The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-02
OUT OF BONDAGE,
YET NOT FREE TO CAST THEIR
Votes as They choose-sonasor Malone on
bourbon Rule in tho soath-low tho
Negro Is Dlsfranehissd-A Dire Pro.
dletlon-Another War May Ensue.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-senator Mahoneis
in the city, where he will remain until the
adjournment OF Congress. In converse.
ton with reporter tonight the Senator
said that he had been so busily engaged
with private affairs since the election that
he had hardly had time to read the news
papers, much less to bother with politics.
u haven't even read Cleyeland's civil
service reform letter to George William
Curtis, but, II the President-elect could
take little iaunt through Virginia and
see the Bourhons there already wrans-
ling and fighting over the Offices that they
expect to be made yacaut next March, he
would be amused and instructed.
THE speech made by Blaine in Angus
ta Just alter the election was one OF the
ablest presentations OF the situation in
the Soulful have ever read and its words
ought not to be forgotten by the North
ern people. 1t is not the first time, how
ever, that patent has been taken out up
on another mans invention. myself,
long ago called attention to the political
strength exercised by Bourbon voters in
the South.
ANOTHER WAR PREDICTED.
CATER the DanSille massacre" con-
tinued the General, stroking his long gray
beard, Several OF the Senators, including
Sherman and Edmunds, pressed me to
bring this outrage to the attention Of the
Senate and country. agreed to do so.
and one day, while discussing the subject
with Mr. Sherman, called his attention
70 some points involving the treatment Of
the negro by the Republican party that l
have never been able to understand. |
said, MIR. Sherman, when the Republican
parry made the negro free, l, who had
done all in my power to prevent it,
thought emancipation an awful thing.
Well, as years passed by improved and
now the wonder is, that ,haying made him
free, the Republican party will not protect
him in his freedom. l believe that we
will have another civil conflict in this
not over the question OF slavery
though. Although fought against the
Union, | declare l would never consent
that those who attempted to destroy it
should again become its rulers. II the
Confederates had won l am very sure the
North would not have been allowed to
manage the Federal Government
u called Mr.. Sherman's attention TO the
condition OF affairs in the country. The
South is represented in the Senate entire
ly by Southern Democrats. and / believe
thirty-twoof their rthirty-six Senators were
Confederate Brigadiers. Every year the
number OF Republican Representatives in
the lower House from the South is decreas-
ing, and 1t is only question OF time when
the Bourbons will have as solid repre-
sentation there as they have in the Senate,
This is due to the wilful, deliberate
and lawless overthrow OF the rights won
for the negro in the civil war and guaran.
teed to him by amendments. to the Con-
stitution. told Mr.. Sherman then-this
was nearly q year before the election
that the South, coming to the front every
four years with 1853 electoral votes, would
certainly in course OF time elect q Demo-
cratic President. Some freak, accident or
fraud in one OF the Republican Northern
States would give the Democrats major
ity OF the electoral votes. All. this, I
pointed out to him, was due to the failure
ofthe Republicans to insist that the negro
should enjoy tho political rights conferred
upon him by the laws Of the land"
BUSINESS TROUBLE AHEAD.
"But Senator" asked the reporter,
"what has ali this to do with a future
civil contlict2" 81 am coming to that"
was the Senator's reply. 81 told Mr.. sher-
man that when the Democratic party did
get into power, as it was bound 10 do,
there would be business trouble ahead.
Capitalists and business men generally
have never manifested any confidence in
the Democratic party. It's wild financial
spasins and general lack OF conservatism
inspire public distrust. Instead OF the
volume OF the business OF the country be-
ing increased, new manufactures and
workshops opened and ventures UNDER
taken by business men, there will be a
general contraction. A man who had
money in the bank would want to 20
there quite often to see that he could get
it. Men In business would curtail their
affairs and keep as close to the shore as
possible until they were fully assured OF
thoroughly reliable and conservative ad-
ministration Of affairs.
Meantime there would be almost a
financial panic. Mills, furnaces and fac
tories would be closed, and thousands OF
men and women thrown out OF employ
ment. The .upshot Of 1t would be prob
ably bread riots, for when a man is
hungry he doesn't always think before
acting. In such state OF affairs, you
see, an unorganized mob OF thousands Of
men moving on Washington would be
altogethe unnatural, and thus another
conflict begins. / did not believe, when
| said this, that the next Administration
would be Democratic. 1tmay not happen,
1 trust 1t will not, but there: certainly
would never have been an opportunity
for catastrophe Of this sort II the negroes
Of the Southern States had been protected
in their political rights"