The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-06-21

The noint we made against th@' PaP0.
gas that while the current history u
the country is replete with the moS' s,
horrible crimes, for which the .loyai
party is responsible, the Intelligence
, ovsrlooks and silently sanctions tne"
all and reserves its virtuous wratn ioi
: prize fighting. To approve the Wors'
of crimes and hold forth migntlly
against those of lesser msgpitude u
characteristic of "lOyaP hypocrisy ln 10
this view, our cotempOrary'S oStenta'
tious outburst merited the gentle dis,
cussion it received. -
The IntelHgencer finally rests its defence
upon 4 supposed distinction between
the offence which it criticizes and the
outrages in which it acquiesces. II
holds that negro lawlessDess is sponta-
neous, while prize lighting is publicly
pre-arranged that the latter could be
prevented, the former not even antici-
pated that somebody is responsible for
"the mill" but nobody to blame" fol
the murderous diversions of the blacks
This hair.splitting distinction, what
ever imaginative power it may indicate
will hardly serve the purpose of the in
ventor. There is just as much careful
preparation of negro Outrages as of the
hideous exhibitions of "the fancy
The Inteligenoer does finds ga large
part of the population" Of the
country contemplating and pre-
pairing" for murder" and Outrage"
sharpening the murderous weapon"
training the murderer fer his work, and
though not exactly witnessing the deed
in a twenty -four foot ring" yet still ap-
proving its commission, and solacing
itself with the decent and peaceful re-
+. flection that the blood of white men
shed by negro hands is just atone
ment for unwilling concubinage" and
"unrecompensed labor" When the Intel
HgeRcer justifies negro outrages by hold
ing them up as a proper retribution fol
wrongs endured in slavery, it fairly
represents the policy of the fanatics o.
its party in melting the blacks to bloody
work, and contributes its share to the
encouragement of negro crime. Look,
ing with favor npon the negro's per,
! formauces as an "Avenger of Blood" il
cannot be expected to say anything "in
condemnation" of his course, OF "in cen.
sure of the officers of the law that per
init and the people that countenance It,"
The editor of that paper is certainly
familiar with the arguments which
/ WELLS and the pet.baggers of Vir-
ginia address to the blacks, and he
knows that those arguments are design
ed TO excite hostility against the whites,
and bear their legitimate fruits in the
scenes of violence lhat so frequently oc-
cur in that State. The editor knows
that WELLS chief mission as Governor
of Virginia is to pardon Virginia ne
groes convicted of crime, thus comfort
ing and encouraging them therein. He
knows that throughout the other States
| of The South there are numbers of revO-
lutiouary adventurers constantly ha-
ranguing the freedmen, counselling vio-
lence, preaching the gospel of murder,
and praying for lust's kingdom to
come" He knows further that under
their teachings the negroes are as care
fully "trained" for violence as are prize
fighters for the ring, and by those
teachings Outrageous Offences against
law and decency are contemplated and
prepared for" if not published, weeks
or months in advance"
The late negro riot in Washington
furnishes case in point. Papers like
FORNEY's Chronicle, assisted by a gang
of the dirtiest demagOgues that ever
howled "rebel," prepared" and train
ed" the negroes for that very business.
1t could have been "foreseen," it iras
"foreseen,n but journals like the Intel.
lgeRccr, in their selection of "prOpcr
subjects for animadversion," had no
censure for the wrong that was matur-
ing They preferred to reserve their
diatribes for the MCCOoLE and ALLEN
prize fight, in which no election results
were involved. Let our contemporary
read the report of the action of his
colored allies in Washington in relation
to their proud performance at the recent
election ia that city:
WASHINGTON, June II.
The CoIOred Rioters on Election Day.
The Second Ward Republican Club
had a meeting tonight to take action
about the disgraceful riot in that ward
on election dsy. The hall was mostly
filled with colored men. Resolutions
severely condemning the rioters, and
saying every man bad a right 10 vote AS
be pleased, Were almost unanimously ia
bled, and then one was passed "sincere-
ly hoping that necessity will throW upon
us no repetition Of the scenes Of that day
"One colored speaker declared that col.
ored men voting at the polls in opposi-
tion to the wishes of the colored race
should BE- killed"
We respectfully suggest to the Intel
ligsRoer that to discounteaance such
proceedings as these in its party would
be fully as creditable as the cheap glory
it gains by slurring them over and
concentrating its batteries upon "the
ring" Perhaps "it has never occurred
to the man at the helm that editorial
censure of sEch crimes would be useful
Not "useful" in a partisan sense, GER
tainly, but yet not altogether useless tc
the public, if it showed these celored
members of the "loyal' firm that they
arc not backed by the moral force Of