The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-02-20

will never submit to such tyranny, ant
the more odious you make it the so one
you and your radical party will go t
| destruction.
House took a recess
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Registration Bill was laid on tht
table, as there was scarcely 4 quorum
present.
Mr.. Cot, of Harrison, by leave, IRtro
duced "a bill to regulate the summon
ING of Jurors" 1t makes it the duty ol
Clerks of Courts to summon but thirty
six Jurors for the trial OF all cases, in
stead of the larger number now provl
! ded for by law.
After a number .ot bills were read a
second time, the consideration OF the
Registration Bill was resumed
Mr.. Darnel, Of Mason said he had tor
| the past month been under the imI res
sion that he was in the Legislative
Halls Of West Virginia, but he presumed
he was mistaken, as it appeared he was
in a Theologic IL Seminary or some other
such place He had few remarks to
make upon the bill now pending upon
its passage, which would be the last
speech he would make as a freeman in
West Virginia The chains Of tyranny
were being forged for the treemeu OF
the State. He heard them clankingi he
was satisfied the radical majority OF this
House would pass the bill He ha /
never cast a Democratic vote, and could
not on that score be called Butternut.
He had spent tour years on the battlefield
for the Constitution, ,and he was ready to
defend it to-day. The bill under con-
sideration vests ali the pOwerin in the Gov
ernor of tAe State. That was not Dem
ocratic; why were not the Boards of Su.
pervisors invested with the power of
appointing the Registrars Why not
invest the power in one man
We all remember the stringent laws
enacted just after the revolutionary
war; we all recollect the radical meas
pre5 taken by the pro slavery men i'll
Kansas; we all recollect the strict laws
passed against Northern people by the
South few years ago. We cannot
look at the history of all these measures
aud remember how all the extremists
were foiied without being convinced
that the party tayoring the odious, un-
constitutional measure now before the
House would ultimately be oYerthroWn'
The Constitution clearly defined who
were voters, and this Legislature could
not legally enact any law disfranchisiDg
a rlan who was voter under the pro.
visions OF that instrument. West Fir-
gidia was Que OF the United States, and
all her citizens were citizens ot this
NyA
u compel citizens 10 20 before a Regis
trar and take au oath, and then We pro-
vide tor the pun shmeut OF an offence
committed before there was a law to
punish it What is this if not all &c post
TaCto law 1t is an established law that
ali sr post factO measures are null and
void. He was in favor Of the punish
ment Of crime. but not by sr post taoto
laws
Some gentlemen supported tbs I'LL On
the grounds of expediency Suppose
that a majority OF the next Legislature
should be Methodist preachers, and they
should pass a law DISTINGUISHING all
members Of the Baptist Church, and the
next Legislature should enact a law dis
franchisIug another sect. Would that
be right, il it was GrpedieEt We forget
that all these Tebel4 have been pardoued
by the Presidents amnesty proclama-
tiUu ] should like to know what these
preachers will do when they SO up TO
ite" Gu anu "pgi! io' ,l q rI-j 81 tIai
sins 9fHe IN sS sLa. TS go Io psTo"iJ in f1r
them that that pardon might Us yery
GOOD as TAR as ll went cut tLey could
nor be admitted there on that ground
Mr. Carroll Of Wavue recited the par
,ic,Iors of O rurnLoT of aIleged Japrrda.
ti1Ts cor,,,ittsd m CsbeIi and WAYNE
,,U, a,,J ia tber~ ,rars rnauv men
~ tLns. mi who we're guiitv Of
hnrsa. .steaIinIr and murder Il wa, said
thesa man sLnuId Lr convicted. tha conn.
f;as we're no, oTrauized and rhc guilty
rnrId NOT he hringLf ta iust,r. These
are the men y,c a.e asked tu restore TO
tbafr rigLts and hermit 10 take charge
.,f H.. SIT II vas s,iJ the RjlI w3s
ynronztiTntfonaI and that i, would bean
-, matt TACT, law When wasgjt mat trea-
soI rs no. . crime Nv opDosiup the
test oath Constitutional amendment.
and tbr Registration Law members IA
yored the restoration of rebels TO their
rigEt- lie v1uId y.I, ION tbc bill and
hGnrd If would pa-s some members
said they did not court a reelection
For his mart he did not experi 10 return.
ana Il there were more fnau thirteen or
f,rrte.r r1uuerlpad- I'm fine next IIou.e
he vvouId M return.
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