The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-08-27

love Englandi Has oppression and
massacre reconciled the Poles to tho
domination of Russiaf Human nature
is the same everywhere. Reduced to
despair by oppression, the oppressed
will resort to desperate remedies. Nay,
where all hope is lost, they will sooner
rush upon death itself than live degra-
ded aud dishonored lives. If there be
any people in the world who will not
submit to hopeless oppression, it is
those who have been raised under the
free institutions of the United States.
Let each voter of the Nsrth ask him
SELF how he would feel, and what he
would do, if an usurping Congress were
to deprive him of the rights of a free
man, and subject him in life, liberty,
and property to the absolute control OF
ignorant and penniless negroes. As he
would answer that inquiry, so let him
act. Let him not wonder that notes
such as he himself might utter under
like circumstances reach his ears occa-
sionally from the South; and let him ask
himself whether he is prepared by his
vote te reproduce on this continent the
conduct of England towards Ireland,
and of Russia towards Poland. No man
of sense and intelligence can 'expect
peace in the South so long as large
portion of the white population are ex-
cluded from all participation in their
own government, and exposed to be
plundered and oppressed by their late
slaves, led on by adventures from the
North. They laid down their arms in
good faith; they gave up their slaves;
they surrendered the principle for
which they had fought; they accepted
the poverty to which they had been re-
duced; and they sought only to be al
lowed the privilege of free and loyal
citizens under the old flag. This Presi-
dent Lincoln, and President Johnson,
following in his footsteps, desired to
concede to them. The former fell by
the hands of n rebel assassin; the latter
has been ferociously hunted by anoth-
er class of assassins. The policy of the
two Presidents was Identical; and yet
our Radicals, with singular inconsist'
eacy, defy the dead Lincoln and crGcity
the living Johnson. Why is this 7 Lin.
coin is ont OF their way, and they would
profit by his virtues; Johnson is lion
in their path, and they would destroy
him for his fidelity in attempting to
protect the Constitution.
What sort OF peace is to be expected
in the South so long as white people
are prescribed and negroes allowed to
govern, may be safely inferred from the
condition of those reconstructed States
Louisiana and Tennessee. Their Gov
ernors and Legislatures are calling for
military aid, avowing their incapacity
TO maintain peace and enforce the laws
by the civil authorities. IL this be so,
this conclusive proof that Congression
al reconstruction, ~ . means of tran.
QUILTING the South, is a failure. The
road To peace is in another direction.
Let Congress retire within the limita-
tons of the Constitution. Let them
abolish their test Oaths and remove all
their disabilities. Let them restore to
the President his legitimate functions,
and allow his pardOns to have their
constitutional effect. Let them strength
en- instead of weaken the judiciary, and
sustain il i'll its full exercise of its pow
crs, for the protection OF both the white
and the black.
Wipe out rs with i sponge all your
er post .taCio legislation, and restore TO
all the States their constitutional rights.
Do this, and you will have peace. The
men whom you now hold disfranchised
and have pushed to the verge of despair
will become your sureties for the pres
crvation of peace and the restoration
of order.
Reverse the picture, and what are the
prospects of this country! Attempt to
sustain these negro governments by
force, and you reduce the prescribed
white men to despair. Your army in
stead of being reduced, must be dOub-
led The taxes, instead of being dimin-
shcd, must be increased. If Congress
cannot (as they have noD prevent an
increase of our frightful national debt
in times of peace, what mountains must
be added to it by reHewal of war 7
And in tho anarchy which must ensue,
what is to become of our republican in
situations? Arc we, like the peo-
pie of so many other republics
which have lived and persisted,
destined to seek for rcpOse in
the arms of a military despotism i'm
plOrc my countrymen TO look the dan
gers of the coming crisis in the face, and
so use the power left to them as to Sc
cure union, peace, and prosperity, with
out further resort to prescription or the
sword. These views come from one who
warned the South against secession as
the road to ruin, but in vain: from one
who warned the Democratic party
against yielding to the counsels of
few leaders who were lukcwarm, or
worse, in support of the war for the
Union, but in vail; from one who
thinks he secs the fatal results of per-
sistence in Radical reconstruction a.
distinctly as he foresaw the results of
secession, and the effects of Demo
cratic policy during the war; from one
who wants nothing from his Govern
ment but to be protected and let alone;
from one who must soon be summoned
before his Maker TO account for the
manner in which be has discharged his
duties to his God, his country and his
fellow men.
AS ever, Jackson Democrat.
AMOS KENDALL.