The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-20
Letters from the People.
FROM LEWIS COUNTY.
Black Man vs.. White Man.

Editor of the Register.
Stephen A. Douglas, who by fatigue
aud speaking in the open air lost his
life to prevent civil war, and preserved
the Government as it came from the
hands of our fathers, declared "that
this Government was made on the
rhite basis, by white men, for the bene-
fit of white men and their poSterity
forever, and should be administered by
white men and none Others"
The party in power in this State to-
day, ignore this great fundamental
principle, and declare by their acts
that black man is as good as white
man, and shoald have accorded to him
all the rights and privileges given to
the white man-to vote-hold Office
sit upon juries-eat with you at the
public table and intcrmarry with your
daughters.
The reconstruction acts of Congress
which have stricken down ten sovereign
States Of the Union which are now
living with their ten millions of white
| inhabitants at the feet OF five military
AOsp.ts at an expense of two hundred
million dollars, coercively taken from
the pockets of tax-riddan people. nm
der the guise of loyalty, expressly give
to the negro all these rights and these
privileges.
And the question may very justly be
asked, who among these men to-day,
from Arthur I. BOreman down to the
lowest and vilest of his registrars who
do his dirty work, does not endorse
these reconstruction acts of Congress,
with all their attendant evils and hor-
rors, which they entail upon brave
and fallen race!
Every man who voted for Hubbard,
Polsey, Wiley & Co. must now confess
to his love for the negro, or at once de-
nounce these men as unworthy the seats
they occupy. They voted for the recon
struction acts, and have recently voted
for another, which places all the igno-
rant, lazy and idle negroes who cOngre-
gated in the District of Columbia during
the war, upon an equality, in all re-
spasts as TO civil and political rights,
with the white people.
Boreman and his party in this State
deny through their organs, that they
wish to place the negro thereof upon an
equality with what they term the loyal
white people, yet they vote for men who
vote for measures in Congress, the log
ical sequence of which is not only to
Africanize and place ten sovereign
States of the Union under the control
\ L.. +Lrnnvh fhn did A ThnGp
ten States to elect Republican Presl-
| dent and retain control of Congress
and by that means place those States,
and all the other States of the Union
under the ban of negro supremacy.
Boreman aud his party leaders admit
that this is all right, and are giving ald
and comfort to those measures, bat
seeing that many voters of their party
in this State, are not quite ready or
schooled up to the doctrine of receiving
the negro into their bosoms, they bush
whack it, and play hide and go seek,
and consult their oracles at the national
capital, and confess their love fol
Sambo, whilst their organs hypocrltl'
cally proclaim their preference for the
white-man.
Boreman, Wiley, Hubbard, Polsey 4
Co., deny the doctrine enunciated by
Stephen A. Douglas, that this Govern
ment was made on the rhite basis, 10y
white men for the benft of white men
and their posterity forever, but assert
the contrary doctrine, that it was made
on the miled basis for the benefit o.
blacks and whites, dmalgamdted or mired
together for their joint benefit, aud to bt
controlled by them torerr.
Greeley, the great national mouth
piece of this mongrel crew, speaks TO
day to the country, and honestly says
"They, the Republicans, are bound u
90 under if they don't enfranchise tht
blacks that negro suffrage is not a sid
issue for them, bnt one Of life and death.
Thus the issue for power between the
black man and white man is fairly
made and it behooves every white maj
and Wkite WOmGR in this State, who wIsf
to preserve the pure anglo saxon BLOOD
which courses in their veins and that o
their children from contamination anI
corruption with that of the wOolly
head and kinked lock and greasy skin
and fiat nose, and thick lips ant
fat ggizzard foot niger to come
out from the enemies OF their race an(
aid in striking down the black demons
of a barbarism, which if successful
would be more cruel and shocking in it
consequences and still more degrading
and demoralizing to the white race
than any other, which q Christian hu
manity has ever been called upon Il
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