The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-02-04
THE WORK OF RESTORA.
TION.

Evils Of Congressionnl Csurpatios-
General Grant and the Presidency.
Editor of the Register:
In renewing my subscription to your
valuable paper, permit me to say that
you are rendering valuable service to
the friends and cause of constitutional
liberty. Some of our conservative
friends at times seem to despair of the
complete and final restoration of the
Union on the principles and with the
safeguards of the Federal Constitution.
This dependency ought not to be in
dulged, but every good man, every pa
triot, should 60 to work, discarding all
party bias, and by every persuasive ar
gument endeavor to inspire in our peo-
pie love and veneratiOn for the Con-
stitntiOn, which alone can secure to the
country civil and religious liberty. The
good sense and great patience of the
Southern people are greatly helping us
in the work of restoring the Union, and
if the letter writers and mischief ma
kers who have been trying to keep up
strife by misrepresenting the two great
sections of the country could be si-
fenced, the work would be speedily
accomplished. Much is to be gained in
tho selection of n candidate for the
Presidency of the United States for the
next term. 1t must be apparent to all
close observers of the times that the
tendency is to impair, if not destroy,
the proper functions and power Of the
Executive and Supreme Judicial
branches of the Government, leaving
the country at the mercy of the ever
changing and wayward policy of the
Legislative branch. To arrest this ten
dency, we must have President strong
enough to vindicate and defend the con-
stitutional prerogatiye of the Execu-
tive, and reinstate the proper checks
and balances provided in the constitu-
tion. In my opinion, General Grant is
the best if not the only man that can,
and if elected will maintain the constitu-
tion and restore the union of the States.
Extreme men North and South may OBJ
ject to Gen. Grant, but good and true men
of all parties have great confidence in
his honesty and moral courage, and if
nominated will be elected by such q
majority as will enable him at once to
check and control that disorganizing
tendency and spirit which now paral-
izes the energies and threatens to over
throw the liberties, of the nation. If
the Union party, at the close of the
war, had restored tie Union by admit
ting representatives from the Southern
States so soon as they had abolished
slavery and repudiated the Confederate
debt, the great staples Otobacco, rice,
sugar, and cotton, to- day would be con-
tributing largely towards paying the
public debt, aud universal confidence in
the stability of the Government would
exist. Although much valuable time
has been lost by the failure of Congress
to fix promptly the status of the South
ern States and people, the misstep can
only be partially corrected and the
dangers averted by the election of a
Chief Magistrate who will look to the
safety md perpetuity Of the Government
and not to the interest of a party, and
who has popularity and power among
the people to enable him to control
all organizations hostile or dangerous to
the Constitution.
My opinion is worth but little, but !
honestly think that General Grant is
the man for the times.