The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-01-20
LET Us DIVIDE.
Editors of the Register:

1t seems to Inc as if there was deter.
mined effort ON the part of some OF the
leaders of the. Democratic party in this
State to prescribe the Union element OF
the party; Ir other words to disfranchlse
the men VINO entranchised them. NOW.
if they think this can be carried on
with impunity, they are very much mis-
taken. There is always point at which
"forebearanc ce ceases 10 be virtue" and
that has at last been reached.
The Union element OF our party IN
this.Stste constitutes a large majority OF
the party, and they carried the State In
1870 and entranchised the Confederates.
At the next election IN 1872 they gave
the Confederates their proper proportion
o. the offices on the State ticket, and IN
1875 gave them large majority OF the
offices, as we'll on the State ticket as also
onahe Congressional. In the organiza-
tion of the two houses of the legislature
this winter almost all the officers in each
body are Confederates, intending the
President Of the Senate and the Speaker
of the House.
This thing if persisted in will certain
ly disrupt our party, the union men are
beginning 20 think that they are to. be
made "hewers of wood and drawers OF
water" and their self respect will not
permit them longer to stand this. They
feel that they are being disfranchised By
the men whom they enfranchised, and
look upon it as matter of great ingrati.
tude They have great respect for their
Con tederate brethren, they look upon
them as highly honorable, aRd would
like to feel that the advancement OF
so many Confederates to prominent
positions was accidental, but when
they hear every day of this mans
friends and that mans friends urging
his claims to p-eferment in the party
because he was Confederate soldier or
officer, they feel that it is direct attack
on them because they were not Conteder-
ates, and that they would not be support.
ed tor position for that reason. If the
Union men of the party should abandon
it, what would become OF the partyI
The Radicals would again take posses.
sion OF the State, and Boremsn and
Stevenson would again appoint their
Boards OF Registration, and the sever
est lest oaths would again be
the order of the day. Who would then
enfranchise the Confederates2 The Un-
ion Democrats would not do it, they
would say gentlemen we enfranchned
you once ard as soon as you could there.
after You disfrancpised US, and the result
would be tina. oar State would be in a
great deal worse condition than it ever
was under the administrations of either
Boreman or Stevenson. l do hope that
the more moderate mcn Of the Confeder.
ste element of our party will counsel and
advise their friends against this course Of
POLITICAL ostracism, and that there may be
no further cause'of complaint. If it is
persisted in our party will certainly be
disrupted and that very soon. Through
out the United States in our last cam
paign the Democratic watchword was
LET by.gones be by-goues," and we most
earnestly condemned the raising OF the
bloody shirt by the Radical party. Let
US carry out our pledges of the last cam.
paign and all will be well.
EX. CONFED EkATE.