The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-13
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10 TRG EEGEST sL'---,
Geo. I. PGldlGtol.
His First Speech in the Canvass
v.xad questions not Happily
settled.
THE NATION is NOT PROSPEROUS |!
THE union IS NOT RESTORED
The Constitution is not Main
tained!
ODDOSItlOn I'D TIE httcclAi
Amendments.
1t Destroys Local Self-GoV,
eminent.
1t compels Negro Enfran-
chiSement.
It Perfects White DlsTfan-
chisement.
THE NATIONAL FINANCES
Secretary Boutwell'S Policy
How the Debt should be Paid
when Specie Payments c. Z
be Resumed
THE NATIONAL FINANCES
Secretary Boutwell's Policy
How the Debt should be Paid
when Specie Payments c.
be Resumed

called Mt hI0 reSlCencS on luelI wa.
from 7.e Fer, We erd9y, and insisted
on sneecn. He Uegged OIL, but hnalI.
consented, and spoke over en- hour, snip
nor e. on his cru,ches. Among othe
thlprs ne sid: l cannot agree VIII
Governor HAYES, that all the vexe'
Questions Of our national politcs ar
wisely and happily settled; that tn
great questions of liberty aud Union
and tue reconstruction OF the Union
have been made safe. l cannot aSre
that IetlenChment, economy an'
boues.v have been introduced int
tine mSuaaement of Federal e&pendi
inns. tb5t the debt has been decreased
and j. decreasing as lie states 1t; tha'
the uriGeus of t, SaUion have been re
duceG and their weight upon the people
hobteued: that sound Judgment art
freedom from bad Influences have beef
brought to the exercise OF the immense
mower of the Secretary OF the IIeasuiE
that business is action, that enterprise
is action, that yigOr and energy and IN
dusrrv are bOuntliully rewarded; thai
emplOvment is abundant, that daily
toll Is fairly compensated, that com
merce on the ocean and ON the land
nrosnerous. and, therefore, / cannot Sc
yereiv. as does orr worthy Governor,
turD nv face from all questions OF Fed
eral notifies and look only at State at
fairs. 1t ought to he so, II 1t were not
for schemes of consolidation. II State
affairs were left 10 State management;
ifFederal affairs were kept withiu SCOPE
of Constitutional provisions 1t would be
SO. But | cannOt pretend to believe
what know To be false | cannot say
the Union is restored when Virginia
and Mississippi Iand Texas are under
Military Governors and Georgia Is with
out representation in Congress; that
peace is restored when justice Is admin
istered by drum head court martial
that the Constitution is maintained
when We know that the Supreme Courl
is only waiting an opportunity to de
clare the reconstruction acts uncOnstl
tutionaI. oppose the adoption of the
Fifteenth Amendment because IT Is a
radical revolution IN our system OF gov
ernment: because il DIES roys the rcla-
tion of the States to the Federal Union,
which the Constitution established, de-
grades them, takes away from the States
without their consent that essential
attribute of s5lf government IN COM
munity. the right to determine who
shall exercise the right OF suffrage, and
because il was intended to and will in
troduce negro suffrage in Ohio against
the will of her people. Two yeats ago
the people of Ohio, ithout distinction OF
party. by an immense majority, refused
to amend the State Constitution. After
Sill nd a
gro suffrage, see no reason to believe
they have changed their opinion. l OBJ
iect 10 it's adoption because, by the
strongest implication, it cOnfers upon
Congress aud reserves to the States the
right to exclude from the ballot persons
of our own white race because of theirna-
tivity, creed or want OF education, or oil
the pc verify, and prohibits the exclusion
only ofanofher race, aud if the interpre
tations OF Senator Morton aud Senator
Howard, be correct under the amend
menu OF Congress, States may eNcindt
Irishmen, German, Catholic, Protestant
or the poor man from the enJ"Imtnt %
suffrage, but not the negro or the Mon
poliaus | object to lis adoption be
cause il il Is "a part auU parcel OF :
scheme to flood the county with 4
forced importation Of IN immense nun
Der of Chinese coolies, end bring into
our midst an alien race, md repeal in .
more q tiicu't form the social "nd
good questions, whica hive % unhdp
PLY divided orr cope.
The last reyoi, " the Secret. Y
shows he is hc..oluE Slel,2ll,335 in
cor r"' so, IA G,s 1 currency Why
To wL,t good uGIpose ere tie custom
of half yer thus held The ncOule
are thereon rayinE six rer cent. in gold
as in,crrs; GA the pubic debt, end the
Secretary is EJ.TGiug this Immense
amount. Eccr month, with gleat pa.
Tade, he sells ak or nine wi'liors. and
with the proceeds he buys bones, giVia.
in mai kct for them twenty five per cent
above par. They are now TcGcema%lt
on their face 10y law III equity; they gre
payable IN legal-teuder notes. The
holders gave legal. tenders for then
when lCGdl-tender notes were worth no
more than half what they now ere
Contraction brings universal fall O
prices of goods and labor, while debts
taxes and moneyed obligations remain
fixed. The man who has money become
much richer. The system is RADICAL
unjust; the debt contracted on our cx
panded currency should be paid in tn
same currency. The dollar which
paid should be of the same value as th
the dollar which was loaned. Tn
whole policy of the admlnistralio
should be reversed Pay the debt Pa
it honestly, according TO contract. Pa
it in money as valuable as that whic
was received for it, Pay it in legal ter
der notes. Abolish the national ban
system. Pay off the bonds on whic
they are founded. Save the yearly III
terest. Use every appliance of econom
and management in advancing this POI
icy. Then when the debt is paid, whe
the taxes are reduced, when seventy
five millions suffice for the Govern uen
expenses, when all property is subjects
to JUS rule of taxation, if il he nd
visable IL contract the currency nm
resume specie payment, it can he ,tf~c,
ed without disaster and the ipevit.II
suffering can b. borue.