The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-26

States of the Union, and always aud
ever entitled to representation and
without conditions; for then Is he gull
ty of impenChNble Oifenses III demand
ing of them the ratification of the con-
stitutiOnnl amendment, in debating II
policy to tho Southern Statos, in organ
izing provisional governments, i'll in.
Rugurnting constitutional conventions,
III depriVing officers elected or appoint
cd by authority of those States Of their
offices, nnd, in fine, in assuming to
himself supreme authority over that
whole region of country for II long Pc
riod of time. Thus his only defense of
his present policy contains an udmis-
sion that he has usurped power, that he
has violated tho Constitution, that nc Is
guilty of off0nses for which he ought to
be impenChcd. Thus do the suggestions
which tho President tenders ms his de-
fenSo furnish conclusive evidence that
his conduct is wholly indefensible.
While then tho President cannot de-
fend his conduct, it is possible for 9TH
ers to explain IL.
Its explanation may be found in
some one or in several OF the following
propositions:
ed control over the President, through
the power of some circumstance not
known to tho public, which enables
them 10 dictate IA policy to him.
2. That he fears impeachment, and
consequently directs all his efforts to
secure more thnn'a third of the Senate,
so as to render II conviction impossible.
3. That he seeks II reelection, and
purposes to make the South II unit in
his favor, as the nucleus around which
the Democratic party of the North must
gather in 1865.
4. That hc desires TO reinstate the
South as tho controlling force i'll the
government of the country.
In reference to the first proposition,
we are restricted TO tho single remark
that it is not easy TO imagine the rebels
capable of making any demand upon
the Executive which, in his present
stnte of mind, he would not be prepnr-
ed to grant. He has pardoncd many of
the leaders and principle men of tho
Rebellion, and some of them he has ap-
pointed to office. He has resisted every
attempt on the part of Congress to fur
nish protection 10 tho loyal men of the
South, and he has witnessed and dis
CuSsed the bloody horrors of Memphis
and New Orleans with COld-bloOdcd in
difference. Early in his term of Office
he offered an immense rewnrd for the
person of Jefferson Davis; and now that
the accused has been in tho official GUS
tody of the President, AS tho head of the
army, for more than fifteen months, he
has neither proclaimed his innocence
and set him at liberty, nor subjected
him to trial according TO the laws of the
land. Davis is guilty of the crime OF
treason. or this there can be no doubt.
He is indicted in one judicial district.
The President holds the prisoner by
military authority; land the accused
cannot be arraigned before the civil trI-
bunnls. Davis wns charged by the
President with completely In the assus-
sination OfNIr. Lincoln. There is much
aNsi tn, GfnfR I,a oil,
but the accused is neither subjected TO
trial by military commission, nor
turned over TO the civil tribunals of the
country. These acts nre OtfenseS against
Justice; they are OtfenseS against the
natural and legal rights of the accused
however guilty iIe may be; they are Of
fences against the honor of tho Ameri-
can people; they are acts in violation of
tho Constitution. If the elections of
1866 are favorable to the President, thew
will be followed by the release OF Davis,
and the country will SEQ the end of this
part of the plot.
Upon any view OF the Presidents
case, 1t is evident that he has thrown
himself into the arms of the South, and
that his personal and political fortunes
are identified with Southern success in
the coming contest. He claims to stand
upon the Baltimore platform of 1864,
and to follow in the footsteps of Presi-
L
dent Lincoln are rCconCiled to this AS
sumption, by the knowledge that Mr..
JOhnsOn's counsellers are the Sey-
mours, Nnllandigham, Voorhees,, and
the Woods. Mr.. johnson, under these
evil Influences of opinion and counsel,
has succeeded in producing II division
of parties in this country corresponding
substantially TO the division which De-
mOsthenes says existed in Greece when
Phillip was engaged in his machiun-
tiCns for the overthrow of the liberties
of that country. "All Greece is now
divided into two parties :-the one
composed ofthOse who desire neither to
exercise nor 10 he subject to arbitrary
power, but to enjoy the benefits of lib
erty, laws and Independence; the other,
of those who, while they aim ut an nbso-
lutte command over their fellow citizens
are themselves the vassnls of another
person, by whose means they hope to
obtain their purposes"
The Republican party desires liberty,
Independence, and Cqunl laws for all
people; tho Presidential pnrty seeks TO
oppress the negro race, to degrade the
white race of the North by dcpriving
every man of his due share in the gov
ernment of the country, and finally, to
subject all the interests of the Repub bic
to tho caprice, policy and passions of
its enemies.
The Presidential party is composed of
traitors in tho South who had the cOur-
age to fight, of traitors in the North
who had not the courage or opportuni-
ty to assail their government, Oru small
number OF persons who would follow
tho fortunes of any army If they could
be permitted to CLEAN the Oilnl OF the
camp, and IL yet smaller number who
are led to believe that any system of
adj justment is better than IL continuance
OF tho contest.
The Presidential party controls the
patronage of the governments; and IL
will be used without stint I'm aid of the
scheme to which the President is de-
voted.
1t only remains to be secn whether
tho courage, capacity and virtue of tho
people arc adequate to tho task of over
throwing and crushing the conspiracy
I'm its new form and under the guidance
of its new allies. The Republican par-
ty cnrries on the contest against heavy
odds, and with the fortunes of the COun-
try staked upon tho result.
One hundred and ninety-one men
have been recognized as members of
the present House of Representatives.
There are fifty vacancies from the ten
unrecOgnized StateS; consequently u
full House contains two hundred and
tOrty-one members. One hundred and
twenty-one are II majority,-n quorum
for business, If eVory State were repre-
Sented. OF the present House, il is es-
timated that forty-six members are
supporters of the Presidents policy. If
to these we add tho fifty members from
the ten States, tho Presidential party
would number ninety-six, or twenty
five only less than Il majority of n full
House. No vicw can be taken of the
present House of Representatives. more
favorable to tho Republican party
DOSHiblV thn PrnQiIpDGiu FOroo sI,n,'1,l