The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-06-18
SOUTHERN OPINION.

The Columbia Is. c. Ph~air lad
mits" the Charleston Nercwy's claim
that slavery did produce some good eff.
fects upon character and manners in the
South--did produce ali imperial air and
power to command, and a sterling indi-
viduality also; but it contends that,
upon the whole, the peculiar institu
ton more benefited the slave than the
master. 1t thinks that 100 often did ii
take the brains from the young mans
head and the muscle from his arm, and
too often did il take the rose bloom
from the cheek of beauty and plant ia
stead the lily hue of di2="To. Aad, up
on the whole, it does not regret that
God, in His Providence, has taken away
from them the labor of the slave.
From the nettle of abolition consum-
mated,' it says, "we may, if we will,
pluck the flower safely"
The Richmond Enquirer and Examiner
reioices that the white men of Virginia
are rallying to resist the odioas domino
tion of the negroes; that there are no
more prOffers Cancellation" 1t adj
vises the white men to offer support
and employment to TIE negroes if they
vote as the white men wish, AID to pun
ish them with dismissal if they refuse,
while it warns the negroes that they
cannot remain in this country if they
make their pretensions to govern the
white men the rule of their conduct.
The Petersburg cypress fears that a
volubility and lack of common sense
on the part of the Southern people,
will prove the most formidable enemy
against which the National Democracy
will have to contend in the approach
ing Presidential campaign. The South,
il explains, is interested III the conflict
only so far as the result may avert the
untold horrors of negro supremacy; on
all other questi0ns-as finance, tariff,
foreign relations, &c.-they should have
nothing to say.
The Columbia PhGnir calls upon the
Democrats in South Carolina to heal
their grievances and unite as one man
to oppose the common enemy. 1t asks
them to "plant themselves in line with
the moving columns of legitimate pro-
gress," and to have, controlling their
movements, broad and comprehensive
statesmanship-One that shall include
the whole country.
Hon. John Forsyth, in q recent letter
regretting the Inisapprehensions which
have been excited in some Democratic
circles in tie North by his letters from
Washington to his paper, the Mobile
Tribune, expresses the opinion that the
Southern delegations in the New York
Convention will wisely and mOdestly
defer to their brethren of the North and
West as to the action of that body. He
says this, wishing to be put right, es-
9ecially with his old Douglas friends of
the Northwest.
The Petersburg Express, in noticing
the fact that young woman in that
city refused to walk under y flag bear
ing the names of Grant and Colfax, ex-
presses the opinion that if all the
Southern men were as true to the South
as the ladies, that thing called consti-
tntion" would be defeated by fifty
thousand.
The Nashville Union 4 Dispatch thinks |
that there are no reasons why a mill
tary man should he nominated by the !
Democrats for the Presidency, while +,
there are many, both on the score of
principle and OF expediency, that should |
determine in favor of civilian as the
representative of the Democracy.
The Montgomery (Ala.) .idrertiser an
ticipates some signal benefits from the
presence of the State delegation in the
New York Convention, because it will |
have the effect of breaking down the
barrier of sectional isolation behind
which they have been standing since
the close of hostilities.