The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-10-23
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ATTENTION, READING MEN.
The Present Dangers or the National
SItuatIon---whereIn fhe. Presiden
Differs sfFOm COnEress-.Hiss TheoFI
Utterly Subversive OF the Govern
ment---The PROPOSED edAmendment Il
the National Constitution. al !
We are now-within two days Of th,
most important election ever held IL
West Virginia. The minds Of men ar
greatly excited: a great deal of parti
sanism has been aroused. Appeal
wholly irrelevant, and many of then
reckless and dangerous to thelast de
gree have been made to the people. I
is the duty of good citizens to be calm
to free themselves from every vestig,
of prejudice, and to look at the national
situation, with all its possible dangers
as It stares us in the face.
Congress, made up of hetrepresenta,
ttves of the people, elected from the
same States that elected the President
the States that remained true to the
Government; the States that saved the
Government, and without which ii
would have been destroyed, has, in
the exercise of its undoubted consti-
tutional prerogative as the law-making
power of the nation, submittedt to the
people OF the several States, certain
amendments as conditions precedent
tothe readmlssion of the rebel States
to their old places under the Govern
ment. -
The Constitution of the United States
provides for such amendments as are
now submitted to the people. Sec. LIST,
Art. 5th, is the clause upon the subject,
and reads as follows:
"Congress, whenever two-thirds ol
"both Houses shall deem it necessary,
"shall propose amendmentstot this Con-
stitution.m
When ratified by the Legislatures. ol
three-fourths of the States, any amend
ment becomes part OF the original
Constitution of the nation.
It's proposed in this manner to ratify
the amendment now before the people.
We have published The amendmentlfor
weeks in our paper. In order that all
may be without excuse as to what it is,
we now reproduce it right here as fol-
lows: p
aeOoEued, By the Senate and Houseof Rep
| resentatives Of the United States OF America,
In Congress assembled, two thirds Of both
be proposed to the Legislatures OF the several
States as an arnendment to the Constitution
by three-fonrths Of the said Legisiatures,
shall be valid as part of the Consultation,
ARTic1E i. All persons born or
naturallZed in the United States, and subject
TO the jurisdiction thereof, arc citizens of the
United States, and of the State wherein they
reside. No State shall make or enforce any
| law which shall abFidge the pr1y ytleges or inn
munities of the citizens of the United States.
life, liberty or property without due process
of law, nor deny TO any person within its
SECTION 9. Representativ shall be appor-
toned among the several States according to
their respective numbers, counting the whole
Indians not taxed; but whenever the right to
vote at any election for electors of President
and Vice President, or for United States Rep
resentatIves in Congress, executive and judi
clal officers, or the members Of the tLegisla-
ture thereof, Is denied TO any of the male
inhabitants Of such State, being itwenty-one
years OF age, and citizens OF the United States,
or In any way abridged except for participa-
representation therein shall be reduced In
the proportion which the number aof such
male clt1zens shall bear to the whole number
4t male citizens tWenty-one years OF ase In
SECTION 8. No person shall be O Senator or
dent or ice Z re or 6oId AM 6fiee
civil or mil litaTyt under the United States, or
under any state who having previously ta-
member of any State legislature or as an eH2
ecut9ve or judicial olilcer of any. State, to
shah have engaged in fnsurTeCtion OF rebel
Hon against the same or given aid and COM
fort TO the enemies thereof; but Congress
remove such disability, IL ~ - -
SECTION 4. The validity of the public debt
of,fhe United States authorized by law, In
pensions and bounttes for services in sup
pressing insuErection or rebellion shall not
nor any State shall assume or pay any debt
| or obliGntion incurred In aid of fnSurTectIon
claim for the loss or emancipation OF any
slave, 6uttau such debts, obligations, and
claims shall be held illegal and Void.p 8
snforce by approPfiatef legislation tho pro-
visions of this article. Z = s,r-z F q
These proposed amendments passed
the United States Senate on the sth day
OF June last, by a'Yote of SO TO II, and
the House of Representatives on the
the 18th ofthe same month by a vote Of
188 to S6-receiving more than the NUM-
Der of votes required by the constitu-
tion. - - VIA 49, t;.' y 81.
Every member of Congress calling
himself as Democrat" voted against
them. President johnson, also, with
all the Executive patronage and tnflu-
ence at his command, opposed their
passage. Why was this3 Was there
any good reason Why these amend-
ments should not passP We begsyou
to read them carefully and aslkSyour-
selves what reason: 9 patriotic man
can give for opposing such wise,
necessary, and salutary conditions in
regard TO the rebellions States. You
win observe that they provide as fol-
lows: ssd
4. That al persons born5er natural
lied in this country are henceiorth cfti-
zsns Of the United States and shall en-
i JOY all the rights of citizens seVefmore
4 and no State shall have power to CON.
travene this most righteous and neces-
lsary provision.
g. That while the States claim and
exercise the power of denying the cleo
/ tive franchise to part Of their people,
Il th6 weight of each State in the Union
shall be measured by and based upon
its entranchised Ipopulntion. Ifgany
State shall choose, for no crime, to deny
EpoliEcaI rights to any race or caste, Il
must no longer count that race or caste
asaa basis Of political power in the
4 Union. =
s. That he who once held ONCE on
the strength OF his solguln oath to sup.
1 port the Federal Constitution, and hna
i ineyertheless foresWorn himself and
Itreasonably3 plotted tn snbvert thai
lConstitution, shah henceforth hold nc