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

IN providing for their future welfare.
otarVaton may stalk about the land,
great strikes may disorganize the indus.
tries and capital OF the whites, our com.
mercial marine may vanish from the
ocean, and every consumer in the coun.
Try be forced TO pay tribute to foreign
ship owners; the wealth of few NAV
grow vast and the poverty of the MANY
may extend, yet the
Whole Thought and Idea of the Radical
Party
is the negro, his alleged wrongs and his
political future. To those great ques-
tions involving deeply the benefit and
improvement OF the white mechanic
or laborer, the farmer or merchant,
the Radical leaders have only a moment
to bestow; but their whole energies,
their whole hearts and souls, are devo.
ted to 'he black man with such an in.
tenslty that they neglect the whole
country to bemoan the imaginary wrongs
OF their political idol. Ii the blacks are
wronged the Radical party should be
held responsible for it. For sixteen
wears they have governed the country,
and Tor nearly twelve years OF this
period their control has been absolute
Whv then have they not protected the
blacks? For this alleged purpose they
framea and adopted constitutional
amendments. They overturned the
governments OF great States and govern
ed them by the swori of the s)ldier,
while their camp followers sacked and
robbed the PROSTATE whites, and yet
they are not satisfied, hut claim that the
black man has wrongs. Wha. more can
the country do for the Radical party
than it has already done?
1t Hss Given it Absolute Power.
and vet by its very clamor it coniesses
its failure to properly protect the ne.
groes. The Radicals do not venture to
ask the country to continue them in
power for the benefit OF the white la
borer or mechanic, farmer or merchant,
but solely that they may protect the ne
gro; and yet, after sixteen years OF ab-
solute rule, they admit their inability
to accomplish their cherished pur-
pose. But the whole pretense is Il fic-
ton without substance or fact. Where
is the negro mistreated or abused
beyond what falls to the lot OF white and
black alike? In the Southern States
since their government passed into the
hands OF the Democratic party peace
and good order reigns and no man Is
oppressed 10y reason OF his color Gen.
Grant and President Hayes both admit
this, aud fact and truth patent to all
attest il. Considered in the light oil
reason, the claim OF the Radical party to
the confidence OF the people is based on
Il fraud; and yet it is clung to because 1t
is believed that it may be useful TO in.
huence the preiudices and anlmosities of
sectional strife and enable the Radicals
TO triumph through the gospel OF hate
and not OF peace.
The Democrats have planted them
selves upon the right OF the people TO
Constitutional and Economical Admins
tration OF Government,
seeking to amellorate the conditions OF
all citizens, to uphold the constitution
and its amendments and to foster those
great interests upon which depends the
welfare OF the white and black man
alike. We have chosen as our standard
bearer n man animated with the same
patriotism and spirit that made George
Washington lay his unbelted sword on
the altar oi civil liberty when he sur
rendered in your own town OF Annapo-
lis the military commission which cloth
ed him with almost absolute power.
General Hancock has been nominated
by the people for the highest office in
their gilt because hc is the embodiment
of the idea Gi an American Constitution
al President, not only by the principles
he processes, but by the purity and up
rightness OF his personal character
Lifted up above the calumny OF enemies
he stands on these shining heights
where the fathers OF the Republic dwelt
and not unworthy OF their companion
ship, by the spotless integrity of a lie
open to public inspection and filled
with great deeds in the service OF that
Republic which they founded, the gov
ernment of which / trust an intelligent
people will commit to his hand.
: Iremain, very respectfully,
j. l.. BRENT.
uqshland, Ld., august II, 1880.