The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-10-30

MONDAY MORNING. - ocf' ~
wendell Phillips and Another Negro
Whatever favorable opinion kof the
doctrine of negro suffrage may be enter
tanned by the Republican party, is like
iy to be eradicated from it by the intern
perate and furious zeal OF its friends No
respectable white man who has decent
rsc ard for his own race and for the gov
arnmeut of the United States as repre-
,ented in tho person Of its chief magis
trate, can read with lany degree OF pa
tisnce the howlings Of the fanatical mob
who are heaping reproaches and bitter
denuncistions upon ANDREW JOHNSON
for simply obeying the terms Of the COLI
stitution he has sworn to support. 1t
should be sufficient to disgust any hon.
est man to see how a few individusls
who have never been friends of our gov
eminent at any time during their lives
but who have persistently and repeated-
" villified and abused our institutions
and who have never contributed one
idea to the prosperity of the country in
which they live, are now clamoring for
the extension to an inferior race of the
privilege of voting. and assailing with
language of harsh y, ;peration men who
are q thousand tin. letter than they in
all that pertains to patriotism or goes to
make up true manhood.
We published, a few days ago, extracts
from speech by WENDELL PHILLIPS,
denouncing with such scurrility and such
abusing epithets as flow naturally from
the tongue of the arch-fanatic, the Pres
ident of the United States. PHILLIPS is
not citizen; he has declared that be
would rather cut off his right hand than
take an oath to support the constitu.
ton; he never led a regiment into the
field or exposed his person to hostile bul.
let's; he never lifted his finger to extri'
cate the nation from the troubles which
he was largely instrumental in bringing
about. The cowardly braggart remained
ut home belittling the deeds of white
men and extolling the valor of the ne
gro troops and doing what he could to
plunge the nation deeper in the war OF
blood. and, now that the strife is over
PHILLIPS is dissatisfied and wants it re.
newed; wants the negro made equal in
privilege with the whites, and threatens
Q negro instruction and the indiscrimi.
nate slaughter of white men, women and
children, unless his demands are acceded
to. Let him crave on. It would be well
for the country. perhaps, ifhe had cour-
age enough, to go one step further and or
ganise the instruction he threatens, in
order that both he and it may be crushed
ct once and forever by the indignant up
rising Of the people and the strong arm
Of the law.
PHILLIPS haa valuable coadjutor in
the person of FRED. DOUGLASS, mulat-
to, who happens to be gifted with the
CAB" bat who like PHILLIPS, has done
nothing for the advancement Of the ma
ton which he now abuses. We have
never heard of DOUGLASS wearing the
uniform Of soldier or fighting with any
other weapon than his tongue against
those whom no hates 90 bitterly. He,
toe, demands the extension of the priv.
ilege of voting to the Africaz race, and
insolsntly dictates to che President the
course he shall r;drsne, and hurls all sorts
Of maledicts.ous at his head for his refu.
sal to comply " 18th the demands of bis
fo<s. This mulatto spouter made q
speech before an audience Of "so.called'
wIite men in Boston. few days since
who listened without rebuke to the fol
lowing denunciations of the policy
adopted by the President:
II said at the beginning Of my remarks
that the year now drawing to q close
was marked by certain features, and
that il might still take upon itself an
other feature. darker aud more to be- re
Sretted than either rebellion or assassin
alton. believe that We are ON thu
verge, my friends, of being surrendered
to the conquered rebels; that We are or
the verge Of losing that for which thi'
~ar was waoed and Am inclinad IN rhin |
shat we are to lose it. if not through i'm
bscility, through treschery on the part
Of the very man that sits at the head o
the government. Jefferson Davis is 8
great criminal ! would not say wore
in mitigation of his crime or extenua
ton Of his punishment. Punishment
he'll never be punished. No danger Of
his being punished-not the least in the
world. He's only waiting to come under
the head Of the twenty-thousand- dollar
pardon. He was traitor, but he played
the rols of o traitor fairly, openly and
honestly. He was wolf, hut not a
wolf in sheep's clothing. though he was
found, ! believe, in a lady's dress.-
daughter Whatever else may be said
of him, he did not steal the FURNISHED
livery of the great heavens to serve the
devil in. He did not by loud and furious
devotion to this rebel cause get himself
placed at the head Of it merely to betray
It and to destroy it, Whatever else may
haunt his conscience in his cell, yonder
Mt Fortress Monroa-whafevere lsa the