The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-10

ward for discussion merely to allure the
popular mind from those glowing overt
acts Of treason committed against the
sovereign people In itself the Fit.
tenth Amendment was an act of de
faint hostility to national liberty, while
the bill to enforce it goes to show that
Congress considers itself secure in any
course of Vandalic outrage it may think
necessary to enforce on the people.
The Radical party in our own State
a little miniature Congressional power
in itself-ieels quite jubilant over every
display of malignant force against us.
Why, the Fifteenth Amendment in
itself was considered too milk and
waterish for its ravenous stomach; and
it was only when Summers bill for the
higher dignity and purer freedom of
the negro was introduced, that it felt
anything bordering on satisfaction in its
almost Unsuitable NAV. The Radical
press is quite philosophic, and now and
then wades into some metaphysical alb
stractions that can be understood only
within its own happy circles. Sheets
edited by brainless pretenders, who had
filter been at the tail ola plow or wheel
barrow, or delying the axe into stump,
far sappier than their own dried up
heads, hold ont the "black flag" on the
forlorn hope Of criminal reeklessness.
There is no absurdity too low, no con-
tradiction too plain, no hatred too deep,
for the advocacy Of their mercenary
pens. Every venal lie useful to their
party they spread out with brazen
audacity; and argument and sarcasm
alike tall dead on their sterile hearts.
Some of those creatures rise to notori-
ous eminence, as rise all renegades, by
the force OF their own corruption.
Curran compared the man who rose on
his country's ruin, to drowned bod v-
"the more it rots the more it rises.
Place before these editors a General,
for instance, one OF the loyal type, and
they got right away into ecstacies.
Military history is ransacked for par
alel, but in vain; he stands like ''the
highest star, that sees no star as high.
This is invariably the rule if the Gen
eral happens to be rich, or is known to
have powerful interest with the powers
that be- In this Congressional Dis
trct you will see enough of this when
General Golf name is spread out. The
Generals glory, like his brains, is in
his breeches pocket, and all this is
known to these instructive creatures.
| have noticed the palsied efforts Of
some of your neighbors to conciliate
respectable colored citizens on late
occasion. Why had they not Revels
invited? He would he very apt to tell
the ladies of Wheeling what he told
the Yankee women-"that the invincl-
ole negro phalanx barred their bosoms
to the rebels steel to save them from
dishonor."
In the absence of the black prodigy,
Professor Furguson and General Hannibal
Alexander Banks are no whar with the
Wheeling RAIDS. wonder if the good
people of Wheeling on the day of cele-
bration or decoration, while strewing
flowers over the dead gave themselves
up to few minutes silent meditation ?
What did those brave fellows die for ?
The Union as it was the constitution
as it is" That was their glorious bat
tie cry. Pray, friends, were they victo-
rious? If so, he kind enough to tell us
where the "Union as it was" is, And
what of the Constitution so loved and
revered by those heroic fellows? There
is no Union "free and voluntary" no
Union but such as Byron described else
where, "the union of the Shark and its
prey, they become one and indissOluble'
no Union but that whose bond is the
bayonet, whose glory is the humiliation
of the peoples rights. And the Con-
stitution, the most perfect ever written
for mans government, is torn into pieces
and cast on the midnight blast OF
anarchy and revolution. What then
did thew die for? Congress, in ITS
fifteenth amendment" answers: FOR
the negro!" o. if these disembodled
spirits could come back, how would
they rebuke YOU for this cruel neglect OF
their fondest behest, written in their
brave hearts blood. Mark it Hun
dreds of millions OF acres are
given away without your consent
to wealthy capitalists; hundreds Of
millions Of dollars are uselessly squan
dered of the peoples money, by dis
honest officials; tens of millions of dol
lars have been lavished upon the ne
groes, for whom Congress declares YOU
: friends have died, while the widow anC
orphan they have left behind receive
but mere pittance, in veriest charity
: from the national treasury; and thos,
,, manned and crippled by the war arr
! mendicants at every mans door. Q
, the deep degradation Of being white
J sHad YOU reflected on these sad truths
an oath would rise up from each moun'
TO heaven, that this accused miser,
should have an end, that your Stat
should be restored to its legitimate au
thority and sovereignty, that no whit
: man should be prescribed and degrade
y within its limits, and the negro be a