The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-09-13
From the Clarksburg Regulator
This is the Negroes Government
Radical Officers and Candidates
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The Republican party of this State
have been grievously perplexed as to
what construction they should give to
the act Of Congress to secure. the right
OF citizens to vote. 1t was so reason
able that the white men Of the country.
who have the capacity, education and
experience, and own the property that
is mostly the subject OF Legislation, and
pay the taxes that support the govern
ment, should be protected in their par
ticipation in its administration, as well
as the negroes; and the law in question
so plainly provided for such protection
to "all citizens" alike that at first it was
not controverted. The contention, for
a time, was whether, by the act, the
right OF suffrage was secured to rebels
not whether it was secured to white
men who under the laws were entitled
to enjoy it, as well as the negroes, or to
the negroes alone. The equality of the
latter had been zealously maintained
their superiority TO numerous class of
our best and most intelligent citizens
and largest property-holders and tax
pay ers, who have the deepest interest
in the welfare and prosperity of the
State, had been effectually enforced;
but the exclusive right of the negroes
TO the protection vi the Government
and the exercise OF the elective fran
chise, and the denial Of the like right
OF protection to all white men, was too
| shocking to common sense and common
decency to be urged, till it was ascer-
tanned to be Indispensable in order to az
ford the tyrants in power short respite
from the doom that inevitably awaits
them at no distant day.
1t became manifest, however, that if
the registration law was fairly enforced
If all while men and negroes other
wise qualified, who gave no aid to the
rebellion-all who under the existing
proscrptive constitution, are entitled to
vote, were allowed to do so, the minor
ity party in power would, at the APP
preaching election, by an overwhelm-
ing majority, be hurled from usurped
place and their despotic power wrenched
by the hands of an outraged people
from their convulsive grasp. The
equality of negroes with white men will
not save them, 1t has become neces-
sary TO their continuance in Office to as
sert the paramount supremacy Of the
black over the white race in this repub-
lican government.
Accordingly, now when need is press
ing, we find the facile functionaries of
the party, of high and low degree, the
arpet-bag-scalawag, scented in
Georgia and preferred to the position Of
Attorney General OF the United States,
or some minion of his-the brietless
lawyer, pitted and preferred by Blood
tubs and other rutians of like charac-
ter, afterwards placed on the Bench of
the United States Court by a President
far more conversant and interested in
the menage Of the stables and dissi pa
ton of Long Branch than the principles
of government and prosperity Of the
people that elected. him to preserve
their liberties and promote their wei
iare-the pompous youth who enjoys
the lucre of his fathers trade in buying
and selling negroes whom he would
now set over white-men, and for this or
other equally potent reasons has al
ready had "honors thrust upon him"
till his head is more giddy than was
wont; who, appointed District At
torney to prosecute offenders
against the law, yet opposes an inquiry
as to whether a grand jury was
packed to protect registrars in their
corrupt efforts to secure his own cleo
ton to Congress, and follows the Grand
Jury charged with that inquiry into
their private chamber, where he ad-
vises, we can only conjecture what
a Governor who appoints the Boards of
Registration to select the voters to re-
elect him to office and continue him as
the chief magistrate Of the State, and to
reject such as will not aid him to do so
AN Attorney General of the State
who, at the request of the Governor,
goes beyond the sphere Of his office
and publishes paper to assure the sub
servient officers of registration that
they may corruptly violate the law and
refuse to register any citizens who will
not vote for them without fear Of pun
ishment under the act of Congress-ed-
itors Of newspapers heretofore COM
mitted to opposite views as well as
those all the time consistent in error
all now declare and proclaim and urge
upon Boards Of Registration that the
late Republican Congress of the nation
has no regard for the right OF white
men to participate in the Government,
but that, on the contrary, when they de-
liberately considered and legislated on
the subject, they confined their action
to the negroes and purposely excluded
white men from the scope OF their pro-
tection-and thus in the face of honor
able men they shamelessly labor to in
duce the officers OF registration and cleo
ton to drive from the polls citizens that
they know are qualified to vote, who
will not vote for themselves. Hounds
and grayhounds, mongrels, spaniels,
ours and demi-wolves" all howl in hid
eous unison that negroes--none but ne
croes and white men worse than ne
groes, shall rule this teeming land.
Time was, at no remote period, when
men of English, Irish, Scotch, German
and French extraction, with transparent
skins, tall and erect figures, high and
massive foreheads, and educated minds
that comprehend all things compre-
hanS;Jla ,yara sunnoSad IN he wiser and