The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-12

, the party heretotore nave conio up
his standard. The following is th'
programme he lays down for the ineom
ing administration:
|. The arming of the negroes and tn
carpet baggers of the South, and IN
disarming of the Southern people.
?. A sweeping confscation OF TIT
landed property of the Southern whites
and its conveyance to the negroes.
, 8. An amendment to the Federal Con
stitution prohibiting any State iron
denying the right of suffrage and hold
ing office to the negro race.
4. The impeachment and deposition
of President johnson from his Office BY
the end of this year.
In a somewhat similar strain, the Bos
ton Commonwealth, speaking fo'
CHARLES SUMNER, tins presents th'
policy which that Senator would have
Congress adopt:
Let Congress repeal it's Reconstruc
tion acts and put the South once more
in the condition it was at Lees surren'
der. This it can do, as Reconstructed
thus far has only been a legislative pro,
ceeding. Then it will have the ground
fsllow for it's proper planting. And II ouI
Ihusbandry has not been enriched by ex'
periencc, we have missed our calculation
What will be needed will be to begin
anew, with confiscation of lands and the
total disability of every rebel-no rep
resentation in Congress-mllltary gov
.rnment, and the strong hand for twen-
ty years upon the South. We can dc
without the South. Let US sec If she
can get along without the North!
FoRNEY'S Press now urges the imme-
date agitation of the negro suffrage
question throughout the North. 1t
wants universal suffrage and wants it
at once. The Press says:
Let Us give it now, and let the For.
tieth Congress snatch the honor. Com
mon Justice, common humanity and
common gratitude call on US now To en-
franchise with the ballot the cOlored
man in every State. 1t can be done
safely and successfully. We have no
Presidential election to imperil now.
We are on the wave of success. Let us
use it to float the ship of State into
quiet waters-quiet because they arc
the great deep of justice and of right.
Let the Fortieth Congress, in Decem-
Der, as their first aud main work, pro-
pose an amendment to the Constitution
comforting the power to vote for ma
tional purposes and officers on colored
men, under equal conditions with white
men, and submit it to the people, under
the fifth article. Three-fourthS of the
States would rush to ratify it, and
another laurel, ever green and glorious,
would be added to the enduring hoDors
of our great party.
TILTON but represents the progressive
ideas of Ra,licalism when, in speaking
of ANNA DICKINSoN'S miscegenation
book, "What Answer 7" he says it is "a
heroic attompt to join the Anglo. Saxon
and he Auglo-African blood in true
and lawful MARRIAGE" that it Is "the
brayest book in American literature"
and that she has "defed American
opinion more uebly than any New Eng
land or Knickerbocker book-make er ever
did"
These are the ultra ideas of Radical
isrp upon political and social questions.
But the ultras arc but the pioneers in
whose steps the host of "moral pro-
gress" ultimately marches. So "con-
seryative" journal as the Cincinnati
Commercial comes up already to the
orthodox standard upon the suffrage
question. 1t says:
The people of the States Of Iowa nd
Minnesota have taken hold of the ques-
ton of negro suffrage, ana disposed of
Il finally. by abolishing all absurd dis
examinations. We say finally, for there is
no retrogreSsion where prejudices unSup-
ported by reason and common sense go
down in the march of enlightened pro-
gress.
We shall neveS rid ourselves of this
troublesome question till we have the
courage and the manhood to take hold
of and deal with it as the people OF
Iowa and Minnesota have dealt with IT..
Believing ourselves, in impartial suf'
frage, and regarding all determinations
based upon race and color as abomina-
tions, creating inequalities that are not
justified by reason, and should not be
allowed to exist in State that profes-
ses to deal fairly and justly with its cit
izens, we Insist upon reconsideration
of the question by the people OF OHIO.
Even so obtuse paper as the inteth-
gencer sees that the negro equality idea
must be endorsed by its editor if he
woald preserve his standing and secure
the Postofics, and under the head OF
"The Coming Question:" it heartily
commcnds the advance movement OF
FORNEY and the Commercial and the
other Radical authorities, in behalf OF
universal suffrage. Similar doctrines
to those we have quoted are now being
put forward by Radical papers all over
the country. Emboldened by success
they are clanorous in behalf of cause
with which they dared not avow single
sympathy, before the election.
To what will all this lead Unless
the conservative" element in the Re
publican party possess an influence fn
greater thaa it has ever shown, tha
party will next attempt the enfranchise
mcut of the blacks in every State, by al
amendmentt to the Federal Constitution
This effort we expect to be made. W.
expect it to find little opposition in tn
rank and file of the party. Much les
will it be opposed by General GRANT
The entire influence of the Executiv
will be used to forward all measures o
Radical policy, whatever they may be
Those who hope otherwise may as vel
at once make up their minds to disap
pointment. Probably this scheme ca
be defeated. We trust it can. But
it fail, it will be by reason Of the una
bated opposition of the Democracy, AM
not because of any obstacle placed i
the way by the next President.
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