The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-21

\ vain. He determined to keep them
from holding authority in that land.
He determined to turn out the Mayor
of New Orleans, whom johnson had
pardoned TO assume the Mayorship of
! New Orleans. He determined to stand
| by the unprotected and deienseless,
aud, forgetful of all his achievements
in behalf OF the nation-forgetful of his
heroism at the closing battle of the re-
belliou-Andrew johnson exiles him
from Louisiana and Texas, dishonoTed,
as he supposed by his domination, but
lifts him to prouder place in the
hearts OF the American people day
than when he was there as the behest
of your President.
We had another General, who for
merly had been Democratic member
of Congress. He went out into the ser
vice OF his country and lost limb at
! Gettysburg. He was stricken down by
the fiat of this President, who was 60
ing, a few years ago, to make treason
odiouS. L.... r.
You had Secretary of War, a firm
friend OF Mr.. Lincoln, man who or
ganized victory during the war. You
scarcely knewh how much your Secreta-
ry of War did for you. You heard OF
the victories OF our commanders, but
in that Department OF War, before bat
tlea could be fought, your Secretai Y OF
War had to. organize com issary de-
partment of the army, he had TO oorgau-
ize a medical department SO that our
remedies would reach your soldiers,
and SO he had to form other depart
ments of the army He would not fol-
low johnson i'll his apostacy, and stood
there faithful to the country. The act
of your President in striking him
down and removing him from office
until the meeting OF Congress, Will ex-
pire on the 29th of November, when
Mr.. Stanton will come back to his De
partment of War. tCheers.l And l
can say, in the language of Watts: f5
..FIy swiftly round, ye wheelso OF time,
And speed the welcome day."
[Cheers.l 5e@L .ssla 'aa-
r RADICALIsM. .t
A word now about Congressional
policy. They call US Radicals. They
used to call US Abolitionists, aud we
converted the word from a synonym OF
reproAch to one of honor. Then they
called us Black Republicans, which.
they thought, would effectually kill US
of; but just about these days there are
ii good many more Black Republicans
down South then they would like to re-
cognize. Laughter and cheers.l Next
they began calling us Radicals, and
they thought that would be the hnlsh-
ing stroke. Well, L am n Radical, from
the crown OF my head TO the sole OF my
foot-radical for the right as against The
wrong, radical for justice as against in
Justice, radical for equality and against
Oppression, radical for liberty and
against slavery. l am a radical friend
Tor every friend OF my country, and II
radical enemy for every enemyot my
native land. [Cheers.l Ha g....
"a voice "Let 'em wriggle"-Laugh-
teri
In 1854, Johuson-you have heard of
L.; I IA IalkEG a
great deal about the Constitution these
duys; and he reads the Constitution to
us through rebel spectacles, the only
kind he has these timeS-told us rebels
should take back seats, but he now
seeks to destroy the great party that
these gentlemen to hack seats IN the
national capital. They have been oc-
cunying those seats in the galleries,
where they could look down on this
Congress which they hate. They have
not yet come to legislating orthe meu
whom they foughtin the battlefield.
confess that when reconstruction -
over, and these States have been re-
stored to their proper orbits in the ma
tional constellation, while shall be
willing to grant an act OF amnesty To
nearly all who have been engaged III
this rebellion, there are some men WHO
have been peTiurers as well as traitors
honor, trust and profit in the Congress
OF the United States, and who, dellber-
ately, with their oaths still upon them,
when they had not yet resigned their
seats, sat down and plotted the de-
structfon of the country, and as ennis
sapies of the South lit the land with the
flames OF civil wHr-thess men, ltell
YOU, Tor one, never intend to restore
to their former power in the govern
ment of this country. lApplnuse,l-
This is not large class, but it is an IN
huential one.
But we are told we are guilty of
usurpation, because we are not willing
TO reco instruct them upon disloyal
basis; because we have passed acts the
effect ofwhich is to give loyal men the
power in those States. Before proceed
ing to examine this question, let me
say that when these States come back,
as they will come back, they are to be
led back, so far as my vote and counsel
shall have any influence, by those men
who have been faithful to their country
in the South during the darkest hour
of the Republic. When treason swept
over this land, there were some men
who refused to bow the Knee TO Bahl.
The rebels passed laws denouncing all
who failed to 60 with them into seces-
sion and treason; they were visited with
persecution; they were hung TO trees by
the wRyside, 10 deter others from being
faithful to the stars and stripes OF their
land, In spite of all persecution, they
stood Arm, and said, Welcome, outrage,
persecution, Imprisonment and death;
but for us, we stand by our country
RndIthe Constitution TO the last beat OF
our hearts. They were faithful among
| the faithless; they were true among the
false; they were patriots among trait
ors: and God do so 10 me II in this day
of our national triumph l turn my
back on those loyal men who defied the
dominant power of the traitors OF their
country. [Cheers.l II you can dothis,
| let dHathemd HIdTdndLhd be written upon
your door siIls, for you will be de-
| nounced by all the nations of the earth.
agH ACCEPTING THE SITUATION. 90 '.-
But we are told they accept tina situ-
alton down South. reckon they had
TO. I remember person spoken OF in
| history who accepted the situation. In
the tirst rebellion known in history,
| and of which Milton has written at
| length, the chief consptrator, when
| thrown from the battlements OF heaven
unto the abyss of despair, accepted the
situation; and never nsard that by ac-
| ceptfng the situation he was allowed to
| again return to the courts above. There
/ was another man who accspted The
| situation; 1t was PByne-the man who
| with his bowie knife sought to take the
life OF the Secretary OF State. He
was captured, tried, convicted and
\ hung as he deserved TO be. He accepted
the situation, JUST as any unrepentBnt
/ rebel in the land may, ike Toombs,
| and Sharkey, and others. Sometimes
| YOU send man to The Penitentiary, L
suspect, from Ibis country; and when
such a man is first captured, because
he can no longer resist your officers, and
frn cir