The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-25

been so tattered, torn and dlsiigured by
the Radical party within the last ten
wears that their trainers could not recog-
nize them were they to arise from the
dead. The whole character Of our
Government has been completely revo,
lutionized, and from a constitutional
Republic of limited powers and dis
tinctlv defined State lines, and with
white people to govern it, we have been
converted into a consolidated govern
ment with all old land marks demOl-
ished, and with all powers centered in
Congress, and with negroes, carpet-bag,
gers and scalawags to rule the white
race! 1t is simply falsehood, there
fore, for the Radicals to assert that
they have any respect for the
Declaration of independence or the
Constitution as original formed, for
they have shamefully violated both in
their every feature, and trampled them
under their foot.
Third. That the Fifteenth Amend
ment to the Constitution Of the United
States which forbids the exclusion OF
any class from an equal voice in the
government by reason of the accident
of race or color, or of the misfortune
of previous oppression, accords with
these honored principles of the Decla-
ration of Independence, and is alike es-
sential to justice between men, to the
consistency Of the Government, and to
the harmonious relations Of the races
within its jurisdiction.
1t will be observed here that the
Declaration of Independence is only
respected to the extent that it is per
verted into the sanction ofthe Fifteenth
Amendmentand of negro suffrage; for
it is no longer recognized by them as
a shield to that portion Of the white
race who are excluded from an equal
voice in the government 10y Radical
legislation An accidental negro
stands higher with them now than any
portion of the white race, and the Fed
eral Constitution is only esteemed Il re-
spectacle" instrument to the extent that
it can he perverted to the advantage of
the negro ballot
Fourth. That We highly commend
the spirit OF magnanimity and forgive
ness with which men who now frankly
and honestly cooperate with us in re-
storing the peace of the country, upon
the basis of impartial justice and equal
rights, are received back into the COM
munion Of the loyal people; and we
favor the removal of the Disqualified
tons and restrictions imposed upon the
late rebels, in the same measure a. the
spirit of disloyaltv will die ont; and as
NAV be consistent with the safety Of the
loyal people
This Is Il tissue OF hypocrisy and
ialsehood from the top 10 the bottom.
The Radical party of this State have
shown rebels no maguammity or
forgiveness whatever On the contrary,
year after the war was over they ias-
tened upon them a registration law and
an amended constitution, that robbed
them of the sacred rights of freemen and
imposed on them the most cruel
injustice, which they have retained
to this day, and which they do not in
tend to remove as long as they are per
mitted to hold power When they talk
about the removal OF the Disqualified
tons and restrictions imposed upon the
late rebels after their spirit of dis
loyalty shall die ont, they simply mean
to assert under the transparent disguise
ofhypOcrites that they willremove these
disabilities from any one who will
abandon his principle and barter away
his conscience, and attach himself, like
SWAMI, to the Radical party. All who
do these mean things will be "loyal,"
and none others
Fifth. That the Republican party of
West Virginia fully endorses the action
of its representatives, in the last Legis-
lature, in submitting the question of
the Constitution to the peo-
pie of the State, and at the same time
recognizes the right of each individual
to think, speak and vote thereon, ac-
cording to his best Judgment, and the
dictates Of his own conscience.
The FLICK amendment Jared badly,
and it is attempted TO. beconcealed away
IN the above resolution, which is the
most hypocritical and false of the whole
series, In the first part of the resolu-
ton they damn that measure with faint
praise, but in the close they show the
cloven foot by authorizing any member
of the party to think, speak and vote
as he pleasesl Aud then to
show their utter contempt both for
FLICK and his amendment, the Conven-
ton kicked him overheard along with
his bantling and left them to rot to-
yether. Poor FLICK! Like an expir-
ing tallow candle he has fiickerei and