The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-06-17
Negro IusurrectiOn

utltRdblOu VI SoiOhOo BSNPANt
ed by the President of the Union League
of Richmond, arrived to-day, and VIII
have an interview tomorrow or on fri-
day with the President in relation 10 the
treatment of the colOred population OF
Richmond by the civil and military au-
thorities. They will present an address
setting forth their grievances, and Will
prove Ivy numerous affidavirs that the
military under command of Gems. Hal
lrck, Ord and Patrick. in connection
with the rebel civil authorities, have III
augurated system of tyranny and OPP
preston over the colored people which
Is worse than that which they suffered
while under the rule of their rebel mas
ters. There is intense excitement among
the colored people of Richmond on the
subject, and an outbreaks among them IS Sc
rioash unprecedented, unless changes are
speedily made
The above precious morceaa is contain
ed in the special dispatches from Wash
ington City to the Cincinnati Gazette, un-
der date of June H. The last sentence
of the extract is the most important one,
conveying, as it does, a clearly expressed
threat that unless the negroes are per-
mitted to do pretty much as they please
in Richmond they will organize an in
surrection and seek in shat way to obtain
their desire. We have very distinct
recollection that rebellion against the
constituted authorities was once at
tempted by the white people OF the
South, and it is probably within the
memory of these "colored people, and of
the President of the Union League" that
that rebellion failed to accomplish its
purpose. 1t is rather too soon for the
''colored people" to renew the expert
mcnt. They have become wonderfully
arrogant of late and talk loudly about
rheir rights to social and political equal
ity with the whites and threaten all
sorts of dreadful things if their claims be
disallowed. In Philadelphia, they take
possession of the street cars IN defiance
OF the regulations of the companies, and
raise a riot if they are DISTURBED In
Brooklyn, they jostle white men and
women from the pavements and deny
that Il white man has any rights that
. they are bound to respect In Rich
mond unless they are permitted to live
III idlcness and vagrancy, subsisting up
on government rations, they threaten an
iusurrection and the indiscriminate mas
sacre of all who may have incurred
their displeasure
The worst feature of this negro law
lessness is found in the fact that it Is up
held by u great many white people, who
are probably more guilty than the ne
groes themselves Such men as the Pres
dent of the Union League of Richmond,
who heads delegation OF negroes in
making demands upon President JOHN
son, and such newspapers as the Cincin-
matt Gazette, are mainly responsible for
bringing the blacks TO that pitch of ar
I0gauce and insolencc which they have
attained The truth of the matters
winch udNC 6ACltcu ~ uiuCu liiu y udtioh
and threatened riot among the negroes
in Richmond seems to be, that Generals
HALLECK and ORD compelled them to
work. Governor PIERPoINT sanctioned
similar regulations, and whenever va
grant negroes were found who had ''no
visible means of support" they were ar
rested by the police and compelled to
work upon the streets, or other public
improvements. Immediately the cry of
rebel brutality" was raised by the OFF,
cious, self-styled friends of the negroes,
and, as we have seen i'll the GdsctteS dis
patch, an outbreak is threatened if their
demands are not instantly complied with.
Like JEFF. DAVIS, they "want to be let
alone" and, like JEFF. DAVIS, they
threaten rebellion unless permitted to
have their own way.