The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-12-05

North. Urging reconciliation on the basis
Of exact justice he said:
When you had been beaten in fair
fight, we gave you back your property, |
forfeited by law Of war, and your citizen.
ship forfeited by your own voluntary re-
bellion. Do you deal with the Southern
white Republicans and negro Republicans
rs fairly and as generously % we have
dealt by youP Look into your own con.
acienCies and answer for yourselves.
These L. simple pathway out from all
this bitterness. There ID no need that we
should wander forty years In this wilder.
ness Of passion and OF hate. There ~ no
need that all should die who left Egypt
before we enter Canaan. Are you willing
to turn your backs on the past, and simply
give every legal voter in Louisiana the
right 10 vote once, and then have bis vote
honestly counted? In one word, this ma.
ton will have no more midnight whip.
pings; no more white leagues; no more
tissue ballots inside the ballot box; no
more shot guns In politics. Give US only
this-a free vote and an honest count, and
the cry Of sectionalism will forever cease
in our nertherh politics. Deny US this,
and the North will grow each year more
and more solid, by ever increasing and
more resoluie majoritios. We can ask no
less. Wewill ask no more
These are good and brave words to speak
in the South. And that they are spoken
freely and listened to without outbreak
prove something for New Orleans at least
The good Of General WOodiord's campaign
may not have appeared In the vote on
Tuesday, but It must appear further on.
Another extract from the New Orleans
speech is all We have space for this morn.
ing:
Because the negro by law is entitled 10
vote, therefore by force Of law he should;
II necessary, be allowed 10 vote. Because
he can vote, some day, by force Of local
division in your politics, II for no higher
motive, he will vote. Because to-day lie
can legally vote, because tomorrow he
will certainly vote, therefore you may edu.
as well as the rights ofsufrage. You have
the negro here. He Is by law both citizen
and voter. You are locked up to three
methods Of dealing with him rs citizen
and voter. You Gun treat him as an ami
NAL and coward, and coerce him with shot
gun and bludgeon. This will make him
animal and coward. Such result will de.
grade you as well as him, and curse your
state even more than II curses him. You
can treat him as an idiot, and cheat him
by the tissue ballot. You will only edu.
cate his cunning and his malice, and de-
bauCh your own manhood and destroy all
possible purity in your politics. You can
treat him as he Is by law and nature, as
citizen and man. Thus you will ennoble
his manhood, and fit him for citi.
zenship. This you will do promptly
II you are wise and Just. This
you must do at the last whether you will
or no. The shotgun must forever 90 out
Of our politics. The school house must
Comein. Those amongyo who are wisest
and brayest will lead the way in this the
path Of peace, education aud progress.
Free labor grows more to-day than slave
labor ever grew. More cotton this year
by nearly half q million bales. More cot.
ton last year. More cotton the year be-
fore than slave labor ever grew. You can
raise more sugar. Tho central States can
raise more tobacco. Let no man sit down
and idly NOPE or weakly sigh in the shad.
ows Of the past. The present is here with
great demands, with large rewards. The
future waits TO swing open on hinges OF
justice and education its doors that open
TO power, TO wealth, to culture. You have
fought us with great courage. With equal
courage be it yours to come with us. Here
are cur hands, They bear our hearts.
Come with us, and We will do you good.
Louisiana Democrats, some Of them, may
have said words as plain and forcible as
these, but it may be doubted if they ever
before listened to them from the mouth OF
a live Republican, in New Orleans, or
elsewhere in Louisiana. They are words
the south needs to listen to and consider.
With consideration will come conviction
OF their truth, and perhaps wisdom to act
in accordance with their spirit.
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