The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-07

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was proper touse them for that purpose.
1t became just as necessary and was just
as proper, and we had Just Us much
power under the Constitution and
under abstract rightto use them to aid in
keeping down the rebellion they had
helped subdue, to build up the gov
ternments of the South and reconstruct
the States which had destroyed their
original State organizations. The very
Democrats who raise a clamor against
this policy are many of them the men
who when able bodied men were
wanted and drafts were imminent,
were rushing around the Country to
find black men 10 go as substitutes for
them. The black man was good
enough TO take their place in the ranks,
good enough to fight for them, good
enough to die in their stead. And yet
these men, standing to day over the
graves and above the ashes of these
black substitutes who sealed their de-
votion to the Union with all that a
mortal has to give, are denouncing
Congress for employing the same
agency to build up the ruin these same
Democrats had brought upon the co un-
try. II 1t was right TO employ the
black man to put the rebellion down,
why not right to make him an agent
TO build up its wastes and make the
rebels obey the laws when again
brought back.
Mr.. Blair In one of his speeches the
other day (wherein he talked two hours
and about little else than the negro
decried and denounced the wick
ness of slavery and said that it
was on account OF slavery that the
Democratic party made the war on the
Government. he also denounced the
rebellion as a crime, and distinctly
said that now it had been put down
Jefferson Davis ought to be executed,
together with several others of the lead
ers; and he made 1t a charge against
the Republican party that they let the
leaders of the rebellion live and visited
their proscriptive policy on their fol-
lowers by DISTINGUISHING and disquali-
flying some of them for holding Office.
Mr.. Wiley then took up and exposed
in the most scathing way the Demo.
cratic howl about "nigger equality"
"nigger supremacy" &c. He showed
in the first place that there is and can
be no such question in this State in the
approaching election. The State Consti-
tuition deprives the black man of a
vote. It can only be changed in the
mode prescribed in that instrument.
The process requires over two years
and the last proceeding in the process
is vote by all the electors of the State
whether it shall be done or not; and If
a majority OF the people say the black
man shall vote, he will vote; but not
till then, under the Chicago platform
and under the Constitution of the
State.
In the next place, why should any
body be alarmed about the poor de-
splsed negro? The white people of the
United States are estimated at So DOC, 600.
There are at this time four millions one
or two hundred thousand blacks. The
latter nIe ignorant, uneducated, with
out estate; trembling yet under the
Of thnir lftonFaf nj.
most afraid it Is not true without mon
ey, without social influence. without
any of those elements that enter into
the essential power of manhood or make
him being to be dreaded or feared.
On the other side, is the Anglo. Saxon,
35 ,0O0, 600 strong, having all the lands.
all the money, all the power of our in
stitutions in his hands, educated to self
government, intelligent, free. born, free
spoken-the graudest people on the
face of the earth. Our Democratic
friends claim majority OF that 35 ,OOO,-
600; and look at them, 17,500,000 of
these white Democrats, trembling aud
shuddering in their boots, lest these
four millions of poor and powerless
black men should get the supremacy
over them. There Is Il tiisense-I forget
the technical name-which fills people
with an irresistible impulse to steal.
Our Democratic friends seem to be
lIlGS are Will
reference To intermarringe with the col
ored race. They are afraid If the latter
Is allowed his natural rights before the
law, they will be irresistibly impelled
to "marry Niger" and that they
must be restrained by legal enactment.
believe where 1t ID clearly proven that
a person has stolen under the impulse
of the mania referred TO, he is not held
to be responsible to the laws /; and If
our Democratic friends should find
themselves committing colored mRtri-
mony against their will, doubtless they
will be allowed to claim similar ex-
emption from accountability. The great
and perhaps only objection TINT could
be urged against enfranchisiug the
black men of the South, was that they
would be the tools of the uverpoweriug
intellect of the white man; but that OBJ
lection applies to n large portion of
white men, too, in this country, especi
ally in that section.
It is said the Republican policy in
the South is to mako the negro equal
to tho white man. Ought not lie be
equal before the law? Where can You
find in your heart, in the moral code,
in reason, in justice, in anything that
addresses itself to man inspired with
the spirit of Christian civilization, a
sentiment or principle that would deny
to the negro equality before the law.
Did not God make him? Did not He
give him n soul, give him what little
intellect he has, give him the breath of
heaven to breathe, just as He gave 1t to
you, and the light of heaven to shine
upon his path? Did He not give his
Son to redeem him? Did He not give
him everything He has given you I'M
der Gods creation? And why should
not he be protected in his civil rights
in the enjoyment of property, lite and
character
In regard to social equality, the
speaker showed TINT was a thing 10 be
regulated by social laws, not by legal
enactments. 1t was matter OF mutu-
al consent, purely and solely. People
did not recognize white persons as So
cial equals, because they were white or
had civil rights before the law. White
people, merely because they were white,
and had legal privileges, were not So
clal equals, but every one could make
social equal of another. or not, as he
chose. II was matter of taste. A
gentleman would not invite a white
thief into his parlor and give him So
cial recognition any more than he
would black thief. The speaker knew
numbers of white men in Monongalia
county who were undoubtedly guilty
of robbing hen.roosts, but as 1t could
not be proved on them, they go to the
polls and vote. And yet the fact that
they are voters, does not compel the
honest people of Monongalia to give
them social recognition as equals.
The speaker continued at some length
in illustration of this idea. He was
not advocating suffrage for the negro
here. It was not question here and
he had shown could not be (; but he was
exposing the absurlity and the heart
lessness OF this Democratic howl about
negro equality. When he saw these
moor 1nfrian6ad hain0a traduond and