The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-09-27

usul pdttOu ot VIC honuo VI e"~
his Congressional oligsrchy2 They
have dared to do everything Of that ma
ture heretofore; they will dare do it
again II they are only apparently sus-
tanned by the people at the polls in No
vember. It is the feeling Of uncertainty,
sir, of insecurity, that has aroused the
people of the South. Where they have
not respectable State Administrations
they desire 10 get them when they
have them they want to keep them !;
therefore tell you it is q matter OF life
and death. You bee l am old man am
disfranchised, and did not think l
should again interest myself in politics
after the war, but when my people
came to me begging for my aid iu this
canvass, could not refuse. / saw hope
for the election of Mr.. Greeley, and in
his election peace and safety and har-
mony."
"And do you still think Mr.. Greeley
will be chosen
Most assuredly, sir. Why the whole
South is more earnestly fighting for him
than it ever did for any of its own men.
He will carry every Southern State ex-
cept South Carolina and Florida. The
negro vote controls them"
"Then understand that the colored
people viii 90 for Grant|
Almost all will. Some OF the more
intelligent will not. All through the
South the negroes are controlled by a
system of secret societies, which are
wholly managed by unprincipled car
pet-baggers They have been taught
all sorts of nonsense by these carpet
baggers, and they have no means OF
learning anything in any other way.
In these secret meetings these poor, ig-
norant beings are taught that the elec-
ton OF Greeley means that they are to
be re-enslaved, or that they are all to
be shipped out OF the country or MUIR
dered. They do not know anything
about Mr.. Greeley's great service to
them, because those who teach them
are at great pains to hide such import
ant points. In few years, when some
of the more intelligent colored men
work their way along, it may be differ
ent, but at present very little depends
ence can be placed in that class.
Sometimes the Grant papers attempt
to make it appear that the enthusiasm
for Mr.. Greeley is cooling. What do
You observe regarding this, Mr.. Hun
ter?'
"WelI, sir, I don't know how that
may be here; but | can tell you truth
fully that every day only serves to in.
crease the earnestness OF our people. l
have watched the canvass pretty closely,
and il is clear that the Administration
party is destined to be most thoroughly
disappointed and defeated. There is no
want of enthusiasm in the sections l
have visited, and it is Increased as each
day brings Us nearer the time Of voting.
DO you fear anything from the
'Sraight-outs
"Well, we have few in our State
some over in the Shenandoah, | be-
lieve-but they are such as would and
will 20 for Grant. Nothing would
draw them from that. This will not
hurt Greeley a hundred votes in our
State. The whole movement is absurd,
and Of course a people working for their
political life do not want to trifle.
When mans life is endangered BY an
assassin, he does not refuse to shoot the
scoundrel because his pistol is not
silver. mounted. He shoots with the
first available frearm be can get. That
is exactly the way we do"