Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-16
COMING HOME TO RoosT.

MIR. BIAINEs effort To reconstruct re-
construction has furnished the most
vivid illustration that could be- con
rrivrd oi the results ui partisan lcgis-
lution devised for the sole purpose OF
urrpctuating the power oi that party,
when they had things all their way.
The Republican party knew that the
acknowledgements al several millions oil ~
uorant negroes was tho most preposter-
ans and hazardous venture that any
sane people ever attempted; that W. II
means ior the protection ii the negro,
it vas equally absurd, aud would opcr-
ate aninst him by making him target
Tor his political opponents; and that all
professions OF sympathy Tor his condi-
ton aud desire Tor oleyating the race,
were simply a covcraud excuse for thor
real motives, which were To bolster up
their party supremacy.
The following language from the Phil
adrlphia telegraph, Republican jour
nal il aS true as II is frank, and is II
home thrust that Republicans will now
find il pertinent Ia reflect upon!
There were those among the Rcpub-
icaus al the war period AMI OF the
periud Oi the reconstruction leg station
ni Congress who doubted the cXpedi-
cnCy and proprlcty al cnduwing the
ignorant blacks at the South with the
full privileges oi citizenship, aud iur the
o,., r,dsoa that INSIDE Of q dnEsa ycdrs iLCg
ioouh be- ,HatT hr co"i'ui qf the Soahf -.
,ohii.s, aad that ihsir ruisS guuhi be dSri ne
The hurt Ut RspubhCdI,iSAi. Such douhtcrs
however, were encrgetlcally denounced
hv politicians Ol the Blaine stripe, aud
Nv the newspapers which found IL to
their profit To endorse everything that
the Blaine stripe al politicians said ard
did, as Secession sympathHcrs, ~ enc
mics al the blacks, aud as no better than
the wicked Democrats, At the best,
such people were doctrinalres, ami in.
,apalllc at approaching the tine points
ui practical politics, ~ eNrmptitied by
the Performances at the Blaine order ri
statesmen but 10, what the inn
practical men Of tho Republican party
said " Ould certainly come To pass, Ger
irinly has come tn pass; AMI nov thu
cry goes up that the Southern represent
tation in Congress must la rcduced, IN
" Ter that the Republican party may
again obtain the power which has been
flched iron 10, by the gobhling up at the
negro vote by the wicked Southern
Democrats"
And, as To the outrage business, the
Telegraph says:
AS a matter oi fact, the "outrages,"
properly So called, have been comlR,rx-
lively low ina number, and the ncgroes
have often been brought under political
subieciion by agencies that II Is impOs-
sible tO object Ia on either moral or
legal grounds. Forinstancc, IN some ai
the Southern States avery large proper
ton of the negrocs are disiranchiscd hy
means Of registry lsws and the enforce
inent III poll tax that is, laws precise
IL siuiilar to thuso IN operation IN this
state. and in more than one oi the |
Northern States, and which are, here |
abouts, accounted Ia lie exceedingly |
gool laws. The negroes have an aver |
.ion io.paying the tax, and Us they pre-
irr to lose their votes rather than pay |
4, Whatever gain the Democrats have hy |
heir Observation-Disclosures is rs legiti- |
maize and proper AZ any such gain can
No. Mr. Blaines claim that the negro
,otes are rightly owned by the clique u
,oliticians 10 which he belongs for that
\ exactly what his claim Amounts io-is
n absursiity on the face ID it,
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