The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-22

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yards Of our labor Applanse This has
leen done apparently 70 the satisfacs
ion OF the country by the enactment Of
What Is Known as the Civil Rights BIZ
"a law which, In some of its details,
vas liable 70 differences of opinion and
Them but which have no
1oubt in5its main princtple and pEaez
deal operations VIII be henceforth an
executed law of the land. pass there
fore from that as 4 subject unnecessary
To- dwell upon at this time. The other
that 7 think the American
people have settled IN their own minds
s this-that In the future this govern
ment shall not be adpiuist nor the
loyal people ruled by the men who for
the last five years have been in rebel
Hon against Il in attempting 10 over
throw it Tremendous Gheersl or by
themselves alone, or by sort Of Joint
stock aftair composed OF rebels, seees-
copperheads, conservatives.
[Cheers and cries Of 'sg0od, p ..giye
them the dewitt 2,
IL is TO this last proposition that In.
yite Your attention especially tonight,
for as ! understand your local affairs,
You are called upon to give it practical
expression now in a few days. We
speak OF men s rightsina general sense
sometimes, and sometimes we limit the
use OF the Term, and It is this various
use of 4 single word that gives rise to a
vast deal Of sophistry and delusiye ar
gnment. For example, we have social
tights wholly disconnected With the
laws Of the land; depending on the
nsagas and regulations of society,"
rights that no laws can interfere with,
the right of a man TO associate or not
with his fellow man. No law can in-
terrupt or regulate that. If my neigh
Dor does not choose 70. associate with
me, there Is the end of Il. am with
out n remedy. II his wife and daugh-
OF courtesy TO my wife and daughter,
why there Is no help for it. In thai
sense every mans house Is his castle.
And you frequently hear some of our
timid, scary fellow citizens, those good
people who seem to be afraid by night
and in terror by day lest should there
not be some Law 10 prevent it, they
might be besuneq into marrying one
/ of the black people. E6reat laughter.
I If Won propose any measure thai looks
like protecting the black man In his
1 freedom to labor and receive the Just
rewards OF it, why he comes running
mp to You with alarm In his face and
says HLook here-are you for negro
equality fLaughter.l Or as they
your daughter marrying big buck
lnigger71 ILaughterJ For although
| It Is not very much to the credit OF
the sister sex they are precisely
4 the ones that these gentlemen think
are in the greatest danger. They
never seem 70 think our sons are
| in the slightest peril from associations
of that Kind, but our daughters are.
/ [great laughter and cheers. Well now,
| gentlemen, you laugh derisiyely. II
you did not know that the thing was
true and II You had not heard It again
and again tand seen its by men who
pretend 70 be men OF sense, pretend to
/ be public teachers and the lights of the
world, you would not sit there tamely
and even listen TO my suggesting such
angidea as that Il voice that Is a facf.''l
Csentletnen that vile. insinuation is
thrust into. our teeth again and again
and again and 50. often until we have
come to pass 1t by with seorn without
Thought or second consideration.
Those of aRS my friends who have
daughters would not probably relish
the idea of their marrying big bucks of
any kind [laughterl and / do not sup
pose we have any apprehension of the
sort. "A voice s.none at ALL
For myself should blush
with shame and mortified indig-
nation, II supposed that any legisla-
ton. any constitutional enactment was
required to he thrown round my own
daughters 10 shield their purity, and
the integrity and high sabliinity OF their
personal virtue. Good and APP
pIause.l Shame, shame upon those
men whoswill in this vile way attempt
to make little capital of such con-
tempib1e piece of sophistry. F
As I have said before, our social regu-
1Rtions are of our own regulation, and
subject to orr own VIII, and those who
have lived as long as have, know 10
our sorrow that although we do not al
ways marry exactly according to our
choice, we never marry except at the
personal discretion and choice of those
whom We wed. Marriage Is matter
of individual preference, a matter of
personal choice, and though we maYnot
always get those whom we desire, we
never take amy body that we donotwant.
That Is all there is of that. OF course
gentleman Will exercise his taste ac-
cording as his natural Impulses and
feelings, and i am not aware that any
laws we could pass could help him
much.
No. gentlemen, we had that old class
of subjects discussed before the war.
We used 70 hear great deal said about
abolitionism and the names of certain
Northern men, Seward, Greeley, Beech
er, &c. Thosemen and the extreme ute
rauces they sometimes INDUCED In were
continually heidi and rungfn theears
of our people rs representing what was
called Northern sentiments, Northern
purposes and Northern determination. |
Why the little cross-Tpad, penny |
whistle politicians were simply |
figuring 70 get along llFith their
elections, 70 run in their candidate. |
but the men who composed the music |
they played were moving for n high /
er purpose and had something
further ahead in view. Itswns In the |
80 r,fty dr. n - st, Ssv,fTs
ern heart, and INSTRUCT the Southern
mind preparatory for the revolution |
they afterwards brought on. Well we
have them engaged inithe same thing |
NOW. Seward md Beecher have been
dropped and they have substituted |
Sumner and. 0ld Itiad. Stevens: In-
stead of talking about the Sab l
litionistsp they talk about the
radicals, y md ring the changes on the |
old question OF negro equality and me-
gro suffrage and all thai sort of thing. /
The same men precisely, the sameiden-
tieal persons in the same identical
spirit, and for the same mischeVtons.
va have had ahigger enough, once.
It has troubled rs sufficiently already, |
and If we are wise we win let It tronbis /
us no more. n they want TO call us |
radicals IL IS not bald as bad as they /
have been calling us for the last four 1
Or fve yenrs. Let than call on to /
their hearts content for believe 1
me, the question that Is before
the people i not negro suffrage, the
question Is rebel snlrage. fGreat ap. 2
plauHe and Cheers. Not tyliet her me-
groes shall vote but whether rebels
shall vote. enthnsiastie cheers.l 1T
IS true Ia the form In which you have
put i, It might include both for If j
have seen correctly the proposed
Amendment 10 your Constitution, 1t