The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-03-24
The CoIored People Tired OF Repub-
lfcan Rule.

Tne SOlOrc0 feOpfe AbFeu VI "ep"D
a., lfcan Rule.
The following circular has been large
" circulated among tho colored people
or the United States:
National independent Political Union-
Negro Declaration Of Independence
Republican FaithLessness and Co1Tnp.
tons Erposei end .Scathinyty DenorInc-
ed by Cotored Mei-Ihey are Tired Of
Party Yoke, and Val Combine 10 Rec
onciis the Sections and Maintain Local
Self Government.
At a largely attended meeting Of the
colored cltlzens of the different States,
held at the City Of Washington on Feb
ruary %, 1876, the following was unani-
mously adopted, and on motion, it was
ordered that the document be printed in
circular form for distribution throughout
the United States:
We, colored men, representing nearly
all the States and Territories of the
United States, believing with the fathers,
that the happiness of the people is the
sole end of government, and taking into
consideration the unhappy condition
now existing, growing out of the prOstra-
ton of business, the decrease of COM
MERGE and the heavy taxes forced from
an impoverished people to carry out the
extravagsncies of an administration be-
come infatuated by sordid ambition, and
taking into consideration the duplicity,
want of faith, corruption, vacila-
-. 4 ..lE.h of h.
publican party, to which we have been
allied since we became citizens, and for
which we have sacrificed so much, do
hereby donounCe it as being the primary
cause of ali the wrongs committed against
US, the impeader of the progress and
prosperity of the country, because it has
never ceased TO use US as cover for 1t:
base designs, usurpations and encroach-
ments upon the liberties of tho people of
the South, and, therefore, we sever all
connection with that Infamous and tyran-
ntcaLly administrated organization for
the following reasons:
From its palpable violation of the
principles upon which it is founded; for
its failure to fulfill its solemn promises
made in National and State platforms;
for the political serldom IN which it has
kept our Southern brethren, whose i'm
polite banding together has perpetusted
its supremacy to the detriment of the
material prosperity and tranquility of the
States in which they live; for establish,
ing bank, ostensibly for the benefit Of
the freedmen, but actually for tho pecun-
iary advancement of knavish hankrupts,
favOrtes OF the Administration, and ap
pointing men Of speculative abi-
ity and doubtful characters to con-
troll 1t, who have not only mis-
managed, but stolen millions Of
our hard earnings, thereby re
ducing US to sbject want, and for per-
sistently refusing to pass any legislative
measure for the relief of the ignorant,
but coming men and women who de-
posted their all in that pseudo Ehita1-
thrOpic, but ruinous receptacle, only be-
cause of il, Republican character; for
Ignoring intelligent colored men of I'M
doubted Integrity in the distribution of
patronage, and appointing either lg-
norant blacks who were used as admins.
trstion tools, or infamous whites who
depleted the treasures, and prostituted the
offices for political preference, even in
Ststes,where the overwhelming numerical
strength of the blacks made Republican
ascendency possible; for banding ignor-
ant colored men against their white fell
low citizens, in order that greedy and
unsorupulous cormorants from the North
may ride into office and then leave them,
after amasing fortunes and attaining
honor and fame, the enemies of those
who would have otberw ise bcfriended
and protected them; for conniving with
white men inimical TO our best interests
and relcntleSsly bent on engendering
class hatred Tor party ends, whose plum
dering and coercive legislative measures
Unsuitable thirst for gaia have made Of
the fair field of the South a bowling
wilderness, and palsied the very energies
of the people; for rsvsging trea-
suries, running whole communities by OPP
pressive taxation, increasing the State
debts TO fabulous amounts, and goading
the people to desperation; for usurping
power not delegated to the General Cow
ernment; for throttling State Legisla-
lures and expelling the peoples repre-
from State capltols by force Of
arms, thereby substituting military GeS-
potisn for civil authority; for dissraeing
the American name and character
abroad by the appointment of gamblers,
stock jobJers, s,ct'adLers and men whose
villsinous characters were known to the
power as ambassadors,
,,n-,,1s a,,A Ii,N1n,,- Of
speculsting with the finances of
the country; for aiding and abetting con-
spirators to detraud the public Treasury;
for unprecedented extravaganza III the
Of the Government; for
the Executive in the practice
of nepotism and in the appointment of
persons to Office to whom he was indebt-
ed for favors received. and many uncon-
stitutional measures, such as the appoint
ment of military satrsp to negotiate a
treaty without being confirmed by the
Senate; for using the public revenues TO
carry elections; for creating and main
tanning q Board of Public Works. a
Board of Audit and Board Of Commits
sioners, who have, IN violation OF law,
prosttuted the credit of the United
States, piled up an enormous debt on
the people of the District of Columbia,
subsidized presses and paid lawyers
for personal defence with public money,
corrupted corrupt contractors for per-
sonal gain, fraudulently issued bonds and |
certificates, and LETT the city bankrupt
with unfinished streets and sewers; for |
packing the Supreme Court of the United
States in order to obtain decision favor.
able to the policy of the Administration, |
and tampering with the. Judiciary of |
States TO the detriment OF the rights and |