The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-01
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Prom RIehmO0d.
General Sehofield has seen at to serve
a warning on<he fre-eating editor d
the 7Tmes, informing him that his artt-
des are too infammatory and seditious
to be SLOWED In these times of high po-
litical excitement in that community.
A late issue Of that paper openly
threatened that II the negroes did not
moderate their pretensions, particular
ly their attempt TO ride in the street
cars, they would, from the very
desperation Of the white people,
be taught one of those sharp, severe
aud terrible lessons which they
would remember for many years.
tits charged in the EaQairer, aud also
in the Tines, that the Wig has espolsed
the anti-virginia side Of politics, and i.
no longer to be considered one OF the or
thodox press Of the State. This is thc
substance ofWhat they insinuate. Theil
meaning is that the paper is gradually
going over to the Republican party. We
are inclined to think so ourselves, and
weanticipAte u large following from :he
Virginia people. It's positions against
making common cause with the Democ-
racy Of the North are ably backed by
the Charlottesville CsToHieEe. Both OF
them stand upon the same proposition
that the Democracy has played ont.
They contend that the negroes of the
South will never affiliate with
il They recognize in it their lifelong
enemy. We quote from the Chronicle
its own words on this head, as follows:
"What will the Northern representa-
tiyes of the Democratic party say to
the colored voters? AY, there's the
rub. They had Just as well talk to the
winds. And this consideration is an
element hitherto left out of the calcu-
lation in the proposal 70 resuscitate the
great Democratic party. The Southern
whites may be enabled TO direct the
colored vote, or at least to combine
with the colored vote, prortded the col
Ored people are not invited to get up on
u common platform erected under the
common banner OF the Northern Dem.
ocracy, Now we are quite satisfied
AEOl4 ."nhE VIC nave SAAA S4Ns@%N
very recently, that il will be impos-
sibie to rally the colored people
TO the support OF any Northern
Democratic party, They Rllege that
the Democratic party was pro-slavery
party, that it is now opposed to giving
Them the elective franchise in Connect
cut, New York, Ohio, Michigan, New
that they regard it as an
elIemy. In a stand-up fight between the
Republican party and the Democratic
party the colored people Will not be
controlled by the Southern whites In
favor of the Democratic party-we are
hot sure that we shall control them any
way. Therefore the reorganization of
the Democratic party at the South i'm
plies necessarily the drawing of the
line between the whites and the blacks.
That reorganization settles at once the
question as to how the cOlored vote will
be cast. 1t arrays the two races against
each other at the start
Such remarks as the above are forci-
BILE and to the point. Any intelligent
man can easily understand that the ne
groes must very soon become familiar
with the long pro-slavery record of the
Democracy, even supposing that tens
of thousands Of them are not already
yersed in the matter. And what one
negro knows many more will soon get
to know. They have way of inform
ing each other that is very elementary.
1t will not require schools or books to
apprise the negro as to party records.
Like the reading and writing of the cell
ebrated Dogberry, such information
comes very much by nature. The Rhtg
and the CRroaieEe saRaciously see this
inevitable status of things at the last,
and hence they rdise their voices now
in warning to the Southern people
against any attemptto resuscitate the
Northern Democracy.