The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-11
NESS of Ben BurLER is almost forgotten

ness of BEN BUTLER Is almost forgotten
because he represents the ideas
of equal taxation and green
back redemption, and his con
stituents send him back TO Congress
by q majority of more than six thou
sand over all competitors. Bat for the
trickery Of the politicians represented
by the World, these instances that sho"
the popularity of the greenback theor!
would have been multiplied all ever the
country, and the Democratic party ano
principles would have triumphed in the
late fight. Four years hence this same
plan of greenback redemption will be
revived, and its popularity will not de-
crease in the meantime. --.ssa
Nor is the reconstruction question
"dead issue" The WOrld has this spe'
ciaI reference to the Florida troubles
Florida is in revolution. Less in pop
ulation than our Seventeenth Ward, II
is in mechanism and management q
State. and now exhibits the cheerful
of two would-be Governors,
and one Legislature declared illegal by
the Executive elected, who has been
"impeached" by the "law making" pow
er on such charges as "lying," selling
commissions" "robbing the treasury
and sundry other kindred felonies.
Compliments pass down there, and the
carpet bagger-in.c chief retorts by de-
claring the "impeaching" body extinct
because more than quorum have
constitutionally vacated their seats
by accepting contemporaneous ap-
pointments to other offices. AT
last accounts the president of the Sem
ate had proclaimed the Governor de-
posed pending impeachment, and had
sought to assume the powers of state
himself, in which attempt he had been
substantially told by the Governor de
factO to seek zone yet more tropical
than even the land of flowers. SO each
declares himself ruler and simultane-
ously summons the negro militia to his
side. To neither of whom do the col
ored troops, though they undoubtedly
fought noblv, seem anxious to 1ock
while on the furious factions the dis
franchised virtue and brain of the State
look with the cOmplacency OF lndliter-
ence wherewith the wife regarded the
traditional war between her husband
and the bear.
Now what makes "revolutionp in
Florida' Simply, Congressional recon
structiou. Is that policy which has
emptied Tophet and peopled the South
with warning devils to be acquiesced In
and the whole subject regarded as set
tied because GRANT is to be President
Is the right of Congress to "organize
hell" in ten of the States to be conceded
merely because the result of the late
election is against usi If we were
right in our grounds of opposition to
Con- resSional usurpation down South,
we cannot now abandon that oppOsi-
tiou. The position taken was that the
Constitution gave Congress no right to
deprive the people of the States
of the right to control their own
domestic affairs. Abandon that posi-
tion now, and we admit the authority
of Congress TO legislate negro suffrage
into West Virginia or to set up scala
wag satrapy il tn" State OF Ohio So
long as there is wrong unredressed, or
an evil unremedied in the policy of Con-
gress toward the States lately III rebel
lion, so long will that policy form a
legitimate subject of political discus
sion. Those who declare such subject
to DO dead" or such discussion out of
place, may represent their own wishes,
but they don't represent any intelligent
mans belief.