The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-02-27

allegiance of the leading minds; that
in republics, as in nature, "the head
moves the tail.
The Grant policy reverses all this.
He seems bent, not on restoring to
health and normal action the wounded
South, but on destroying it.
II the Democrats are wise and just,
the blacks of the South will vote with
the South, not because they are Demo
Gratis or Republicans, but because they
are Southeruers. No man ia more q
Unionists than I, yet cannot fail to
see that there are New England
interests, Western interests, and South
ern interests-all of which are and
must be ever distinct-and yet all, the
Constitution being intact, are compat-
ible with national unity. As South.
ern man in this sense, | have devoted
nv life to the overthrow OF slavery
because it was unjust to the black, and
a cause of weakness to the white.
Slavery being dead, resist with the
same earnestness that did its exist
ence the attempt OF The Grant con-
spirators to subjugate the South, and to
make US provincial Tor all time to a
more than Roman imperialism.
| denounce the attempt to weaken us
BY a studied policy of arraying the
blacks against the whites. | denounce
the design OF barbarizing US by the
corrupt and irresponsible rule Of men
from the North, who have no common
interest in our affairs, who divide our
people and waste our substance.
l deuounce the attempt to reverse
the natural order OF things by subject.
ing, Constitutional changes and ingeni-
ously contrived laws, the intelligence
and property of the South to ignorance
and psuperisism.
| denounce the enmity Of the Grant
rule to the independence of Cuba
because they know that Cuba must in
interest finally gravitate towards and
belong to the South.
I denounce the union Of the powers
Of the Executive, Judicial and Legisla-
tive Departments in the military head
OF the nation.
denounce the nepotism, favoritism,
and corruption and prescription of the
Grant Administration.
denounce the scheme Of subjecting
men and measures to the sole end OF
re-electing military chiettain.
And last, and above all, | protest
against the unconstitutional and des'
potic interferences with the right OF
peaceable assemblages OF the people at
the ballot box by the frequent anil
alarming use Of the cartridge box.
We want new men, with new senti-
The denomination and reelection OF
Grant is to consolidate all these usur-
patiops and abuses, and open up high
way to the overthrow of all our lib
critics.
meuts of good will, brotherhood, and
national unity. We want men who &C
cept the situation, turn their backs upon
rebellion and secession, and look to the
Union only for safety and happiness
The S2,5000000O0 worth of slave
property is not lost, but remains pro-
ductive power, as ever, in the freedmen,
stimulated by higher incentive to action
and economy. Our political strength
is increased by the addition oftwo-fiths
TO our representative numbers of all
the liberated slaves, giving Us at once
seventeen more members of the House
OF Representatives Our vast and fertile
lands and great world wide staples re.
main. With heart and loyalty great
future in the Union lies before US.
We want man whose antecedents
prove him loyal to the Union and a
faithful defender of the rights of all
white and black. We want not a can
didate who. like Grant, voted tor
Douglass in 1860, and who, like Fish,
voted for Hoffman in 1868, with rene
gade Democrats surrounding him and
debating a partisan policy, but one who,
conserving all the fruits Of the war,
will gather around him whatever is
worth in Republicanlsm and whatever
is manly and patriotic in the Democra.
cy-building up anew the scattered
fragments OF our nationality, not upon
fear and prescription, but the solid
hardpan of brotherhood and insepara'
be interests.
1t is conceded by all that such man
can be found in our ranks. Let Ma,
tional Convention Of Liberal Republi.
cans name him. Such a man can, in
my judgment, be triumphantly elected.
Peace and brotherhood will be restored,
and the union OF these States be made
as secure and permanent as is allowed
to the works of man.
Thanking you and those whom YOU
represent for the honor Of your invita-
ton and consideration, | am truly
yours, Z. NJ. CLAY.