The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-13

coming election in October: l say it is
but fair if South Carolina excludes her
black population entirely as voters, she
shall not count them on the floor Oi
Congress, any more than she shall
count her horned cattle; whilo he says
she may do this very thing. But il
| South Carolina chooses to count in her
black population, in the same cate
| CORY with her white population, and
thus increase the basis of her representa-
ton, there can be no reasonable Ubjec-
ton, and she will add additional
strength to the Government of these
States. We leave this question of suf-
frage, you see, with the several States,
where it has always been; but we adopt
just principle of representation.
VIOLATION OF OFFICIAL OATHs.
poses the unconditional restoration oi
the rebel States? 1t is that no man who
broke his official oath with the nation
or State, and rendered service in this
rebellion, shall, except by the grace OF
the American people, be again permit
ted to hold u position, either in the Ma
tional or State Government. Demo
Gratis are opposed to that. Why7 Be-
| cause the chief of their party, who
waged this war upon the Union and the
nations life, now prisoner of war al
Fortress Monroe, broke his oath of of
fec as United States Senator, to organ
iZe treason and rebellion. They think
their party can never be restored, un-
less it shall be constitutional hereafter
TO elect jeff. Davis Senator, and Bob
Lee Representative in Congress.
We say, by this amendment, never
while that Constitution stands, shall
any of these men, who clothed thu
selves with penury as with a garment,
breaking the oath they took before God
to protect and defend the Constitution
of the United States, by going out and
waging war for four years, never shall
they hold any Office of honor, or profit
either in the Republic, or in any of the
States of the Republic. [Great cheers.
Your Democratic platform rejects this
proposition, and declares for immedi-
ate and unconditional restoration.
THE NATIONS DEBT.
There is still one other provision, and
that is that the pledged faith of the ma
tton to its dead and to its living defend
ers, the pledged faith of this people to
the little children who are Watching by
the vacant chair for the long expected
return Oftheir father from the war, shall
never be broken. Your Democrats op-
pose this, therein disgrace our common
humanity. That pledge will be broken
engraft it in their Constitution. You
have evidence of it all around you.
But let the people speak and say that
this covenant shall be kept until every
obligation is fulfilled that the nation
will not desert its defenders who sleep
their last sleep upon hundred fields
of battle, now represented in their
widows and children; that the country
will not desert its MANNED heroes who
made the trenches of ViclSsburE, and
the bloody ground of Stone River, and
the snow crowned nights of Kenesaw,
and the rocky hills of Gettysburg, holy
ground; that the country will never de-
sert these MANNED heroes, and consent
that the covenant made with them shall
be broken. tGreat applause.1
EXAMPLE OF TENNESSEE.
There are objections raised by these
Northern Democrats, and they tell you
that they must have immediate resto-
ration of the eleven rebel States.
Thank God! since they wrote the mis-.
erAble second resolution of their State
platform, which l have Just been citing,
something has been done. The loyal
masses of Tennessee, in the free heart
OF Tennessee, whose mountains and
plains were red with the blood of her
childred fallen in the great struggle in
defense of the Republic, have set to the
North the grand example of ratifying
in good faith, by majority of her rep
reSentatives in the Senate, and ma
jOrity of the whole number of her rep
resentatives in the House, that sacred
amendment to your Constitution.
tGreat applause.l And they have
changed their constitution and laws SO
as to be in conformity with it. And
what is better, ii possible, on the mo-
ton of your own representative, Ten
nessee has been restored to her place in
the Union, and her full representation,
both in the Senate, and in the House,
have been admitted to their seats.
Renewed applause.l
Is it asking too much of tho residue,
the ten remaining rebellious States,
that they shall initiate the example of
Tennessee? Voice, "no,"l Is it ask
ing too much to allow that the Ameri-
can people themselves shall decide this
issue at the polls For as you vote
next October in Ohio, and in Novem-
Der in the other States, this question
will be determined. If the people OF
these Northern States, who saved this
Republic by their blood and their lives,
rally at the polls and declare in favor
of the adoption of this amendment,
rely upon it, every State in the South
will initiate right speedily the State of
Tennessee, and you will have the
amendment ratified by the vote of all
the States, and a restored Republic by
the time Congress again assemblies. Is
not this worth cOntending for, to res
tore this Republic, and perfect your
Constitution. so that the whole people
hereafter will have in their care and
Keeping the smallest and humblest
State of the great Republic7 so that
hereafter Georgia may not make it Il
penal Ottense for any one to teach her
Ignorant children to read the Word OF
GOD, and that there is a higher and
purer life beyond the grave.
HOW IT WILL WORK.
How Will 1t be whom this amendment
is placed in the Constitution: "No State
shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privilege of citizens
of the United States, and men are not
walk the narrow steps of the scaffold,
for teaching their children the holy
principles of our Lord and Muster.
THE CITIZEN SUPERIOR TO THE STATE.
We don't ally the church and the
State, but we make the State recognize
the great principle that the Government
at last is made for man, and not men
for the Government. believe the SEN
timent of that grand, thoughtful spirit
who shook every throne in Europe,
when he proclaimed from the French
Academy, THAT 'tsurely the citizen is
superior to the State, tor States are born,
and live and die upon the earth. Here
they fulfill their destiny. But after the
citizen has discharged every duty to
the StateS there abideS yet every faculty
OF his nature by which he ascends to
God and the unseen realities of a
nobler and better life." Cd
THE STATE AND THE NATION.
ask you to perfect by the ballet
what has been begun by the bayonet.
Secure permanent peace by establish
ing freedom and justice throughout the
whole land. leave the State intact, in
the possession of every right that hith-
erto pertained to them but let them
know that for tho nhnsn of this nnNrnr