South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-11-15

! ADH-brt fcw days ago, Mr.. Bcn.
Wade, Of Ohio, wa "power" IN the Rad
zeal party. Now he has "fnllcu from his
high estate" anl his iaaucnce is nearly
gene. The CORES pendent Of the Cincinnati
Commercial, however, has collected some
OF bis recent ''utterauces," which viii at
tract attention, aud are curious enough.
This correspondent bad long talk with the
defeated Senator, and "repor,s" him as fol-
lows: Ia reference to the election IN Ohio,
he said:
"The niger whipped US" owe went
in on principle and got whipped. We
should have carried the State by u good ma
jority if it hadn't been for the suilg3ge IS
, sue. Still | am not sorry we made the Is
sue. lfit was to d. ovcrugain III be Tor pu;-
ting it again, aud Ia be for keeping it up
until We 10 win for, by the eternal God a.,
they can't beat NJ all The time on = ques-
ton Ike that. had no idea that IN re
were SO many Republicans in Ohio who
were wiling To see negro suffTgc in the
South, but wouldn't let the few sracs Of
Ohio vote That's villa, -; me They ai
seemed to be in favor a It as measure Of
reconstruction, just "a much as l was. l
didn't dream that they'd b. mean enough
to vote against IL here
On the nhjecto.iup. parchment, Nr Wade
sail he wished Is be distinctly understood
as expressing 10 opinion 50 lar as Mr.
Johnson s guilt or inn ,clnco was concerned
lie would, however, answer my question as
to whether Tho la,e elections would have a.
ny effect upon .hat matter. He thought
they would. Iou scc," said he, ",hese
weak-kneci brothers are TAKING The back
track already" Wen, nov. what the dev.
il has an election in Ohfo to do with the
matter? If Andy Johnson is guilty, put
him out If not, acquit him th5@s The
way TO do it. They ought 10 ia, pressed
the invest -ation right along after they start
ed 1t. Aud so they would have done last
winter, If there hadn't been So many m.n
in the Senate and House who wanted ~
keep on good terms with the White House.
Referring to Summers suffrage bill. Mr..
Wade said he had not made IN his mini
exactly whether lie ought to vote e.. IL or
not. lie believed That under the last clause
Of the thirteenth amendment, giving Con
gress power - enforce the abolition Of sla-
very by appropriate Legislation, thcc. was
ample authority for the passage Of the bill.
forno man was really free Ia Til, country un-
less hchal the rj.ht vote Bat he wa be-
lever IN State rights ia a proper and lceit-
innate way, and did not know bat tbat this
bill was in violation Of the right Of each
State to regulate suffrage.
Mr.. Wade characterized Tlad Stcvcus's
non lipfs c,ufec.fi.,-. I'm ! .
The time for couf,catiou Ills. hr said. was
during ;hc war, when they could be of use
in preventing men from goiu. into the re-
bcllion, but to think Of pas-ics such meas
urc now was sheer folly ;4j nonsense. If
the negroes Of the South wanted land, let
them work for it.
Nithre. 80 Gen Grant, Nr. Wade
thus spoke IVY hen saw The popular cur
rent appearing to rum in bis favor thought
would Ike 30 know how ~ stood on the
great questions before us-whethar he was
Tor johnson or Congress, or what the devil
he was for but ] never could get anything
out of him. As quick as III talk politics.
he'd talk horses, and he could talk FIR hours
on that without getting tired We'll. hor-
ses arc very good, lu. in these times man
may be all right on Lorses arr ! All wroro on
politics. Grant may be an right FIR what
] know, but then again he NAV be all wr,no
II he wants to lie President by my voice
and the voice Of the men act with. he must
not only be right but he must prove that he
is. We must have bis word h,cl,.l ly some
official act showing him t. =, In e-rpa,ly
with Us, and in favor Of thc q e'riua. W. all
vocatt. We won't take any NUNS ,y.rl