The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-19

4a Peter COOPertO the President.
Peter Cooper has addressed an earn
est letter to the President, urging him
to accept the congressional plan of re-
construction, as the one, best calcule-
ted, on the whole, to restore harmony
and peace to the country. He reminds
the President of the strong Language
that be has himself employed, and OF
the strong measures that he has adj
vised, SO much beyond the require
ments of Congress. Mr.. Cooper says:
have thought it strange and unac-
countable that you should so SEVERELY y
censure the large majority in Congress-.
for adopting so mild form of meas
ures as means for. the guaranty of
a republican form of fgoVernmentin IN the
States so lately in rebellion; measures
so much more mild than those so forci-
bly, recommended by yourself where
you said, "TreasOn against the govern
Inent is the highest crime that can be
committed, and those engaged in ii
should suffer all its penalties;2 and
when You declared, Ethat treason must
DC made OdiouS; that traitors must be
punlshed and Impoverished"
You say "phey must not only be
punished, but their social power must
be destroyed" IF not, they maintain
an ascendeney, and may again become
numerous enough for treason to become
respectable
Again you say: "Ihold it n solemn
obligation in every one of these States
where the rebel armies have been beat
EN- back or expelled, care not how
small the number of Union men, If
enough to man the ship of State, hold
II to be a high duty to protect and se-
fgUT T.faf fFak khtsa /,
eminent until they again gain
strength. They must not be smothered
by ihches.b =
In calling convention to restore
States, you ask, "Who shall restore it.?
Shall the man who gave his influence
and his mems to destroy the Govern
ment2" Is he to participate in the
great work of re-organizing the Gov
ernment, who brought this misery on
the State? If this be so, then you say
IN truth that all the precious blood of
our brave soldiers and officers will have
been lost, and all our battle fields will
have been made memorable in vain.
You say "the traitor has ceased to be
citizen, and i'll forming the rebellion.
became public enemy" *
You further say "he forfeited his
right TO vote with loyal men when he
renounced his citizenship and sought
to destroy the government" sI9
You have said "their great planta-
tions must be seized and divided into
small tfarms, and sold to honest, indus
trious men,"
You add, "traitors can get lucrative
contracts, while the loyal man is push
ed aside" indulge the hope that such
practice will no longer be tolerated in
any branch of the government. 'aa
In relation to the reconstruction of
the government you have wisely said,
we must not be in too much of u
hurry" You add, "it is better to let
'themi reconstruct themselves than to
force them to it.n uat uo
In conformity with your own wise
recommendation, the majority of Con-
greSs have devised and adopted an
amendment to the Constitution that
renders it conveniently practicable for
all the rebel States to orecOnstruct them
Selves and come again into the possess
SION of those rights which they have
forfeited by rebellion-a rebellion that
has cost the lives and limbs of untold
thousands, and thousands of millions
OF deDt that remains yet to be wrung
from the toiling labor of our people.
The rebel States will certainly accept
ana adopt the amendment that renders
feconStruction so favorable and con-
Venient before the assembling of
another Congress, unless they are en-
coufageu to delay, in the hope that those
who We're half ftraitors during the war
VIII come to their relief andireinstate
them in power, when thew would hone
to get payment for or re .enslave their
negroes by legislation, which they fair
ly forfeited by rebellion. ds
Mr.. Cooper concludes as follows:
indulge the hope that .you will see,
before it Is entirely too late, the terrible
danger Of taking counsel with northern
men In sympathy with rebels who
aoagnS enagn ne government with all the
~. " dccoln ptlshtne
Of toi.i,,c. VI lnstead
who aieo,.S us, sIlose Irlenus
beaI, ,,sJ s... yWu: ..ll EIlenus VINO nave
nossibI1g ba y, HS ueSltous .!l as you can
every IS,aas,,ro o'in,tI.., tle aMuoPtlon az OF
the snbstantiaI ,yaI Ia!a e'f 70, 70 ProIloIe
ouI. co,nmo, nc,,,'t,t, Vi.sie " "li parts ol
ar @
~. -777---
- .He'-.oll " ny tle mayor OF Alte'
eneny CITY Refused to Call n Meet
ing to Receive the President.
A committee of citizens of Allephe-
nv. Panp ON tho 1otI, 80, 5,I..-,
q 49, -. a. "uNAt sssep
:" 'ile M ZOE OF the clIys as lol-
lows:
"SIR: You are respectfulIv rennestad
to call a meeting Of The citizens 6S IIo-
with our fellow-citizens Of Pittsbnrt,ii
and vicinity in receivine, tho Presil,ssS5,f -
ofthe United States and The hetIistinenishl
ed Statesmen and officers who 1a7,coy,1-
pany him. - ~ =
To tb;, tho [{,,, ~.
GIov 1 ';,;tL ~ SiS st, suceeeulnS
1T :. 'iS'' ''ASs ioll'"lng'
MA HoH's oFFIcE, CITY oF ALLEGHENY,
{t4lsi1s Sept. IL, 1856.
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