The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-09

all other parts OF it. These amendments
being ratified, accepted, and recognized
everywhere throughout tuis country,
why must we have this wrlngling be.
tween the North and the South ? This
division between white man AMI black 7
Why must we have this continued mill
tary occupation OF every Southern State ?
WHY must the fires OF sectional aud race
hatred he famed us though they were
the vital spark OF our Republican party 2
But the mere partisan leaders, including
the Administration, felt that il the
flames Of sectional discord were permit
ted to die out, il the negroes were let out
of their hands aud suffered to go into
one party or the other Ms they saw ct,
they would lose the control OF those
Southern States. Therefore they raise
the false cry that reconstruction is not
completed that there Is yet no safety
for the negro; that the Southern whites
are still full OF rebellion and Of IN intense
desire to re.enslnve the negro, aud ac-
cordingly they have maintained the poll
cies in the South TO suit that view.
Il nee this abandonment Of the Grant
party by those Republicans, great IN
numbers and greater still in influence,
who feel that the time has come for re-
cancellation between the North aud the
South, and between the races in the
South. Sectional differences must end.
Fellow.citizenS, we can have no peace
in this country between the North aud
South, white man and black, until the
sectional elimination and recrimination
and the separation in the politics Of the
two races shall end, and they never can
end, nor honest government he restored
in the South while the Republican party
holds power. 1t has its grip on the
south through the military governments,
the negroes, aud the carpet-baggers,
through the enormous wealth torn from
the people under tho nnme Of Govern
ment, much Of which is applied to keep
ing up disturbances, fOmenting and
hatred Of tho black men toward the
whites, and filling the air with clamor of
outrages OIL tho negroes. picked up n
paper, recently, a speech by Wendell
Phillips, and although ho has been m
extreme man, he really only utters, in
emphatic terms, the battlG.cry Of his
party. lie says, addressing the blacks
Of the south: "Vote, every one Of you,
4 fur Q-ant. as you value your property,
Life, wife, or,yonr Cbild. II Greeley is
elected, arm, concentrate, conceal your
property, and organize for defense.
You will ncedit soon and sadly" Now,
there Is the eIort Of talk that they address
to the poor, ignorant negroes OF the
South, who are in their lands rs mere
clay in tho hands of tho potter. How
monstrous aud infamous arc such mad
appeals to the fears aud passions of the
blacks. Iappenl to the good sense and
candor Of any intelligent Republican to
soy whether tho Southern people intend
to strip the blacks Of their liberty is not
nero chimOra, that Greeley. Chas.
Sumner, Ttumbull, Schurz, Julian, and
Banks, the men who have been the fore.
most nbolitiohist Of the couhtry, the
most earnest in their devotion to the
riglits Of the negroes, would approve
such IN attempt, or that under an Ad.
ministntion headed by them there could
be q war inaugurated TO re enslave the
blaclls?k Nothing could he more false or
more mischierous. But these reckless
partisans know perfectly well that they
can ouly keep the blacks bound together
in the Grant party by fear OF rc.ensldVe-
ment.
Now is the time !or peace. The Sorth-
crn whites and RegroOs were brought up
in the same houses; a tic kinder and
more genial than any we know towards
the neqo, binds the white man
and the black aoi the south together.
ANY mhu WHO has been in the
Sonth knows that, and II the fear OF re.
enslavement Is 0uce taken away, the me-
! gro will naturally defer 10 the intelli.
genee and tue judgment Of the white
iLian as his intellectual superior. The
old masters will become the political
leaders OF the negroes, nnd to prevent
that, this violently partisan Administra-
ton keeps the two races in antagonlsm
and enmity-pursuing the course that
directly tends to produce n bloody con-
fict Of races. When are We to have
peace between the white man md tue
black, II we cannot have 1t now7 II
we arc never TO have it in the south, what
Is to become Of those nine splendid
States, tho market for the surplus pro.
duce OF the West, with which we have
carried on heretofore the great CONNER.
cial exchanges that have enriched the
North and South? What further con.
eessions must the Southern people maker
do they show a rebellious spirit? He
who atlirms that, williully lies or grossly
misiudgpS them. Never wis there peo-
pie who Welded assent to the dictates Of
their eonqnerors more completely than
the Southern people have assented to
tue mandates OF the Republican party.
Every thing that that party hos demand.
cd as necessary for The restoration Of
harmony in this country has been yielded
BY the South implicitly and IN absolute
good filth. My fellow citizens, how
can you hope for a better feeling between
the North aud South, four years hence
II you spurn tho offer tue South now
makes to put Horace Greeley in the
Presidency, tile most devoted and ear.
nest friend Of the blnck man, aye, and Of
the common people Of this country,
white aud black, that Inns figured in
American politics in this generation?
We propose by tue election Of Mr.. Gree
ley 10 put stap to the armed occapa-
ton Of the South, and 10 remit those
States to their own Governments allow.
ing all the people, white ahd black, q
fair and even show in their udmipistra-
ten. We propose to put m end to the
policy which fosters and inAames section.
al haired, and to restore that Union for