The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1868-01-23
THURSDAY, JANUARY go, 1868.
FOR PRESIDENT,
GENERAL U. S. GRANT,
0F.fLifS0iS.
WHAT DEMOCRATS AND CONSERV-
TIVES ARE DOING.

WHAT DEMOCRATS AND CONSERV-
TIVES ARE DOING.
Now, insmuch as the Democracy in
some few sections Of The country nave
succeeded in gaining somO power ihcy
are beginning to show lhrir hand, or in
other words. are demonstrating TO the
county the tuhrulnrss Of what W.
have been telling the people. In the
Legislature of Ohio (aow in se'siouJ
they have resc,nded the action Of the Re,
publican Legislature of 1867 rnliryin.
the Constitutional Amendment And il
is right and proper that the people Of the
country should be Informed as to the
meaning of this act FIRST, It sweep.
away the idea ibntall person5 born or
nomralzad in the United States, are cir
gems of the United Safes or of tho State
wherein they reside, virtually declaring
that no man oush. to BE- c,liz'n Of the
country unless he sweNrs perpetual al
feginnce TO the principles Of the Demo.
cratic party They thereby endorse The
bred Scott decision which declares rbst
colored men have no rights which white
men ought to respect, and by this act
these sympaIhizers wish traitors are in
spring new life into one Of the cardinal
doctrines of the Rebellion,
Secondly. they are clearing the way
for rivilng tina, hateful Southern dogma
upon the country again, that one South
ern white man is as good az three North
crn men, by refusing to make the voting
population the basis Of representation, =
They hove declared in favor of putting
Tho negro ahead Of the willie men 10
their State They have prepared the
way for such men as Lee, Breckenridge,
FLOYD, Price. Bragg Wise, Buckler,
Morgan, &C., to be elected and installed
into Office on the very same terms and
conditions as are required Of our loyal
Generals who fought AMI shed their
blood to wrest the life of the nation from
the grip of'reason.
Thirdly. they have by this act decla-
red that tie nation is as much uoder
obligation to pay the rebe deb, MS it is
to pay tina, of the nation, aud that if it
is rrgh, 10 repuliato one, il is right to
repuliate lhe other, Now, mark there
is no negro suffrage in this amendment.
1t is notCven limited at, but the Democ'
racy say there il, and they take this po-
stion, that they may cover from the gaze
Of the people their real designs, which
is 10 re-estoblsh slavery and restore
their bretherrn-the blood despatched
traitors of the Gountry-to the positions
from which their treason has Justly eX-
PEELED them. We have every indication
from their speeches and votes, tina, their
objec, is to reopen the graves which
were filed with the enemies Of liberty
and repubIicanism, and to drag iherofrom
those miserable, loathsome, carcasses
and reinsPire them With life, puIting in
TO their hands the power again to in
yoiyv this nation IN all the horrors Of
civil war. Listen 10 what they say
Their language is, that "L'ncOln was o
usurpcr,' that the war on the part of the
government to save tao nation was call
wrong They say that the spirit that
prcciptatod the rebellion "Still ives
They claim that ;heyare not "sublued,"
they brand as "traitors" our loyal Con-
gressmen, our loyal judges, our loyal
Governors, our loyal Generals, and even
General Grant because he will not stoop
to do their dirty, reasonable work, is
receiving their Sna,hcmas Loyal men
Of che country, are you willing that this
party should come again into poWer?-
We hope not