The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-19
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which is only the testimony of carpet
baggers served up with his own intense
and loud party coloring, is caught at
with feverish esgerness by the Intett'-
oe,,eer and the thick-and thin country
party organs, but it is too steep tor even
so bitter partisan sheet as the New
York Times BoUTwELL's committee
was made for the purpose OF pro-
ducing q sensation on the election can
yass by showing up "Southern out
RACES" in the style of "Bloody Shirt
literature. But BOUTWELL, has exceeded
instructions. He has uverdone the busi-
ness. In fact, he has told such big
story that nobody believes what he says.
Hero is the way the Times administers
its rebuke to boutwell,:
"Mr. Boutwell, must be very obtuse il
he has not already discovered his mis-
take. We have yet to see the first Re-
publican journal that has any claim to
character and influence which does not
repudiate the recommendation as In
effect a condemnation Of the work
OF reconstruction and the assertion of q
principle whose recognition would
revolutionize the Federal Government
and render the rights of states nullity.
This is the all but universal opinion, and
it goes far toward explaining the failure
of the report to produce the impression
which might have been anticipated, had
it been confined TO simple recital OF
we'll. authenticated facts.
To say now, as Mr.. Boutwell, virtually
says that the exercise of these rights, re-
gardless of race and color, cannot be pro-
tected by any process short OF des-
potism, is not only to confess recon-
struction q failure-whicb it certainly is
not-but to invest partizanship with
misunderstanding power which the coun-
try would not tolerate. The unfavora-
bic reception accorded to Mr.. Boutwelps
plan is, then, at once rebuke to the pre-
tensions in which it originated and an
assurance to the South that the concllla-
tory tone of MIR. Hayes letter fairly re-
fleets the prevailing spirit OF his party.
And yet the Mtettigcncsr quotes BOUT
WE'LL as a justification to GRANT for his
notification to Gen. SHERMAN TO with
hold his troops from fighting the Indians
and held them IN readiness to be hurled
upon the South.
If the Mtethgcncer will publish the
candid and honest letter respecting the
events which boutwell, discolors that
the colored ex-senator REvELs wrote last
year to President GRANT, it will
probably do its readers better SER
vice than in filling its columns
with BoUTwELL's ialsehoods. Though
a Republican himself and a colored NAM
he asserted that the election last year
was so disastrous to the Republican party
in Mississippi because amen, irrespective
OF race, color oraparty shillistlon, united
and voted together against men known
TO be incompetent anu uishohesI. his
people had become tired of being the tools
OF "unprincipled demagogues,' and so
turned and overthrow them. BOUTWELL,
and his confrercs did not 60 to such
men rs Senator REvELs for their tns-
timony; they went TO the men whose
mission in tho South was 10 cheat, 10 lie,
to bully and TO despoil and who, pushed
to the wall by All indignant people, were
as ready to resort to perjury AS they once
had been TO falsehood. This is the stuff
with which tho Mtcllgencer regales its
readers; and it is upon such testimony
that that paper comes to the defense OF
GRANT.