The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-01-01

verely blame the whites by being arous.
ed by this spectacle to high pitch Of
disgust and Indignation, but we do
blame them for allowing the unfortunate
blacks to be slaughtered as they were at
Clinton, Vicksburg, Columbus, and the
other day in Issaquena county. These
butcheries are blot upon civilization, and
no possible misgovernment upon the part
of the blacks is an excuse for slaughter.
But if there is no other OBJECT in view
than to prevent bloodshed, for that res-
son, alone it would be best for this SEN
ate to let Mississippi alone. An attempt
to set aside the late election will result
in bad blood, violence, riots, shotgun ar
guments, and the poor blacks, who really
are interested very little in anything but
good cotton crops, will be the chief
sufferers.
Let Mississippi alone; let her work out
the problem and see what she will make
out of 1t. As long as we are permitted
to take up our morning paper and glance
down its telegraphic columns without
tindiag an account OF Eight" wherein
sixteen negroes are killed and one white
man wounded, we should be thankful.
The interest of the whites and blacks Of
that State are really as identical as those
of husband and wife. 1t is aggravating
that the fools of both races will not see
il and labor together for the common
good, but the matter just now needing
attention is to devise means to stop throat
cutting.
The charge of ''intimldatlon in very
many counties can be sustained, but bal
lot box stutfing can not. Senator Morton
is astonshed at the rapid growth Of the
Democratic vote. He suspects ballot
box stutflng.
At no election heretofore have the
Democrats polied their full strength. This
is notorious. They have labored under
u degree of Encouragement equal to that
OF the Democrats of Vermont. The
election of 1872 went by d, fault. SO did
that of 1873 which Morton uses as COM
parison, because the fight that year was
between two Republican factions-Ames
and Alcorn-and the Democrats sided
with Acorn in half-hearted way. l
cannot recall the time since 1868 when
the Democrats have had ticket in the
field calculated TO call out the white vote
or to encourage them in the belief that
they could carry the State.
The registration tells the story. The
registration of whites in every county
during the last campaign was from ten
to forty per cent, above previous regis
tration. On election day they all turned
out. At no election in the history OF the
State has there been such white vote
cast. You can ride from one end of the
State to the other without tindinga white
man who did not vote. They all voted.
Those who could not crawl out were car
ried out on filters. The determination
to carry the election for the white ticket
exceeded anything l ever beheid.
Every man with white skin-unless
an office holder-was actuated by com
mon impulse.
This largely increased white vote, and
the blacks who were bought OF and per-
suaded or frightened into voting with
the whites, is the reason that the "Dem-
ocratlc vote" was swelled to nlnety.slx
thousand. AT one Of the polling places
in the city of jackson over one-thlrd OF
the blacks voted the Democratic ticket,
to which fact | was an eye witness.
These were not intimidated, but because
the troops did not interfere they conciu-
dcd they had better vote with the whites.
Had President Grant responded favora-
bly, to Ames' application Tor troops, the
blacks would have voted solidly Repub.
iican, as heretofore, and there would
have boon no Democratic victory. But,
with the refusal to put troops t. their
back they lost confidence, became de-
moraiizcd and voted the Democratic
ticket II. V. L.