The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-10-15

fair to presume that they win puEsusza
similar course. We may therefore look
for an enactment by the next legislstore
permitting negroes 90 vote, md amsnd'
ing the test oath in accordance with .ae
establishment of negro suffrage anu .So
requirements of tho party proVioeo VIC
radioals have tho Same majority In the
lao,slative body that ttsy haye had
heretofore. The radicals in this State
are as thoroughly committed to the doc.
tripe of negro suffrage as they can pes
slbly be, without the passage Of suoh an
act as that 10 which we have referred.
Their candi late for Governor and
the leading mon of their party
here have recently been IN
pollti ,al convention with negroes, aud
the declared platform of that conven'
ton is the establishment Of negro equal
ity, both political and social. The
leaders of tie radical party elsewhere,
are outspoken In their advocacy Of this
doctrine, aud mako no denial of the fact
that negro suffrage is one of the primo
objects of their party. They are even
so bold as to insist that, notwithstand-
Ing their ratification of the proposed
amendment to the Federal Constitution,
the Southern States shall not be ad-
United to the enjoyment Of their rights
In the Union-the Unlon shall not be
restored-until these States shall grant
suffrage to the negroes. 3D.
Under these circumstances, no inteili'
gent man can doubt that the radicals in
West Virginia will, in order to keep
pace with their party in other States,
do what they can, at the next session of
the Legislature, to establish negro voting
here Every man, therefore, who is In
favor Of negro suffrage In West Virginia
will vote the radical ticket at the sp-
preaching election; and ell who are op.
posed to sharing with brutal and de-
graded and ignorant negroes the highest
privilege of the American citizen, will
vote with the conservative party-the
party of white men and white mems
rights. The issue is plainly made mp
and cannot be understood
If the radicals succeed in electing Q
majority of the members Of the next
Legislature, they may and we believe they
will, in accordance with the precedents
set by tho same PARTY In West virginie,
establish negro suffrage here in violation
of the constitution and the laws. They
care nothing for the organic law which
they have sworn to support; they will
not be bound by its provisions, nor by
the terms of their oaths but their sole
object is the preservation of the ascend
ency of their party, and to accomplish
this they will readily violate all laws
whether human or divine. If they do
succeed in carrying the pending cleo.
tions, yet they already know that such is
the temper of the people that radical
rule cannot bs perpetrated without
either the enfranchisement of the ne
groes OF the Acknowledgement of larger
uuuror &c thu whites. That one of these
remedies will be resocted to, there can be
no doubt; and no man who is at all con-
versant with the doctrines ayowea by
the radicals elsewhere, can hesitate to
believe that, to meet the exigencies OF
their party. suffrage will be conferred
upon the negroes at the earliest posi-
BILE moment, We appeal to all who
would avert such disgrace from our
State. and who feel themselves superior
to the negro race, to defeat the radical
ticket at the polls on the 25th inst, and
elect to Office men who believe in the
superiority of the white race, aud who
will recognize thst superiority In their
legislation.