The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-08
,t'h:;iia0 4,sgi5ter.
THE NEW CONSTITUTION.
It's Claims TO Respect, Confidence
and Adoption-The Fsetiousness
OF the Radicals The Desertion
and Treachery OF the BoIters-


or the Radicals The Dosertior
and Treaehsry OF the BoIters-
We are now witnessing the death
struggle of the great faction. 1t go'
possession of the State in an hour o.
dismay aud violence. 1t used its power
to iutimidate the people, to violate al
legislative powers, to corrupt the courts
OF Justice, to exercise unlawful and un,
constitutional Executive powers; and
in all these to confound the powers o'
government, to bewilder the judgments
of men in all questions OF prudence and
propriety, and to perplex their minds
"a to all the measures OF right and
wrong. Their power was despotic, and
they used it without good sense and
without mercy. Mslevolent and vile
men joined them to have an opPortu-
nifty to crafty the basest passions OF
vengeance or vindictiveuess; the selfish
and the mean and the avaricious be
came their instruments, for they had
the offices, and all the contracts and
expenditures passed through their
hands, and filled the Golfers and the
pockets OF the corrupt, and none but
their tools and toadies, whom they
styled the "loyal," were permitted to
manage any business whatever with
freedom or without some drawback; the
weak and the unmanly Joined them for
want OF moral stamina to oppose a dan.
gerous and powerful foe to moral
snd civil liberty; the vain~glorious,
and men contemplate in their vanity
,oined them, for they had the fuss, the
feathers, the shoddy and the false dis-
lnonds, and the positions in life won by
the means which all these facts indl-
cate. But from time to time, as the
contusions OF society began to settle, the
men OF clearer heads and kinder hearts
dropped away from them and sought
more Just relations and more honorable
positions among their fellow-men, until
the Liberal party accomplished the rev.
olution OF the State, has restored order
to society and greater social confidence
among men, aud given strength to the
conviction that our republican institu-
tions are not yet submerged and lost.
la the transition state in which parties
sre now. some confusion and perplexity
of Judgment is inevitable; and, again,
malevolent aud weak men have been
tempted to their ruin by their passions
aud their vanity, and would vote for
the defeat OF the new Constitution, and
thus forego and lose all the principle"
gained by the struggle, and would give
the power OF the State back into the
hands Of those men who heretofore
used it so senselessly and so mercilessly,
both in their treatment OF individuals,
and their official functions as the Legis-
\ lative, judicial and executive officers OF
the State. II the following contrast is
a painful one, and recalls dark recollec,
lions OF SORROWS and struggles, and
memories unfavorable to the actors in
our past history, it is the painful truth
Of history. The memory of the past
is the warning for the future.
ls the Government OF the United
States one Of enumerated powers ?
Cart. l. ~ II it is, why do not the
Republicans want the Constitution to
say so2 Because they are for Grant
ism.
II it is "the duty of the several de-
partments of government created by
this Constitution to guard and protect
the people OF this State from all en-
croachments upon the rights so re-
served" why do not the Republicans
wish to SAY so? Cart. l, S2.)
If the Republicans are not in favor
OF aliens" coming into the State and
becoming residents" and buying our
wild lands and building up our State
with their labor, why do they not say
30? Cart. III, S5)
II these men want the privilege Of
tue habsaS corpus suspended, why, let
them say 80. The new Constitution
SAYS it shall not be. Cart. Ill, a.
they want their fellow citizens held
to answer on charge> of crime made by
irresponsible scoundrels, and without
presentment or indictment by Grand
Jury, Cart Ill, 49, let them say go, for
30 they acted and did, but the new Con.
stitution says these things shall not be.
II they want their fellow-citizens
transported out of or forced 20 leave the
State on charge of any crime against
them, let these men say 80, for so they
lid and acted, and filled Camp Chase,
Fort Delaware and other prisons with
the victims of their unlawtulness. Ii
was the work of Darr, Boreman, Peir-
point and Andrew Wilson, but the new
Constitution says these things shall no,
be, Cart. III, S5.)
Ii they want political test oaths and
religious intolerance by not preventing
such oa,hs, let them say 80 and defeat
the new Constitution, for it says there
shall be no such thing. Cart. III, S6.)
"Ii they do not want the military
power to be subordinate to the civil" 90
that such vile ministers Of evil ss Joe
Darr can fill the prisons and send cili-
zens out OF the State without charge and
without trial, then let these traitors to
law and charity Say so, but the new
] Constitution says otherwise, Art. III
3 SlD
1t they wish that persons may" be
deprived of life, liberty, or property
without due process OF law and the
judgment Of his peers" (SlO) as the
illfated Buchanan died victim Of such
horrid tyranny in the Atheneum ol
Wheeling, as thousands (male and fe-
msle) filled its reeking jaws as prison.
ers under Dsrr, Boreman, and Pier
point; as Andrew Wilson, in connec-
lion with these same men, proposed to
strip our citizens Of their property by
lsvying heavy and unwarrantable con
tributiops on them; then let them vote
for Andrew Wilson and John j. Jacob
and all Radical candidates, and 30