The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-05-28

never more necetbeFy 10 tne nhllpn tuAu
|. is to-day. All talk about laying down
the Republican organization to take up a
new one with new title, into which old
COnfederates may enter without Wounding
their susceptibilities, would be criminal,
II II were not Iupremely absurd. The
proposition that the party which saved
the nation and which embodies In It's
creed the principles on which II must
live, II live II does, and which has re.
cord the most glorious in the annals oil
human organization, shall
COMMIT suIcIDEAs AN ACT or coScILIA'
TON
to the late enemies Of the Republic, 81.
lences comment by It's Rudacity. We are
but realizing what has been visibly com.
ing for several years from 1868. II has
been apparent that the Republican party
Of the South should 10 overlhrown by
force II 1t could not be done otherwise.
The opening scenes Of carnage in that
year, In which moro than 1000 Republi.
cans were killed and wounded in Louis.
lana alone, wercbut prelude to the CAM
paign Of violence which ended in the
bloody field Of last year. The destruction
Of the Republican party would make the
Democratic party supreme, and fasten
uponithe country its odious policy and
principles. The men who directed the
bloody crusades in the South for the last
ten years that have eliminated in final
victory in South Carolina and Louisiana
are still living, and have lost none Of their
power. The men who within several
years have welded the Democratic party
In solid column North and South against
the Fifteenth Amendment are still in the
ascendant. Is any man weak enough to
believe that they or majority Of them
have been sOuEdIy converted, and are
honest advocates Of the equal rights Of
mem 1t is my opinion that the body Of
the Southern Democracy have not chang.
ed in regard to the civil and political
rights Of the negro, and that il Tilden
had been elected President, within his
term OF four years the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments would have been
substantially overthrow. In most Of the
Southern States this would have been &c.
companied by the methods recently illus.
trated in Mississippi and other States,
and is altogether possible for that exquit-
itely potential genius which can extract
n Democratic majority Of 10000 from a
Republican majority Of 10000. No one
prays for Cancellation and fraternity
between North and South more
earnestly than myself, but concilia-
ton and fraternity 10 be honorable and
durable must be based upon concession Of
equal civil and political rights, peace and
protection to men Of all races and creeds,
II the men who held the Colored people
in bondage, and who at every step since
the war and until yesterday fought against
equal rights and the Constitutional
Amendments are to-day regenerated and
will administer the great principles as.
serted by the Republican party, and
placed by tin the Constitution and laws,
it il a contamination deyoutly to be
wished. Such frame Of mind on the
part Of the Southern people | should re.
gard rs the most important and desirable
Of all political conditions-the grand re.
suit which every patriot has at heart.
But If do or not believe in this sudden
conversion, l ought not 10 be considered
inCredulous and prepossessed; and il
about this am wrong, and il the Repub.
lican party have, by their efforts and
discipline, subdued the very hearts Of the
Democracy Of the South, how can we
sufficiently comprehend and magnify the
achievement? In Georgia, Texas, Mis-.
sissippi, Alabama, Arkansas, n part OF
Missouri and Middle and Western Ten.
nessec, free suffrage exists chiefly in name.
Georgia, in which there is not difference
OF eight thousand votes between the par
ties, gave Tilden majority OF eighty-one
thousand. In six counties not n Repub.
lican vote was polled. Mississippi, with
Republican majority Of thirty thou
sand, was made to return n Democratic
majority OF sixty thousand. In four Coun.
ties, containing liity thousand Republican
votes, seven Republican votes were pOllcd,
which were admitted Just to show that
Republicans could vote. Alabama, with
clear Republican majority Of len thou
sand, was made TO return Democratic
majority Of thirty.fve thousand. In Ten
nessee, Arkansas and Texas approximate
results were produced by like processes.
1t is folly to allege that in these States
there were liberty, protection and equal
rights. The voluminous testimony taken
by the Senate committee establishes the
fact that the liberty enjoyed by the Re.
publicans, both black and white, was but
nominal. They were outcasts from 70.
ciety, oppressed in business, hunted like
criminals, and denied protection by the
laws. Peace and commercial prosperity
based upon such conditions are hollow
and worthless, and are but another form
Of barter Of rights for gold. The quiet
was that OF strangulation and paralysis,
and audaCious ialshoOd at last grows
weary Of telling us that such results were
anything but crimes. II South Carolina,
with Republican majority Of $4,000,
and Louisiana, with like majority OF
$1,000, are to be conciliatcd and pacifed
in the same way, the hope and promises
held out toPresidcrt Hayes will have been
broken in every part. II, on the contra
ry, Republicans in these States, white and
blacks, shall be protected in person, prop.
erty and freedom Of speech, action and
occupation, | shall be the first to
acknowledge the grand result. ! will
ignore the past, let by.gones be by.gones,
accept the new condition with Joy,
and believe the rebellion was not
suppressed in vain. It is 10
this happy condition that President
Hayes aspireS, and all should earnestly
pray for the full realization OF his hopes.
The Republican party South, with all its
errors, waged q noble contest for right,
and the courage and self.sacrilfce dis.
played by its members are embalmed in
history. The warmest sympathies Of the
Republicans OF the North attend those Of
the South in their desOlation and undone
condition, with the earnest hope that the
dark overhanging cloud may have sill.
very lining, and that there may be q day
oispeedy resurrection. BY the voluntary
withdrawal Of the army the South has
been placed on her good behavior. Fol.
lowing then bloody campaigns for politi.
cal power, they have been treated with
magnAuimity, and should they fail to pro.