The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-22
The Insolence of the Rebels.
Golden words of Truth..-Let Every
working Nan and Every
Patriot Read. %

that II was SUBSTANTIALLY the END OF me
war. 1t is a mistake. The war was
first Monday of November, 1868, by the
reelection of Abraham Lincoln. Zap
plause.1 After that day there never
was another rebel victory. On that
day the rebellion received its mortal
wound, and it was dying, dying from
that day uutil its final surrender.
The peace and harmony ofthe coun-
try will be restored on the third day OF
November, 1858. [Cheers.l Dlscord,
misTule and anarchy pervade the South
now, because stimulated 10 actiYl-
ty by the hope of success in the COM
ing Presidential election. That hope
/ gone, the election past, nothing left to
and obedience TO the laws, and you will
have peace from the Potomac to the Rio
! Grande. You cannot have it in any
other way; because 1t is now announc-
ed for the first time in the political his
tory OF The country that 10 Is to be an
admitted doctrinel that a President of
the United States may use the army
and navy for the purpose of over
throwing and trampling under foot
the laws of Congress. The very COR
ner.stone of the Republic is to be re-
moved; the keystone of the arch is TO
be taken away. There can be nothing
but anarchy unless the constituted au-
thorities ofthe country are to be obey
ed by the whole people, and the Will of
tho majority, carried out in the forms
prescribed In the Constitution, Is to re-
ceIve universal obedience.
This is the first time in the history of
this country that any political party
has dared 10 put itself before the peo-
pie on proposition of resistance to the
laws OF the country, and of comforting
on the President the power, to Judge
what laws he will execute, and what
laws he will disregard and overturn.
That is substantially the question sub
mitted to the American people to-day.
want to call the attention of the PEG.
pie OF West Virginia single moment
TO what is their practical condition If
this doctrine is TO be adopted. There is
no rebel in this nation, there is not a
man who ranges himself under the
Democratic banner, outside of the State
of West Virginia, who does not hold
that the admission of the State of West
Virginia into the Union was unconsti-
trine OF the party. Every member OF
Congress of the party voted against It.
Montgomery Blair, as one of the Con-
stitutional advisers of Congress, gave
the President his written opinion that
the law was unconstitutional, and adj
vised him TO veto II; and used every
| fundamentally in his power to induce
the President TO veto the law admitting
| West Virginia into the Union. Il is the
doctrine of the party out of the State,
and very largely in the State, too, that
the State OF West Virginia was uncon-
stitutionally admitted into the Union.
| Now mark me: 1t is claimed that
the President may disregard and null
lily unconstitutional laws. That is the
doctrine on WHICH this election is to
turn. Let Mr.. Seymour be elected
President; then when the Governor OF
the State of Virginia shall send over
the mountains his officers and attempt
to execute the laws of the State of Yir.
ginia within the limits of the State of
West Virginia, on the ground her adj
mission was unconstitutional and the
act for her admission void, then what
comes? We, of course, resist the
State of Virginia. That would not
fret US much. We could get along
with that. But tho Governor of
the State of Virginia then reports
to the President that there Is an "insur-
rectiOn" In the State of VirGinia-Rn
lnsurTectionary government in the city
of Wheeling, a"bogus' Legislature
and Governor there; md he calls on
the President to give him the aid of the
army OF the United States for the pur-
pose of suppressing an instruction in
tho State of VirRinin. What would Mr..
Seymour do, with the doctrine of the
Democratic party that the admission
was unconstitutional, and That the Pres
ident has n right, is authorized and that
1t is HIS duty, if he judgesa law uncon-
stitutioual, to disregard 1t and trampie
It under foot, when he received the de-
mRnd of the State of Virginia that the
army of the United States DO used for
the purpose of overthrowing the Gov
eminent ofWest Virginia and re. estab-
fishing the government of Virginia on
its ruins. 1.-The complies, will not that
make war There will be little speck
OF II, unless am greatly deceived. We
do not mean to be returned to the Old
Dominion, It0ke II, without knowing
the reason why. We do not mean to
recognize the Sovereignty and suprema.
cy of the Richmond dynasty, without
most excellent reasons.
want you to look at this thing! That
is the state of the case. 1t Is the duty
of the President to enforcs thelRws and
aid in the suppression of instructions.
By the Constitution, if the Governor of
State in which, the Legislature is not
in session shall report to the President
that there is an instruction which the
authorities OF the State have not the
power to suppress. II is the duty of the
President OF the United States to iur-
nish him tho means necessary for its
suppression. 1t is pretty clear to my
mind that the State of Virginia will
not have the power to '.suppress" this
little "lnsurrection" West ofthe noun
talns. Then the Governor of Virginia
viii report to the President that there
Is tnsurrection here which he Is inca.
pablo of suppressing.
That all goes on the theory that the
admission of West Virginia is Tuncon-
stitutiona" and "void," aud that the
President of the United State NAV die
regard the laws OF Congress for the re.
construction of the rebel States. over.
turn what Frank Blair denominates
the carpet bag" governments at the
point OF the bayonet. Why not on the
same reason and philosophy II he
holds the government of West Virginia
unconstitutional, overturn that in the
same way?
1 take 1t as practical question com.
ing home to the people of West Yir-
ginia, question they Will appreciate.
You have had here day or two ago
some extraordinary demonstrations. /
believe Gen. Grant was carried around
in procession here represented as on a
whisky barrel, with the libels "Grant
the Butcher"-HGrant the ThieR'i and
all that. Now II Grant is to be elected,
and II we are to carry Ohio county, 1
want them to have Just such a process
sion every week. [Great CheerinE,1 II
is utterly impossible that the moral
sense of this community, of any polit-
ichl party, can become so depraVed and
so degraded as to see the country's de-
tenders reviled and nbelled in public
in this way. Whatever may be the
opinions or men, In their sober mo-
ments, about the merits Of Gen. Grant
as candidate for the Presidency, or
their opinions of the principles of the
party Gen. Grant represents, no man
can fail to entertain for him feeling of
the most profound respect asa brave,
gallant and successful General, a man
VINO saved us through four years OF war
from national disruptfon and banl-