The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-10

clared that neither the Unitsds STATES
nor any State of the Union shall confer
any title of nobility? They meant by
it that the nobility recognized under
the American Constitution shall bs the
nobility that springs from duty well
nerformed. They recognized the fact
that the workers and the builders-the
natisof honest toll and honest purpose
tho men whose industry feeds, and
clothes md shelters nAtions-the men
who npturn from the depth of the earth
vour immense mineral masses aud
mold them amid the darkness that
broods over the blast OF the furnace and
the rolling wheel into forms OF strength
and use and beauty-the men whose
toll covers your fields with golden
grain and clothes your mountains to
the very submits with the purple vine
the men who hew from the forest and
the rock the material and build the
babitations of natious-these are the
true nobility, the heroes, the very elect
of the human race who are fit TO live
and to rule upon The earth. lap
plausel IF American institutions
are ever TO attain the end for
which they were ordained in the be-
Ginning. that is 10 say, ito establish
Justice and insure the blessings of lib
erty''-it will only be attained when
you make your laws SO just that there
is no human being within the whole
broad land who shall not lie beneath
their protecting care. II there be any
man here who thinks be ought TO have
any speciul privileges in this respect that
are not to be equally assured and guar
anteed 80 the stranger within your
gates" friendless and homeless. let
him rise in his place and let his neigh
bors look upon him.
This is to be opposed by this Demo.
cratic party in the year lS6S, after all
that our eyes have seen in THIS IN
matched and unparalleled conflict for
the maintenance of free Institutions
Saw these demagogues at New York, SIT
ia an usurpation and it is unconstitu-
tional to amend the Constitution by the
consent of three fourths of the States
of this Union so that 1t shall read In all
the hereafter, No State shall deny to
any person, citizen or stranger, the
equal protection of the laws. lap.
p!ause,i leave It's further discussion.
Go home and consider oiit. Print iton
your tickets when you go to the polls,
If YOU still be of that mind. trust a
new light may shine upon you that
will teach you better. But If you re-
main Cf that mind print al the head of
your ticket, II am opposed 10 that
amendment which declares no State
shall deny to any person the equal pro
lection of the laws" and when you go
TO the polls on election day with the
horrible words printed at the head OF
your ticket, read it If You dare, and see
II the blasphemy will not scar your
eyeballs. [Applause,1
There is another provision of this
amendment that has excited the indig-
nation of Wade Hampton and made
him write III the Democratic platform !;
it is an act OF usurpation so TO amend
the Constitution, and that is this: that
neither the United States nor any State
shall ever assume or pay any debt or
obligation contracted in aid of rebel
lion, either past, present or to come.
10" says Wade Hampton, If you do
that, where are we to get pay tor the
scrip Which we issued by the cart-load
at Richmond 10 prosecute the war
against the Union? We tell you to go
TO the treasury OF the first rebel tre-
mendous cheerinP1 against just and
righteous law for your pay; but
never while the American people are
true to themselves, true 10 their dead
and to their living defenders shall one
blade OF grass or one kernel OF grain
grown on all this broad land ever yield
tribute to pay debts or discharge oblt-
cations contracted in aid of an unjust
and unrighteouS rebellion against the
fabric of American Empire. Applause, ]
What else is there in this platform
that is so anti Democratic that Wade
Hampton, and Howell Cobb and Gen.
Beauregard, and that Ratchet faced con
spirator, across the sea, waiting for the
good time to come, John Slidel, cannot
vote for it. tLaughter.l 1t Is this other
provision that the national debt, con-
tracted in defense of the Union anu the
Constitution, including bounties ahd
pensions to soldiers and sailors, never
Shall be questioned but shall be paid.
TApplause.1 30, now" they say, that
Is unfair. We contracted debt OF
four thousand millions to destroy the
Union you contracted debt Oi four
thousand millions 10 save il. You
have paid part of your debt already !;
we have paid none of ours; but we
want it fixed so that you shall he'll pay
it. [Laughter.l And If you put these
two provisions into the Constitution
the game is up not only as 10 the past
rebellion but as to the coming rebel
lion" You remember this chief apOs.
tie of all these modern democrats"
that assembled at New York, Wade
Hampton, who occupied the highest
seat in the Democratic synagogue
during those seven days of incubation,
Claughterl tells you he has his "trusty
sword" laid away which he drew In the
"sncred cause" of disunion, and that
sit will never doto put this provision
into the Constitution, making sacred
on the one hand the National debt, and
especially the National debt to lis de-
tenders, and repudiate the debt we con-
tracted in the business of cutting the
throats and blowing out the brains with
shot and she'll OF five hundred thousand
OF the soldiers of that hated Union"
And yet these men
With smooth discrimination skilled to grace,
a DEVILS purpose with an angels face
pirate about their love of the Constitu-
ton [lauPhterl and ask the Democrats
of West Virginia to go With them,
Allow me to whisper in your ear, my
fellow Democrat of West Virginia, the
day you follow their bidding in this,
before God and men you will be guilty
of great wrong to yourselves and
your country. This is plain talk, but
it is fit we should have plain talk when
the contest touches the Nations life.
There is one other provision in this
amendment that is objected TO, and
that is that neither the United States
nor any State shall ever make com.
pensation for emancipated slaves.
They are footing the bill for slaves up
in kentucky-I do not remember the
footing. The:other day the whole rebel
army of Kentucky voted in that direC-
tion-the Ku-Klux Khan included.
[Cheers.l They say ii it has come to
that that no compensation for slaves is
to be made, we are impoverished. Not
make US compensation Tor these four
million of slaves emancipated by the
war! tits not surprising these fellows
swear it is unconstitutional to amend
the Constitution when the Constitution
amendment, and when Washington,
who was supposed in his day and gem
Grafton to know something, thought it
important to write down IN his Fare
we'll Address that the right of the peo-
pie to alter and amend their constitu-