The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-02
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. Negro Democratic orator ~
WI" Iicllaire. ,
". remarked the other day that II h"u
:, ,,,, come to this, that negro orator
" ~. =, mich of a treasure to the Democ'
va, '~ > :, ever Cassiu. Clay Of Kentucky
~ ,rs' to the Republicans in the early aays
" ~ II. ~ p.r,y. We quoted the lAad''OIy ';
language i, Sru d Tennessee Democratic
.a1eso %. ovs, tbe nspIcndid service" that
Rap is1 old Iody servant Of President Polk
~. w. dol doing on the stump for Tide" and
Sslorn. wepresumo that Tilden would
,aJ,y ,,'IS almost promise Fred Douglass
S'"f a. English mission If he would only
I,or ' himself into the breach in New
York and persuade the colored voters t. OF
mt State to vote for "RefOrm" and
TiIlen.
D,rksy orators have c1mmer.
.;,l value now in the eyes oil
n,mocr.tic orators almost equal to
,be prices for plantation hands in the
,ooa old days Of Democracy and slavery
we,uppope that "likeIy" stump speak
>, would bring twice as much on u Dem
o,,,,ic auction block to-day as the same
I,,ksy would have brought in 1860 as a
BODY servant.
IN ,his part Of the country the Democ-
,,e, have not thus far been able to scare
nm single darkcy orator. Not even u
,o,ch.beurcr have they recruited during
The canvass. The best they could
10 was to smuggIe a burnt cork
imitation into their daylight process
,iou month ago, in hopes Of deceiving
.tew Of the genuine specimens. But the
rOuiuc sons Of Ham could not be fooled
that way. And thu1the Democratic cam
v.ign has passed without an accession
from the cOIored element in our midst.
Over in Ohio, the Democracy are act
Ing under orders from John q. Thomp'
son to strain themselves immensely in
order 10 hold their October vote. 10
this end they got RefOrmer CracraIt to
20 down from Wheeling and scipio
Africanus to come down from Cleveland to
"rhOOp" for Tilden at Bcllaire. We have
pOidea, however, that either OF thenSmadC
any impression on the darkeys OF Bell
,ire. But still ii is really too ludicrous
to see the Democracy in their extremity
calling ou the larkeys to save them. 1t
looks no much like the last desperate
.tor, Of the rebels 10 save the Confed'
sncy Just before the fall Of Richmond,
4, the time they undertook to raise and
dill negro recruits in order TO help them
save their slave empire.
For our part, we have been rather
pleased to see way opening for u posi-
Die Ultimate solution Of the negro ques'
ton in the South. We are persuaded
that the ballot has made Sambo an object
Ol much more respect in the eyes oil
Democrats than he used to enjoy. 1t is
lhe old case Of Antonio and Shylock over
again. MANY time and Oft" said Shy
lock, you have rated me about my
monies and my usances,"
estill have lorneIt with patient shrnS,
FOriu1etance Is the badge OF our tribe"
The immortal Shakespeare wrote foE
all time and all men. Antonio and Shy.
lock represent simply phases OF human
nature, as do all Shakespeare's charac'
hn Who shall say that the great poet
did moi look forward with that inspired
Imagination Of his and see the present
phI.e Of the negro question looming up
IN tie far oil future. What language
could more appropriately and sarcastic
ally describe the changed relations Of the
negro to the Democracy and the South
than the following lines:
well, then, Il now appears you need my holp.
glio then: You come 10 Inc and you say,
SaJIoek, Wo would have money: You say 70;
lou, that did void your Theum upon my beard,
3nd loot me, aS you spurn astranger cur
vytr your threshold; monies Ia your suit.
What should say tOyOu? Should not Hay.
Hath dog money Is Il p0sAiOls
4 cur can lend three thousand ducataH Of
ShAll lend low, aal In bOnlsMan's key,
WIN 1ated breath aud whispering hunIbltuess,
bay thls,-
palr Sir, you spit on ms on Wednesday last.
lou spurned nle such day: another time
l0l cAlld ine-doE; and for these cOurteEe,
III lend you thus much monies"
The cOlored people of the United States
might we'll quote these words Of Shakes.
peAte to Democrats when the latter solici!
their votes We can think Of nothing
more apt. But the cOlOred race are not
'e'eA'luI, +" all the world knows. They
can truly say with shylOck that they
nave borne all their wrongs with a pa
Tent shrug, and that sulferance has beef
The badge Of their tribe.
The possession OF votes, the Republi
eia party have always contended, viii
ultimately give them not only sclt.respec
but Democratic respect. This result il
coming true. The ballot has been Al
With, and they have occasionally Gu