The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-08-28
TmxVFH AHENpHEHT.

FroHl ne Eag Hork zFI6tias. M
The proposition OF the last C0nss Sss
that no native or nRtuFalIEed cliiGsn oi
The United States shall heneeiorth 81
deprived bJ any State Of the right Of
Sudrage because OF bis race or color, d
emphatically = measure OF pacidcAIion,
Il u practical confession Of the force,
or at least the plauSiblllty, OF 4 sharp
Southern criticism on the Republican
National Platform on which General
Grant was nomInAted-that the North
proposed 70 Impose Negro Suffrage on
the South, bat rejected Il for herself. II
IL q CORRECTION Of existing anomalies
utterly incompatible with genuine 70.
publlcautsm, Aud II will put an end
10 10 q lenSelesS, ITuiless, Irritating,
damaging controversy, and enable our
People to give paramount II not undi-
v!dsd attention 10 great questions Of
fiscal and Industrial progress which
lnperAtlvely demand undIstracIed and
thorough consideration. There Ia not
q county In the Union which would
not be enriched. hardly farm, forest
or WAteT.poweT, that would not have
lie value Increased, BY Q speedy ratIh.
cation Of the pending XVIII Amend.
ment.
Il is announced from Washington
that the records OF the State Depart-
msnt show that this Amendment has
been TIA
Completely Ratitied Iy-Sorth Caro-
Ina, West Virginia, MRssachu setts,
Wisconsin, Maine, Louisiana, Michis
gan, south Carolina, Pennsylvania,
ArkansAs, Connecticut, FLorIdR-l2.
AmPTtestIy Ratified ey-MiSsouri,
kAnsAs-2.
Rejected by-DslARare, Ksptucky-2,
THIS list Is grossly incomplete. New
York has ratified, though our Dsmo.
cratic Slate officers may have Withheld
the evidence OF this fact from the State
Department. New Hampshire, Nevada,
Indiana, have certainly ratified; and We
supposed that Minnesots, lows, iii.
nois, Nebrssks, and Alabama had
done likewise. Vermont will ratify
soon alter her Legislature meets next
October aud Rhode lslBnd, we Rre rs.
sured, will do likewise Ia NoVem Der.
But these, with The errors In Missouri
and Kansas corrected, will but swell
The list Of ERtiiylng States 10 IS, and
four more are needed. These might
have been virtually secured by IhIB
time. Had the oVertures OF the Walker
party Ia Virginia, and OF the CORE.
spending organisations In Mississippi
and Texas, been met with frank and
promp! cordiAlity-had early elections
been held In each OF these States, and
their Legislatures been promptly con-
vened-We might have secured FAtIh-
cation from each, without serious Cd.
position, by the LIST OF September, Aud,
with such ratification assured, the end
would have been in plain sight, In
TACT, had the Legislature Of Virginia
been promptly assembled, no tesE-oath
imposed, and the XVIII Amendment
ratified ny her Conservative leaders,
the struggle would have been virtually
closed. Inc Democratic canvass In Ohio,
California, de-, would have been para
Iyzsd, and the WEsLChed bAbple con.
corning 'niggers, Niger equality &c.
consigned ~ the dusty Iumber-roOm
wherein 10 Rarnered the o1tworn para
phernalla OF dead controversies.
II ISL grave mistake that this has not
been done; but the error Is not yet "a tai.
The pOstPonement OF the MlssIssippI
and Texas elections to the last Of No
vember must, we suppose, be submit
ted to; but Virginia should be restored
TO herself forthwith. The gentlemen
who count on electinR themselves. 10
the United States Senate by the votes Of
defeated candidates for the Legislature
should be promptly advised chat the
operation ID TOO costly, and must be
i0reborne. There have been mi urious
delays, bat as yet no irreparabie mis-.
step. We hope yet to hear that the LIZ
gisiature ia 10 be organized In accord.
ance with the votes Of the people. II
not, and the XVIII Amendment should
in consequence be lost, grave will be
the error and fearful the responsibility,