The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-08-24

He urged the people to stand by Presi.
dent johnson. He urged all Republicans
and all honest men of every party to
support the Presidents policy. He pro.
nounced President Johnson wise, good
and safe President. He viii do nothing
rashly. His guide is the Constitution OF
his country. [Cheers.] What leaders
are the people to follow? Did the Re-
Sumner? His (Cowan's) friend, Mr..
Scott of Huntingdon county, on Monday,
from the very platform on which he now
stood, repudiated Mr.. Sumner IN radi-
cal speech he made. Were the people
to follow the lead of Thad. Ste
vens? He thought it was scarcely
necessary to tell them that Tbad Stevens
was the most dangerous political repre-
sentative in the country, for the people
were waking up to the fact. The part
Mr.. Stevens played in the Buckshot
war great laughterl was the same part
he PLAYS to-day in the politics OF the
country. He was In minority then and
he is in minority now. In both cases
he totally ignores the people. He had
no unkind word to say of Thad. Stevens,
or of any other individual, but he could
not for a moment follow him, nor Sum-
ner, nor any other man belonging to
their class. The single idea OF negro
equality is all the stock in trade they
possess, and on it they expect to make
their fame. He [Cowan had no feeling
of unkindness for the negro. He would
not do what Mr.. Stevens and Senator
Sumner did on that very account. One
million of blacks had persisted in this
very conflict. That is, they not only
died of wounds and disease received IN
the war, but they were thrown out in
to the great stern battle of human life,
where they are unable to contend with
the white man. They would now have
to pay the highest price for everything,
and give their own labor for almost q
song. White men would demand it Of
them. This was human nature, who can
denyit! The white laboring man scarcely
makes liying-how is the inferior
black to sustain himself? There are
not more than one quarter of the blacks
left at this rate, in one hundred years
this race would be wiped out. We
whites perpetuate ourselves. Inc
blacks cannot. Once they could, for
negro was worth so much money. he
multiplied and increased. But the ne
gro caunot do it now. The extinction
of the race is sure, and there was no race
in the world in whose hands the negro
would suffer more than IN our Own.
Before the war he paid his master with
a quarter or half days work, but now
a full days work and more besides was
exacted of him. He must suffer, and yet
the radicals want to increase his misery
by tumbling him into the boiling cauld-
ron of politics in this country. This is
the law of nature The strongest race
goes first. Stevens, Sumner and their
friends have taken the idea into their
heads that the negro can be made the
same as the white man, and that, too, In
the face of all history, BY recently
discovered fact, the negro is the Oldest
race in the world. Why has he not
progressed And as for slavery,
it was a thousand fold worse in
Africa than ever in this coun-
try. The horrors of the one
would not compare with those Of the
other. The negro is the weak man.
He seeks protection by the side of the
strong man But were the people to
follow these Radicals in this crusade
against the Union, cries of mo, MOI"
or would they follow their natural lead
er. Who was the head and front of the
Republican party, in 1860? Was it not
William II Seward [Cheers.] Was
he not q better man than even Stevens
or Sumner2 Beside him stood Gideon
Wells [Cheers,1 and McCulloch, and
Stanton, who was supposed to be the
very embodiment of all that was radical,
and .who now endorses everything the
President does Where was General
Grant [Cheers) when last we heard OF
him? He was standing at the elbow OF
President Johnson, while the latter was
in the act of receiving delegation from
the Philadelphia Convention, approving
and endorsing his policy. General Sher-
man Cheers was heart and hand with
Mr. johnson. Hc had reason to believe
thaJ General Sheridan Endorsed the Pres
idenL's policy. So did Hancock, and
every other general We have who has
acquitted himself well on the tield.-
General Richard Coulter [Cheersl who
needed no certificate To precede him
10 newspaper reporter 10 accompany
~ accompany hun and put battles
OH paper his soldiers never saw
nor heard Of betOTc-was with the PfesI-
dent But every sham general who talks
Justify about the negro, and when war
came ran away, or wasn't on the field at
all-tbe Buffers aud Sigels and Schnrz'
were all Radicals, every one of them.
The friends of President Johnson EN-.
braceG the gallantry aud patriotism Of
the country. But Congress ignores the
Constitution, which says the Southern
States shall have two Senators each, and
thus il trampies upon the Government
itself The question can be settled east
j. AID speedily by observing the Consti-
tuition. The States, too, ale all 10 the
Union. Two out Of the three coordinate
branches Of the Government have estab
lished and are today exercising their
authority III all of them-the executive
uud judioiary-but the legislative branch
refuses on their part to recognize the
Southern States. Not because those
States are not qualified but on the
ground that they ale not entitled 70 rep
resentation. This is anarchy. 1t the
South were admitted tho Radicals know
their power is gone He hoped and be-
lIeved the people would be able TO re-
store the Union, and that would be glory
enough Ior at least one generation. Ihe
Senator then retired amidst perfect
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