The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-24
inc End of the Negro surrREe

Ino 6nO OF Gne Negro BuAEhbS
SANDER.
A few of the wire-pullers in the
Democratic party are acting in regard
to the story that Hon. w. E. Stevenson
stumped Ohio last fall with negro In
favor of negro suffrage, on the princl-
pie that ga lie well stuck to is as good
as the truth.n The first charge, 1t Will
be remembered, made by an anony-
nous writer In the Wheeling Register
and also by a letter in the New YORK
Tribune, purporting to have been writ
ten from this State by a friend" OF Mr.
Steyenson's (but which shows unmis-
takably and in almost every line the
ear marks of very shallow-pated
rebelO was that Mr.. s. "took an active
part in Ohio in stumping the border
counties in company with j. NJ. Langs-
ton, negro, in favor of negro suffrage"
This Mr.. Stevenson has answered by
stating publicly that he never spoke in
but one county in Ohio (Washington),
never spoke on negro suffrage at all,
and that he never saw DIR. Langston
bnt once in his life, and then but for a
few moments. -.l...
Then 1t was charged that speech of
Mr.. steyenson's could be produced from
the Ohio paper which published his APP
pointments, and that the editor of the
paper noticed 1t Sin complimentary
TERMS" But Mr.. r. NJ. Stimson, the
editor of that paper (the Marietta Reg
ister), over his own signature in this
journal, has pronounced this story a
falsehood in every particular.
Hon. George NJ. Woodbridge, In a
speech made in Wnliamstown, Wood
county, w. Va, on the 25th of August,
said in regard to Mr.. Stevenson and
negro suffrage in Ohio: "He (Mr. Ste
venson) never said word about it any
where publicly or privately. 1 tOas
Nth him all the time. He never spoke
with Langston or any other negro"
1t would seem that after this, honora-
BILE men would have abandoned this
somewhat discreditable, not to say dir
ty, political Islander. The whole thing
has been worked upon until 1t is like
the little end of nothing whitfield down
to point, and sensible Democrats laugh
Mt and despise It as heartily as any
body else. The story now is, that at the
Marietta meeting, after Colonel Mckee,
Senator Thayer, Mr.. Stevenson and
Deacon Gray had spoken, and at half
past ten O'Clock at night, Mr.. Langston,
the negro orator, was observed in the
crowd and was called upon 10 "show
HIMSELF" which it seems he did, but
excused himself from making speech,
as he intended TO speak the next even
ing in the NJ. E. Church. But in doing
SO he actually stood upon The same plat
form that Mr.. Stevenson made his speech
from during the evening. Shade of Joe
WilliamsI And this is the heinous
ofense of which SO much pains has
been taken to prove Mr.. s. guilty. II
ever the PdrtuTiunt monteS brought
forth "ridiculous rlouse," this is 1t ]
But failing to find any speech of Mr..
stevenson's on negro suffrage, they
have made one for the occasion, and
have 1t published in the Marietta Times,
copperhead organ OF the "Brick
Pomeroy stripe, without The brains
of that blasphemous sheet. 1t is called
"Au abstract OF Mr.. Stevenson'a negro
suffrage speech" in Marietta, and Is be-
ing copied into the opposition papers of
this State, and retailed, not as far as we
can learn by any Democratic speaker of
reputation, but by few pot-house
politicians who have been hired for
that purpose. Mr.. Stevenson writes TO
us about this "abstraut" of his speech,
NJ Il ia csllad and aavS.
"I have read what purports to be an
''abstract of negro suffrage speech of
"mine. published few days since in
1.-THE Marietta Times, and 1 most I'M
'hesitatingly pronounce 1t fabrica-
lion and falsehood from beginning
"to end. There is not a single sentence
Gin it in regard to suffrage that spoke
''on that occasion or any other. The
"man who wrote this 'abstract' evil
"dently never heard my speech, or II
"he did, has wilfully and deliberately
written what he must know TO be a
"ialsehood concerning it," s
All these stories arc intended by
their authors to operate in portions of
the State, whore they hope n correct
statement of the facts can never reach.
They have been tried before ,bnt itinever
amounted to much. They will amount
to less this time. They and those who
have gone to so much trouble to launch
and keep them afloat, will be buried
out ofsight in October.