The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-30
LETTER FROM ION"
A Discourse Oh the corruption or our
Recommendations
WESTON, September 20.
Editors of the Register.

! little lower than the angels, and placed
upon the highest plane of animal life,
and the virtue of possessing this gift OF
divinity, is commanded by the gracious
/ Doner to use the jewel Alright IN all things,
and be not as the "horsc and the mule
! who has no understanding, &c. What
n lesson for thought in the divine injunc-
ton? But using the phrase in what may
/ be termed worldly sense, ! ask the
readers of the REGISTER to treason to-
pethcr" on what | have to say in this
communication. / ask YOU not from Il
partisan standpoint as Democrats with
prciudiceS of the past; not rs kepubll-
cans with evils of the present; not rs In
( dependents lying around loosely rs chips
! and shavings from the carpenter bench
only suited to start and kindle II fire;
not knowing whether to charge the chip
I or the shaving with the contiagratlon
/ Has not, ask, the time arrived in the
/ history of our nation to stop study ami
reason together rs lovers of country and
nationality? Are we SO blind to passing
/ events rs to fail to note the steady ana
/ sure decline of our government. Not
! only of its character abroad but even ut
| home? DStrllSt. want of confidence, and
! above all want of reverence for the time
honOred principles of government? 1t
is said corrupt leaven so minute corrupt
eth the whole loaf The character of the
chief magistrate of our nation; the un-
wholesome lcaven that corruptS the
whole. vet desccndS the scale. The boot
black on your street corners borrowS IN
>pirution from high officials in the Use OF
slang to heap obloquy on our once proud
but now dcgenerated country.
Yea, ten years have elapsed since our
country drcnchcd her virgin soil with her
own blood. There cling to us to-day lis
great evils as ever cursed nation. State
governments in chaos, violence, rapinc,
and murder. stalks abroad. In many of
the States (oncc free, an ignorant imbc-
cic race, fresh from chains of slavery,
goudcd on by ignorance and passion, IN
famed hv hordeS ofnOrthCrn adventures
rights of persons and property; and alas
virtue overridcn. The bone Of our bone,
the flesh of our flesh the noble Anglo
Saxon, troddcn to earth by these h"rdrS
of worse than demons or spawns OF hell.
Yet this noble white race, III mockery
are STYLED citizens of the United States.
By the Gods Il missioner; why i'll mock
cry saw citizen. " hen slave >"rt or any
degrading cpithct Is more applicable.
|, it not time I'VE should reason to-
gcthcr,' act together aS lovers OF our
country, honor, and our noble race.
Again turning with shame mantllnG our
cheeks, the tear dcdimming the sight for
a more pleasing picture, We in vain look
to the Capital of our own great
and honorable nation. But, oh how
to preach relief National banks, ma
tisnal bonds, national railroads. and last,
vet not least, national rings by corrupt
and unjust legislation, hold thcproducing
and lahorng taX-paying class IN their
iron grasp. We know not when or how
relief will come; 5-2OS, lO-4OS yet may
rive some relief to babes unborn. Tn"
Internal revenu"-it is nS vampir"
sucking the life blood of the poor man.
Let uS reason together, Brother Granger.
Mechanic and Laborcr! Plumber, theft
and arson may stalk abroad in tn" land,
but terrible and alarming ~ all this may
be-. il j. but nought when we contemplate
the vile, humiliating, degrading l"giSia-
ton of the last Republican Congress IN
their attempt to force upon the nation
the equality of races. | alludc to the So
called Civil Rights Blll-the most m
famous of hcll-born schemes of degrtda-
tion. Your race, white reader, I" be-
Inundated by force of the hayonet.
The 100000 negro voters demand your
schools, your churches, and your hotels
be open to them. The Republican Con.
yrr>s does not turn the deaf ear t" TN"
demands made of them in thunder tones
bv these mvriads of thousands in whose
veins courses the blood of the wild, I'M
tutorcd Ethiopian.
Let us reason together. You ask,
"Surcly no white man, be he Republican,
or Democrat, in Congress from West
Nirrinia would be base enough to vote
for So infamous scheme answer toy
stating that on the 18th day Of August.
the Republican Congressional Convcn-
tion of the Third district, assembled at
White sulphur Springs, did, 10y their 2th
resolution. uncQuivocaliy endorse II and
urged it, passage, AS better security I"
thu black man" &c. Colonel Swami. Of
knnawha, and n relation Of the
President. WAS present and partlcI-
patrd in this "Black Crook Convention.
Yet again, what intrrancc can be
drained from such language rs is attrih
utcd to General Nathan Goti, Republic
can candidate for Congress i'll the First