The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-10-27

10 hide their purposes. II sounds like
the old secession talk Of 1860 over again,
and exhibits precisely the same spirit. 1t
means that the Democratic voters are TO
be got In early all over the South, and
the Republican voters there TO be sub.
jected to the protection which the VOL
gives to the lamb. Under the pretext oil
preventing the colored voters from being
fintimidated, bribed, cajoled or Otherwise
tempered with" the Democrats having
deposited their own ballots are to be on
hand in force ito "see to it," and their
method Of seeing to it will DO to prevent
said voters from depositing their ballots
At all, or force them up at the risk Of
their lives to deposit such ballots us they
shall give them.
The confidential circular reiterates its
demaud'for the "solid Southern vote at
all hazards" and in q postscript says:
"The orders Of Grant and his Secretary
Of War, CUmeron, and the opinion Of At.
torney General Taft are only a scare"
The Administration has not troops
enough to execute It's threats. All that
is necessary to Democratic victory Is
for the South 10 organize and keep the
carpet.baggers from "intlmidating the
negroeson election day."
Never was there a more direct instruc'
ton given TO inaugurate civil war. II
is we'll known rule Of oratory that
greater effect is produced on the public
mind under certain conditions by sugges-
ton than by advice, arule which Shakes
peare develops with conSummate skill IN
his great play Of julius Cesar. When
Mark Antony makes his famous speech
over the dead body OF Caesar, and rouses
Tie passions Of The multitude to that
point where he knows they only need the
suggestion Of word to set them of In a
raging, burning, killing mob, he says, as
il depreCating their rage, "Kind friends,
sweet friends! Let me not stir you up to
such a flood OF mutinyW And his work
was accomplished-mutiny at once be-
gan. So the authors OF this Democratic
Circular ask the Southern rebels to organ
ize "and keep the carpet-baggers from
'intimidating the negroes on election
day"-putting the word "intimidating''
in quotation marks 10 give it adj
ditional Significance, and thereby
suggest 10 the men, who in fact need
no suggestion, that the proper way to
carry the "Solid South at all hazards" is
10 "intimidate" the colored voter. he is
not to be allowed to be "cajoled" or
OTHERWISE tempered with" by the carpet
bagger-a large scope, truly, for Demo:
cratic interference with the franchise OF
citizens. II Republican is seen with a
colored voter, he is, oil course, "caioling
him; il he offers him Hayes and Wheel
er ticket, he is, Of course, otherwise
tampering with him; and the Democrats
are to be u self-constituted police on
election day to see that all such cajolery
and tampering shall not 80 on. They
are advised to stop it, and will OF course,
be prepared to stop it in the only way
they can stop it, and that is by intimida-
ton and force. They are instructed to
carry the election "at all hazards" which
includes the hazard Of war Of races, or
new civil war, which the Confederate
House Is expecting to precipitate in
counting the electoral votes next Febru.
AIRY. Ii is determined, on any pretext oil
a disputed election, 10 raise row, in the
hope that the old rebels at the South will
be reinforced by the hungry Democrats
at the North, and the civil war will ex-
tend all over the Union, instead OF being
sectional as before.
Fortunately for the country this pur-
pose is disclosed soon enough for the
people to rally to the support Of the
Union and overwhelm its enemies at tie
polls in November so completely that
they will DO compelled to submit,
The Democratic leaders, in spite Of
their hypocritical pretensiohs in plat
form and resolutions and letters Of &C.
ccptance, have succeeded in making this
sectional contest again; the clovcn
foot will show itself, and their clamor for
! united South has alarmed the Con
seryative and Independent elements in
the North, who, however anxious to BIZ
rid Of Republican rule under the present
Administration, are unwilling to trust
the Government OF the Union in the
hands OF It's foes. They begin to realize
that Ben. Hill, Of Georgia; Ex-Governor
Perry, Of South Carolina; Ex-Governor
Vance, Of North Carolina, and Congress
man Goode, OF Virginia, are truer expon-
ents Of the spirit Of the Democratic party,
and Of what sort OF administration may
be expected oft, than any platform ad.
opted to deceive.
Hon. John Goode, OF Virginia, in re-
cent speech, asked: "Can you cast your
vote for the man (meaning his Republi-
can oponent) who sat in Congress In 1861
and voted men and money to aid in pre-.
serving the Union?"
These men have grown desperate again.
They do not love, but hate the Union
with intense and undying hatred, and
should they get possession OF its govern
ment, they will throttleit. They will use
all OF its augmented powers TO strength.
en- themselves in the South and COMPEL
the people of the North to reimburse
them for their losses. They will reor-
ganize the Supreme Court and have it de-
clare the amendments unconstitutional,
and will then demand compensation for
their slaves. Failing in 80 decided u vote
as will elect their Presidential candidate
without doubt, they intended to have a
contest over the count Of the Electoral
votes in Congress and make the fight so
hot as to kick up another civil war.
Their hand was not more completely
shown in the contest Of 1860 than in that
OF 1876. 1t is written in the book Of Fate
that the friends Of the Union have got to
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