The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-02-24
AGO. lha Rleellng Ip.aIlIgsaeeIl
TIE DEMOCRACY liked THEY
DIVIDE ON HNIGGRR SUFFRAGE

Despite the mauy Warniogs and the
much 3 God advice our Democratic friends
in The Lsgi,lstue have had in these
columns, they wilhrvsFy now End then
make syfaaz p,s. Thefe aniedeluyien''
who caunot DO brought 10 confess, Ike
that Democratic member Of the Kansas
Leg sla,ute, that while they belong 10
The present sRs, refuse even TO ScknoWl
edge The p'aiaesI Gae'S. II has been
morally cfrlain for a year, that by an
amendment TO the Consultation Of the
United States, all DETERMINATIONS in SUI
frSga on account Of color would be sbol-
ished. The most ordinary tugges loo
Of pnly discretion. 10 view Of this feet,
would have dictated a withdrawal Of
longer hostility 10 colored suffrage, or at
least silence; bqcau'e any furIherpSrsds
Of hostility 70 it could only confirm the
negroes 10 voting Wiih the Republicans
and .feprlss them beyond recovery from
tho Democrats. But West Virginia
Democrats secm an exception to the
general rule Of human nature; and their
hostility to negro suffrage has only grown
more in p'ieabls as il has come nearer
and grown moro inevitable. But when
tho amendment was Of last ratified We
had MOI expected 10 sec ony more party
foundations sgainstit. Yesterday, how.
everjtherltiGsltion or The iweu'y-ninIb
Slala having been announced, one moro
than nsedel--rises 10 his place 10 the
House Of Deleg our editorial brother
Mr.. tioaarJ of Mason, one Of The Lead
Jog Democrats Of the House. and Offers
resolution ptefaeed By solemn where
asses, declaring the ratification Of West
virginia Withdrawn, and directing the
Governor to solemnly ce:lify the fact
under The Greet Ssol Of the State Of West
virginia 10 the Department. Of STATE.
NpW two Of three features Of this pro"
cesding seem 10 De worthy OfnOtice. 10
the ifsi place, there is not a map in no
LegiIIal1re (uor out OF it, acquainted
with,its compOSilioDl but kno6s that
such resolution has 70 more chance Of
.HsssiOg thuu btothrr Howard has q b
ing through the centre Of the earth 10
China by pnsHmatiu railway. In The
second place il il could pass il would be
TOTALLY Ineffective; frat because neilher
the Stale Departn ent nor Congress rec
osnizes thepower ola State to withdraw,
and fever it could have withdrawn il is
100 late now Whenthe compact hos been
com plsled by the ratification Of the rsq.
usite number; and second, if either or
both did recognise the withdrawal now
as We have sid impossible) there are
enough slhies without West Virginia
aud New York both Ia any possible
event, therefore, Il it were even possible
the resolution could pass, it would be.
totally ineffective.
This leaves but one conceivable mo-
tive 10 oferiug Il, viz: 10 put the Democ-
racy on the record once more as protest
iug against negro suffrage, for political
elf CT, Now, what must that effect be?
Not ono solitary white man 10 the State
will change his opinions en- this question
or bis political Affiliations, as conse
ouence Of this last kick OF the "bilIer-
epderp Democrats. Nobody will pre-
tend any such Shingi for the OPINIONS
Of ihs white people, pro and con, are
fully made upon that issue, which they
have seen coming ever since the close
Of the war. The only people who will
be Influenced by this action will be the
blacks themselves; and what its effects
on them will be-, SO far as il has any, is
perfectly obvious. IL anything could
confirm them in a resolu ion to cast
their suffrage always against the DEM
ocrutic party, /. would he this last i'm
potent denial of the right Of the black
man to the ballot, when it is already his
aud that party i, utterly without power
10 take il from him.
But inconsistent IS West Virginia
Democracy are with everything in sYm'
paihy with common humanity, out Of
harmony IS they are with The genius Of
the age, aud hos lie as they are to a
real republican form OF goVeromeht, they
are not able 10 be consistent in them
selves During tho compaigu Of 1868,
We had frequent occasion 10 snow how
they protested to dlnouncs lsxiIiCu With
out representation and yet at the ssm'
time denied and denounced the right
-of portion Of our taxpayers TO that
same representation. Then again when
an application came before tho Lagtsla,
turs to charter Storrr 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
bluuder than that StOrer College affair;
for VIC fud Democrats actually voting to
grant sutfrngs in advance Of the official
PRONUNCIATION Of The XVIII Amendment
to the negroes of Jefferson county, The