Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-09-03
PERTINENT TRUTHS.

guished citizen AID prominent 1eino-
crst of louisiana. We believe il sets
forth clearly and logically the conclu'
sions 10 which the thoughtful people OF
both sections OF the Union are rapidly
drifting.
When, at the conclusion OF the war,
the people committed the Government
into the hands OF the Republican party,
they did 30 with the firm belief that IL
would exercise the powers delegated ior
the advancement OF the interests and
prosperity OF all sections oi the Union,
and for the protection and improve
ment, not oil one, but OF all classes OF
citizens.
After fifteen years oil nearly absolute
power, the best friends OF the Repubii-
can party are compelled to reluctantly
admit that it has devoted all its energies
and power TO the enforcement ola pollcv
towards the South that has utterly fall
ed, and which has brought disaster and
confusion upon its friends and ioes
alike.
During the time this policy was being
pushed with the iull yigor OF al! the
powers, civil aud military, OF the Gov
eminent. the whole section OF the coun-
try South Oi us was thrown into chaos
oil confusion-State governments were
overthrown, and all commercial and in
dustrial interests were paralized.
The country was alarmed by reports,
pretended or true, OF collision between
the whites and blacks. The attempt to
place the race, formerly in seryi-
tude, in possession Of the purse
strings, aud over the intelligent and
tax-payin. white citizens OF the South
arou sed the spirit OF opposition to its
highest pitch, until it eliminated IN the
Louisiana imbrogiio. 1T was then the
paople of the North awOke to the con-
sciousness that the policy pursued by
the Republican party could result but
in the complete prostrationand CONNER
cial destruction OF Que portion OF the
Union, and realized that such disaster
would be- felt in every section Of the
country. The producers OF the West,
the manufacturers OF the North, no long
or found the natural market Tor their
products in the impoverished South.
Ii was at this time that Gen. GRANT
expressed the sentiments OF the North
i'm regard TO the policy OF the Republl
can party. When, being urged to con-
tinuc the military government in the
South he SAID: The people OF the
country are tined oi this sort OF thing.
Upon the reorganization OF the South
ern states under Democratic rule and
home government, industry revived, and
the stories OF "Klu-kluX' outrageS and
"bull dozin.' lost their charm and pass
ell into bve-word aud jest, and are
now relesated to the corners and odd
spaces OF few OF the partisan papers OF
the country. As Mr.. BRENT says in his
letter, "the whole matter j. a fiction
without substance and truth. Where's
the negro mistrusted or abused beyond
what falls to the lot OF whites aud blacks
alike"
But il is not 80 much iur their mistaken
policy that Mr.. BEESr arraigns the Re
publican party, but Tor their utter diSre-
gard, in the pursuit oil this hobby, oil the
interests OF the whites OF all sections OF
the country, aud who compose at this
time nine-tcnihS Oi the population oi
the Union.
HE shows that the Republican party
can only ask the support OF the whIte
voter OF the North on the ground oi It's
policy toward the South, which has been
demonstrated a failure; that whenever
the people have directed the attention
of the leaders OF the Republican party
To issues that affect the national interests
of the forty live millions OF white popu-
lation in the country, they have been
always too much engrossed with the
consideration OF the pretended wrongs
of the black man to address themselves
10 the amelioration of the condition OF
the white man of the north, or the
advancement OF the general prosperity
of the country; that the bloody-shirt
has been worn 80 long as the sole gar
meut OF power by the Republican party
that its threadbare condition now serves
but to display the nakeduess and sham
with which the people have been de-
luded and deprived OF the bene-
iii. which they are entitled to
receive at the hands OF those who eXer-
else the powers OF government.
We are Of the opinion that, whatever
may be the belief ot the people oil the
North, in regard to the condition OF the
negro. they have arrived at the conclu-
sion that there are other questions
which concern them even more deeply,
and upon which they have been unable
10 obtain hearing from the Republican
party.
Charity is virtue to bc admired,
hut when the mother consumes all her
days in providing yarn.socks Tor the
sun-baked heathcn OF Dahomey, and
ncglects her own offspring at home,
charity loses its holiness, and the fruits
of her misdirected energies will prove
but bitter and Improbable.
TuE sole basis OF the Republican hope
ri carrying Indiana is the thlrty-hye
hundred negroes they have imported
there. About 300 OF these are "exo-
busters" from the South and will he