The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-29
Clain Facts for Plain People.
BY A PLAN MAN.

Impartial suffrage" is the new name
which the Negro Kissers have given to
what plain men, in plain way, call
nigrers votin'. Impartial Suffrage"
sounds better than niger suffrage, but
il don't change the nature of the thing.
You may call o sawbuck horse-fiddle,
if you please; but it is the same double
Y with tranverse bar, and makes the
same discordant noise that it did before.
Call Niger wench the "Rese of Allen
dale" and she is no lovelier than when
YOU call her Dinah. just so it is with
Impartial Suffrage. 1t means to let a
Niger vote. who don't know his A-B-Cs;
it means to give him the same voice in
administering the government that the
smartest and best learned white man
has: and no one but fool or a traitor
would favor such scheme as that.
amt much in favor ofImpartial Suffrage
myself. Too many ornry cusses vote
now, that don't know what they're dom
when they give their vote. If this
wasn't so, the people would never have
nut their foot in it so badly as to vote
war, conscription and everlastin' taxa
tion, high prices, and poverty on them
selves. But there's one Impartial
90 for. 30 for Impartial Taxation. I'm
tired seein' old Hunks struttin' about
like turkey gobbler, with his fifty
| thousand dollars in hand which don't
pay any tax, while all the poor men and
women i'll the country are taxed on all
the property they have, and work their
very lives out to raise money to pay
these taxes. I'm tired of that. lwould
rather repudiate the whole concern than
put up with this sort of thing any longer
The debt amt honest anyhow. Three
fourths of it was made up of steallngS
that went into the pockets of Yankee
manufacturers and contractors: III was
paid for condemned guns, and shoddy
lblankcts, and wOOden-Soled shoes, ana
the rest went into the pockets of tnlev-
ling uuartermaSteTs and detaultlng pay
masters. That's what's the matter. But
even if the principle must be paid,
and if the bondholdcrs amt to be taxed,
I'm tired paying such big interest. Eve
been calculatin,' and | make out that,
one way and another, putin the whole
together, these shaveS get about twenty
! four per cent. You see 1t comes IN tins
way! 4 great deal fthiS debt was made
when Il gold dollar was worth three
paper dollars. \ fellow had ten thou
sand dollars in gold. He would buy for
this $50, 900 in paper, and with this pa
per buy 100000 in government bonds,
on which he gets 6 per cent. in gold.
Six per cent. in gold is worth to-day
eight per cent. in paper, eight per cent.
on $4,000 amounts to S2,4OO. This is
the annual interest the holder gets on
his original investment of $4,000. In
other words, we are now, as matter of
fact, paying twenty-four per cent. on a
debt which is three-fourthS n fraud. |
don't think this Impartial-and l think
we can do a devil of sight better with
out Impartial Suffrage than without
Impartial Taxation. l may be wrong;
but that's the way / look at it; and,
since Andy Johnson's been President, its
pretty generally admitted that every
man has a right to his own opinion.
There's fellow over i'll England by
the name of John Bright-a sort of John
Bull Josh Giddings-who wants Impair
tial Suffrage for the cOal-heavers, and
and stevedorcs, and navvies, and sich
like, who have no more business with
vote than.a child has with one of Colts
revolvers, and all the Black Republicans
in America are hurrahing for John
Bright. This looks impartial" too
don't it? When these very same fel-
lows who are dyin' to see votes given to
men who were were never entitled to
vote and not fit for it, deny it to be the
intelligent, brave, and noble men of the
| South, whose votes and wisdom, and
patriotism, in conjunction with the
same attributes in the North before the
days of Black RepublicaniSm, made this
the most powerful and glorious govern
Hcnt on earth. go for impartiality
| OF the old, genuine sort but this Black
Republican, impartiality is bogus, and |
don't want anything whatsomever to do
with it. That's so. I'm plain man,
and say what think i'll plain way
Marion Democrat.