The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-07-16


DEARSlR; Your excellent paper is
always Il welcome visitor to US.
1 In your article on "The Next Con.
/ grc,s' YOU undertake to rebukc, in ufcN-
| ceptiouahle terms. however, "the South
ern press Tor disposition to agitate
scheme for what is known as Internal
Improvement before the next Congress,
and Won admit the ground on which il
| i placed rs being plausible" Nay,
more. you SAY the reason, the Ju-ull'a-
cation. Is the severe suffering, the OPP
preston. the outragcs which the Radical
party have inflicted on the Southern
States.
All must De- agreed upon these out
RACES, their character and their dcvasta-
ting effects upon vast producing sec
ton of this country. The wrestling from
the southern people by the stroke OF a
pen. ~ it were. their slave property
with which they produced two-thirdS
| Of the exports OF the United States for
more than half century, WAS an act
/ that cost them in money value above
| 81 600 600 900 more than one-hait
of the alleged Indebtedness of the United
States Government AT this fell SwoOp
went not only the slaves, but Is IN lnev-
table consequence the labor and means
To work and keep up this fruitful source
of national and individual wealth. Now,
mark vou | am not making II ,sr'Da5a
upou slavery and the loss OF II 10 the
South. | am merely speaking Of th!s
fact as part ofthc postutateIupon which
base this communication, Immense 81
! thi, money value was, II was 5GyRtei"
compared with the ruinOus consequences,
moral social. and material that flowed
from that sudden Corrclve measure OF
universal emancipation. The ransom
required OF France by victorious Ger
many was kuightly beuiiicence to the
penal visitation 10y the conqucrors OF
the southern people All this, 1t /, true,
as you say, is due to Radical rule and
eXaction, but the salient fact Is, that here
we are PROSTATE powerlrss, helpless
not vet cucrvuted and dispiritrd. but
full of energy and manhood to grapple
/ the situation ii our Northern sisters, who
are powerful will supply Us with u little
/ hope which, ike oxygen TO the physical
man. gives new life and spring 10 the
| worn and weary.
/ We have nothing to do and nothing
to do it with Hclplcssness Is the con-
Lition ofthe South, merely because we
have nothing to work with. Hopeless
ness follows after awhile, upon the other,
/ and desperation presently upon both.
/ Now. it behooyes YOU, who are prosper
Gus, to intcrpose, to avert these dire Sc
aucnccs. You have been quick to see our
political wrongs, and prompt and brave
to resent them, and Will continue to use
every effort to right these wrongs as
vour increasing power may enable you
in do. But it is in our material interest,
too. we want your cooperation. They
are not to be advanced or promoted by
saving the air, and in wcll-rounded per-
iois singing p~ans to an ante-bellun>
Constitution, whose once sacred leaves
have been torn and scattered by the
ruthless hand of despotic power, 10 the
four winds of heaven. We are in the
condition Of him who was set on BY
robbers ard left hal! dead; W. look FOX
the kindly Samaritan. not to the heartlesS
Lcvitcs who pass over on the other side,
"IaAs toi. Dica faicr0, is a good motto,
and We are willing to help ourselves.
But YOU say "the Southern people desire
the Government to set on foot all sorts
of measures for constructing railroads.
canals" Nc., Sc. Pemit me respectfully
To dcmur to this charge. The Southern
people wish Government aid only to
such Enterprises us are judicious and in
their character national, az well as
State. And why should they not look
with confidence to success for these?
Has not every other section received like
iurge-s,.s from the Government? Your
a;~wcriS that the traditions OF the
Democratic party, from JcIlrrson's day
TIL the last of the Presidents, have been
against the powe. of the Federal Gov
rrn,ncnt. under the Constitution We'll,
now. my friend, you are just proposing
to lnc, the door after the horse l. stolen.
Let u see how peculiarly sensitive the
Democratic party of the North have
been in the past on this head. How
much of the wealth and political power
and general prosperity Of your grand
Commonwealth have been due to the con-
,inurd euactments OF tariff measures, OPP
Grating To- protect her coal and iron IN
,errS,s while the South, the largest pro-
Luccr>, have been paying double for
WOODEN Jackets and horsc-shor>! Has
the tarin ever been regarded ~ one OF
lin, tcnets Of the Democratic party Z
\ distinguished Pennsylvania Democrat,
Vice President George Mlittln Dallas,
boldly gave the casting vote against the
tariff mcusurc of that day, and re-
ccivcd no little obloquy from the party
in his own State for this eminrutiy con-
.,itutional vote. Did Thomas Jefferson
ynur cynosurc of Democracy, favor at
any time in his official or private lIte n
measure sr frnught with injustice and
inequality 20 another section of the Coun-
,ry5 Comes +, with good grace from
Prnnsy wanna Democrats, especially to
ornu,c even stretching an instrument Il
Titlr for the benefit of impoverished
sister States. which has been broken into
fragments 10 accomplish their IeStruc-
ton. True, this tariff record has been
made with the Specious, but really
mighty thin pretext, that it was only Il
tariff for reyct ne adequate to the nercS'
sary and actual expenses of the Govern
ment. which two decades ago only were
about S5OO0O,OOO, but now are SIX times
that! But it was scarcely an accident
that, in the discrimination Of duties,
Pennsylvania coal and iron never suffer-
ed. Thus muchupon the anti-Democrat-
ic dogma Of the tariff by way OF cpl
sode
You call the legislation which is TO
be asked OF thu next Congress for inter-
nal improvements, emotional legisla-