The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-22


10 Define Ihe Position of the Party
upon Rn Important Question.
Posr OFFS, CoNFEDRIT y ROADS, J
CWich is in the Stait Nv KentuckyJ
July II, 1867.
In csstin my eye carelessly over the
polilikle field, which Seward aud me
do every sixty days, think i kin spy
into the horizon bud wich is swellin
into IA most hopeful flower. tits spTead-
in itself into "a hurricane, which threat
ems 10 sweep away the fabric of ABB
lishnism and purify the politikle at
mosphere. The Radikle party hev bin
at last forced to adopt the legiLimit
endin NV their sooicidle principles, mig
ger suffrage, and from that the Dimoc-
risy, et they are wise, will snatch tri-
umph literally from the jaws Nv death.
We hev EN- now. In Ohio that ques-
ton is to be voted onto this fall-in
Moo York and Michigan its raisin
breeze in ther Convenshuns; and in
Pennsylvania ulinoy and Indiana il
we've got EN-. Wat the DimokriEy want
now is TO handle this delikit subjick ez
to make the most NV it.
The great trouble with the party is
thai there is no uniform style NV meet
in this question. On the main question
we are all agreed. We all oppose Mig
ger Suffrage. Its part and parcel NV
Dimokrat's nacher to oppose Niger
suffrage. The leaders NV The party op-
posed 1t Mt the beginnin, for seetn how
the ballot wuZ abused by Jher followers
they trembled for the Republic eff il wuz
entrusted to the hands NV any more NV
ekal capassity, and the masses NV the
organization opposed given it to the
Niger, beCoZ that one privilege, and
color, wuz all that distinguished EN-.
It's a pecoolyarity NV unregenerated
human nHcher that it must Rlluz bear
down on somebody. The poet SEE:
"Even the lice hev smaller ones to bite em,
And they still other ones, ad in1nltum."
Fortunately, the Dimokracy hev the
nigger for their smaller lice. The
sterdy yeomanry felt it TO be soothin
thing to lind, wunst each year, that in
wun thing ut least he wuz sOOperior to
sumboddy, and so 1t will be SO long ez
there is Dimokracy. The troo Dino
krat promotes hisself, not by liftin his
self above the level onto which he finds
hisselt, but by shuvin some wun down
to a lower level, and ez ther wuZnt any
body else on this Continent wich they
Good git hold NV, the niger wuz, long
ago, selected fur that purpose.
The great trOubleis we oppose nigRer
suffrage now from too many stand
pInts. Some oppose it on the skore NV
the inferiority NV the Afrikin, but that
never wuz poPler idea with our peo-
pie. They may hev assented to it out
objected it. "Ef," sed a reliable Dino
krat to hisself, "ef that's the rool, WAT
IN THUNDER IS To BECOME Nv ME?"
Likewise the idea NV ontitness, wich
others NV our Hpossels advance. "They
can't read nor Tite!" shreeks injoO-
dishus cuss, speekin to II audience Two.
thirds nv wich go to him regerly to reed
ther ballots to em, and who, when they
sign prommisSOTy notes, put an u
atween ther first and last names.
Anuther speeKer quotes Noah to em,
and boldly asserts Inat the Niger is the
descendant NV Ham, and that he is the
identikle indIvijjle wich wuZ Gust by
Noah; but he runs agin the fact that the
rest Nv em, wich is in Afrika yet, hev
managed TO dodge the cuss, ez they
Aint servin ther white brethren, and
them wich wuz brot here to be chris
chinized hev busted ther bonds and are
Jest about ez free, SO far ez servitood
goes, ez anybody.
There is, ez L hev showed, all these
connectini ideas that work agtn US.
Therefore, L want Nashnell ConVen-
shun. 1 want II cOnvocashen NV the
lights NV the party 10 set forth author
itatiVely WHY we oppose niger suf-
fraRe-Lo Civ reeson for 1t, that all our
people may act together, ez do other
well regulated machines. Let US cum
together and ishoo our manifesto, that
we may know precisely the pertikler
line NV argument TO purseo-
shell be at that cOnvenshun, and 1
hev made up my mind wot platform 10
lay down. 1 shell go back on Ham,
Hager and Onesimus-l shell turn from
the inferiority idea and take the broad
ground that THE NIGER Is a BEAST
THAT HE Amt a MAN AT ALL, and con-
sekently he hez no more rites than any
other animal. put my foot onto him
by authority NV the decree that unto
man was given dominion over the
beasts-that we are men and they are
beasts. Ell they admit the first propo
sisheu, they will be the last. 1 shell
assert boldly and brodly his onfitnis to
miugle with us becoz his fizzikle struc-
ture, his muscles, nerves, fbres, bein
different, go to show that he wuz Nv q
different origin and nv a lower origin.
1 shell plant myself on the stoopeDjus
yet simple proposishen that the Almity
made him, probably, but at different
time and for a different purpus, wich
shell show by citin the color Nv his skin,
the length nv his foot, the shape Nv his
head, and sich other matters as kin
git together in time for the conyenshen.
Nv course this doctrine will meet
with objectors. We hey few thin
skinned perfesssrs NV religion, whose
piety service in our ranks hezu't quite
1hI vvfll that these