The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-11-21
Coug.e.. and the state EIee.ions.


Congress meets to-day, pursuant to
adjournment. Whether it continues
in session unit. the day for the next
regular meeting, or! simply adjourns to
that day, II will soon be called to de-
liberate up0n issues of the most vital
consequences To the peace, unity and
prosperity of the nation. The present
Congress has had much to do in pro-
ducing the condition of affairs which
now exists in the South, and the effects
aud consequences of which are pressing
with heavy hand upon the North. The
laws passed by that body have put the
white race under the dominion of the
negroes in ten States Of the Union, de-
stroyed the influence ofeducation, train
ing and experience in suggesting laws
and policies; nproOtad civil govern
ments in one-halr of this Republic, and
instituted military dcspOtism in their
stead; increased the taxes and burdens
of the people; debauched the currency OF
the couatr., aud impaired its standing
among the civilized nations Of the
earth
The course pursued 10y the Radical
party in thus injuring all the interests
OF the nation, found no warrant either
in The Constitution or the eXigencieS OF
the occasion. 1t was well described by
Mr.. STEVENS, when he declared that the
sU-called restoration acts Of the party in
power were all "outside of the COnstitu-
ton" That great chart of the nations
life and being gives Congress no power
10 destroy States, to rnslavc white men,
to declare VIII. shall be citizens i'll q
sovereign State, to elevate the negro to
citizenship against the solemn and al
most universal protest of white men.
The Constitution does not authorize or
empower Congress to proclaim State
constitution imperative and of non
effect, and to open the ballot-box to a
race which the governing element OF
the land has prohibited from approach
ing it. Yet thiS right the Radical party
claim for Congress, and Mr.. WILSON
and Mr.. SUMNER have announced their
determination to force such q negro
movement upon the North.
But at the recent elections in the
North, the Radical party were most sig
nally rebuked. In. no quarter of the
Union have they maintained their
ground, save in the South, where negrs
supremacy is secured by a wholesale
disfranchiscment aud ostracisn of the
white race. The white men of the
Eastern, Middle, and Western States
have repudiated the acts of the Fortieth
Congress and the party which that
body represents. The country is tired
of beng disturbed by the raving oi
fanatics, or the schemings and machina'
tiOns of kmaves and demagogues. Busi.
ness men ask for the passage of such
laws as viii rescue the South from the
dominion of lazy, idle, and spiritless
negroes, and put that magnificent and
richly productive portion of our coun-
try once more under the control of the
race which made it what it was before
the bot hand of war had withered the
crops and turned the fields into deserts
Massachusetts, was almost revolution
lied on this issue, New York laid 8
heavy hand upon the Radical disorgan-
izers. Pennsylvania came back to hel
old constitutional position. Ohio repu
dated the party, which, in order tC
hold power, would destroy the Consti
tuition, the country, and the dearest
rights of white men at the same time
and in all the States that voted this fal
the same verdict was rendered against
the policy pursued by Congress and tn,
party by which that Congress is cham
pioned and that system upheld.
Will Congress acknowledge the mean
ing aud binding force of the decision
against them, or will they become des
perate, aud push on the column of radi
cal progress" regardless of the warn
ing against scch course uttered from
the ballot-boxi The people are anxiou
for repose in order to meet the pressin,
demands of the present hour in bust
ness point ofview. They want unitet
country, and they demand from Con
gress an entire abandonment of tn
present programme of the Radical party
and fresh departure from the stand