The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-06
The Resu,t Of Grants Election.

The New York World shows conclu-
sively that the election of Grant to the
Presidency cannot give the country
"peace," for the reason that his conduct
as President and his policy as party
leader would necessarily be determined
by the extremists and revolutionists
who have him in hand. 1t claims that
the following would be the results of
Grants election:
Perpetuation of this present chaos.
Prolonged disunion.
Four wears more of fruitless conten-
ton against the national consequences
of the intellectual, moral, and physical
superiorities of tho Southern white, and
the like inferiorities of the Southern
INSTRUMENTATION fruitless and exhaust
ing like that of men who should de.
vote themselves by millions to holding
c9rks under water.
Four years more of crippled indHs-
tries at the South-eight millions of
people thus prevented from enhancing
our prosperity and sharing our debt bur
den. For Northern capital, shy and es-
pying afar off, could not be seduced into
the ten States; their very governments
in vain go hand in hand through all the
Northern cities, and not one Republican
banker will loan ten dollars towards
the pay of carpet-bag Governor.
Four years more of corruption, blum
dering incsmpetency, profigate expen-
diture, and increasing debt; for whe so
foolish as to expect of the Republican
party anything different, should it be
endorsed by the people, from that which
its two thirds majorities have cursed the
country with since the wheels of the
rump revolution began to roll toward
their dUomi
Four years more of all this, and at the
end nothing settled, peace not attained,
the Union not restored, the breaches in
the Constitution not repaired, the
sword not scabbarded, stable govern
ments not established, because volunta-
ry self-government itself solely is or can
be stable here.
If the future may safely be predicted
from the experience Of the past, the
| World does not overestimate the calam
tiles that would crowd one upon anoth-
er in the event of the success of the Con.
gressional usurpationists. Three years
ago Gen. Grant certified to the country
that peace was practicable upon the ba-
sis Of self-government conceded to the
citizens of the Southern States as their
right; and the common bond of perpet-
ual Union. The Radicals rejected
"peace" on this basis. They refused the
righ thand of fellowship proffered by the
white men of the South, and sought
alliance with the black race for the pur-
pose of revelutionizing and reconstruc-
ting the Government. The conse-
ouences have been chaos at the South,
military rule with its millions of worse
than useless expenses, usurpations by
Congress of the right of States to con-
troll the elective franchise, and yet, as
the UorId says "all the bayouets of all
our armies cannot even now, in some OF
ten States, pin the negro tightly on top
of the white" and it is patent to every
one that without military support the
whole system of reconstruction would
topple into ruin. The election of Grant
can only have the effect to make it still
more imperative to strengthen and
tighten the cords of military despotism
1t cannot give the country peace"