The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-08-31
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The political question at issue IN the
fall elections is simply that of Union or
Disunion The policy Of the President
looks to the complete and friendly Union
of the States in accordance with the
provisions of the Constitution the pol
icy pursued by Congress contemplates
the dissolution of the Union, the over
throw of the Constitution and the gov
eminent of the Southern States as con-
quered provinces. The positions of the
President and of the radical majority in
Congress are opposites-they have no
point in common-and it is just as i'm
possible for the voter to fail to endorse
either as it is for him to endorse and sup
port both. He must take one side or the
other; he must'either support the PreSi-
dents policy or he must approve the
course of the radicals in Congress; he
must give his voice, if he votes at all,
either for Union, or for Disunion. To
this complexion is the question reduced
and in this light must it be understood.
The motive which prompts the poll
ticians of the radical party to stand in
the way of the restoration of the Union,
is obvious. Their party supremacy can
only be secured by change in the re-
publican form of our government and
the Acknowledgement OF large numbers of
citizens. They are perfectly aware that
o large majority of the people OF
the whole country are opposed to
the radical patty. They know very well
that such has been the course of their
party that it will be sterniy rebuked by
the people and its leaders consigned to
merited obscurity as soon as the popular
voice can make itself heard. Therefore
il is that they desire to permanently ex'
olude the southern States from all partic'
ipation in national affairs. Precisely the
same motive actuates the radical major
ity in congress in preventing the resto-
ration of the Union that influenced the
radicals in this State in excluding from
the polls as many as possible of those
who would vote in opposition to
their schemes; and just as the radicals
in West Virginia trampled upon the
State constitution and destroyed the re-
publican character Of the government,
30 the radicals in congress would violate
the constitution of the United States,
proclaim the dissolution of the Union,
and overthrow republican government
in the South. They love the "loaves aud
fishes" to be secured by party success
more than they care for the preservation
of the Union, the liberty of the people,
or the welfare of the nation at large, In
their estimation, the success of their par
ty is to be preferred above the prosperity
of the nation, ana the official plunder
upon which they have grown fat must
be retained at the price of the liberty
of the people and of years Of civil
tumult and disorder
Against these revolutionary and anti
republican schemes of the radical party,
the President and his supporters stand
arrayed, and all the people are called
upon to chose which they will have
the enforcement of the constitution and
the restor alton of the Union and the
preservation of peace are the objects of
the Presidents policy; the overthrow of
the constitution, the dissolution of the
Union and the perpetuatien- of discord
and strife Will be the fruits of radical
success. Let the peosle answer which
they will have.