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

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against the South as an excuse for usur.
patton, and the overthrow OF free cleo
tions, not only there but everywhere.
1t is said she is solid. We hear it clam
Ored in our ears from all quarters, that
she votes solidly against the Republican
party. Let us admit she does. New
England votes about as sOlidly against
the Democratic party, and yet | have
never heard that therefore we ought to
nullify the constitution and all the rights
of the States in the matter of election TO
get rid OF that evil. 1t is true that the
policy OF this country which has SO Bit
terly cursed the producer in respect to
revenue, and the finances generally has
been the work of New England greed,
sectionalism, and legaliZed robbery, but
nobody has, on that account, strong as
the provocation has been, demanded
that her people should be deprived OF a
free ballot. People have a right to vote
as they please, as long as our form OF
government remains, and whoever
would deprive them Of that right is d
scoundrel who deserves death. But are
you astOnished that the South is solid
politically against the Republican party?
Would it not be a marvel if she were
otherwise? Did you ever hear OF any
branch OF the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic,
TeuIonic or Sclavonic races, that fawned
upon a master and whiningly licked
the hand that smote them in their help
lessness. | have mingled extensively
with representave men OF the South
since the war. They bear no resentments
against those who conquered them in
the war. Ii they did they would be
hoping, for the defeat Of Ewing, and
the triumph of Foster in this c,ntest
in OHIO. The blows OF battle however,
are only remembered and recalled by
soldiers, rs | have often heard them in
mutual recognition of valor and con
stanCy. But do you ask the people of
vote with party which plundered
them OF their remaining yaluablcs after
they had fallen on the field OF
battle; a party which after the
war was over, unleashed the jaCkals who
lurk i'm the rear of armies, the human
hyenas who prey upon the dead; a par
ty which turned loose and guided to-
ward the desolated South all those hu-
man vultureS, kites, carrion crows and
sCavengcr birds, who in the shape OF
Northern spoliatOrs and adventurers,
have filled the world with the disgrace
OF a reconstructed South? Do you ask
the people of the South to divide their
votes, and give part of them to such
party as that? II you do, you insult
our common nature. No honorable
man would make such a request, and
every iustman would despise Il people
who would grant it.. Out OF their bro
ken estates, their ruined plantations,
their poverty and distress, hundreds OF
millions of dollars were eXtortCd by the |
shameless,
Brazen Emissaries OF tho Republican
Party,
and carried away 10 secure regions for !
quiet enjoyment. On this point history |
will make no mistake, and record no |
verdict The blaCkcst pages |
in the history of the human race contain |
no account Of such robberies under |
Hastings, an IiIs p,unuUi ~ uN' i'dst |
Indies, becomes Il moderate and respec-
table character in comparison with many |
1i those rapaciOus wrctChes who fastened
their fangs upon the property OF the
South after the war was over Seventy
years before the birth OF Christ, Sicily |
was ravaged and dcspOiled by consul
Of Rome. Though more than nineteen
centuries have come and gone since
then, vet the name of Nerres retains all
all its freshness OF immortal infamy.
He was prosecuted by the authority OF
the Roman Senate, and fled for an
asvlum TO strange and foreign lands.
He died miserably in exile, and his dis
honored dust was not permitted to min
yle with the soil of the Roman Repub-
lie. We find, however, in Middleton's
life of Cicero that all the peculations,
eXtortions, bribes, and larCenies charged
upon Nerras during his entire admins
tration of the affairs of Sicily did not ex-
ceed S2,0000OO, equal to only
one third Of the amount for
which Governor Scott fraudulently
issued the bonds OF South Caro-
lima in a single transaction. And yet
YOU are expected to be shocked and hOr-
rified because the people of the South
do not vote the Republican ticket. Men
20 about in your midst lamenting with
pious horror a solid South who have in
dOrsed every criminal transaction which
has made her solid. You hear the voices
of canting hypocrites on every hand
pretending to bewail united South,
and invoking a united North and the
Army and Navy against her. Can any
one be so blind as not to see the object
Of all this? The leaders OF the Republi-
can party desire TO unite the North IN
solid hate against the South. They also
desire a preteNt for the use OF military
force by which to subyert our system OF
States, and TO erect upon their ruins
what they style a Nation, centralized
Government, monarchlal
in spirit, and destined soon 10 be so in
form and name.
State Rights
1t is i'm this connection also that The
doctrine of State rights is constantly de-
nOunCed i'm your hearing. Sherman
and Foster pretend to believe that the
Southern People still claim the right oi
secession. They know better, but the
statement has tendency to unite the
North, and hence they make 1t. There
is not a representative man IN either
branch OF Congress from the southern
States who has not renOunced the doc
trinc OF secession, and declared 1t Tor
ever buried by the results OF the war.
Every newspaper in the South has done
the same, with the exception, perhaps,
Of one on two which are paid by the Re
publican party to publish pretended
Southern sentiments for Northern use:
Every State in the South has legally and
officially ratified all the constitutional
amendments, thereby making a solemn
agreement with the States OF the North
on every constitutional issue raised by
the war, and on every result which fol-
lowed the overthrow OF the rebellion.
The speaker digressed from the direct
discussion to reply to some remark from
the audience concerning jeff Davis. lie
said that, as before jeff Davis could re-
turn 10 the senate he must have the
consent OF twO-thiris Of both houses OF
Congress, it would be a pretty hard
thing TO do. Butthcre is one way Tor him
TO get back into official position.
That is to come to the font OF Repub-
lican grace and he baptised by some
of the illustrious Confederates who have
gone before, who would dip him under