The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-02
THE SOLID SOUTH.

man of the Radical State Executive Com
mittee, is running this campaign upon a
single idea, viz: sectional hatred. That
paper teens daily with the grossest ap-
peals to the baser passions of the ignorant
ana unrefecting for the purpose of stir
ring up sectional bitterness. 1t does not
scruple, IN its incendisry work, to pro-
mulgste the most infamous false
hoods, knowing them to be false
hoods. AS an instance: 1t has paraded
in its editorial columns over and over
again a list of gentlemen whom it de
nominates as Confederate chairmen of
committees" IN the House of Representa-
tives at Washington, and in this list it
prints the name of ex-Gov. THOMAS
SWAN, who was elected by the
Radicals and Union men Governor
of Maryland during the war;
Ex-Governor GILBERT G. WALKER
a noted Union man and citizen of New
York, until the close of the war; Major
FRANK HEREFORD, of this state, who
was not only Union man but Union
soldier. And so we might go on ex-
posing the utter falsity of this whole ar
ticle.
About all its editorials are of the
same stripe A morning or two ago, we
exposed the utter bsseness of its several
articles about the payment of what
it denominstes Rebel clsims;" that the
payment of those claims are made impos-
sible (even if anybody wanted to pay
them) BY the amended Constitution. AS
we then remarked, if the Radical party,
during its long reign in power, has not
made effective provision against the pay
ment of these claims while it WAS
amending the Constitution for that
avowed purpose, it is unworthy to be
trusted with the duty in the future.
Is the South solid against Radical rule?
Who made 1t so2
I. was driven to this position by the
Radical party, which has pinned the
South PROSTATE while csrpet.bsg thieves
robbed and murdered at will.
Had that party followed the advice of
its most patriotic leaders, it would have
exerted the enormous power it welded
at the South in the interest OF the whole
people; II would have thrust back the
vampires that were feeding upon it; 1t
would have bound up the bleeding
wounds of the helpless victims ot cause
less war; it would, by being magnsni-
nous, have called around it that very
large class which always opposed rebel
lion; it would then have added to that
class the youth who had come to man
hood since the unhappy strife; and them
by wise government, it could have
laughed at all opposition.
1t chose not to do this. 1t selected for
its representatives at the South the
scoundrels who went among the negroes
and fired them into frenzy against their
masters. 1t fomented the slow white"
to attack the blacks; and then with
fendishness incsrnste, it charged these
barbarities upon the intelligent whites
o: the South.
What was the result? The whites of
the South made t. common cause against
the thieves, and robbers and murderers
who had been placed over them. Was
that unnatural? They renewed their
interest in politics and overthrow the
robbers at the polls. And now we have
the Democratic states al the south
peaceful and prosperous, while the Rad
ical states are in helpless anarchy.
What will follow2 The better men of
all parties, who desire fraternity between
all sections and peace between the two
races are making common cause. NOT
TO RESTORE REBELS TO POWER, but to
restore peace and concord and prosperity
to distracted and suffering country.