The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-04
dence of success under the leadership OF
Hayes--whicb, according to his idea, will
be n continuation Of e rantism.

be continuation of g rantism.
Stowell then proceeds to furnish hi;
negro friend with perfumed extract
from his bouquet of political flowers, in
the following language:
mGreat events march slowly, and per
mancnt progress Is gradual. AS IT took
forty wears TO bring the children OF Israel
from out of the land of bondage into the
promised land, SO the colored people de-
.l,vered from slavery must expect delays
in reaching the highest rank of citizen
Ship" (which mesns that the negro can
vote, but the offices must be given TO
white carpet-bssgers and scsiawags ~
long AS they EXIST. "As each departure
oil the Israelitcs from the true course, and
each bending of the knee tn Baal de-
lsyed their final entrance into Canaan,
So each departure on your part from Re
publican principles, and each bending Of
the knee to Democracy, will delay your
final possession Of those inherent rights
guaranteed by the Constitution"
This constitutional inherent right, we
presume, refers to the "forty acres and
mule"
"Truthful .Jeems" could not have sur
passed the arLful Stowell in lying, when
he makes the following deceittul appeal
to the heart of the negro:
"Twelve years ago you were slaves.
Since then, by successive steps, the 18th,
l4th and 10Th amendments have been
passed. The 18th amendment struck the
shackles from your limbs; the lith made
you citizens; the 18th guaranteed you
right to vote. Place the Democratic
party in power, and they will practiosily
mllify those amendments by imposing
impossible qualifications CON your ballot,
the free exercise of the shot gun policy;
by denying your right to sit upon jury,
and by keeping your children in the
darkness of Ignorance; they will make
the whipping-post universal and by the
constant application ol tho lash will treat
you-not AS citizens but MS brules; they
will pass their 'vagrant acts, which Will
again fasten the mansclcs upon your
limbs. Support tho Republican party,
and, victorious, it will turn back this
tide of brutal wrong and complete the
noble work already begun"
Slowell and his kind who would likely
bs subjected to the pains and penalties if
established, have holy horror of va
grant acts and whipping posts. But it is
not much to be wondered at
"Eor rogue never felt halter draw
with good opinion of the law"
Notwithstanding the inspiration of
confidence in the victory TO be gained in
November from which Mr.. Stowell
seemed to be suffering in the first stpsrt of
his letter, his closing appeal indicates
that some dangers are ahead.
"Hsving been officially connected with
you for so msny years, having been un-
waverng in my devotion to the Republl-
can party, having participated in the
triumph of its most vital principles, hsv-
Ing shared in tho vituperation hesped
upon it, and no,o seeing the dangers Which
threaten IL. Isppeal to You by all your
sutierings in the past, and your doubts
in the present, to secure the future by re
maining firm and true To the Republican
party and its candidates.
Zsck Chandler, the arch manipulation
of Grant and his friends ut tho head OF
the National Committee, is running the
HAYES canvass, and Stoweli, who knows,
SAYS they are filed with the same hopes
that stimulated them four years ago when
Grant and Wilson were the leaders. The
Canaan to which Chandler and Stowell
arc journeying with their black followers
is n kingdom where the golden calf is
supreme Deity, where whipping posts
yaerant acts or other modes of punish.
ment for thieves and political trsmps are
unknown, where bloody garments are
unknown, where "thc goose hangs high, J"
and all is lovely to a Radical otiiceholder.
The country lies on Salt river and Tllden
will pilot them up.