The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-20
HOW CANCELLATION WORKS IN
KENTUCKY.
Testimony OF n RIeentucky Soldier.


yesterday quoted from speech
of Hon. ]. L. Thomas, of Maryland,
delivered at Carrollton, in that State.
In that speech alIusion was made to "a
gallant soldier of Kentucky" who was
present ard could speak for himself,
concerning the operation of a "concilia-
tory" policy in that State. That SOL
dier was Colonel Mckee, and here nre
some of the sober truths uttered by
hint q rrs- -5r5rz-.-.7rr raF,r III
The last armed host of the rebellion
almost year ago fell before the gallant
advance OF the federal army, led by its
great leaders. Then had there been a
proper course pursued, had the Amer
lean people and the heads of the Gov
ernment realized theg great fact that the
foe we had conquered in the field were
only subdued by arms, VIC might have
finished the victory. at once. But a mis-
take was committed. In the language
of the President of the United States,
Hmercyl TO those misguided men who
led those terrible onslaughts against
liberty has proved, in my judgment,
treason to the State. Through mis-
guided philanthropy;t through that great
leniency which. fills the hearts of Amer
leans to forgive the past, we find our
y
almostto as great an extent as il was
whenswe were plunged in the midst of
war. We find to-day, not what we
found one year ago, a people only ask
ing that their lives might be spared,
and that they might be allowed to purr
sue their Eavocations, under whatever
laws we, who were victors, might pre-
scribe for their government; but we lind
an arrogant party of men, who have
committed treasonI. with the Govern
ment again turned over into their
hands. Therefore, say 1 am still in
the field, and, for one, If am asked
again to trust the reins of Government
in their hands, no matter who may fal'
ter in the contest, my voice will ever be
heard against it. Immense applause
don't desire vengeance. 1 simply ask
that justice may be done. Like the
President of the United States, con-
slider treason to be the greatest OF
crimes-one deserving the seyerest pun
ishment, that the people of this land
should be taught lesson, and that
treason should be made odious, forever,
was raised in country lying 'hlong
the border States, thank God, II border
no longer. [Great applause. We were
called the Border Stutes because we
marked the lines between freedom and
slavery. To-day, as one OF the results
of this war, there breatheS not slave
in all this land. But Maryland and
Kentucky are Border States no longer.
TAppiause.1 Another result of the war
was demonstrated in the fact that the
voice of the people shall rule. 1t has
never done so before. Schools !must
and will be opened. The people must
carry out the doctrine that the loyal
shall rule, and extend that benehcient
system of educational influences which
pervaded- the, Northern States, and
which has made them Whit they are.
Extend such influences throughontthe
South, and that people will never again
be dragged into miSerieS like those OF
the rebellion. That people must be ed
ucated, educated in the right. My tel-
Iow-citiZens, n previous speaker has
alluded to something in my own State.
/ would draw from that n lesson oil
warning to you men OF Maryland.
While the war ragged, and when federal
bayonets were powerful in the State of
Kentucky, the loyal people were secure,
and they passed u law by which they
perpetuuted the exclusion from the
franchise of all men who had engaged
in treason or gave aid and comfort to
the enemies of their country. They ex-
cInded them from participating in the
political afInirs of the State. After the
war the people of kentucky, in their
leniency and in their kindness ofheart,
repealed that law. Now, not only the
7 lot
i1'.sS;s;.sI svstan, of tIe STATE ia in. the
hands of traitors or their sympathizers.
reason ~ ;n,," n"e T6is 10 the resnit IF nil
tIyaisg tIyys isniencV. e And eyensthe ILegisia-
ms ms or KaninclEv I 10 narrv ont the or
an;Sod lure Ul narsecmyions Of the courts of
ganlzs.u ~. peiS' ,5eSv n s1atn,e mon their
Jaw Jaw SI,;.hic sarSice in the federni
@ poohs S nv Iarance To n snit brought
army Is no .rig 1nr anv ~ iniHrv done bv
hGaIi1S h9l1, IN the ie;,itinlate exercise
nth;Ss nFIS d,tiss in the service. And Mt the
.Ltts OF nis .;!,.,i@ sLonId he remembered that
saLiG sIa:I,rsar,;cai .- in the rabelar,nv is made
In Iaw q snfficient defence 10 a like
s;S;t nd when the proposition was
SUI; sSaSo that the benefit Of the act should
aIten5 To- f6sIoXai soldiers, il was voted
down by majority of more than three
nermit 70 ome these, @ Teeonstrueted r &c g men. to go
ssc Sack thnt 1nte snpS Is their desire today in
ttis G,ate Rnt voIi. must stand firm.
VIZ, ha,,s Ivi1v foe 70 contend with.
7 ,uorId rathar trnst n traitor who