The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-21

The Truth about Negro SuHrnse---The
Democracy Committed 10 it-.-They
Want Negroes Represented, but
White Rebels 10 do their Voting.
The Union Party say NO Man Shall
Cast Votes for Another.
From the Detroit Posi-.
The Democratic and rebel party pro-
pose that every negro in the South shall
be counted in the basis of representa-
ton as belonging to the voting or repre-
sentative population. Every negro is
to be counted by them as member OF
the voting population, entitled to be
represented in Congress; only they de-
clare that the negro, not being intelli-
gent enough, to cast that vote or because
he is black he shall not cast it himself,
therefore the white men of the South
shall cast it for him. Their position is
that every negro male shall be counted
as voter; but he shall not cast the
vote himself; it shall be east for him bv
the white men of the South.
On the other hand, the Republicans
say that if the negro is counted as a
voter, or one of the class entitled to n
choice IN the eGovernment, he shall cast
his own vote for himself; but if he does
not cast a vote for himself, he shall not
be counted as n voter.
II Will be seen that the Democratic
and rebel party is even more thorough
ly-oOmmftted to the theory that every
man is entitled to vote in the Govern
nent than the Republican party.
Thereis no escape for the Democratic
party fFomi its commitment to this the
ory, tuuless it shall back squarely out
of its present position, and take the
ground that negroes are not portion
of the voting or representative popula-
tion, and are not, therefore, entitled to
representation, and cannot be counted in
the basis of representation. But, so
long US they hold to the theory that the
negroes are Just as much entitled to
Members of Congress and electors of
President and Vice President as white
people, they cannot logically deny that
negroes, being part of the population
which elects Congressman and Presi-
dents, ought to cast their own votes for
those officers; or, if they are not allow
ed to vote, then they ought not to be-
Tong or be counted as part of the popu-
lat1on, which elects Congressman and
electors of President and Vice Presi-
dent. 7la
Women and children do not vote, be-
cause the adult males of each family
represent the whole family at the bal
lot-bo1; but the Democratic plan of let
ting the whites do the voting where ne
groes are counted sas Nparts of tEe elec-
itoral population, makes every white
voter not only REPRESENT his own faIni-
gro family; so that a white voter of
South Carolina not only represents
himself and his family at the polls, but
he also appears in the ridiculous char
acter of the electoral representative of a
family or two of darkeys. This would
not be so bad, il the darkey family or
lamll1es had duly selected and chosen
him as their representative at the.polls;
but the fact is the white Democrat
thrustS himself upon the negroes, and
insists upon being their agent, repre-
sentative and substitute, without con-
sultifg their will. And in districts
where the negro population is many
times larger than the white population,
II white voter, under the Democratic
plan, may be fiVe-sixths Il 'tnigger''
representative, and only one-siXth n
white elector. as si1-
This ridiculous anomaly cannot long
Withstand the assaults of reason, and
the shafts of satire. The party of COM
mon sense will be driven to take the
ground that if every man is u man, and
is to be counted in the electoral pOpu-
lation as a man, he is that man him
self, and his neighbor cannot be that
man for him. In other words, If in the
population on which representation is
based, Sam Jones (hlnclS) and John
Smith (white) are two different men in
the count, they cannot be both one
man, named John Smith, ut the ballot
box.
The Republican doctrine now is that
every citizen counted as u voter shall
do his own voting; and every citizen
not allowed to do his ownyoting shall
not be counted as a voter. At the North
this rule is applied; and we.do not pro-
pose that John Smith at the South shall
cast two votes, in effect-or that his
vote shall count twice, for himself and
for black Jones-when Northern man
only has one vote for himself.