The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-04-02

ton OF labor is the exclusion of al
foreigners who come here to laber
This is opposed to the uniform prac
tice of the country and the genius o.
our Institutions; yet, although Lyman
Trumbull and Horace Greeley may not
be revenue-tariff men, yet l prefer
brains, intelligence and honesty in adj
ministrating a republican form Of gov
ernment to avarice and direct extortion
and continued plumber Of officials in
every branch Of the government, and
BY every means of private and public
corruption.
was opposed to Internal Improve
ment by the General Government
believing it to be unconstitutional and
seeing in the universal demand for such
an ont.spreading system OF roads and
canals, and now of railroads, the over
taxation ofthe people or the insolvency
of the nation; yet prophesied, in a
speech to the people Of Brooke county,
in this State, in 1S49, that some of them
would live to see the Valley Of the
Mississippi connected with the Pacific
Ocean by railroad, for although l
denied the right OF Internal Improve,
ment in the States, yet as proprietor OF
territorial lands the General Govern
ment had the right of improving these
lands at the expense OF the lands them
selves, and not by taxations or tariffs
on the people OF the States, yet this
power has been so greatly abused and
this expensive system so indirectly and
directly thrown upon the people that a
sound economy and safe system Tor
these latter Improvements can only be
made By new men and new party who
will have regard for economy, reform
and honesty, and this may be obtained
by the election of some other man than
Grant and Colfax, or Grant and Will
son, who are equally pledged to the con.
tinuance and the Capitalization OF
power in the Grant Dynasty and its
Dental operations in eating away the
substance OF the people.
| have ever been in favor OF a limited,
but sufficient Navy, without any titles
verging towards the nobility; and op'
posed to Standing Army beyond the
necessities created by our large Indian
border, always confident that the rapid
ity with which the American citizen
would become the disciplined and
effective soldier by the intelligence and
versatility OF mind which our institu-
tons have brought into play, and in
this unlike all former periods In tue
history OF man, when it required years
Of drill service to teach them red-tape
idea, and that this reliance was safer
cheaper, and morally better for the
people, yet | would greatly prefer TO
confide the Navy and the Army to men
of intelligence and public virtue who
were not educated as soldiers, and could
have no ambition as soldiers to misuse
them, to q man bred as soldier, aud
practiced as q soldier, and whose
highest aim and WHOSE chief glory
consists in looking upon the lives OF
men as pawns to be played wholly re-
gardless OF the sacrifice OF life, and that ,
men might be mercilessly sent 10
slaughter, without regard to numbers,
to obtain military end, and therefore
whole PEOPLE might he inundated to
a mere temptin- and inorilnate am
bitiOn.
In early life was opposed IL sentl-
ment to slavery, and lost an election
10 the Senate OF Virginia Tor the eX'
preston of that sentiment III much |
earlier life. | found slavery a certain
fact in the history and condition OF tne
world, and found i, recognized by the
Constitution OF the Union. ! accepted
this condition Of the race; had fully
and heartily accepted VIVA, | thought
was the SacredaeSS of the Constitution
and shaped my public conduct accord,
ingly. I approved the Sunday School
for the negro; | esteemed those masters
who made it duty (and there were not
few Of them) to give, regularly, Sun
dav instructions to their slaves; no one
was more gralifed than | vas that the
Census Tables o. the u on showed
more Slaves in the South who were
members o. Churches than Whites in
the North, in proportion to numbers
One Of my last public declarat oas made
in an Article published durinr the pres.
ideutial election Of 1860. was addressed
to the people Of the South to c ttend all
the benefits of the Christian r ligion to
the Slaves, viz, the sanctity OF mar
riage, the non separation OF husband
and wife, and the security OF the family
circle in tender years, aud all looking
to their eventual emancipation, and no
one can leel more satisfaction than do
| in the fact which is now so apparent,
that under the tutelage OF the South the
colored men were SO TAR prepared, in so
many respects, to act for and provide
for themselves in their new condition
which has been thrust upon them, and
which would have come t. them
through those other influences, rc-u'ar-
", normally and more beneiicially, as
the gentle dew falls from heaven" and
not hv the violence which has put all
our hopes Of country into jeopardy, and
| | prefer Lyman Trumbull or Horace
Greeley, or David Davis, who may have
been always Republicans and Abo
litionists, but who are now IN favor OF
peace, Cancellation, amnesty and res'or-
alton OF the commerce and business OF
the country, who have some respect for
the Constitution Of the Union, and who
would preserve the individuality OF the
States, to General Grant who was a pro-
slavery man, and a Democrat, but who
is now the open and audacious foe OF
the harmony and dignity of the Repnb-
lie, and whose conduct shows constant
| tendency to resort to the use Of the
cannon and the sword and no. to rely
upon constitutional powers. and COM
mand respect by his own observance OF
law.