The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-08-08
tistort or deny them in the presence Of
their hearers.
THE EVERLASTING NEGRO.

THE bN EIGIAASIINNr AEONO'
OF course no Democratic stump orator
could feel happy himself or make q Demo-
cratic audience feel happy without de-
voting half Ills speech 10 NEGRO suffrage
and negro equality" Hence, we have
the usual appeals 10 passion and preIu.
dice against this prosecuted and untOrlu.
nate class Of our citizens, and the same
old raw-headed.and.bloOly- bones brought
ont on exhibition for the last time. Mr..
Jacobs speech, rs well as the others do.
livercd at the MoOrctield meeting, In re-
gard to the adoption Of the 10Th Amend.
mcnt amounts 10 this-no more: that It Is
1tROORStituttWlaI 10 amend the Constitu.
ton; their rcmcdy-nuihJteatROn. Arc
these gentlemen really serious when they
propose TO put the State Of West yVlr-
ginia in IN attitude Of rebellion against
the other thirty-six States Of the Union !
Do they propose that half q million Of
people In our State shall fight 40 000, 900 in
the other States? Why not creep out Of
your shell, gentlemen, and see how the
great big world around you has been NOV.
ing forward. Why will your "Grand
old Democratic party" stand grinning
defiance through It's skeleton tseth
against manifest destiny? AL your full
limitations against the fifteenth amend.
ment will amount to Just about as much
rs the Pope's bull against the comet. The
trouble is, thenegroes won't vote the DEM
oCratic ticket. That Is where It hurts.
Next comes the Sumner Social Equality
bill" US the Democratic speakers call 1t.
This is tho joke in the speech, as II is Of
the platform. That bill never proposed
Social equality, aud these men know
they do not stutO the truth when they say
so; It never passed Congress; it received,
II remember right but three votes in
that body; vet esegentlemen talk about
holding tho Republican party responsible
for something which not only Inns no OK.
iStcncc, but the proposal Of which was re-
jeCtGd by that party. What prcposter.
Gus argument, TO accuse any party Of pro.
ducing social equality by legislation.
Could any law, even II passed, make Mr.
Jacob the social equhl lot one Of the muir
derOus midnight Ku KluX who vote tho
Democratic ticket, and whose highest
ambition is TO guzzlc bad whisky and
"woIlop niggcr?" But this Is about the
last chance tile Democracy will have to
make capital out Of negro equality; alter
the full elections the negro question will
he duad-anl so will the Democratic
party.
| have nut for these Democratic
friends to crack on this negro suffrage
question when they fire their next gun,
Let us have no wriggling ;Orl dodgingI
You profess to represent your party. Now
will you 80 back Oh them on this question
OF negro suffrage? III remember right
yOn had some twenty-t0ur or more straight
Democrats in the last House Of Delegates.
Upon tho passage OF tho act amending tho
charter Of the Martinsburg and Potomac
RailrOad Company ut the Inst session Of
the Legislature, all these Democrats ex-
ccpt u mere handful voted for. the act.
The last section Of this Inv provides
that all male persons, residing In Berkeley
county, whether white or GdGt, except
minors, paupers, persons OCunsound mind,
or under conviction Of felony, shall be
allowed to vote on the question Of'sub.
scripliOn To said road. This was the first
law passed by our Legislature authorizing
negro suffrage in this State, and was car
ricd by the vote of the Democratic men,;
bcrs of the Legislature, as the Journal d
the Housewife show. a. s!Ht 81 =
When the FlickrAmendment came up
in that body, oil these Democrats but four
voted for II, mud therefore voted 10 strike
the word WHITE out Of our Constitution,
and thus permit the negro 10 vote, before
the Fifteenth Amendment had been adOpt-
ed and declared u law. They asserted
their good sense and their manhood in
doing so. Do you indorses these votes or
not, Mr.. Jacob? Answer, or forever
after hold your peace about negro suffrage
and negro equality. If you answer, yes,
you must swallow your Moorcticld speech,
and in the same operation disgorge the
Democratic platform. If you answer, no,
you place yourself in direct antagonistn
to tho almost unanimously expressed
opinion and action Of the chosen and most
gifted representatives Of your party. Take
which horn Of the dilemma you please,
but you must take one or the other. No
one on your ticket, mot even the supple
candidate for Secretary Of State,) is sutii'
GENTLY 0exterOus to ride, ut the same
time, Two such spirited ,nags as the young
and old Democracy. have, trOtted out on
the race course THIS season.
THR REGISTRATION LAW. VA
The speaker next processes 10 give a
history 0fthe workings Of the Registration
law. He speaks Of, this law US taking
away from class OF our citizens their
dearest right-that Of suffrage" yet the
breath had scarcely parted from his lip
in making Il solemn appeal to his own
party to swrest this-'sdeareSt right h-irom
another class Of citizens upon whom It hGtl
lust been conferred. This il Democratic
consistency. A sweeping declaration is
made about the abuses oEthisA hw, but ~
Eacts,arc givento sustaini@ { 81 z
It is true those who gave voluntary utd
TO the rebellion are deprived Of the right
to vote. These gentlemen by their own
act expatriatel themselves; took an Oatl
OF allegiance to Il government ut war will
ours, andin doing so put, themselves out.
side the pale 6f political privileges inSNVesl
Virginia. haveino doubt many 0f'thcln
did so honestly or undGr Il deluSiOn; bu
It was their act, not ours, which deprived
them Of this"dearcst right" tits pal
try begging Of the question to say tina,
these men have not been tried and con
victCil in the courts. The fact Oftheir be
ihS bubble enemies; the slaughter. o. ciyi
waft tlie mighty results forged ntIt SO ttht
fires Of Internal strife, are seen and know
Of all men. It's with these stern facts u!
practical question, we have to do. .,.
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