The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-06
A Fearful Consequence of the Success
OF the Radical Party.
From the National Intelligencel

| FROM the NatlOHal
We called attention, few days age
to the statement of an officer of th
United States army, stationed in SOuti
Carolina, giving an account of an at
tack upon his command by an organized
band of negroes. This statement, mad,
with no sinister or partisan purpose, but
as simple. truthful and unvarnisheC
narrative of facts, revealed the exist
ence among the negroes of chat sectier
of regularly officered, armed and dis
ciplined military organizations, which
have become emboldened sufficiently tc
even attack United States troops sem
thither to preserve the public peace.
This South Carolina rev elation, how
ever, sinks into utter insignifcance be
side the appalling picture drawn by 8
cautious and unimpassioned observer
of the condition of affairs in Arkansas
and the dangers may at any moment be
realized in blood and flames and ruin
not to be confined to that locality but
to spread its devastating fury through,
out the land in a war of races more ter
rible in its results than aught that has
been conceived of civil war.
The following letter, to which we a.
lude, is from father residing in Ar
kansas to his son at the North:
My DEAR Son: Just received letter
from your brother. He is well, anC
may God protect him, for l am in hourly
apprehension of the commencement o
blOodshed in our country, sought fol
and instigated by the squad of scoun
drelly Radicals who are daily enlistinl
and drilling, and nightly melting, har
anguing and urging the negroes to vic
lence. Our hope of peace is that ou
people are bringing the responsibility
to these scoundrels by telling and pro
claiming that we know the negroes ar,
not to blame, and would do no violenc,
but for the instigation of these whit
outcasts, who will desert them at tn,
first season of real danger, and by urg
ing them to 60 into no outrages with
out the white instigator goes at tn,
head, but to get out of the way of sucl
things, (ali Of which is affecting
the negroes and converting man.
of them, and by announcingto the (no
Radicals but) outcasts (from the ranks
of all the worst classes) calling them
selves Radicals, that white people hoi(
them personally responsible for all the
blood that may be split, as the true au
thors of the crimes, and that it is theil
interest as well as duty to stay this tide
toward crime and violence, as white
blood of the well known leaders and in
stigators will be demanded for white
blood of our peaceful citizens.
There are not more than twenty five
or thirty of them, all told, in our coun'
ty, where the white population is much
larger than the black, and there are
not over an average Of twenty-five OF
thirty to county in all the State
which voted 81 900 in 1860.
/ greatly fear the results of the next
three months. God alone and the peo.
pie of the North can save the South; af'
ter the election, if Grant is elected with
Radical Congress, blOOdshed iridespredO
is hOpeleSsly ineuitable. Indeed, such IL
the condition that / am satisfied ii woulC
be so to q considerable extent In any
event; but it will be horrible if Grant
and the RAIDS. are elected. A rapid de-
population of the South, emigration Of
all the respectable families able tc
move, especially those where the lands
are richest and negroes most abound
and in two short years all the rich sec
tions, choicest lands, costly improve
ments, tCiU hare no Whites; and not even
the WHITE FRIENDS will last for ovel
five years. for the negroes wiN Kill them
after being ruined by this process.
In two years from the triumph of the
Radical party, there will have occurred
more crimes, shame and sorrow, ruin and
desolation than the aggravated record:
of crimes of all the United States in
peace and war could equal, if counted
from the date of independence, July
1766.
All intelligent men see and feel this
but they refuse TO contemplate it. 1t Is
true before God, but they have faith II
the North, and it would astound both
the Indians and Democrats, who have
not lately been South, to witness the
implicit, confding, absolute faith and
| fixed certainty with which all the
whites of the South are counting upon
the defeat of the Radicals. This only
| it is that enables them to keep theil
eyes closed to the future situa
tion. If they doubted they would
all realize the future that is to follow
upon a Radical triumph, and there
would at once be apparent the evidences
of preparations to abandon the rich
sections, as reH as to defend those poorer
and to plunge into the intestine war
not against the United States flag, bu
against the negroes and their wretchet
carpet-bag instigators. All then mus
become black mass of ruin, wretched
ness, bloodshed and crime. The Unitet
States then can't stop it. 1t will b
neighbor against neighbor, settlemen
against settlement. When all this II
ended, will the Northern States or peo
pie love each otheri How long then
will the great Republic lastf
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.