
Philadclphin Convention. Only last
week E. b. Washburne, candidate for
member of Congress in Illinois, was
challenged by his competitor to IL dis
cussiOn. Mr.. Washburne answered
TINT ho would meet him if he would tell
him which Congress he was for; but
thNt question was not answered, and
the discussion did not take place.
THE TAXATION OF GOVERNMENT Bo&Ds-
CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL'S DECISION
WHO PAYS THE TAXES.
And these men talk about the taxa
ton of Government bonds. They ask
| property is taxed, and they are not
| taxed. Can the Government of the
United Suites tax its own paper? If it
can tax its own paper, it can pay its
debts i'll that way. Well, then, can Il
State tax the paper of the United States?
If it can, then the Government is al
ways i'll the power of any State, for it
can levy tax upon that paper so heavy
that no man in the State can hold it
| But State cannot tax the paper of the
United States. That was decided forty
years ago. Chief Justice Marshall, OF
the Supreme Court of the United States,
the greatest lawyer i'll the country, de-
| cided in regard TO the bonds OF 1872,
that they could not be taxed.
IhlS Is not an open question. But
| Will suppose that the Government has
power to issue II bond that is liable to
be taxed what would be the effect OF
| it? Most of your bonds pay only six
| per cent interest, and some nine hun
dred millions pay only five per cent in
terest. Will any man III Madison
county lend his money on those terms?
! No, he wants from eight to ten per cent.
You go to any bank in indianapolis
and they will discount your paper ut ten
per cent. But the most of our debt
bears an interest of five or six per cent.
But why did we loan this money? Be
cause these bonds have security and
are not liable to taxation. Suppose they
had been liable to taxation by the State
of Indiann, would you have loaned the
tSnVnrnIRInTOf . La
thing is urged upon the people for the
| purpose of exciting their prejudices.
But it is question of law; it is not n
question open TO discussion, and yet it
Is urged upon the people.
How much are your farms taxed in
Madison county? Not dollar. Who
does the tax fall upon? It falls upon
the manufacturers and upon the
moneyed men. But you will lind that
III nineteen cases out of twenty these
men who talk about high taxes, do not
pay even poll tax themselves. These
men never gave dollar to the Govern
ment, and yet they are the men who
howl about the taxes levied for the pur-
pose of carrying on this great Govern
| ment otthe United States, and carrying
on the war. We have heavy taxes to
pay, and who levied them? The men
who brought this rebellion upon the
country; the men who encouraged the
rebels. will ask you, if this rebellion
did not live more than two years upon
tho hope of support from the North?
| We found rebel papers at Richmond aC-
| ter the war was over, we have them
now Ht Washington, and they show, by
inuisput0blo evidence in every form,
that this rebellion lived for two years
on the hope that the Democratic party
would come into power, and thus give
them the final victory.
Didn't they declare in the Chicago
| Convention that the war was IA failure?
The rebels in the South were given Ia
understand i'll every shape and in every
form, that if the Democratic party came
into power the war would be at nn end.
| But after the election, i'll 1864, their
| hearts gave way, and as they had moth
ing to hope for, the rebellion finished in
IL few months nfterwnrd.
lftheSe men talk to you about taxes,
say TO them as Nathan said to Daniel,
"Ihou art the man." They helped to
bring on this rebellion, and If we are
now oppressed by taxes, they are re-
sponsible.
THE SOLDIERS OF THE REPUDLIC-1NDI-
ANA GOOD FOR &c, 900 MAJORITY-EvEN
GRANT CANNOT SAVE THE ADMINS
TRATION.
We have $4,000 soldiers in Indiana,
| Many of these are now going to vote
for the first time, and nearly ali of them
will cast their votes for the Union pnrtV.
Why, you have heard what these Dent
ocrats were gong to do. They were
golnS to carry Maine few months ago.
They said ii they didn't carry the State.
that they would, ut least, reduce our
minority to mere fraction. Well, we
| have heard from Mniue. md sho buS