The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-02-24
ifrOn the Wheeling Gutslligencsrl
TIE DEMOCRACY mixed THEY
DIVIDE on HNIGGER SUFFRAGE"

columns they WillPVeFy now End thsn
make a.Janrp35. There aOledeuvisnS.
who cannot DO brought TO confess. like
that Democratic member Of the Kansas
Leg sla;ure, that while they belong TO
the 7rtssnt sgs, refuse even 10 ucknoWl
edge The p'ainsSI lac's. II has been
morally cer,sin for yeOr, that by an
amendment to The Constitution OF tho
Uuited States, all Determinations in sui
frOgs on account Of color would be Abol'
ished. The most ordinary tUgges ion
Of pnty discretion. 10 view oftbis feet,
WOnl5 have dictated q withdrawal Of
longer hostility 10 colored suffrage, OF at
least silence; bseau'e any furLhetpSFSde
Of hostility % it could on y confirm the
negroes 10 voting Wifh the Republicans
ADD feprlss them beyond recovery from
tho Democrats. But West Virginia
Democrats seem an exception to the
general ruls Of human nSture; and their
hostility 10 usgroSuErags has only grown
more in p!icabls as it has come nearer
and grown moro inevitable. But when
tho 4meniment was OF last ratified We
had MOI expected 70 sec any more party
foundations sgaibstit. Yesterday, how
evefjths rltifg4tiOno Of The iweuiy-ninth
StaIa having been announced, one more
than needol--riSes 10 his place IN the
House Of Deleg rates. our editorial brol'er
Nj. Howard of Mason. one Of the lead.
ing Democrats Of the House, and offers
resolution preiucsd BY solemn where
asses. declaring the ratification Of West
Virginia Withdrawn, and diEecting the
Governor TO solemuly certify the fact
under the Great ssaI Of the State Of West
Virgij ia the Department Of S'ale.
NnW ao OF three features Of this pros
cesding eern 10 De worthy Of NOTICE. 10
the Cir: LACE, there is not a map in Tho
Legislature (uor out OF it, acquainted
wilhsits composiiiOnl but kno&s that
such tesOIutiouhaS 90 more ch6nee Of
,hSssiog thaa brother Howard has q p
ing through the centre of the earth 10
China by pneHmMio railway. In The
second placs ifitcoull pass itwould be
totally Ineffective; dtsl because neither
tho Stale Departn ent nor Congress rec
osnizes the power Of q State to Withdraw,
and fever it could have withdraw il IS
100 lato now whsnthe compact hosLbecn
CON lsrsd.by the ratification Of the req
usite numbcT and second, if either or
both did recognise the withdrawal now
as We have sid, impossible) there are
enough Slaies without West Virginia
aud New York both In auy possible
event, therefore, IL it were even possible
the resolution could pass, iE-RapId lbe
tot61Iyinsfsclise.
This leaves but one conceivable mo
tive 10 Offering Il, viz. TO put the Denoc.
racy on the record once more as protest.
ing against negro Suffrage, Tor political
eff CT, Now, what must that effect be?
Not one solitary white man 10 the State
will change his opinions on this question
or bis political Affiliations, as conse
quence Of this last kick Of the "bitter-
epder' Democrats. Nobody will pre-
Tend any such thing; for the opinions
Of The white people, pro and con, are
fully made upon that issue, which they
havs seen coming ever since the close
Of the war. The only people who wild
be Influenced BY this action will DO the
blacks themselves; aud what its effects
on them will be, SO far as il has any, is
perfectly obvious. If anything could
confirm them 10 tesOlu ion to cast
their suffrage always against the DEM
ocralic party, il would be this last i'm
potent denial Of the right of the black
man to the ballot, when il is already his
and that psrly is utterly Withou! power
10 take it from him.
But inconsistent as West Virginia
Democracy are with everything in sym.
patty with common humanity, out Of
harmony IS they ore with The genius Of
che ,se, and hostile as they are to a
real republican formot goyerumspt, they
are not able 10 be consistent in them
selves During tho campaign Of 1868,
We had frequent occasion TO snow no"
they prOfessedto ncslsx4tiOn With
out rcp:sseoiatica and get at the SAM
time denied and denounced the right
Of portion OF our tax payers to that
same representation. Then again when
an application came before tho L?gisla
ture 10 charter S,onr College, high,
school for the education Of negroes, the
Democratic. delegation voted about sol
ID for it, knowing not what they did.
and now yesterday we have even worse
bIunder than that Storer College atftir;
for VIC fud Democrats actually voting to
grant suffrage in advance Of the official
PRONUNCIATION Of the XVIII Amendment,
to the negroes ofJeferson county, The
bill Of which Mr.. Belizhooyer is potron,
for 10 extension OF the Shenandoah Val
ley Rsilway through that couotY, au.
thori2,s the supervisors to submit tho
nuestion Of authorization TO a vote Of tho