The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-21


from the 1rst THURSDAY IN Au-1z. q
the 1Elrd Saturday IL SspteLnf.eEs IN
elusive. afld be i bound 70 Fezlsser z
TolsE as any other TING proE5Ged the
ePf'-.fszfiou g made % him more than
ten days befOre an election
u you value yOEE liberties. and The
lisnt 70 have voice In deciding What
taxes shall b laid On you ard wlzai
otIlesrs shall have power oTer your pr
sens, and properly, z1d dearest rights,
ace promptly
1tauy YoteE dsirss farther Informs
ton IL him apply 70 ms or 70 othsz
members Of tbe bzr here, and ~s vii
jas. .. AEaEsTFssSG.
Romszy. sepf. Is. lssss.
= Z Z zEilI Dc seen from the eopy OF the
order. Tlieh Is presumed 70 b correct,
that Judge Harrison entirely dIsre-
CARDS the last clause Of the Isl seton
ofthe third article u the Constitution,
ratified by he people last Nay, whieh
declare eEPre=sly that 10 pes9z srE0
Sase rolaHtayzy I'D or assistance . ne
reseUisH 1soiHst tie Intel Sases zhaU
Gs aLg0Ead 70 a1,e n rs s61ss. His ~
sumption that beczuse the amendment
was not IN force six months ago Il i net
10 fones now, Ia the mere qafbbse and
evasion Ct a peitifogger- TIE Consti-
tuition declares IN express Terms thsr .
psrson who Voluntarily aided the re-
b=llion shall Tiotyote. Iffhzt provision
is not Of force now Il never xii be- and
Il ]. Is a nuiIay everything in the Con-
stitation Is nuiIity. Whatever differ
eness OF opinion there nay have been
room for before fhe amendment was
ratified, about the validity Of
the test oath for voters, there can
Dc no question Of L nov, for
Il conforms 70 the Constitution With
the utmos; precision Its the mode Of
aseertainiBg who come under the Cor
stitufional exclusion Why should
any loyal and honest Judge compel the
officers Of registration 10 register As
voters persons who are not voters IN
der the clear dselaration Of The Organic
law OF the State, and who cannot vote
when they come 70 the Polls7 These
conservative gentlemen have been very
ready 70 find violations OF the Conz.I-
tuition Whenever II wzs construed 70 ne
deiriment OF rebels but when it suits
their purposes how grossly they disre-
gard Tin a provision which even admits
no difference Of opinion.
Inc Constitution OF the State Is the
embodied VIII Of its people. The pro
vision added 10 our Constitution last
Spring IS the latest and most impera-
tive expression OF the VIII Of ths PEG
PIE OF tLis STATE It's object IS TO pro-
tect the State against treason, violence
and destruction itselE L declares that
voluntary traitors against the United
States shall not WELD the political
power OF this State. Is that provision
not 70 ber@pected? Yet, unless existing
laws which give that provision prae-
teal effect are to be enforced. then the
provision itself is Of necessity disre-
garded. II we may not ascertain
through the registry law who are ex-
eluded from voting under the Constitu-
tion, how is anybody to be excluded
and how i the constitutional test to be
applied at aii7 There Is no other way.
Such aprineiPle az announced by Judge
Harrison throws the doors wide open
and exposes our people and their insti-
tutions 70 all the dangers against which
they have been protected since the
State was formed. We see the rebels
understand and claim it as such. Mr..
Armstrong declares that every rebel
has the same right TO vote that he has.
The rebel sheet here claims the same.
And It was precisely because the de-
cision has this scope that 1t was made.
Il was made TO embarrass a proper reg
istratiOn as far as possible in some
localities, and encourage the rebels
20 fresh exertiOns in the campaign.
Have our people a right to protect
themselves, and have their laws en-
forced ? Or are they to be exposed 10
the dangers of rampant treason Is
their Constitution, embodying their
viii 50 recently expressed, to be over
ridden, and they themselves to be de-
who secured a position by abusing their
confidence turns recreant and lends
himself to the schemes Of traitors, and
not only refuses TO enforce the laws
himself, but uses his position and the
machinery of the Judiciary to compel
others to do it, For ourselves, we
think not.
This man Armstrong advertises that
he viii attend to the interests OF other
rebels as member of the bar" How
can he be a member Of the bar in West
Virginia il the Judge OF that Circuit
does his duiy7 But we apprehend that
q court which 50 far forgets the obliga-
lions resting on it as to make the order
we have quoted, would not be able to
End reason forexeluding rebel from
It's bar.
Thank heaven we have not many such
judges, and unless We graveIy mistake
the temper Of the people, their number
viii be less before the session Of the
next Legislature Is ten days old.
II may be thought that we attach
more importance to this act Of Judge
Harison's than itdeserves. Wereenrd
It as q matter Of very little moment in
It's direct consequence, Tor they viii be
very limited. But as shorIne the ex-
islencs Of a combined and determined
endeayor to throw West Virginia into
the hands OF the rebels, so deep and
far reaching in its influence as 70 nani-
fest Itself even through the Judiciary.
Wed deem # worthy the serious a attention
ofour people. Loyal men Of West Viz
ginia, you must resist most siernIy she
encroachments and approaches OF our
uniting and iusidious enemy. You
must spot every man who bssrays you
% join him-who, having got into POI
sition BY your eonhdence, turns his