The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-19
POLITICAL SCRAPS.

TENNEssEE.-There are about 0,OOC
white voters in Tennessee. OF these
100000 are disfranchised by Radical
edict, sustained by military force. AT
the Same time 100000 negroes are made
voters. This accounts for the recent
negro triumph in the election at Mem
phis.
The Radical papers herald the result
in New Hampshire as an evidence of the
popularity of General Grant How so
Hartman last year, without Grant, re-
ceived over three thousand majority;
this year, with Grant, his majority, on a
largely increased vote, is reduced to
about twenty-four hundred. Left
handed popularity this for General
Grant.
What will be the inevitable results of
q continuation of the present revolu-
tionary party in powerf First, chronic
riot, then loss of confidence, then decay
of capital, then blood, then segregation
of sections, or else u military empire.
Either is likely to occur under the lead
of such men as Stevens, Batter, Sumner,
and their "torch- and. turpentine" asso-
ciates.
A Washington correspondent says:
The only remarkable feature presented
by the dense crowd that filled the gal
leries of the Senate Chamber on Friday,
was of a negative characteristic non
appearance of single black face. This
was regarded the more astonishing, as
Mr.. Sumner had four tickets for distri-
button. Outside of the building The me-
groes had assembled by hundreds, but
the great progressive doctrine of equal
ity was totally ignored even, by the
Radical Congressman.
While Bingham read the articles of
impeachment in the Senate, Butler held
his hat dangling from both hands be-
meath his pauuch. When Bingham read
the question once put!by johnson to his
Radical revilers, who had called him
Judas Iscariot," as to who was the
"Christ" he had betrayed, "was it Thad
Stevens. the great Commoner ~ or
"Ben Wade p both those individuals
were observed to grin horribly a ghast-
ly smile. Whom the people of Ohio re-
jected at their last election, Congress is
going to make President of the United
States.-BOstOn Courier.
The Chief Justice of the United States
is paying the penalty exacted by party
spirit, for the crime of having opinions
of his own, even OH questions of law.
Referring to his recent letter to the
Senate, the Washington correspondent
of the New Havana Journal, says "it is
pitiful to see a man ofsuch splendid
powers, and otherwise noble character,
so devoured by aspirations unworthy of
him, that his best friends cannot put
full confidence in him." and the more
of the Radicals at Wash
ington do not hesitate TO denounce HIM
as seeking q denomination for the Presi-
dency from the Democratic party N.
IiWtS
The Press, Radical paper published
at Nashville, Tennessee, declares that
the negroes in that State will be sure to
vote the Radical ticket and" not perplex
their heads about taxes, foreign wars,
bonds, or any other question which
may interest white voters" OF course
not; as long as the Radicals continue to
feed them through the Freedmen's Bu-
reau, and Bureau agents can keep them
organized :nto loyal leagues, the ex-
penses of all of which are paid by the
white people of the North. But will not
the overtaxed and underpaid white men
of the North tire of supporting negroes
in idleness, and living under govern
ment controlled by negro votes' We
think so.