The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-04-14
RESOLUTIONS

our confidence by DIS un" on.
ton to the Union and we heartily aP,
move his policy looking to the speets
rpastoration of the Southern STATES 70
their constitutional position Ia inc u No
t;onoi government, and the re estapiiont
m oe Of peace and civil law throughout
'nE PesoIred, That by the Freshman .
pnrean hill and Civil rights pIli, tnS
Congressional majority have atto of
10 sun g1utrr IN heavy additional burdens
W o n to support the negro IN idie-
III oiuo 100 and maintain new "swarms
ness s anu r. barass our people and eat
ont their substance
o' pe Ss That the Constitution OF the
Tinted States is the supreme law OF the
land, but it is equally supreme in what
If reserves as in what it grants; that IL
has granted to the United States ample
mowers for national objects and for the
common defence against war and insur-
rection. but has reserved to the several
States the care and regulation of civil
RIGHTS within their respective limits;
that in particular, it belongs to the
States to prescribe how contracts may
he made, proved and enforced, how real
and personal property may be inherited
acquired, used and disposed OF, and the
life, liberty, property and character OF
individuals protected; and that While'
on the one hand, the central govern
ment ought to be supported in the exer-
else of all its legitimate powers, on the
other. the continued existence OF the
States and the preservation OF their
rightful authority, are necessary 10 the
liberty and welfare of the American
neople: vet by the Freedmen's Bureau
Bill, and Civil Rights Bill, Congress have
endeavored, in violation OF the funda-
mental principle of our government, TO
deprive the State Legislatures and Ju'
dietary of many of their most important
fnnctions-an attempt which, if it prove
successful, must lead in the end to the
adjustment of State Governments, as
useless and expensive membranes to
the central despotism at Washington.
Resolred, That by the bills in question,
Congress- have endeayored, in favor of
the negro, TO subject the white inhabl-
tauts of the country to the continuation
OF military rule, and the jurisdiction OF
tribunals foreign to their habits and in
situations and destructive of their lib.
critics
PeSoIred, That while we would protect
the negro in his civil rights and freedom
by Just State legislation, we are opposed
to negro suffrage, because we believe it
impossible to support republican gov
eminent upon negro constituency and
we regard with adherence tue policy of
the Congressional majority, led by
Stevens Sumner and Wade, and supported
by party in this State, intended to
prevent any restoration of the Union
untii negro suffrage is forced on the
several States by Federal authority
ResoIred, That they are TniOnists who
seek to restore the Union, and they are
Disuaionists who seek to prevent its res
toration; and he alone is loyal, who is
ful and true to the Constitution OF
the United States and the Constitution
Of TIL State
ReJlred, That the Test oaths, Regis.
trait n act, and the several acts of the
Legi lature Of this State, to suppress the
freed m of elections, of speech and OF
the ess; to encourage public officers to
violate the Constitution, and protect
them in so doing; 10 establish the reign
of a single man in the Ninth Judicial
circuit, and to proven; portion of our
people from asserting any right by legal
proc cdings, thus denying them the pro-
lection OF law, and subjecting them to
the fraud, oppression and plumber of pre-
tendcaI loyalstsi are unwise, destructive
to tie welfare and prosperity of the
STAT and inconsistent alike with the
provisions Of the Constitution and the
prime, Dles Of free government,
Rrsylre1 That if the Legislature may.
by al device, set aside the provision of
the { Institution declaring who shall be
voter there will be no longer any limit
to thor power over the right of suffrage
the may prescribe whatever tests and
qualifications they deem necessary
to perpetuate the power of their party
a majority in possession of the Offices
may establish and perpetuate its own
rule a defiance of the will of the major.
ity-and there would be no security for
the r. hts of any one, under such sys.
tenn.
Recy'rrd, That the proposed amend.
ment to the constitution Of the State,
permanently depriving of the civil and
political rights of citizenship, all who,
under any circumstances, have given
any voluntary aid whatever to the re
bellion, must operate most unjustly,
and at the same time, disastrously to the
interest and welfare of the State. 1t
will, we believe, prevent the re estab
1i,l n MI nnN
erumr t, drive away immigration and
capital by causing constant strife and
discorl among the peOple-compel por-
ton a. our population to abandon the
State ~ become the enemies of its gov
lead to new excuses Of
pSWe, aud persecution on the part of
who will regard the rat
iticatiuu OF the amendment as sanction
ing the system of misrule and eXtrava-
giant legislation to which we have heen
We regard it as unwise, aud
at the same time cruel and unworthy of
a christian people.
RrsDi,tl, That tho effort of the Rad
zeal party to delude voters into the sup.
port oi such measures, by denouncing
their opponents as rebels and copper
heads, and raising an cutlery that the
new State is indanger, is but an article
to raise false issues-to draw away atten
ton from their own misdeeds-a pre-
vent the voters of the State from calmly
investigating the character and effect of
the recent acts of legislation.
ReSo'ced That we earnestly appeal to
thaIyoters of the State, without regard
to former party names or divisions, to
mite IN opposition to these measures,
aud l. smnnnrt of tho nnlinr of Prnsi.