Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-08
HON. JOHN SHERMAN,


cause sou have merited the notice of any
true American by any act or speech above
~medioCrity, but because you represent a
class of our people viDdictive jealous, narrow
minded, prOscriptive and utterly void of
that race pride inherent in our race and in
-epsrable from selfrespect-s class Of PEG
PIE Sho, if they had sway in America
sould utterly destroy everything good.
everything noble, ~amslgsmste the races,
,egrade the family Of nal and sacrifice the
very elementary principles Of liberty to a
morbid and sohorrsnt fancy, and my reason
for addressing you, further, is because OF
the high position you have reached, partly
by Iehance, mostly by a low de~magoguery
and q disordered state Of society now rapidly
passing away,
1t matters not to me how you have be-
come rich, If you went to Congress some
years ago possessed Of property assessed at
$4,000 and have by your wits, or in what
ever way, become q millionaire, proud and
arrogant, whether by uniting with q whisky
ring formed by your sharpness in anticips-
ZION of the law taxing whisky which you
helped to engineer through Congress, or by
specializing in an outof-the-wsy Washington
lot and then using your high position in
inducing the Washington authorities to ex-
pend millions in improving it. This ls q
matter so common with people of your cast
as not to surprise any one. | address you
then as John Sherman, the malignant and
cowsrdly %reViler of a brave aud noble peo-
pie where personal responsibility is impossi-
Die. | address you s John Sherman who
used your sinister influence to defeat the
nomination for third term of the hero Of
the age; as John Sherman who from malice
and envy did sl in your power secretly and
covertly, and hence more effectually to de-
feat the election Of Mr.. Blaine, the states
man, and secure the election of Mr.. Cleve-
land. Can you deny it? As John Sher-
man who to-day comes between a great peo-
pie clssping their hands in fellowship over
the grave Of Grant, to defeat their brotherly
union, that you NAV profit thereby. 1t has
been the characteristic of all the worlds
heroes to treat the conquered, CONQUERED by
their own prowess, with generosity and for
b~earsnce, and of all patriots to heal the
wounds of those bloody civic strifes com
mon to all the nations. May l cite you to
Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Grant and
Lincoln.
Contrast your history and your conduct
with Grant and Lincoln and blush at the
contrast. Blush. do l say! Where and
when have the vindietiVe maEguers Of the
weak or the fallen been known to blush?
Sir, l address you as the true and uumis'
taxable representative Of those New Eng
land fanatics who governed even more By
jealousy and low instincts than By a morbid
tanaticism in their efforts to humiliste those
whom they did not have the courage to meet
on the battle field, and forgetful Of their
own race and lineage are ready to debase
aud humiliate a people 10 whom they are in
debted for every principle ofcivil and religi-
GUS liberty that adorns and ennobles the
American name. You the representative
of a set Of self styled philsnthropists who,
when they could make profit thereby, were
active, quite as active in the slave trade as
thew have since been in their noise about
the rights of the defendants Of the bsrbar-
lars they stole, or purchased, with beads
and rum and sold to the South, to Cubs,
Brazil; wherever they could find q market.
1.-THE negro has been civilized and made
to understand and practice the Christian
virtues to whatever degree, it has been with
out the aid Of you or those whom you repre-
G n Before the wal, your native New
England made far more profit out o! slavery,
the whip of the slave driver as you
term it, than their owners. 1t was the
labor of these slaves that made
the North rich and powerful, and your i'm
potent rage to-day comes out Of the fact
| that you are now today prevented from en-
Shaving the negro political, as efectual as
YOU had hoped TO do; comes out of the tact
/ that you cannot hold him IN political sls7'
ery for your own sectional purposes. You
and the miserable faction ofyour party the
friend Of the negrol How do you prove it
You say you set him free. 1t is false
Events set him free, or as Mr.. Lincoln ex
messed il, his freedom came from the ab
rasiou of the conflict. You emancipateC
him because you loved him! 1t Is false
BE was emarcipsted for 8 military necessi
ty-becsuse il was found that after thre'
years of war that the South could not D,
CONQUERED unless he was emsncipated
You undertook the war for his liberty. |
"a rot true, cir. You made war on tn
South for one sole purpose-tns Ssints.S
ance of the Union. This you know to b
true. This the acts of congress and thI
proclamation OF the President prove true
You made the Fourteenth Amendment 70
his benefit. This, too, you did for one sol
purpose-to keep the Republican partizsns
yourself among them, in power, and thu
hold the great majority Of your orn race
North and South URder political bond
age by the political enslavemsRt Of tn
negro 10 your Whip. Yes SIR, yo'
planned to use the negroes as dunn
beasts to do your blowing. You have foant
yourself mistaken. Hence your blind rage
none so venemous as the dog that loses th
bone. The negroes are dividing politically
some are tired Of voting and so too Wit
m~ultitudes of white men, some vote 70
their old masters, some vote with the Ian
owners who employ them, what more natur
al; and thus your plans and schemes hay
failed, and as you say have resulted in POI
ting your political opponents IN povel
You and your faction that IL nov to-day d
s~froying the Republican party. the friend
TIE nfrrol In esdt You had tle Goverr
- - ~. W L.