The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-18
"LoyaI, Indignation.

The Mtehigencer calls the late tigh
between ALLEN and MCCOoLE "a stair
upon our civilization" and expresses
great horror thereat Such pious indig
nation is creditable to the tender sensi
bilties of our "loysp neighbor. 1t is
above criticism or cavil. 1t is supreme.
ly decent, digaified and refined, and
will delight the heavy respectability
and,stern morality folks beyond meas.
ure. Certainly "the brutalities of the
prize ring" and the "savagery" of the
same, likewise "the ruffianly element"
| its "barbagism" and all that sort of
thing, you know, are fine themes for
grave severity; they serve wonderfully
we'll to excite devOut dctestatiOn and to
thrill thin-skinued propriety with
many shudders.
Unfortunately, a few evils are re-
bnked nowadays because it is fashiona-
| bic TO decry them; many are overlooked
because they don't seem to come within
theexact range of popular indignation.
Possibly there is necessity that some
wrongs be condemned as sort of COM
promise for the cOmmiss ion or tolera-
tion of others. People will
Compound for sins they are inclined to
! By damniug those they have no mind to-
But the other day lot of infuriated
negroes took possession of the streets of
Washington, threw the people into con-
sternation and brought the place into
disgrace by their riotous, lawless aud
murderous violence. May be the "sav-
agery" of black mob isn't as bad as the
"savagery" of a prize fight. At any
rate the InteliigeHcer seemed so to think,
tor its soul revolts at the latter while
the former never rippled its "loyap
equanimity. On the ninth of June a
negro devil in ROckbridge county, Vir.
ginia, outraged and murdered one of the
most stinable ladies of that country.
Possibly the brutality" of that crime,
the details of which are too sickeuinC
to contemplate, much less rehearsc, is a
trivial thing compared with the "6ru-
tality" of the fsticuff business. Such
at least seems to be the view of
eur cotemporary, for he had no
word of censure for the beastli-
ness of the ''lOyal" black demon
over in the Virginia Valley. A day
or two ago one of the Intelligmcer',
"colored brethren" at Dayton cody bur
led hatchet in the brains of another
individual of the Same persuasion. In
the absence of hostile criticism on the
part of the loyal" press, we infer that
this touching episode is psrdonsble
caprice compared with the knock-downs
of MCCOoLE and ALLEN. Very recent
ly Colonel FLoURNOY, of Georgia, was
butchered in his own fields by 'loyaP'
son Of ebony and left to welter in his
blood. Neither sympathy for the victim
nor censure for the butcher has yet been
ELECTED from our sanity Radical cotem-
porary. The fact can doubtless be ex-
planned on the ground that according to
the "loyal" creed the negro is endowed
! by nature with certain inalienable
rights, among which is the right
to pillsge, outrage, and murder,
at will. Whenever he exceeds his
privileges and commits crime as onor.
nous as prize-fghting, we will hear
from our Radical newspapers Attorney
General HoAR has just decided that the
State of Texas is at war with the Uni'
ted States, and therefore military COM
missions have perfect right to try and
hang the citizens of Texas, as under
martial law. The President, carrying
the decision into effect, has ordered
the hanging of JAMES WEAVER, civil
ian. His hanging will be murder; the
commission that tried him, as we'll as
the President who has ordered him to
be executed, will be murderers. The
Intelfgence knows this; every we'll
informed man in the Radical party
knows it. Nevertheless, these good
people suppress their honest sentiments
in view of this unlawful taking of life
and go into conniptions over the mug
smashing of the risg. They are afraid
of full grown 'Ioya" crime, and they