The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-08
II.n,n.t1v Ioyai,y In ConETess.

been brought up with round turn in
Congress. The fast and loose policy
which she pursued throughout the war,
and especially the loose policy pursued
since its close, is undergoing scafhing
Investigation and Tebuke in the Lower
House. OF ALI the States, unless We
except Maryland, she is to-day the
most thoroughly disIOyal, reactionaryi
dangerous, and untrustworthy. She
had the assurance to recently elect a lot
OF disioyal Representatives to Congress,
and they appeared at the bar of the
House on Wednesday last with their
certificates in hand, and desired to be
sworn in. But thanks 10 Generals
Sehenck and Logan who. before now
have stood in the breach for the honor
and safety of the country, they were
not allowed TO qualify, but were ordered
10 stand to one side until their antecs-
dents could undergo the proper
examination. There was one single
exception, that OF George n. Adams,
from the 7th District, good and true
man, who was allowed to take mis- seat
The most notorious disIoyaIist in the
batch, it seems. is John D. Young,
who halls from The s.h district, former
Is represented by Samuel Mckee,
which adjoins West Virginia. Afida-
wits were read showing that this fellow
had al one time actually joined the
rebel army, having been a candidate
tor tbs ColoneIcy Of a regiment, and
that he aided armed bands OF rebel
soldiers in capturing Union citizens
and soldiers, and gave them aid vol
unfairly and gladly" 1t was also
shown that in Is52, while Judge Of the
county court OF Bath, when summoned
BY the United States authorities, in
oDedlsucs 10 the orders OF the
commander of the Department
OF Kentucky TO renew his
oath Of allegiance TO the Government
Of the United States, he fled TO Canada.
Tne following letter written by John
Young Brown and printed in the Louis
vile Cosrter OF May Is, 1861, is also
produced in Congress:
ELHABETHTowS, April Is, 1861.
E,fif5Ts LorLsUiLLe CotfTier:
Ny attention has been called to the
your paper Of this date:
"JOHS YOCSG BRowSfs POsITIoS.-
The gentleman, in reply 10 some
searching heterogeneous put 10 him by
Governor Helm, said in reference TO the
call Of the President for four regiments
OF volunteers 70 march against the
SOutn:
81 would not send one solitary man
TO aid that Government, and those who
volunteer should be shot down in their
tracks"
This Ambiguous report OF my re-
marks has, / ind been misunderstood by
some who have read is, who constTue
my language 70 apply TO the govern
IncDt Of the Confederate States. What
j did say was this:
Not QUE man or one dollar will Ken
lucky furnish Lincoln TO aid him in
his unbOly war against the South. II
this northern army shall attempt to
cross our borders we will resist IL un-
10 the death, and II one man shall be-
found in our Commonwealth to volun-
ieer to join them, he ought, and be-
lieva will be shot down before he leaves
the STATE.
This was not said in reply to any
question propounded by Ex-Governor
Helm, AS you have stated, and is no
more than 1 have frequently uttered
publicly and privately prior TO my de-
bate with him. Respectfully,
JoHS YoUNd BRowS.
Most people who read the bove let
ter will naturally wonder how the
writer OF it could dare to present him
self before the Speakers deck in Com
greSs und ask to be sworn in as MEM
Der, when on his official oath he must
needs declare that he has never given
counsel, encouragement or assistance
to any rebellion against the United
States, or to any persons concerned
therein: and that he has never yielded
voluntary support TO any pretended
government, authority or power with
in the United States, hostile or inimieal
thereto; and that he takes the oath OF
Office without any mental reservation
orpurpOse of evasion. II seems, how
ever that Mr.. John d. Young is one OF
those persons who hold that the oath
required OF him In such cnses, is un-
constitutional. The Hon. Sam1 Nc
Kes sets forth in Eis protest against
Young's admission, that he the said
Young,
'hoIds the oath which all persons
are required TO take before entering
upon the discharge of their duties as
executive, judicial or legislative otti-
GERS OF the Government of the United
States, to be unconstitutional, and that
the whole rebel Democratic party TO
which he belongs in Kentucky holds
the Same thing. That lie and they deny
the right of Congress to require such
oath OF any officer OF the Government,
(namely, the oath prescribed by act
approved July =, 1922 and holds the
doct.ine that II Is no crime or no per-
Jury even, liza man has been guilty of
aiding the rebellion, to take said oath,
and that IL is the right OF all rebels 10
take any oath required, and that by so
doing they cannot commit perjury.
That said Young holds that the re-
bellion was no crime; that those who
engaged in it were justitiable, and that
those who engaged in its suppression
are guilty OF "a criminal wrong; that he
M held during the war, and declared
that "Abrnhum Lincoln, President of
the United States, in using force to sup
press the Southern rebellion, was a
traitor, aud ought to beshanged as high
as HRmaD."
Other documents were read in Con-
gress in regard to Young's active COM
plIclty with the rebellion: and not only
as regards his case, but also In relation
toother members OF the delegation. A
long debate ensued as they were
brought forward and sent to the clerk's
desk. We find fifteen columns of the
Congressional Globe of Thursday last
taken up with it. The final disposition
made of all the cases, with the single
exception OF Mr.. Adams. is shown by
the following resolution offered by
Gen. Logan and adopted by the House:
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