The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-09-30

date for Governor, and commends him,
among other things, for canTassfng In
Ohio last fall in favor of negro suffrage
in company with ]. n. Langston, the
distinguished colored lawyer. Yester-
day, with great promptitude and gusto,
the wheeling RegisteT copied this letter
and INDUCED in half column of yul-
gar appeals to the lowest selfish in
stinc,s of human nature, insulting the
liberal.minded and Intelligent portion
of its readers by an assumption that
thew are as iIliberal, as ungenerous, as
inhuman in their sentiments as itself.
Now, sir, We propose you question,
and should like an explicit answer:
Do you not know, or, II not, have you
not reason to believe, that the letter re-
ierred to WAS concocted by a Copper
head or copperheads democrat or
Democrats, If you prefer; that It wGs
imposed upon the Tribune under false
pretenses, expressly that the state
ment in regard to Mr. Stevenson above
referred to might appear in that paper
under the guise of having been made
by radical, in order that it might be
quoted "a from radical authority, pre-
clseIy as IT has been quoted by the
RegfsteTF
This Tribune letter is of the same
piece with certain letter purPortiug to
have been written from Grafton by a
Republican, making numerous false
statements which we're exposed in
our columns some weeks ago. 1t
seems the Copperhesds have some
body whose special business it is
TO manufacture these lies and foist
them on the public through the col
umns of respectable newspapers under
the insIdious guIse of being the state
ments of Republicans. We should be
glad to be assured this branch of the
Democratic canvass does not have its
headquarters in the Register Office.
Mr. Stevenson in his remarks
"wednesday evening, branded this sto-
~ out of " EIch the RICHTER is trying
TO make little capital, as falsehood.
Il becomes that sheet therefore either
to prove its assertions or to be silent.
The truth is, Mr.. Langston Is man
of SO much intellectual ability and OF
such great moral excellence that the
editor OF the Register would be made
respectable, Of anything could effect
that by being allowed to canvass in
Mr.. Langston's company. We beg to
suggest thatif he had a gentleman Of
Mr.. Laugston's ability to stump this
District in his company, his chance Of
an election might be something lesf
hopeless than 1t is.
Now, SO far as We are concerned, We
don't care a straw whether Mr.. Steven
son did or did not speak in Ohio las
fall in advocacy of the amendment pro
posing to enfrRnchise the negroes
whether he did or did not advocate tina
feature of the amendment specially
and whether he did or did not speak IL
the game house in which Mr.. LangstoI
may have been, or from the same boart
on which, before or after, Mr.. Langstor
may have stood, or occupied at any
time the same particular spot of eartt
or air which Mr.. Langston may hav'
occupied before or after him. Goo
made the earth, the air and the creaturel
that move upon the one and breathe thu
other. II 1t be crime for a white mar
to breathe the air because a black maj
lives by the same process, or If it is I
crime for u white man to walk on tn
earth because 1t has pleased the AL
mighty to make the black man wall
upon IT, or II there be contagion for I
man OF white skin in standing upoI
the same particular piece OF eartt
or wood that either before OF
after supported man whose Skin
Is black-then Heaven help US all
the editor of the Register included
So much for The IDEA that Mr.. Steven
son canvassed sin company" with Mr.
Langston, which means, we suppose
that he spoke from the same stand thai
Mr.. LanSstou spoke from, and adj
dressed the same people. AS matter
of fact, Mr.. Stevenson says he did no
do so. Suppose he bad, what of 1t
Who need have cared2 Who would
have been harmed? The kind OF STUFF
INDUCED by the Register does no
come very gracefully from party
that now has Mr.. Jos. E. Williams, {
colored citizen ofTennessee, canvassinf
for 1t in Alabama, and whose leaders IL
the Southern States are making specla
exertions to court the negroes for theil
votes, who mingle freely with then,
on the stump, who eat and drink
with them at their barbacues; and in
order to procure their votes are treat,
ing them not only as political, but So
clal equals. What low down, pitiful
hypocrItes Democrats are capable Of
being for the sake of power and
Office!
The Democrats of the South are now
treating the negroes there with a fawn.
ing aduIation simply disgusting, from
it's hypocrisy If for nothing else; and
If the colored men of Wheeling and
West Virginia were ito. day voters, we
should find the Wheeling Register and
the Democratic leaders throughout the
State fawning upon and flattering
them and fellowshipinE with them, and
perhaps disgusting them, just as their
fellow-Democrais are doing in the
South.
In view OF all this, what would it
have signified, what principle of
morals, what teaching OF Christi
anity would have been violated, If Mr..
Stevenson had advocated the claim of
the negro citizens of Ohio to the ballot,
and had done it in company with
Mr.. j. NJ. LangstonH He says
he did not. But if he had what
OF it2 1t would have been only