The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-29

which was for the defence of all and the
security of each, and that this constitu-
ton guaranteed to them certain rights,
interests and immunitles, and that they
were compelled in defence of these
rights TO resort TO arms III which they
were unsuccessful, yet bore all the hor-
rors of the civil war and It's
consequences, but submitted rs a civil
lied people to the result; surely il is
under the code of the bloody shirt" but
right, proper, and christian duty that
''the party OF progress and of moral
ideas should further violate the old COM
pact, should further trample on the old
| constitution, and blot out these states ms
states, and if they dare not revive any OF
these ancient rites of the "bloody shirt,
that they substitute them by the carpet
Dagger and the dragooning of the SOL
diery, and that they should preach peace
! TO the Indian, and commit the white
man to tyranny, humiliation and oppres
sion.
1t is but the logic of this code of the
bloody shirt that they who maintain it
| should fire the heart of our northern
people with moral IDEAS TO prevent
civilized people from participating in
the "progress OF the age and exclude
them from the benefits OF government
they helped TO create and bring into OK
istence and that they should foster, and
! embitter strife between sections, and be-
tween people of the same section, else
"moral ideas" without something to work
on would soon die out.
1t is but right, under this logic of the
bloody shirt, to create, foster and emblt-
ter the spirit OF strife, hatred and discord,
and SO wipe out all the memories OF past
klndnesses and fruits of progress in the
southern states, so that the new order OF
moral ideas shall have full play and fair
swing. Presbyterians of the north should
not think OF letting Presbyterians OF the
south dwell in amity with their colored
brethren. Methodists of the north should
not, for moment, tolerate the assump-
ton that the colored people should
be members of the Methodist
Church South, and Baptists should
hear to it that these people should not be
baptised in southe,m waters, and SO OF all
They should make common cause for
the churches of the North against the
churches of the South-for the religion
of the bloody shirt is purer, kindlier and
better than any religion of JESUS which
can, IN any NJ these forms, be protessed
or laugh: by southern civilized men.
1t is right and proper that this religion
of the bloody shirt should wipe out the
great historical tact, proved by the ma
tiOnal census Of the country, taken just
before the war. that there was larger
population of colored people in the South
who were members of these various
churches than there were Of the white
population OF the North.
1t is right and proper tor these Chris
tian statesmen who flaunt the bloody
garment. TO remember to forget that when
at the beginning Of the war these peo-
ple were melted to insurrection against
their old masters, they did not rise IN IN
surrection; and that during the war they
were not. in any numbers, guilty If
atrocities, or even of serious offences
against these old masters, but true to the
amenities which had so generally, if not
universally, grown up between them,
that altogether, out OF their four millions,
they diu not form brigade to carry on
the war against them.
Let these Christian Statesmen take n
elem, sb,rt and wipe the blood from their
-pcctacles, and compare the African in
his native hauntS with the COlOrcd race
of the South and observe that in less
than three centuries the most marked
progress was made by them towards civil
lzatlon and greater than that Of any
people on the earth in the same length
of time and so see what Southern Chris
tians have done for the true cause Of pro-
qI'ess AMI for moral idcGs.
Let the Christian Statesman look to the
fact of thi; tremendous war, of the effort
made to incite and inhame the minds of
the colorcd people during the whole
course of the war, and observe their
uniform fidelity and faithfulness, 6nd
however much any one chooses To at
tribute 10 the natural qualities of these
people, much, and very much, must be
accorded TO that white race which had TO
so great an extent, dittused that spirit of
Christianity among them, and produced
that relation of kindness AMI fidelity
And this was continued until the carpet
Dagger and the political mountebank
were introduced among them and they
were promised division of the lands
which was to take place under the code
OF the bloody shirt.
Let us understand the true issue of
this age, and know what Presbyterian
ism, Methodlsm, Episcopalianism, Ca
tholicism and culture is in the North,
and whether they have any real, living
afiinities with the like life in the South,