The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-22

have an opportunity 70 elect OTerseers
on the fourth Thursday Of next month
with special reference to the Poor
House question.
s.THE citizens Of Petersburg, Va, in
public meeting assembled'' passed some
very peculiar resolutions last Thursday
night. We find them in the Richmond
papers of Saturday. They are from the
ftCouservative'' side Of the house, not
from one Of Senator Wilson's meetings.
Mr.. Lyon-the Hon. James Lyon we
presume-is mentioned as a principal
man in the meeting, and was, we sup
pose, the author OF the resolutions. We
extract the following from the report
published in the Dispateh:
Mr.. Lyon explained that these reso-
luton mean, among other things, too
numerous TO mention:
LIST, That white men and black men
shall vote upon the same and equal
terms-and none other.
I'd. That white men and black men
shall hold Office upon the same and
equal terms-and none other.
Sd. That no tax shall be assessed upon
assessed upon the whites.
18th. That not one dollar Of public
money shall be appropriated for the
education of white child unless an
other dollar is appropriated alongside
of 1t for the education OF black child.
9Th. That there shall be no differences
or distinctions between persons of diff
ferent races, except such as the God Of
Nature has created, and such as the
rules Of politeness and uSages of sOcie.
ty, and the unfettered common sense
humankind, shall establish and enforce,
without the aid OF laws.
We desire to ask the editor of the
Clarksburg "C0nscrUatfUe" who speaks
ofthe Republican editors in West yir.
gInia as ''degraded negro-worshippers,'
what he thinks Of the above resolutions
coming from people Of his own sort. II
might be well for "Major" Cooper to
express himself at some length in ex-
PLANTATION Of the popularity OF the posi-
ton occupied by his fellow rebels.
They have broadly and unmistakably
announced as plank in their platform
''that white men and black men shall
"vote upon the same terms, and none
"otheE; and, further, ''that white men
"and black men shall hold Office upon
"the same and equal terms, and none
''other."
Now, II these resolutions are stncere'
ly-the sentiments of the rebel friends
of "SIajor" Bill Cooper, they certainly
indicate that his late comrades are very
''degraded negro.worshippers," and Il
they are not their sentiments, but mere.
ly assumed for the occasion, to catch
votes, they just as certainly indicate
adepraVIty Of political hypocrisy thai
even Major" Bill would not like to de
fend on their behalf.
Such resolutions as we have quoted
are just now getting to be more or lesl
current throughout the South. The,
Will soon be so common as to excit
little or no attention. The degradation
will then not be 80 apparent t,
people Of the Cooper stripe. All sucl
taIISis good deal like the old non
sense that used to come from the South
ern orators, when in one breath the,
mathematical negro equality, and Il
the next boosted that they had bee
nursed and reared by negro imam
miles," Even the CONSERVATIVES
speakers at the theatre meeting ii
Richmond the other night, Macfarland
johnson and Daniel, patronized the ne
groes by reminding them q
the fact that they had derives
their earliest nourishment from
Ethiopian fountains. To some peopl
such boast savors of degradation, bu
in the estimation Of first class ''conser
vatIves" like the Clarksburg Major,
it indicates a healthy political status.
The point however which We wish t
make is this, that in year from no,
we shall see no reproaches about "ne
grO-worshipPers" in single rebel shee
in West Virginia. AS one of our &C
temporarIes has expressed 1t, they vii
all be in the "burnt cork business" b
that time.