The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-07-23
WHEELING w. VA. THURSDAY MORNING., JULY %, 1868.

ter and cheers.l But l am for peace;
don't want any war; and l believe we
are going to succeed without it; and /
think those gentlemen who are so full OF
fight will have to submit; and l think
they may soon desire to know upon
} what terms we will permit them to sur
render. Loud laughter and cheers. ]
. That will be a matter for you to consid-
er, whether You will require an uncon-
ditional surrender, or whether You will
allow them to march out with all the
honors of war. Laughter
, THE NEGRo's WORST ENEMY.
think, and / say it after the matur-
est re1ection-and shall be very hap
py to find that am mistaken, if it be
that l am in the wrong-I do not be.
lieve it possible that this Radical policy
can prevail in the South without sooner
or later producing war of races ia the
South, and the determination OF the
negro. 1t is my firm belief that these
! Radicals are the worst enemies the ne
groes ever had. ["That's se."
NEGRO SUPREMACY lMPOSSlBLE.
1t is not in human nature that the
white race, and we believe the most
persistent race the world has ever seen
la race that since it left the shores of
the Caspian Sea, fourteen centuries ago,
has never met an obstacle that it did
not overcome-it is truly impossible. l
say, to believe that this race of white
men can submit to see itself ruled by q
race that has been the most degraded of
all it has pleased Providence to put
upon this earth Cries of "Never."]
Why, good God, just think of it! Here
are these States represented in Con-
gress, in Gubernatorial chairs, in their
Legislatures, by negroes. or by men who
could not get the meanest offices In the
North, and so run South to seek them.
Now is not that too bad Suppose it
were proposed to rule you in West Vir
ginia and us in Ohio by set of South
ern carpet -baggers, with an importation
of Ku Klux aud niggers, and turn Gov
ernor BOreman and the officers of West
Virginia out, and put in parcel of big
negroes and another parcel Of carpet
baggers, don't you think that they
would find that it was another OK that
was gored. How would they like that
kind of medicine! Cries of "Not very
WE'LL" and laughter Aud yet this is
the way that the people are being treat
ed in the South.
| HISTORIC EXAMPLES.
I But do they expect pcaceH Have they
ever read England's hstoryi Has not
England been engaged i'll trying to hold
people by iurce, instead OF binding them
by affection England has been ut this
work eve since the reign of Henry VII.
She has SPENT millions upon millions of
treasure, and oceans, ! was going to say,
of blood to get, and keep Ireland down
under her heel, and what has been the
result Now, after centuries and cen
turies of military despotism, it is shown
there, as it has been in the United
States, (for carpet-bag rule has been
tried thereas well as herc,) and after
all that, Pat, even from the shores OF
America, when ho raises the cry of Fe
nian, causes the English monarch To
trembe OH her throne. Cheers. Can
not they see it in Poland, where
every generation of young men
that grows up brings about another
revolution, or an attempt to shake OFF
the chains of despotism' Can not they
see it in the example of Austria and
Hungary' Can not they see it wher-
ever itihas been tried. from the earliest
dawn of history down to this very time,
that the idea of holding great people
together by mere force, against their
affections, against tneIr sy-rothies.
and, more than all, against their honor,
that this is thing that God, in his
providence, intends shall not exist per-
manently upon this earth' "Thats
So" and cheers. If you are to hold
the Southern people-and trust in
esd that no one who is now living or
who will live for thousand years to
come, will see us dissevered-but if
you will hold the people of this
country together, as we want to
hold them together, you can only
do it by treating each other with
mutual respect, with mutual confidence
and with n regard for the mutual inter
est of them all. In other words, you
can only do it by acting as you would
be acted by. "But," says some pious
gentleman, "if you are in, favor of so
treating white men, why not treat the
negro as well' Are we not all of one
blood 2" And yet this man does not I'M
derstand the meaning of the text he
quotes. "Is not our colored brother q
man and a brotAcr ~ he asks, and, at
the same time, holds his nose as he
walks by the negro. Laughter. "Has
he not an everlasting soul!" says an
other, who shows that he has no soul
himself by cheating the negro the first
chance he gets.
In answer to all this argument / say,
when / refuse to give the negro the
right to vote, do him no more injus
tice, ray, don't do him tthe of the
Injustice you all do when you deprive
your intelligent and patriotic mothers
and sisters of the right of casting vote;
when say am not willing to put the
negro above my wife, and sister and
daughter, [applause and cries of Never,
neverr1 | think l have answered 1T
enough when | have said that. But,
further than that, l answer it by the
history of this world, which presents
but one side of this question, and what
is that History has been written for
four thousand years, and in all that
time there is not one single recorded
instance of n civilized negro govern.
ment. ["There never will be."l The
negro race is perhaps as old as our race,
aad yet in all that time, with tho same
advantages that the white race has had,
with the same advantages that the yeE
low races of Asia had, the negro race has
never, in single instance, organized
or maintained q civilized government,
"a voice "And never will.R1
MIXING THE RACES.
p,t that IL NOT all There has never