The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-09-07
PROGRAMME Fer TO DAY.
WIN the Negro Should Not Vote

| Whilo Senator DOolittle was address
ing large mass meeting Of Conserya
tives il Buffalo, New York, on the 9TH
ult.. stout indi idual, OF. nervous tenn
perament. who i ID been driven SO dan
! eerousiv near conviction under the pres
J sure OF Mr.. Doo'ittle'5 arguments, that
he fell it necessary to make some DEM
oustration lest - should be converted
into n Union m II on the spot, against
his will, called ont, "Why should the
nero of the South not vote?" Mr..
Doolittle caught he question up with so
quick. pertinent nd eloquent au answer
tba aauaivny. broke i'll at the pauSes
Of hi, ..ddress W shouts of delight and
enthu~.cy. II. said:
TT. reason Il ~ should not vote tell
ny tIirgd there - simply this: IN the
S,nrh,.n Sta.CS there is q mass OF col
nrrd population among which nine
lrr,h. II the m have no sense of fam.
il, ANU family u tremendous applause]
ana tie UomUu ave no sense of virtue;
aud IT,. lu,u vi would build the toun.
d4.iuu, Of huns. society upon IL popu-
la.iun like tina knows nothing OF Re
publican Cover. mont. Long applause. ]
| / say that to bp . suffrage on the negro
rooulation OF til South i'll their present
! condition wonl make a burlesque Uf
RepuU can ins TUTORS, laughter aud
applau c and W ourselves would be tho
| laugh 9 stock IT the world. Loud
! cher,, | can Understand how III the
! Nor,h,in State where there are a few
colorrd men b,ught up as freemen
amou,, ireemer with the habits and
! thoughts of fire. men, and with families
| ike f,remea-I can understand how i'll
some of the States such a pop
! rlatiou NAV h. admitted to suffrage.
! But il The Sta, Of the South, situated
a, thew are now with this population IL
its present COMO tion, there is no man IN
| his senses, in ny judgment, who would
| get n. TO defe ! negro suffrage there
! fLoud applause There is still another
| and more pote! reason than the one |
have sted ] Id it last fall-General
Grant Did me a / authorized me to state
| it, General Sheg ran told and authorized
me to state it; President johnson told
no and authorized me to state it-that
the attempt to ( roe negro suffrage upon
those States Nc would inevitably lead
to a war of race That's SO,
And let me I'll my friend who sits
there and mal.s so much objection
daughter some facts [Cries of Put
him cutr Let hi u be- He's quiet now
We have lately nad riot in New Or
leans. Inter, ption.] There was "A
CLIQUE Of men il Washington who began
a conspiracy that has lately eliminated
in New Orleans That conspiracy was
this: To unde take to get up a new
revolutionary government in tue South
ern States, based on negro suffrage,
There was Co vention in Louisiana
n Convention " hose functions had ceas-
1.-TWO years ago, whose President refused
to call il togetl er, majority Of whose
members were unwilling TO sit-but this
Convention, urged on by some revolu-
tionists in the City OF New Orleans,
sought to come together, and for what ?
To pass new a Eendments in the State
Of Louisiana To give suffrage to the he
grces. What was the consequence
What General Grant told me is true
that the attempt TO place these two
races ia large numbers side By side upon
an equality in free Government VIII,
of necessity, breed a war of races, lap
plause, which viii result in the end in
destroying the oolored race, Aud there
is not to be found on this earth man
from whom the colored race should flee
as they should flee from that man who
undertakes, by force or otherwise, 10
bring about negro suffrage upon the
States of the South at the present time
Loud aud continued cheering No,
there is not proposition that can be
conceived SO cruel, so heartless, 80 I'M