The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-10-08

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August, shall be forever banished rom tnls
Stale, and is declared an alien enemy, ana
shall be so conaidered In all the courts OF
Virginia. y,,, - ,,ov
hereafter undertake ~ represent the state
of Virginia in the Congress OF the United
States, shall, in addition to the penalties
OF The preceding section, be deemed guilty
Of treason, and his property shall, upon
information by the Attorney General, in
any court OF this commonwealth, be con-
figcated TO the use Of the State. =.
3. The frat section shall not be deemed
applicable to any officer OF the United
States now out Of the limits OF the United
States, or OF the Confederate States, until
alter the first day Of July, 1862.
A serious Feature OF General Haneock's
Candidacy. ..r
There is a feature running all through
Gen. Hancock's long standing candidacy
for the Democratic Presidential nomina'
ton, dating back to 1864, when he was
fast voted for, that should not be lost
sight of in this canvass. He was willing
to stand as their candidate at any Of these
periods, on the platform otprinciples each
time enunciated. We say nothing Of the
platform they enunciated in 1854, in favor
Of stopping the war. No Democrat will
now defend that platform for moment.
Had the party succeeded that year the
Union would simply have been dismem-
bered, and We would have had a great
slave empire in the South instead OF q free
Republic from ocean to ocean, and from
the lakes to the gull, as we have to day.
What we desire to call attention to Is
Gen. Hancock's voluntary position alter
and since the war. He was candidate
before the Democratic Convention in 1868,
as he has been ever since. He did not re-
ceiye the nomination in 1868, but he did
not despair of finally receiyingit. He sat
down that year and wrote the celebrated
Glover letter giving his full and unre,
served endorsement Of the platform. The
platform, as 1t will be remembered, dis
tinctly mathematical the reconstruction
acts OF Congress. They were declared
"null and void" Frank Blair, the candi.
date for Vice President that year, pro
posed 10 use military force to back up this
declaration, and his letter to this effect
procured him the nomination. Wade
Hampton was one OF the most important
members OF the Committee on Platform
that year, and he was the member at
whose instance the reconstruction acts
were declared null and void"
lie returned to South Carolina after the
nominations were made, and reached
Charleston on July 81. On the evening Of
that day magnificent demonstration was
made in his honor. The account which
that staunch old Calhoun organ, I'll.
Charleston Mercury, gives OF it is stirring
reading even at this time. "once more
1t exclaimed, "the heart Of Carolina beats
Once more the people Of Carolina feel that
they are people. The splendid enthusi'
asm Of last night was the first exhibition
Unpopular emotion since the close OF the
war" Aplattorm was erected in the open
air, bearing on Its front the Hancockian
inscription, "The Constitution and the
Union" The General was received
with uproarious cheers and waving
of handkerchiefs. What he under.
stood by the Constitution and the
Union" was clearly indicated by the speech
which followed. In quoting from that
speech we use extracts from the report Of
the Charleston Mercury the same having
been taken from that reputable Bourbon
newspaper ard inserted in Fomty's Weekly
Pres OF August /, 1868. We trust this
combination Of authorities, Bourbon
organ and the biographer OF General Han.
cock, will be sufficient to establish the
iact that the speech was not the "iorgery
OF an obscure newspaper writer"
General Hampton's speech was made
up almost entirely Of graphic account Of
his experience as a member Of the Com
mittee on Resolutions. He said that the
hrst thing he demanded was declaration
that the right Of suffrage was purely a
matter Of State legislation, and belonged
to the State Governments that existed up
to 1865. The reception Of that PROPOSE
ton he thus described:
Some doubts, however, were expressed
Of the policy OF such declaration. Gen.
tlemen from the North, South, East and
West all showed the greatest disposition 10
act In harmony. am iree TO confess that
they met US everywhere with cordially
and good will. In fact they declared their
willingness to give us every thing We could
desire, but they begged Us TO remember
that they had great eight to make at the
North, and they therefore besought US not
10 load the platform with weight that
they could not carry against the preju.
dlces which they had to encounter. Help
them once TO gain the power, aud they
would do their utmost 10 relieve the South.
ern States, and 10 restore TO US the Union
and Constitution as II had existed previous
tothe war.
This astonishing declaration defines one
aprinclple" which the war had not settled.
II Is one for which Lee and Jackson fought,
and the bulldCztng and the ballotbox
stufipg in the South show that it Is on
trial to-day. The General continued as
follows:
/ could not fail to reciprocate their kind.
ness, aud / felt that represented my peo-
pie in SO doing, !, therefore, withdrew
my resolution, and consented to that
offered by the distinguished Bayard, Of
Delaware. that Suffrage was o matter for