The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-05-22

are found to stand and speak favorably
in their BEHALF Union men they say
they are. 1t may be so-hushandmen
Of that order that having pat their
hands TO the plough look back before
they get half through the alrroyP. No,
gentlemen, as a matter of right and 81
law there is and there can be no Ques-
ton on this point.
But, says the Inspired apostle,
Though all things be lawful, all things
are not ex pedient.n It may be thatihe
measure that is proposed 10 keep these
gsntlemen away from the polls, al
though one that we have right to exc
cute may not be expedlent. Let us see
how that Is. We have some exPerienee
in this matter, we have presidents not
one but more than one. AT the close
of the revolutionary war our fathers
found themselves encumbered with a
class of men, relatively Of the same
characters occupying the same rela-
tive position as our rebeIs-the tories OF
that gay quite MS numerous, and in
some portions of the country more nu-
meroIs even than the rebels are now, for
bad as South Carolina is in the matter Of
rebels. doubt whether the proper
ton OF rebels TO her whole population
1 Is as great as was the proportion oil
tories at the close of the revolutionary
war, not counting the negroes. With
ated the word in our own minds as 8
word of reproach and common abuse,
and we are apt to think a tory was a
mean, low down fellow, one of the
shabby sort of people-that IS great
mistake. II does great injustice tothet
class OF men and 10 the truth of history.
The word, as you all know, was de-
rived from English politics. IT was APP
piled in that country and in our own at
that time to the nobility, to the aristoc-
racy, the men OF wealth and high social
position. the first families; in short
| they were the tories, the men that loved
monarchical government, q king
| loving men, because their contest was
| in character and principle precisely as
ours has been. It was question not
OF independent government, but OF
/ free governments question OF
popular rule. Our fathers were
not wishing an independent ma
tionality from Great Britain. They
were proud of the British name, Brit
| ISL history, the British Constitution
and British laws and the great men in
the past. They wanted TO have a hand
| in making the laws by which they were
| governed, part and parcel of tho Brit
ish nation-wanted to have partici-
patton in the deliberations of Parlia-
sInent. In other words it was ques-
ton of self-goyernment and when they
eminent that they should have indie
pendent government they declared
| themselves independent, after fighting
something over a year, on the 4Ih of
July, 1776. Men, however, who We're
hostile TO popular government took the
opposite side and continued TO oppose
them during the seven years war.
Who were the men that raised the
standard against our government late
ly, in 1851. The men that labored 2
The hard -hnnded sons of toll from
your workshops with their i'm plements
Of industry, from the farm who cnlti-
waited their own lands? Did they
come down with forks and moving
blades? No gentlemen il was your
first flmilies-your men that think
themselves entitled to be on higher
level than ordinary men, aud they in
tended to put an end to this arrange
ment by which they were required TO
tired oft. Says Alexander ii. Stephens
to quote him again, speaking of their
new government as he called it after he
had been nude the second officer of II
The old government as they were in the
habit of Speaking ofthatl power which
is symbolized by these glorious en-
bIens that adorn this hall. lApplause.l
The old government was based on the
idea of human equaliGy-all men are
created equal the brotherhood of man.
The fathers made a mistake in that.
sour government said he, sis based
on exactly the idea of human inequali-
ty with african slavery as the corner
stone" Well gentlemen the result has
been that both the fights turned out
exactly alike. The many triumphed
over the few. Popular rights prevailed
over the claim for special privileges and
as at the close oEthe revolutionary war
they found themselves encumbered
with these gentlemen who had been
fighting against them. so do we now
find these three or Jour millions less or
more of gentlemen who delighted in
tile name of secesh, Johpy re6 or any
name you delighted to adorn them
with.
4 Now, what did our fathers do with
the tories they had on hand? Go toI
your old statutes here in Virginia.
Take yourlaHs of 1873, follow them on
force until they executed themselves
by the decease of that generation of
men-providing that the more offensive
and guilty ones should not be permit
ted to live in your State: If they came
here, to be seized and imprisoned, the
first time for six Inonthsi If they re-
peatetl the offense, 10 be imprisoned for
ments, goods, chattels, and all, taken.
class, not SO obnoxious, still |
concerned in aiding Great Britain /
against IT'S, allowed 70 live in the COM
mu nifty but denied the right either of |
voting or holding office. [Ciood.l North |
Carolina, about The same time, passed |
a similar ACT; Maryland, If my mem-
ory serves, and most If not all the other
all, at least where there was |
any considerable number of them.
Nobody called il in question. Why, |
when Congress came to iegfslate on the
subject, Congress expressly, in provid=
ing who should be allowed TO be citi-
powers given by the Federal constit1-t
lion, expressly exempted and excepted /
those who had thus been excluded by /
State legislation, and those laws
have remained on the statute
book. Why, you hear men talk
ing as though this thing of keep
Ing rebels away from the ballot
box was something Summer and Ste-t
vens had been devisiBg-some of the
radical doings of this our day. Gentle
men, IL is the old revolutionary policy
OF the old revolutionary fathers. And 1
how did it-work7 Did you hear any
more of The tories after that day? Do /
pass away beneath the surface and go
nut of sight2 ANY one TO read the SUBJ
seuuent history of our country would
have supposed the old Wings of 70 /
were the only persons VINO lived here
certainly the only persons who ever had
my children. tLanghter.1 Did. you
aver seea man that derived his origin
rom tory ancestry [Isaughter.l 1
will venture TO say You may travel from
now TO the end of the year, or as Burns
has "fras October till November and
you cannot find man who will trace K
back his Ancestry into n tory family.
Why, because having no longer anyll
oplitieal power, they passed always;