The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-06-26
THE TREASON AVoWED.

THE TREASON AV0WED.
As postscript to our leader of yes
terday we may now add the refreshing
news that the Wheeling IntelHgen-
Ger has trotted forth it's candidate fol
Governor, and that he is JOHN j. JACOB
We have shown that we were not mis-.
taken in the man, but that we were un
willing to PREJUDICE him until his &C
tons and his resent associates should
fix indelibly the brand upon him which
no human skill can remove. The In
teligeacer's nomination is accompanied
in the same paper, by an article from a
correspondent on a question involving
the adoption of the Constitution, and
which says: "The only way to remedy
the present difficulty is to make short
work of the new Constitution. Vote il
down, and all will be we'll" These
Radical papers, these Radical takers,
and these Radicals in Office and hunting
office, during the canvass for the Con-
vention, during the whole session OF
the Convention after it was called, aud
since the Constitution has been promul-
gated have been busy in its detraction
and demunication Of all connected with
its formation and of all its leading and
happy or most prudential provisions,
and now if they can divide and
distract the party who moved
and acted in that matter they will have
accomplished a great object in their
struggle to defeat the cause Of justice
and Of truth. They object to the sacred
guarantees thrown around the writ Of
haJeas corpus in that instrument, fol-
this is the historical vengeance that
society now take for the men, women
aud children incarcerated in the Athe-
neum, Camp Chase and the jails. They
object to that clause I'D, Art. y which
saws: 1.-THE Government of the United
States is a Government of enumerated
powers and all powers not delegated tc
t, nor inhibited to the States, are re-
served to the States, or to the people
thereof. Among the powers so reserved
by the States IS the exclusive regulation
of their O,cn internal government and Po
ice and it the high and solem duty o.
the several departments Of government
created by this Constitution, to guart
and protect the people Of this State
from all encroachments upon theil
rights so reserved" Because this is the
deep and damning brand Of their infa-
my in passing laws to control our cleo
tons, in admitting base aud unworthy
men to seats in Conventions, Legisla
lures, Congress and the Senate Of the
United States, in violation Of law; in
sending the soldiery into the
States to oyerawe their manly
independence, to crush out thei,
intelligence and to break their
free spirit; they are like felons that
shrink at the whispered names Of their
own victims when they are reminded by
ITS phraseolosy Of their own "cruel
and oppressive" test oaths, before an
honest citizen could serve IS juror, sue,
plead. appeal or pursue any profession; )"
they feel that condemnation upon their
legislative and judicial history which
marks their conduct in the wanton re-
moval of two Of their judges end which
cannot be perpetrated under the present
Constitution; aud, to pass many other
points for the present, do they dread
General WHEAr's important and con-
spicuous proposition and provision oil
amnesty which declares forgiveness for
the past and Cancellation for the future,
and takes from all courts Of justice in
the State capacity to punish the honest
belligerent and the infamy which would
attend a reversal of the laws Of human.
ity. All this, and a vast deal more,
this Constitution does, and simply by
affirming these wholesome provisions,
it is the memorial and the monument
Of an overthrow of corrupt men and
despotic powers which triumphantly
gave the State to the State Rights Dem.
ocracy and insures to them the su-
premacy Of their principles and the
benefits OF their measures for q long
period to come, even though JoAs J.
JACOB forgets the hand that made him
and smites the party that gave him all
his brief prominence.
He may accept the candidacy OF the
GRANT party; he may, for . short
while, try TO believe the falsehood Of
the Intelhgeaesr, whether it is sugges-