The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-28
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EDITORS AND PRoPRrEroEs.
TUESDAY moRNINei. NAY IS.
T4E Re9tsfST OF yesterday announces
tbo oIac,ion Of a negro at Fairmont last
Thursday as an inspector Of elections.
And in half column article on the
subject our attention is derisively So
IIcited TO the .'pr9minent occurrence"
The election OF the negro is spoken OF
as "grand achievement" Of the H.
TELLIGESCER's party. The editor evil
IDENTIFY supposes that he has secured 3
very "fat take" out of which to Write
numerous Indignant appeals 10
the people against the Radicals
He appears uplifted at the god
send that he imagines has Oeen
vouchsafed the sacred cause OF conserv-
atism. We are ever so sorry to be
obliged TO dtsenchant the poor fellow,
bpt i, is our disagreeable duty never
tbeless to inform him that he has gone
off balf.cocked-that he has put his foot
In IT badIy-that he has beaten his own
friends over the head with club-in
word, that instead OF the Radicals hav-
ing elected the negro, it is his conserva-
tive, democratic, rebel symPathizing
friends who did thejob.
How does the matter look from that
stand point, Mr.. Editor? AS the friend
OF the white man let us have half col
umn devoted to new view of the oc-
currence. You ought to be an adept by
this time at writing up that side OF the
question, for was not negro largely
voted for last fall by the democrats OF
Boston? And did not your friends in
Tennessee propose not long ago to run
a negro candidate against Brown
low? And are they not every
where throughout the South striking
hands in the most seductive and ::af-
festionate manner with the negroes, Of
fering complete and entire political
fraternity with them, and avOwing
willingness to shafe the offices between
the two races?
Fred. Douglass was not far wrong
when he gave it rs his opinion that the
D mocracy had not far to travel in thus
offering to embrace the negro. Their
relations with that element in the
South for many years past have been
OF the most intimate character. The eff
fects of It are but too plainly indicated
In the changed complexion OF the race.
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OUR advices this morning are to the
effect that Macmillan and the remnant
of his army have surrendered to the
Liberals, and that the struggle for en-
pire set on foot by Louis Napoleon dur
ing our contest with the rebellion, has
ingloriously ended in. complete failure.
This event has been looked to as GER
tainty ever since his compelled evacua-
tion, and will take no one by surprise.
The enterprise was foregone failure
from the day of Lees surrender. It
was always the intention of the United
States to enforce the Monroe doctrine
as soon as we were in a condition to
do so, and France took the hint that
was served on her and abandoned
Macmillan to his fate. We are not
however permitted to believe that per-
manent peace will now he restored to
Mexico. Such has not been and is not
likely to be her history. Ever since
the French evacuation, Macmillan has
stood merely as the tigurehead of a party
fhof iN,aa hnaT1 ri
since IL was an Independent State-a
party which has never been without
aAtute leaders, aud which, when not in
control OF affairs, has always been
willing to fight for their control. The
Church party in Mexico is what
the Church party is in every other
country where it Is political power.
1t represents ecclesiastical domination
and political toryism. In Mexico its
demands are somewhat less rigorous
than in Spain or Rome; for the Mexican
people are so placed that the priestIy
influence cannot possibly have full
sway. But nevertheless, in adapting
itself to local and temporary exigen-
cies, 1t has never lost sight OF the uIti-
mate principle by which It is governed
the world over. When Macmillan
disappears, 1t will still, under some 9TH
erleader continue thestrnggle which 1t
has never ceased to carry on since Mex
leo "'s inoePenoent. fs1s
WEunderstandt that Earnest Ruffner,
son Of Lewis Runner, Esq, of this
State, now at West Point from the Sd
West Virginia district, will graduate Mt
the head of his class next month. He
entered the Military Academy In June,
1868, having been appointed thereto by
Congressman Whaley. His standing
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