The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-09-02

1.-The lwt vestiges Of Republican ibert,
will be crushed beneath the iron bound
wheels of a consolidated imperial des
potism. Yet my opponent will cal
these dead issuesi Is the Constitutior
dead? When the people abandon q,
dead issues the Constitution and thu
teachings of the fathers, and follow The
dogmas of the Radical party, you may
drive the last nail in the coffin Of Lib.
erty, and place constitutional govern.
ment in its burial shroud.
The speaker then discussed Summers
equality bill, which he declared would
be passed should the Radical party
succeed at the coming elections. He
showed that not only urder this bill
would the blacks and whites be forced
to associate on terms of entire and per
feet equality at all public places of
amusement or resort, but that even the
customs Of the people would be altered
and changed, and that if it had been
Customary with those before him to in
vite only white neighbors to sit around
their fireside, that custom would be
altered and changed, and they would
no longer dare to refuse to ask the sable
ward Of the nation or his dusky hand
maid TO join in the family circle This
bill not only does this, but with ghoul-
like malignity it invades the sacred rest
ing places of the dead, and declares
that neither in public nor private burial
grounds shall any distinction be made
on account Of race or color. You may,
continued the speaker, have provided a
resting place for the loved ones whom
it hath pleased God, in his infinite
mercy, to take unto himself-you may
have beautified and adorned it and
watered its flowers with your tears
you may have laid there your little ones,
or that dear one who has shared your
JOYS and sOrrows-but under this in
famous act negro may bury his fam
ily there. Under the terrors OF the law
YOU are compelled to submit; and in
the grave that equality which can never
lie enforced in life is sought to he OBJ
tanned, and the bones OF the negro pic
anninnies must mingle with the dust Of
your dear ones.
The object Of these measures is TO Grad.
icate from the minds of the young and
growing generation the preiudices now
existing against the negro. They argue
that the constant association of the
white children with the black in the
schools will breed familiarity, and the
whites will soon cease to look upon the
negro with antipathy and scorn. 1t
means amalgamation and miscegena-
ton, for such constant association be-
Iweer the races will beget either love or
passion, and the result will be that
which is so earnestly desired by the
Radical party-a mixed race, which,
to Wendell Phillips is the
highest type Of the human family.
General Goff, the representative of
he Radical party, is here asking at
our hands seat in Congress. He was
nominated by a convention in which
welye of these colored gentlemen
laimed kindred and had their claims al
overland so anxious was General
ioff and his friends to concilate these
'doriferous delegates that they gave
hem front seats in the synagogue
mi there they sat voting and giving
dor to the convention. The young
Gentleman stands here as the candidate
f that convention and as the advocate
f that party. / stand here, as | am
roud to do, as the candidate Of the
'hite mans party, representing the
principles upon which | believe the
Aviation OF the country depends. If
lected | expect to he aleotod by ~hi.o
Otes, and believe that there are
nough white men in this district to
Iect me. If not. | do not desire e}ec-
ion. but will accept defeat with the
roud consciousness of having done my
hty in asserting the ability of my own
'a,e to maintain and govern the country
which they made.
Tie speaker then turned his attention
% the discussion of the public debt, and
handled the subject with evident tinan-
,ial ability; but the hour, which was
he time allowed him, running out, he
gave way for Waldo COTS boy Nate.
Nate sad he had sufficient intro
luction at DE hands Of Mr.. Davis, and
vas proud q his position as the NOM
nee of the party which that gentleman
mad so eloquetly denounced. He knew
hat the crowd was opposed to him, but
conscious OF hs rectitude, he invited
heir attention to an impartial consider
alton of his principles He claimed
hat Mr., Davis had appealed to their
passions, but denied that negro suffrage
vas an issue. Mr. Davis desired to
nave the Constitutio, restored, but lie
called his attention tothe fact that at
he time of its adoptio, we were peo-
pie OF only three millions, and that now
having population OF over forty
millions, it was unsuitable to our
present condition. The Republican
party is a party of ppgress and
with its motto of "upwah and on
ward, would if necessary, ride over
these dead issues of half. century
ago. He was anxious to talt of living
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