The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-14

among other things Tor canVAs5lnB II
Ohio last fall in favor of negro sudrRge
in company with J. N. Langston, the
distinguished coIored lawyer. Yester-
day, with great promptitude and gusto,
the wheeling Register copied this letter
and INDUCED in half column OF Tul'
gar nppeals to the lowest selfish in
stincts of human nature, insulting the
liberal-minded and intelligent portion
of its readers by an assumption that
thew are as illiberal, as ungenerous, as
tnhuman in their sentiments as itself,
Now, sir, we propose you a question,
and should like an explicit answer:
Do you not know, or, II not, have you
not reason to believe, that the letter re-
ierred to was concocted by Copper
head or copperheads Democrat or
Democrats, If you prefer; that It was
imposed upon the Tribune under false
pretenses, expressly that the state
ment in regard to Mr.. Stevenson above
referred to might appear in that paper
under the guise of having been made
by a radical, in order that 1t might be
quoted as from radical authority, pre-
cIseIy as it has been quoted by the
Re1ister9
This Tribune letter is of the same
piece with a certain letter purportiug to
have been written from Grafton by a
Republican, making numerous false
statements which were exposed in
our columns some weeks ago. 1t
seems the Copperhesds have some
body whose special business IT is
TO manufacture these lies and foist
them on the public through the col
umns of respectable newspapers under
the Insidious guIse Of being the state
ments of Republicans. We should be
glad to be assured this branch of the
Democratic canvass does not have Its
headquarters in the Register Office.
Mr. Stevenson In his remarks
Wednesday evening, branded this sto-
~ out Of which the Register is trying
TO make little capital, as falsehood.
L becomes that sheet therefore either
to prove its assertions or TO be silent.
The truth is, Mr.. Langston is a man
| of SO much Intellectual ability and OF
such great moral excellence that the
editor OF the Register would be made
respectable, Of anything could effect
that) by being allowed to canvass in
Mr.. Langston's company. We beg to
suggest thatif he had a gentleman Of
Mr.. Langston's ability to stump this
District in his company, his chance Of
an election might be something less
hopeless than 1t is.
Now, SO far as we are concerned, We
don't care straw whether Mr.. Steven
son did or did not speak in Ohio las
fall in advocacy of the amendment pro
posing to enfranchise the negroes
whether he did or did not advocate tina
feature of the amendment specially
and whether he did or did not speak II
the game house in which Mr.. LangstoI
may have been, or from the same board
on which, before OF after, Mr.. Langstor
may have stood, or occupied at any
time the same particular spot of eartt
or air which Mr.. Langston may have
occupied before or after him. Goo
made the earth, the air and the creatures
. that move upon the one and breathe thu
other. If it be a crime for a white mar
: to breathe the air because a black mar
lives by the same process, or II it is I
t crime for u white man TO walk on tn
} earth because 1t has pleased the AL
| mighty to make the black man wall
3 upon It, or II there be contagion for {
man OF white skin in standing upor
the Same particular piece OF eartt
or wood that either before OIL
AFTER supported man whose skin
Is bluck-then Heaven help US ALL
the editor of the Register included
So much for the idea that Mr.. Steven.
son canvassed sin company" with Mr.
Langston, which means, we suppose,
that he spoke from the same stand that
Mr.. LanGston spoke from, and adj
dressed the same people. AS matter
OF fact, Mr.. Stevenson says he did MOI
do SO. Suppose he bad, what of It {
Who need have cared? Who would
have been harmed? The kind OF STUFF
INDUCED by the Register does moi
come very gracefully from party
that now has Mr.. Jos. E. Williams, 6
colored citizen ofTennessee, canvassine
for it In Alabama, and whose leaders in
the Southern States are making special
exertions to court the negroes for theil
votes, who mingle freely with then,
on the stump, who cut and drink
with them at their barbacues; and in
order to procure their votes are treat
ing them not only as political, but So
clal equals. What low down, pitiful
hypocrites Democrats are capable OF
being for the sake of power and
Office!
The Democrats of the South are now
treating the negroes there with fawn-
ing adulalion simply disgusting, from
it's hypocrisy If for nothing else; and
If the colored men of Wheeling and
West Virginia were ito. day voters, we
should find the Wheeling Register and
the Democratic leaders throughout the
State fswning upon and fattering
them and fellowshipinE with them, and
perhaps disgusting them, just as their
ellow-Democrats are doing in the
South.
In view OF all this, what would it
have signified, what principle of
morals, what teaching OF Christi
anity would have been violated, If Mr..
Stevenson had advocated the claim of
the negro citizens of Ohio to the ballot,
and had dono 1t in company with
Mr.. j. NJ. Langston2 He says
he did not. But if he had what
OF it, It would have been only
such a recognition of the black man as