The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-08
WEDNESDAY, JUNE s, 1870.
The InIatuatiOn Of the BOurbons.
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denouuclng the bestowal Of the ballot on
the black man,-that they should indeed
make II Che one Issue ofthe election that
Is to take place next all,-in the face OF
the fact that hts right to the ballot is an
chored in the Constitution and supported
by the firm resolve Of a large majority OF
the people Of the United States, and Is
an unalterablc fact which nothing but u
successful resolution could overthrow-is
notable and singular feature Of current
politics. Itscts at defiance the ordinary
considerations Of common sense by which
the managers of parties are usually guided.
1t seems TO be species of infatuAtiOn, a
continuation of the blind pcrversity that
has ruled the councils Of the Democratic
party ever since it made its unhappy
choice ten years ago between the behests
of slavery and the maintenance Of the
Federal Union. Co.,.
OF such political phenomenon, the
only rational explanation Is this: Those
who give direction to Democratic contro'
verSy hero are possessed with the idea
that the ignorance Of Our people is so
dense, and their prejudice against the
negroes SO general and bitter, that ap'
peaIs TO this Ignorance and prejudice may
be relied on rs the surest way to OK
cite hostility to the party in whom the
slave (ound II libcrator and the freedman
a protector and friend. While these gen
tIemcn must perceive that they render it
impossible for the negroes to vote with
their party, they rely on their ability by
this means to drive away from the Re-
publican party enough of white men to
Offset the negro vote, and perhaps some
thing more.
Herein we arc persuaded these Demo
cratic managers arc mistaken; because
they either blindly or wiltully mistake
public sentiment, rs they did when they
nauguratcd the rebellion, and us they
hive done again and again ever since.
During the earlier part Of the war, they
relied for success on the strength of the
Confederate arms and refused to acknowl'
edge the lawful authorities in their midst
BY taking part in the elections. But in
1864, negro emancipation being Il newly
accomplished lacL and fresh upon tue
country in all its imagined horrors, the
comprehend leaders of the United States
believing they could successfully appeal
to the feeling against It, aided by the dis
satisfaction over the still deferred triumph
Of our armies, entered the political field
with an expectation of res cuins the Con
frIcrucy by victory at the polls. In our
own State the Democracy, animated with
this hope, came out md took part in the
election. The same appeals that are made
now against the negro were made then,
here and everywhere.
But these gentlemen mistook the scnti-
ment of the people. The day for fright
ening them out Of their propnety by
shouting "Abolitionist' had already pass
ed. The conflict Of arms had not only
freed the negro hut emancipNtcd the
white man from the bondage OF preju-
dice; and all the appeals Copperhcad
dcmagogues could make against the ne
gro fell dead upon the ears Of people
whose lives and liberties he was defend
ing ut the front Of our armies.
And yet from that day to this, at every
election, important and unimportant, the
Democratic managers here have renewed
the same vain and senseess TRADES against
the negro; and with each succeeding year
have their agoniz!ng appeals that they
should not De compelled TO marry one TALL
en- tlattcr and dcadcr on the popular car
As time passed on and emancipation
was confirmed by the success OF the war
as the memorable logic Of emancipation
wrought out It's consequences, first, In
constitutional guaranty to the black mar
Of nil the civil rights, privileges and I'M
munities pertaining TO citizenship in the
Republic, and finally in like guaranty o.
equal political rights with every Other
citizen, the Democracy, like the heather
ragged in vain; and now when the who'll
question has been settled in the most If
revocable way known TO our government
the mass Of the people of all parties art
content To accept the settlement rs tina
removal of the question from our poIl
tics; and their real feeling towards tie
politicians who expect by parNding ti'
corpse of this dead issue to Brighten people
into mn abandonment OF their common
sense or into obliviousncss Of patent facts
il one that ranges from indifference to con
tempt
Why, do not these miserable dcmH
goguqs know that during the first five
years Of the past deCNdCSherc was great
war in this country, in which the mos
smpcndous military power WIS invoked
for the settlement of this negro question
That this war was wagcd until the whole
resources of nearly one half the Union
invoked by tho party that undertook tt
maintain the bondage Of the negro ant
with it the subsection OF the country tC
the lash of his owner, were totally OK
hausted and the power Of that party, botI
in military and political way, utterly