The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-02-15
Radical Madness.
The radical hatred of the President
IN have led that party into perfect

seems to have Jed That party lhto PoiiooU
madness. They rave, and swear, and
lash themselves into q perfect fury OF
impotent rage and belch forth their
puny thunder at the man who dares be
true to the constitution and the funda-
mental doctrines of the government
Love of the negro has made them mad,
perfectly crazy, and they assail with the
frenzy ofmaniacs, all who still think the
white race superior to the black. AS
specimens of the most recent frothings
of the baffled madmen, we appenda few
extracts from the Chicago Tribune, the
leading Republican paper of the North
west, Speaking of the recent interview
between the President Of the United
States and an impudent set of negroes,
headed by the more insolent mulatto
FRED. DOUGLASS, the Tribune said:
But let Mr.. johnson step down from
his official position, and, standing simp-
ly on his merits as a man, meet the ex-
slave Douglass in fair debate on any of
the great political issues of the day, or
advertise to speak in competition with
him, and apho does not knoW that Douglass
saperiority.in logical po,rer, in memory, IN
spi:, in rhetorical eloquence, and IN erery
charm Of oratory, Mould leare has competitor
Wholly in the shade. Had Mr.. johnson
possessed those finer instincts of gen.
tleman and true Democrat which SO
nobly distinguished his predecessor, he
would have felt that, in conversing with
Frederick Douglass he was talking with
a gentleman who was, IN all but official
station, his equal. and an many respects his
superior. Even during the interview,
the digni6ed, brief, but appropriate
words of the ex-slave, contrast forcibly
,0ith the rambling, ungranimaical, discoa-
neoted karaagae Of the President, through
whieh the mind acaaders in uaiuin the search
for either heart, intellect, logic or c0kerency.
In illustration of this contrast we ask
the reader carefully to weigh the mod
esty, dignity, conciseness and condensa-
ton of argument in Frederick Douglass
brief speech, on which Clay or an Er-
erett could hare made no improvement"
Such nonsense is simply disgusting
and no white man can read it without !
feeling contempt for the radical fool who
wrote it and for those who swallow such |
trash and pronounce it good. But this
is not all, On the next day after the de-
uversnce of the above the Tribune
brought forth the following equally in
sulting paragraph
When black insanity IN an instant OF
time accomplisheS musical feats that
white sanity cannot master in a life
time, and black man boards rhite Pres
tdent in his house and shiuers his half hour
Of argument in a hGB minute Of common
sense, il. is time to stop and consider
whittier we are drifting, and to find some
nsans for the suppression of this boy
blind Tom. and this man Douglass,
whose eyes are open. We call upon the
qFaus and. MaIetzeks and Uiinanns, the
singing schools and church choirs, to
muster their forces for combined sup
PRESTON OF this idiot, "hO acc0npiisheS
tcithout brains more thar they can NTH them,
before the scepter slips from their grasp |
and race Of black idiots sing the T" Bor
gia" and "I'rovatOIe', from our stages,
aud "Mear" and "BoylSton" from our
choirs We call upon the DoOlittles and |
Guthries and Saulsburys to suppress this
BtqR Douglass, ,rkO so iregereRtly dfmOIiSh |
&c iehite President, lest it may be noted |
against us in historic chronicles that we
of the nineteenth century proposed rails |
ing to our equality men whose black cut. |
icles were the only signs of inequality
That the editorof the Chicago Tribune
should glorify "blind Tom" is not strange |
when we remember that TOW is uatu |
raj idiot and therefore merits she ADM
ration and envy of those whose idiocy |
is merely acquired. TIA radical estima
ton, tLege seems 10 be premium on
madness, and in the negro republic of
which they londly dream, black idiots
from birth will Doubtless be entitled TO |
the highest honor and given the most |
important posts.
but We have another eXtrac6 from
radical newspaper nesKer home which
serves TO show that madness is not con
fined to Chicago. Ln allusion to the re-
ply made By President JOHNSON to the
Virginia delegation, the Pittsburg Ca
zette busters and threatens and raves
after this STYLE:
whatever doubts may have rested !
ON the minds of loyal men hitherto 90 TO
the sentiments and resolutions OF the
President, there is no place Cor them any
longer. Me PreSidsRt hGs deliberately
shifted his ground, and taken his stand
i6ih The leaders Of the rebellion Hence
forth he will, doubtless, act with them
in accordance with the vigor and bold,
ness which are conspicuous attributes in
his organization This fresh peril IS
throWn upon the country, and loyal men say
as ,een loOk it Sqadrely in The face, take
the guage of its dimensions, calculate
its probable consequences, and then
adopt such measures as will enable them
to acquit themselves OF their respon ST.
bility to the present generation and to
posterity.' ls.
Two years ago, such language as we
have quoted, if published By a Demo
cratic newspaper, would have resulted
in the suppression Of the paper aud the
incarceration Gifts editor, without judge, |
Jury OF trial, III some of the numerous
bastiles thei. III operation, and the |
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