The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-05-16

termingle and intermarry with the "nito
race: that is simply all; can yousee any
thing Objectionable in it! we nope nUs,
These traitors, called, hate the 1egrGoo
and would do anything TO dePlive
them Of their rights as citlzens
of this glorious Republic. we must
stand by this oppressed race tor II tney
should happen to get the right Oh SUI
frage we will be the gamers by IT,
brother loyalists. The traitors, so-eall-
ed, use IS one of their principal argu-
ments, that we have founded an asylum
for poor blacks and ignored the claims
of the peor whites to similar instl1u'
ton. This may in part be true, Dut we
all know, brother patriots, that the IA
lcilities of the white man for getting en-
pleyment are much better than those ol
the black race. Owing to the unjust
prejudice which exists now, particular
| ly in the Southern States, against the
poor colored man. And even II Massachu-
] setts they don't take to him as klndly as
we had expected, so that it may be SAID
| that he stood in direct need of bureau
TO protect him, and, after all, the extra
tax. when you get used to 1t, IS but a
trifie. And now, beloved brethren, TO
come to the point: who are these men
that seek to get us out and place them,
selves in office? Are they not one ana
all doubly dyed traitors Did they
| not seek to wrest the power from our
hands many time and oft, and al
though defeated time and again, have
they not returned to the charge with re-
newed vigor2 Yes, beloved friends, such
is the melancholy fact, and if the trath
must be told, they have grown so nu'
| merous lately that it was for the express
purpose of keeping them down, that the
Amendment was instituted. Then, oh!
brethren, dear brethren, stick to us and
don't let them, mighty and powerful
though they be, drive as from the green
fields and pleasant pastures, where SO
LONG we have lain These same men
who are now seeking for power are the
ones who laughed, when Seward prophe
sled that the war would be over in three
months; they laughed when Pope dis
patched that he Lad taken 10000 prison
ers; they laughed when Greeley furnished
the mine hundred thousand more" and
when Grant Fought it out on that line
all summer; in short, they laughed al
everything that tended towards the
destruction Of this glorious Uniou. Did
any of you noble patriots ever hear any
of these traitors ESQ called say ''long
live our noble Governor :" or God bless
our wise Legislature 2" We think not
friends, in fact, we are sure Of it. They
DOM deal in English quite SO patriotic
Have not some of these very men who
are now the head and front of the oppo
sition movement been imprisoned in the
Athenaum for reasonable practices? an6
did they not, when released from dur
ance vile, speak of our worthy Marsha
as the keeper of a low doggery in Cincin
natl, who was brought here to tyran
nize over better people? Yes, brother
loyalists you know they did
And now, beloved brethren, ere W.
close, as an earnest of our intention!
and honesty, we ask you to gaze on the
array of talent concentrated at the bot
tom of this address. Did the chain o
patriotism which Leonidas stretched
across the Pass of Thermopyla contain
any brighter links than these Forgive
aught that may seem egOtistical, wheI
we say we think not. Beloved brother
and noble patriots, we say to you be
fore we close, with tears in our eyes a
big as walnuts, be faithful and be Wig
liant, and we may yet overcome these
internal traitors (sU,Called) If we d.
not succeed. all the 'phat" Offices pas
to the hands of the PhlliStines, when tn,
sccptre leaves Judea