The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-23
THE STATE CANVASS,
From the Spirit of Jefferson
The CharIest0n Platform.

litically considered, whatever may be
the case in reference TO less important
affairs, Wethought, before the Con
vention al Charleston assembled, and
still think, that the very widest scope
should be given to the organization
now forming to drive Radicalism out
OF the seats of power so long abused.
For that reason, if we had been in the
Convention we should have moved to
amend the preamble by inserting the
words the Conservative Democratic
party in place Of the words now
used-"the Democratic and COnserva.
tive citizens of West Virginia. We
should desire some name TO express a
solid organization, neither sectional in
its aims, nor provincial in its atfilia-
tons, but representing an integral
branch of party over the whole
republic, organized for the purpose,
and desperately bent upon putting
down the Radical faction. Such great
national organization Is now the neceS-
Sity of the hour, and the various States
should act in concert. 1t will not do to
act upon one theory of public policy in
the Southern, and different one in the
Northern States. The policy must be
uniform. That the Fifteenth Amend
ment is not legitimately part of the
Constitution Of the United States we
think the party everywhere may concur
in declaring But how is the question
to be tested? The platform before us is
silent on this subject, and perhaps wise
ly, for the reasons already stated SO
in regard to the odious law passed to
enforce this amendment, there should
be some national and concerted action
in regard to meeting it. For ourselves,
we have already, in advance, taken our
position that the amendment should he
acquicsced in until declared no part OF
the Constitution ~ the proper legal
tribunals. s...
The platform is sufficiently emphatic
in its denunciation of Summers Social
Equality bill, and the mingling Of races
in the public schools. We do not de
nv that the State owes an education to
all children unable to he privately edu-
Gated, and this without regard to color
or race This very fact renders it the
more necessary to keep the public
schools separate, otherwise the State
must not only countenance, but coerce
amalgamation. If the public schools
are for white and black in common, il
follows that the State must coerCe an
indiscriminate mingling of the races
at an age when reason is in abey-
ance,' and scnsibility, susceptibility,
and passion are i'll the ascen-
dant. Amalgamation, under this sys,
TEN, becomes inevitable. Not volun-
tary, but coerced amalgamation. The
wealthy may in some degree protect
themselves by sending to private schools.
But the poor must yield the question of
their unmixed White blood. We have
brought home to us, therefore, in this
school subject, the question whether
amalgamation is an evil to be depre-
Gated? All who support the Radical
ticket vote in favor OF Amalgamation.
The positions Of the platform, in re-
gard to equalzing the burdens Of taxa
ton between labor and capital entran-
chising those prescribed for their politi-
cal opinions, and forever abolishing all
test oaths, as relics OF former barbar-
ism, must, we think, commend them
selves to all true patriots in the State.
The Radical party cannot evade or cs
cape the issues here presented and are
destined, we believe, to overwhelming
defeat. We admire the spirit of liher,
ality and harmony pervading the pro
ceedings of the Convention, and cor
daily commend the nominations to pub
lie confidence