The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-31
TIIUnsDAY monNING. oOr. 81.

EVERYBODY now knows, that, but tor
the presence and interpOsition of the
military, no white and no colored Con
ssrvatiYe could have voted but at the
peril of his lite.-RichmOnd Wig.
Exactly. 1t is now your OK that is
gored. That makes all the diffeTencein
the world. Time was when it was OrthO-
dox among the Virginia chivalry to
mob and maltreat Il white man who
dared to vote or advocate Republican
principles. You set that example to the
blacks and they are inclined, it seems,
TO follow ancient usage. You raised a
storm that you cannot now control.
You sowed the wind and are reaping
the whlrlwind. Do you recoliect your
ominous utterance when the Republic
can convention that met in this city in
1860 proposed to hold its next meeting
In Richmond? Maybe your words
sank into the recollection OF the
darkeys. Who knows? over here
we do not rejoice in your humilia-
lion nor mock because your fenr has
come. Nothing OF the sort. But we
simply remind you that the violent and
selfish spirit of slavery and secession is
nov working out its natural results.
1t was you, the pretentious, arrogant,
proscriptiye and selfish whites, that
Ignored the rights and trampled under
foot the citizenship of your own kitL
and kin in days gone by. Now you
groan Justify because the chalice of
your own compromising is commended
to your lips. Nothing would do you but
slavery, rebellion and war. Behold the
Dead Sea apples turned to ashes i'll
your banda. You talk as though you
expected higher civilization OF the
negroes than you ever exhibited to them.
You always boosted OF your superior
civilization. The negroes are holding
the glass up to your eyes, and ii is for
you to see yourselves as others have
long seen you. That mercy to 9th
ers show, that mercy show to me-"
You talk OF "the presence ana inter
position OF the military" being neces-
sary to your protection. We dare say.
But who would protect the negroes
from your impositIons aud ostracisms,
were it not for the military You have
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way from the auction block up to their
present position. They owe you moth
ing whntever. Before the election you
threatened them with your displeasure
in case they should dare to vote the
ticket Of their choice, and since the
election you have put your threats into
execution, in hundreds of instances,
rs we zee 1t stated, by discharg-
ing them from employment.-
What then, pray, did you expect
at their hands? That they would turn
the other cheek also, like exemplary
Christians? You do not, somehow,
relish the "lex talionis" of your own
invitation. Alas, that you could not
have approximated your present stan
dard far enough to have given your
precepts the weight OF example.
But let not the Rhtg be alarmed. The
negroes are docAe race. Dust now
they are bent upon not putting power
In the hands Of those whom they have
"A good right to mistrust and fear.
There is no danger OF their becoming II
superior race. Read up your old we'll
worn ethnoloGy books and be assured
OF that fact. Any Democratic stumper,
but especially Nasty, can show
you that the thing is moral
ly Impossible. Their present crop
ing in the dark means simply that
by the feeble light of their almost untu-
tored instincts they are steering clear OF
Greeks bearing gifts, and riskiug the
extreme OF Hunnicuttism for fear that
the dogma of Hunter, that capital
should own labor, may not be quite
dead in Virginia. The time will come
when, we trust, they will learn to avoid
both and all extremes, although it is
almost like hoping that the stream will
rise higher than the fountain-al-
most like expecting the Virginia negro
to riseabove the Virginia white.