The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-29

they are playing double game. lhey
have Register law to exclude white
people from the polls, and the Fifteenth
amendment to give them negro votes.
This is the party of great moral ideas
Facts that Expose Radical Dupifctiy
TO the Negro.
To secure the entire negro vote OF
this State, the Radicals claim to be the
special guardians Of that race and IN
wife them to entire equally with the
white people. They claim to have given
them their freedom, their right Of suf-
lrage. and their equality before the Law;
and their leaders promise them now to
have them admitted to our schools and
colleges, our street cars, our hotels and
all places ofpublic resort, where the con-
tact may humiliate white people.
Whatever merit may attach to these
achievements we are perfectly willing to
concede to the Radical party. But tits
right that the colored people should be
made to correctly understand that what
ever has been conferred upon them 10y
Radical legislation has not been dictated
bv any friendship or good will which they
bear them, but by the lowest and basest
partizan designs For instance, the
Constitution of West Virginia, adopted
in 1862, after the war commenced
does not say turkey to the negro once.
Here is the language of that Constitu-
ton defining suffrage; The ~hite
male citizens Of the State shall he en-
titled to vote at all elections but the
negro was excluded, and isexcluded now
bv the State Constitution. Hewas also
a.slave under that Constitution. The war
was neither begun nor waged for the
freedom, much less the political and
social rights, conferred on the cOlOred
race. Lincoln declared, in his mes
sages, that it was not; Northern speak
ers declared in their speeches that 1t
was not; Federal Generals declared in
their proclsmations that twas not; and
Congress, by its resolutions, declared
that it was not, but that it was to pre-
serve the Union. All through 1861,
1862 and 1868, to the time Of the
Emancipation Proclamation, slavery
was recognized by the Federal Govern
ment. and slaves were claimed and re-
covered by their masters,
1t was not until it became war
necessity that slaves were freed; and If
they could-have defeated the rebellion
in any other way, negroes would be
slaves at this day, and the Radicals
would be the owners and cruel task
masters of large number OF them.
IT, as they now pretend, they were fight
ing for emancipation, why did they not
in the beginning of the war, set free
the slaves of Maryland, Kentucky and
Missouri over which they had control
all the time?
And what now of the political rights
and social equality which have since
been extended to the negro They
were never dreamed Of i'll
Radical philosophy until Con-
gress got into collision with Presi-
dent JOHNSON in 1866, upon the ques-
ton of reconstruction. President JOIN
son had reconstructed the Southern
States on a correct principle, and such
as it is believed President LINCOLN
would have done had he lived; but Il
vile Radical Congress refused to admit
those States to representation because
they saw they were Democratic, and
would check them in their partisan
schemes of plumber and revolution,
and throw the next Presidential election
into Democratic hands. To defeat this,
they had no other resort but negro
suffrage and this they adopted tocrush
out the white vote of the South, Just
as the Radical Legislature of West Nir-
ginia in the same year crushed out the
white vote of this State by their odious
Registration law.
Such is a true history of both the
emancipation and the extension of suf
frage to the negro; and the most ignor-
ant of that race cannot fail to see that
they have been, and are now, used by
their pretended friends only for base
partizan purposes to keep the white
people of the country in subsection to
their rule. 1t is for the honest people
OF West Virginia TO determine in the
coming election, whether they will
longer endure such discrimination and
and oppression by continuing in power
a party which has perpetuated its rule
thus far by degrading the white race to
amalgamation with the negro.