Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-09


for every piece of wicked and villainous
legislation, inspired by the hearts OF de-
signing men, who believe in despotism
and not the people, the South is held up
and rallied at as an all sufficient cause.
They point you to the South while they
purioin your own liberties. If the peO-
pie are to be shorn of their most sacred
rights; curtailed of their freedom, and
insulted in their homes, you are told
that something in the South imperative
lv demands it. Ii indeed it was true
that TO govern the South we had 10 give
up the Constitution, deprive ourselves
and our pOsterity of its protection, our
condition would be most deplorable;
but deny that any such necessity eX
| lists. We cannot, nor are we called on
10 govern one part of the country
one way, and the other part another
| way. But YOU are told by
the great political Pharisees of the
times that the people of the different
! Southern States are not conducting
! themselves properly on certain subjects,
and therefore you should cast away
YOUR liberties in order to regulate by
| force their domestic affairs. You are
] dlSO SlllluldJtu u llllS COuISt DN Il COu-
stant stream of slander poured out on
an entirely helpless and submissive
| people; a people who have submitted
| to every constitutional amendment, and
| 10 every other condition of recon-
struction which the Government has
imposed upon them. 1t is to the inter
est of the Republican party to slander
them. Every fault they have is not
| only set down in malice and conned by
r)te, but it is magnitied and multiplied
by all the lens power of party machin-
cry. An actual Otfense against the laws
in the South, such as have happened
every day and every hour since the hu-
man race began, is a sweet morsel, a
delicious item, a savOry paragraph, over
which the Republican editor rubs his
hands in keen enjoyment.
He here related several outrages
which have occurred in the North re-
Gently, one of them the blowing up of
Corbin's saloon at Westerville, Ohio.
In this connection he said;
"Now, while beer selling is not the
best business in the world, it certainly
is not the worst. | havc.knOwn men TO
do worse things than sell beer. have
even a presentiment-a superstition
that a man may get to heaven after
selling beer.
A thousandmurders may and do occur
i'm the Northern States, but how fiat and |
inSipid they appear when dished up in
our morning papers at breakfast in COM
parisOn with any act of crime, however |
commonplace its motive, that comes 20 |
us, hot and sensational, upon the |
breezes OF the South You live in law
abiding State, as much so as any other |
in the Union, and more so than some OF |
the loud-pretending States of New Eng |
land, yet ! doubt if there is a county i'm |
Ohio in which blood has not been un-
lawfully shed in the last - months. The
same may be said of the great State of
Indiana, and perhaps of every other
Northern State.
Crime Is Inherent
in the heart of man, and il prevails
everywhere. 1t is without quapntine.
itudc, and every climate. | hold that
the people of the North, and the people
of the South, on the average OF con-
duet and motive, are neither better
nor worse than each other; and
i'm this section the statistics OF
crime in proportion TO population
will amply sustain me. The trouble,
however, is that the leaders and news
papers Of powerful party in the North
are deeply interested in making you be-
lieve the Southern people are worse than
they are. When actual Oilenses do not
occur frequently enough to answer the
purposes OF an approaching election,
fictitious ones are manufactured for the
occasion. Recently two prominent |
Democrats in Mississippi, both candl-
dates for office, became involved in |
trouble, and Mr.. Dixon was shot and
killed by Mr.. Barksdale. This is a de-
plorable event, and | sincerely hope the
survivor will be punished, if he took
the life of his adversary without cause.
But is homicide of this kind 80 great
novelty to the Northern mind that
We are TO be- thrown into COnvulsions on |
its account? About three-quarters of
century ago there was very noted hOmi- |
eide in the streets OF Boston. 1t grew out |
Of political quarrel in which Mr.. Sell
ridge, a FcderaIist, killed Mr.. Austin,
Democrat, and from that time to this |
more than twice 10000 cases have been |
occasioned in the Northern States alone |
by political feeling and animosity. |
There is hardly man in my presence |
who cannot recall one in his own recol- |
lection. Yet such events have caused |
but brief comment, for the reason that |
heretofore no political party has been so |
debased as to thrive on crime, fatten on |
murder, and hence been interested in |
proclaiming its prevalence where II did |
exist, and in forging its calendar where |
it did not. But a few days since | saw |
i'm a leading Republican paper Of your |
State the following jubilant announce
ment: the best Republican speech OF
the campaign thus far-the shooting OF
Dixon in Mississippi" That editor
wants any number more such Republl-
can speeches made in this and subse-
duent campaigns. He wants more
Killings To take place in the Southern
States. 1t matters not on what provo
cation a man is killed South Of the
Potomac and the Ohio rivers, every
such item will be 80 much party capt.
tai To that editor; he will make suicide
from financial embarrassment a pO!ltI-
cal murder. And when actual murder
runs short, he will supply the political
market; he will meet the demand; he
will kill them himself; he will transform
himself into a monster OF
Murder on Paper
Tor the sake OF party success at the ap-
preaching elections. once heard 1t
said that in whatever direction 4 man ;
interests lay there you ought to look for
his track. This is certainly safe rule
by which to Judge political
party. The Republican party is the
only party on earth whose interests are
advanced by riot, violence, disorder, re-
sistance TO law, bloodshed, and murder
in the South; and | therefore charge
that now, as heretofore. in the supre-
macy OF carpetbagism, every plan,
scheme, prayer, hope and purpose OF
that party are on the side OF lawlessneSs
and crime in the South; on the side OF
their own manifest gain if they can thus
inhame the Northern mind. Would you
believe 4 witness under oath in one OF
your courts on question OF contract or
damages, if he was as much interested
on one side of the case as the Republl-