The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-03-31
Africanizing plans of LOYALTY" aud Pm
ritanismf

AiIicanlZlng pians OF loyalty" and Pm
ritaniSmi
1t is clear that the Government offered
them must be abominable or they would
not reject it. Some form Of civil Gov.
ernment they need. Every element OF
lawlessness is now let loose in their
midst. The negro classes are idle and
violent. They are subject to neither
moral, social nsr civil restraints, and
satisfaction is the only limit of their
outrages. Pillage, bloodshed, rapine
aud murder are their constant employ
ment. For these purposes they are
armed aud organized, and if either ia
centive or protection were needed, they
have both, in the counsels of emissaries
and in the absence of adequate re-
traints upon their action.
The business of the South is annihi-
lated. The producing classes, white
aud black, are idle; beggary aud rags
are the consequence. Property is val
ueless, as it may well be, VIII re settled
law and civil protection are wanting.
Plantations of the finest character are
daily sold for a mere pittance, TO meet
the Pecuuiary necessities of their own
ers. All pursuits are PROSTATE, and
idleuess and want have come upon
thousands, who would gladly work if
they could find employment.
Good Government would greatly allie
viate, if not Immediately do away with
these distresses. The conclusion then
Is that the Governments built up by
the blacks under Congressional super
vision are not good, and indeed that
they are so far evil, that the people
think il better to "bear the ills they
have, than tly TO others that they know
not Of"
Is it not time to lesislate with some
other view than that exclusively of
making traiters take back seat 7"
The country can 10 more dispense with
the services of the whites of TIE
South in restoring the political
fabric than il can DO with
out their aid in paying the national
dek, and repairing the fearful ravages
Of the war. We waive all discussion
Of their treason and its deserts. A more
practical question is, do the people at
large deserve TO be distressed in every
interest in order to accomplish the wild
scheme of negro supremacy The
whole country, North and South alike,
will suffer from negro domination in
the ten States. The rule of the African
is not penalty for the rebel merely,
bur for the entire nation. Ii
feels that penalty now, in arrangement
of business, depreciation of property,
industrial troubles, in its shipping, its
agriculture, its trade and its taxes
When negro. votes shall be felt III the
General Government, the penalty will
be more painfully mannesi, ana the
puniShmeu. which excludes SoLtherR
white men from political power will
be universally felt in worse fanati-
cism and worse folly than are already
ex xhaustipg the popular patience.
The interests of the cosutry forbid
negro supremacy at the South. So init
mately are the sections associated that
the whites of that region cannot be har-
assed and prosecuted without impart-
ing. to the North also, portion of their
misery. The mission of the patriot is
now to heal rather than to lacerste, and
TO exalt the negro because we cannot
trust the white man, is to ruin the coun-
try for the qualification of a false and
shallow prejudice.