The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-15

70 euuOESe MS views on negro suffrage. |
They were mum on that part of his re-
cord. The Wheeling organ could not
be induced to notice either the Sharkey
letter or the Stearns' conversation. To
this day, although the editor holds Of
fee under negro suffrage advocate, he
has, in order to retain his place, left the
President untouched, while he has
spent his time in denouncing and black
guarding Foreman & Co. as negro sufF-
rage advocates. All the changes have
been rung on the subject in the way of
epithets, and the doctrine has been held
up to the Democratic vision as mon
strous and disgusting. do you want
to vote alongside of niger ?'' "Are
you in favor of your daughters marry
ing niggers2" "Do you want niggers
in your parlors and at your tables ?"
"If you do not, then vote the Democrat
ic ticket" This was the burden and
the refrain of every little NANCY cop
perhead sheet, from the organ here up
and down, throughout this State and
the whole country.
But you see how suddenly light has
dawned upon the leader of the pack.
1t no longer tongues the old howl. See
how it goes back on its tracks. And
mark how, in a short time, any number
ofthem will follow. Weshall not be sur
prised to see the organ here keeping the
Sharkey letter as standing matter at the
head of its columns, as we did for weeks,
and asking the INTELLIGENCER every
day or two if it endorses the Stearns'
conversation. We shall try and make
some sort of answer, and not crouch
down in the corner and say nothing,
after the fashion of the rebel sheet.
This movement of the Chicago Times
is one of the most significant, as we'll
as desperate, ventures, ever made up
on the political chess board of party
politics in this country. Just after
the close of the war, two or three
democratic feelers were put out by
the New York Ne'Os and other sheets,
in favor of negro suffrage, just to sec
how it would go with the party, North
and South. The response was not fat
tering and the editors made haste to
put about ship and open out in regu-
lar brondsides on their own sugges-
tons. The word was passed along the
line that the Union party was to be
held up to the country as negro suf-
frage advocates, and negro equality
lovers, and niggers generally, and
thus the South was to be made n sec
tional unit once more, as on the sla-
very question before the war. And
these were the tactics pursued right
along, up to the close of the
late campaign. Upon that issue,
of their own making, the De-
mocracy went before the .coun-
try, and upon II they were utterly and
unprecedentedly routed and over
thrown, horse, foot and dragons. The
rebels themselves were not more thor
oughly vanquished by loyal bullets,
than were their Northern sympathizers
by loyal ballots. Both are now down
on their backs together.
Under such circumstances it is not
surprising that the voice OF tho Chicago
organ should be heard from under the
weight of 10000 Union majority in IL
linOis, crying out "PeccaVi," and in
fit of desperation calling upon the De-
mocracy to go in for negro suffrage as
last expedient for saving the remnants
OF the party. Desperate diseases re-
quire desperate remedies, and the
present situation of the Democracy and
the remedy prescribed are strong illus
trntiOns of the fact. The organ mere is
foolish enough to suppose TINT the re-
adoption of the cast Off name of De-
mOcracy Is a remedy, and actually
offers that as n prescription. Such
quackery would not even amount to a
palliative, and the Chicago Times will
treat the suggestion with contempt.
The trouble is organic with the Democ-
racy. It's whole system, through and
through, is diseased and decayed, and
nothing but some powerful kill or euro
medicine will do it bit of good. Our
opinion is that negro suffrage will kill
it dead as a hammer. Such n radical
change oftreatment is worse and more
dangerous than Nasby's adoption of
cold water. Tho people will conclude
that if negro suffrage is what the coun-
try needs, the Democratic imposters
who have been all the while acting SO
hyPocritically, are not the persons to
apply the remedy. Since it has come
to that, they will make the choice of
those who have been acting upon sim
cere and earnest convictions, and who
mingle conscience with their political
principles. AS the Chicago Republican
very we'll observes, the article of the
Times is only valuable as an admission
that the doctrines of the Republican
party are founded upon basis of ire
sistible truth and must prevail, and
that the only road to political and party
success is by taking a step beyond the
present status of the party on the negro
question.