The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-02
Plain Talk from n Southern Cnndi.
date for Congress,


date for Congress,
The present temper of the South as
indicated i'll the Richmond papers and
elections, and in such utterances as
were reported yesterday in the dis
patches from North Carolina, is not
such as to assure men ut the North
who would willingly take advantage
of moderation i'll the South to plead for
cordial reciprocatiOn and Cancellation.
Indeed il is such as to make the North
halt and doubt as to the proper course
to be pursued, not only in the matter of
suffrage but in the idea of any civil re-
organization Mt all for the time being.
The large majority of the people of the
loyal States do not per Sc favor negro
suffrage. They look upon it as unnatu-
raj and as dangerously experimental.
But events may change them, just as
events have before changed them on
other issues growing out of the war.
Hon. Horace Maynard, of Tennessee,
who is candidate for Congress i'll the
Knoxville district, understands this
suspended feeling of the loyal people
his constituents he addressed them as
follows upon this particular phase of
the Southern situation:-
\ great clamor is made against negro
suffrage. do not think that n maiori-
ty of the American people have deter
mined to establish this measure uncOn-
ditiOnally, but if you desire to prevent
it, hostility to the Government will not
keep it off, but will rather hasten it's es-
adjustment. Ii the nation finds that
all its magnanimOuS offers to YOU are
in vain, and that all its efforts toreclnin
a rebellious population are i'll vain. it
will be very apt to give suffrage to the
negro population who have all through
this war proved its fast and faithful
friends. This measure, in that event.
Will be adopted as an indispensable
means of establishing loyal civil gov
eminent in the South, when the seditious
white population refuse to submit to the
laws and discharge their duties us pru-
dent citizens.
Some of you threaten to rebel in that
case. You tried that once before. when
You were great deal stronger than YOU
are now, and you know the sad result.
What will your rebellion amount to ?
1t would only give the nation good
cause for doing what it would now
avoid. As Maj. General Logan said in
n speech the other day: ''Let them re-
bel again, that is just what we want -
Now, You want to live at peace, obey
the laws and turn away from those I'M
principled politicians who cry out.stB Blue
bellied Yankee" "AbolitiOnist," and
Niger Equality" to get your votes.
They are the same men who asked YOU
before the war, how you would like to
see your daughter marry "big buck
niger"
Much has been said about the radi-
calism of Chief Justice Chase's views on
the subject of negro suffrage. Mr.,
Chase believes that as the white Union-
lists of the South are in the minority,
very largely so in many localities, ii
will become n matter of absolute neces-
cessity to enfranchise the black popu-
latiOn, which is universally loyal, in
order to prevent the rebels from regain
ing the government of their respective
States ut the ballOt-bOx. He believes
that the nation will be compelled to re-
sort to negro suffrage for self-preserva-
ton, especially for the preservation of
the white loyalists of the South. Now,
the nation was not eager to resort to
emancipation, but you forced n resort
to that measure by obstinate rebellion,
1t hesitated to enlist negro soldiers, but
was forced to arm them by the con-
timed rebellion of the South, and it
found that they made verygood soldiers
and could shoot as well as ANYBODY.
This revolution is not vet over, and a
great many of these subjugated rebels
are talking and acting very boldly.
Rest assured, that if You still defy the
National Government, the nation will
he forced TO think seriously of putting
the ballot into the hands of loyal ne
groes to enable them to vote down the
rebellion.