The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-13
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Remarks of Hon. w. II. wiley, U. s.
senator from West Virginia, at Bal
,1,,,ora "a fayv sIaYa ago.

Remarks of Hon. w. II. wiley, U. $.
senator from West Virginia, Ht Bal
timOre a few days ago.
| Senator Wiley, of West Virginia,
was formally presented to the audience
| and was received with enthusiastic aP-
| plause. He said:
I have thought that it might be prop
er, and have the privilege of bringing
to this people the hearty greetings of
my people of West Virginia, and to say
! that they have just emerged from con-
test similar to your own, wherein by
great majority they have incorporated
| into their constitution provision that
! henceTorlh and forever, loyal West Nlr-
ginia shall be ruled only Ly loyal W est
| Virginians [Great Applnnse.l Our
\ victory has been purchased at n tre-
mendous sacrifice. Three hundred
| thousand of our SONS sleep in soldiers
| graves, as n portion of the price paid
| for our liberty and salvation. An nm
mense debt has been incurred, society
| has been upheaved; and for what and
| by whom? 1t has been done by the
| hand of treason. Now, the men who
were false to the Constitution, and who
rebelled against the most benign Gov
ernment ever given to men, with loyal
blood upon their hands, and the smoke
| of battle lying around them come back.
and are clamoring for participation
| in The affairs of this Government. The
question arises, shall they have itP
| ICries of "Now "Now and immense
applause.1 Loyal West Virginia says
mo" and Maryland has said they
| shall not thus far 1 believe they
never will control the destinies of the
nation. Is it right that dislOyal men
should govern this country? Is the
right of suffrage natural right? Not
soft is privilege and within the glft
of a nation. God intended there should
1 .sNs sN1tN
conditions of society upon the globe.
The hand of Providence points uner-
ringly to this fact. Such communities
must have the power to organize them
selves into political bodies and the fun
damentaI principle on which they act
| is the public t1eydre. we must LOOK 10
the public peace and future welfare of
the country. In this view how shall we
act towards the people who have lately
been striving to overLurn and destroy
this Government? Why excludeap pau
per, minors under twenty -one years OF
age2 Because one would be dangerous
to the State, and the other incapable OF
exercising sonnd Judgment on State
affairs. Would it be safe to Introduce
rebels into the body politicP do not
desire to exercise vengeance upon that
people. Did any one OF these men ever
honestly say he was sorry for what ne
had done, and that he believed his
They say they accept the position.
imagine they must do 1t, or hang.
TLanghter and applause. But II is too
severe punishment to dlstranchlse
them. They believed in deed and truth
| in the doctrines of secession, ana only
failed because they had not the power
to succeed. The very fact thatthey are
sincere men, and, as such, believe in
| the Justice of their course, is the very
reason of the danger of admitting
them into the body polite
Applause. Our friends are get
ilGLaughter.1 They have been seek
ing to destroy the Constitution; out
now, when we say you cannot come
back, lthey say it is unconstitutional
e1 post Edcto, vindictive in its charac-
Ter. If they do not want to be dlstran-
chised by such laws, then there Is an
other law, passed in pursuance OF the
Constitution, and that is, that traitors
shall be convicted and hung. Laugh
ter and, appIause.l That would etfec-
| tually settle the right of suffrage.
But this law is not final 1t Is ques-
ton of self-defence, and looks TO the
| future. 1t is designated for our future
peace and welfare. The same authors
~ is the people that excludes inteili-
| GENT foreigners and our sons under
twenty-one years, TO exclude these
| Rebels, and greater power ana au-
thority. Shall Maryland permit these
| men to come again into full citizenship?
| The duty OF the Government is TO pro-
| tect its citizens; and of the citizens to
| render obedience to its Government.
| What solitary right of any Rebel VINO
| imbrued his hands i'll the blood OF our
| brothers did this Government ever
| violate? Every where and under all
! circumstances these men could claim,
without fear of failure, the protection OF
our flag. They cannot point to a single
! instance. But in violation OF their
| obligations to support the Constitution,
| in defiance of their true duty, they ur'
| libera;ely and wilfully unsheathed tht n
swords against the very Government.
| They are not now Democrats, put
| thew are now conservative Union
party. daughter and applause.l They
| say we will have war again II we at
| tempt to prevent these men from eSer-
| cising their Constitutional rights under
| the Constitution they sought 10 destroy.
The South will not submit to IT,
| TL,aughter and applause.l L do not
| want war again. By all the anguish oil
| our friends who persisted at Anderson
Vile. by the humiliation of our defeats
and The triumph of our victory, by the
crnshinp debt that is upon us, by all the
| desolations and horrors the reoeillou
has brought upon the country, l want
| war no more. In the name OF the JUST
| cod OF battles, 1 say no more war.
lAPplause.l Ihere1ore' SAY n,;n,,ed mT mo,
appiaase.l / want a guarantee, and
t6e loyai people of the United States
want gudrantes, to prevent en- tbs reIesI- rISai
lion, fApplause.l Every soldiers
grave, every crippled soldier, say no
more war, and therefore. no more po-
liitical power in the bands Of traitors. hn'i ::
through which we have just passed;
but the future is breaking bright and
glorious. There is God above, ana
we shall triumph. We must triumph; D;
That flag, canonized within hearing Oh
your own glorious city, utters-
triumph we must, cur cause 1t is just
And tnis oe our motto, in God Is our trust.
[Immense applause,l
THE CorroN CRoP.-The Galveston,
(Texas) NeCs says: "All the accounts
from the country go to show that the
1Lo oAfT0r arm thi1 wear