The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-10-06

WESTON, October lst, 1874.

To Hon. Joseph johnson, Er-Goreraor q
! Virginia:
The ruin and decay of an intelligent
race, is no less n calamity, than the wreck
and downfall Of a country. Our Repub-
lican leaders, intoxicated by their long
lease of power, have turned deaf eur to
the teachings of history. They seem to
have forgotten that the Grecian Areo-
pagus and the Roman Senate were once
! proud monuments, once great but now
fallen people. OF the thirty-four States
constituting the American Union, nine
of them stripped of their rightful Consti-
tutional authority, have been struck
down. A brave and gallant people con-
tending for the superiority of their race,
have been crushed and made to crouch
at the feet of despotic power. Northern
| adventures and placemen, prompted by
the thirst for Office and its emoluments,
and spirited on by the party in power,
flockcd to those States, and after subor-
dinating the negroes to their control,
have, with the aid of Federal bayonets,
possessed themselves Of their govern
ments, and are now ruling them with an
imperialistic sway, more oppressive
than that which crowned the sceptre Of
the Gen-Ghis kahns, or sparkled in the
diadems of the Caesars. Republican
negro social equality intensified by north
ern fanaticism, is moving with giant
strides. 1t Is deep rooted, and becoming
wide spread, and unless soon arrested,
will bring on war of races, more bloody
and destructive of life than any which
the historians pen has ever been called
upon TO portray. In this fanatical cru
sadc upon the white race, the fuct is not
To be forgotten, that in our late civil
war, the Republican leaders told the
Union soldiers that the ''frccdom of the
negro was by no means Intended But
no sooner was he freed, than the same
party who freed him, ut once demanded
that he should vote and hold Office, and so
Jealous were they in this State to share
in the honors, Republican Legislature
caused to be communicated to Washing
ton by telegraph, their ratification of
the 10th Amendment. And now
their next step is to force upon
an unwilling people, his social equality,
men in the jury boxes, on the vcnireS.
in the theatres, ut the tables ofthc hotels, in
the churches, in the stage coaches. in the
public schools and public places, and
black children educated with white
children; thereby reducing blacks and
whites to the plane of mcdiocrity and II
common average, and inculcating II
downward leveling spirit. To enforce
mixed schools, Mr.. Hoar. from Mas
sachusetts, has bill now before Con-
grcss which provides for imposing taxes
upon the States by Federal authority,
and carrying on the free schools by Fed
eral officials. Hence We may expect 10
see horde of northern teachers teaching
black and white children together in the
same school room, and thousands of Idle
negroes pouring in upon us from the im-
poverished southern States to be educat-
cd at our expense. To keep
up and support an army Of
Federal trustees to manage and
carry on the free schoOls-and an armed
soldiery to enforce obedience to the laws
and prevent the white and black races
from warning upon one another, and
preserving the public peace, at the State
expense. And it must be apparent that
the taxes will have to be three or four
times as high as they are now. But Re
publicans in this State say these bills will
not pass. So they said of the passage of
the laws for the freedom of the negro,
and his right to. vote and hold office. The
Civil Rights Bill, or more properly
speaking, the negro social equality bill,
has passed the Senate, and test vote has
been taken upon it in the House, which
insures its passage at the next meeting of
Congress, unless the people show their
opposition to it by their votes at the ap-
preaching elections. The Republicans
Of Pennsvlvania and Ohio, have adopted
it rs planks in their platforms, and they
expect to carry those States upon this
test alone. In West Virginia, where the
Republicans are in the mi
noritv, and can only hope TO
succeed, BY the aid of Democrats who
supported Governor Jacob, have lodged
this issue, and licensed their candidates
to say what they please SO they win. But
are life long Democrats 10 be thus de-
ceived? Are We TO place ourselves inthe
snomolous condition of being the all
vocates of u great, living principle. and,
turning around and voting for men who
belong to party that are known to he
opposed to il? We see and know that
the Republicans are the authors and ad-
vocatcs of these mOnstrous measures. ana
to put our seal of condemnation upon
them we have but TO vote for Democrats
who, It's party, are for maintaining and
holding forever sacred the p"rity and s''-
eriop, erceRcrs Of tie 'rhitc race, and
leaving the black man with his present
civil and political rights and privileges. I"
work out the problem of his own destiny,
Sir, | have made you the recipient "l
this letter, because seventy years OF your
life have been devoted To your country,
her liberty, her peace and her prosperity
and in all that long time You never have
been known to raise yo,lr voice against "
race who have enlightened aworld by the
splcndrr of their achievements.
An Old DEMOCRAT.
.
Cari From white. OF Marshall.