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

there were more thAna million freed slaves
the aged aud inirm, womer and little chill
6ren who had never been learned to provide
for themselves, without q dollar, helpless
ignorant to the last degree. You turned
them loose to starve and die and hundreds
ofthousands did perish. Did you per ION
them2 No. Did you give them even n
penny out of those thousands of millions?
mol You got rich on their labor before
the war. There was the time to show your
humanity. Whist did ys for these poor
sufering helpless ones? Nothing at all.
For q few months you served out rations
here and there. What mockeryl And l
say here, but for the kindness of their old
masters, who provided out of their scanty
means for these infrm and helpless freed
slaves, they would have died in mulitudeS.
But / digress. Suppose it true. Is it any
greater crime to control the negro vote by
force, than for you and yours to enslaye
him by cunning, craft, fraud, lies, to do
ycur bidding? Answer me fyou can; who
is it, SIT, you are defaming? A people to
whom you owe victory over old England in
cur revolution, who again in 1872 were do
ipg battle against that same England while
your fathers of the land of the pilgrim, OIL
we're plotting treason fer the sake Of profit.
You, sir, are defining a people who gave
sou that civil and religious freedom by
which Jour wi people have been rescued
from blue laws and other monstrosites; 8
reople that gave to the world, in this splen.
did dominion of som one hundred years,
every single name that now lives in history
and is revered by man; q people that has
borne our flag with honor and glory
wherever our armies have gone-a people
whose principles and teachings have exalted
America and given hope 10 the world; 6
people who, right or wrong, resisted success
fully for four years the greatest army that
every marched to battles; q people who. I'M
der unhesrd of difficulties, have astonished
the world more with their progress since the
war than with their unparalleled heroism
during the war; q people whose freed slaves
to-day are multiplying more rapidly, are bet.
ter fed and clothed thar any other lsborers
on earth, and, Withal, enjoying practically
as much liberty as any; q people whose
freed slaves to day are better provided With
schools than nine-tenths of the people Of
Europe, with every opportunity for religious
instruction. These are facts which you
may deny; they are facts, however, which
no honest man will call in question, and put
the negative on all the foul SANDER you and
yours are pouring out over America like
some putrid stream, TO foul what it csuno
destroy. You say the white mar in the
South has Individually more political power
than the white man of the North, because
the negro doesn't vote and he does. This is
not true. But if true in one sense, the
charge would be absolutely false in the sub
stantial sense. How long, sir, has it been
since the white laborers in the North, par.
t~icularly of the land of the Msyaower, have
dared to vote against the will of their en-
~ployers2 Is it so to-day? In this way it is
often the case now that, by and through
his bosses, one white mar in fact casts the
vote of q thousand who would be turned out
10 starve if they opposed his will. Are not
ihese greater wrongs than suffered BY the
negroes. Had not the election at the South
better De controlled by the white vote than
OF multitudes Of ignorant blacks marched
TO the polls under the influence, yea terror
Of the vicious political tramps called carpet
bagers, for their OWE ends2 Would you have
Congress filled up by these low politicians
and mischievous, cunning multtudes ready
to betray any trust for a price-a very small
price,, Are not the Northern people as
much interested in having men Of inteIll-
gence and integrity in the national councils
as we? Would you navea Malone in every
Southern State s~rraigning the the blacks
against the whites TO the vast injury Of the
whole country You think to keep the
Republican party in power by giving up the
South to negro rule. Why, sir, even the
negro has more sense than that No, sir
The Republican party in the South and the
great West as well would utterly perish IN
der your lead; and, sir, many OF the South
ern States but for you and such as you
would have voted for Mr.. Blaine. l. for
one, q Confederate soldier, voted for him
because he is a great man and a statesman,
while you, sir, were his secret foe from low
jealousy, and calling him brother" struck
him under the fifth rib.
You the owl that struck this noble eagle
and with many of your ilk brought him to
earth. You the loud mouth Republican in
public, the real mugwump at heart, and you
today are alone making the uRriHtng
South solid against a party with whose
economic principles many of our States are
in sympathy to be boldly declared as soon
as your party brands and condemns you, as
it ought to do, as unworthy of our high
aims and growing fraternal sentiments.
Sir, you are possessed OF a devil and tearing
yourself among the tombs. Sir, let me ask
you, and if had the power to cast out your
devil you would answer. Let me ask You
if any law can be made that will not effect,
90 far as political liberty is concerned, white
and black alike? This being 80, had not
the lawmaker better be chosen by the en-
lightened white man than by the ignorant
black, easily misled2 Suppose, sir, the Chi.
nese were numerous in Ohio and held the
balance Of power as voters, and the people
If Ohio kept many of them from the polls,
as they certainly would do, would you take
part with the Chinese? Answer. But you
will not answer. l will answer for you
Yes, if by so doing you could keep your
place in the Senate. If you answer no,
then, sir, you belle yourself, for the
Chinese are surely far superior to the
negroes. he is, in fact, the Yankee of Asia
| know full well, sir, the game is not worth
the candle l shall perhaps hereafter call
attention to your peculiar way o. making
money, and in this peculiar gift of yours |
shall show that you always carry seven jacks
in your sleeve. / would be glad to get a full
detail from persons acquainted with the de-
tails of your money transactions, which
when furnished shall be made use of for the
public good. / will conclude this letter by
bringing you and your brother in mslignity,
Carl Schurz, on the stage together for a mo-
ment. Som after the war this man Sc lurz'
who like you had distinguished himself,
while q great grand people, the grandeSt Of
earth, under the furry of passion kindled it
matters not how, were at war among them
selves, for his malicious defamation Of our
| portion of this people, was sent with some
others on a commission to inquire into the
condition Of the South. BE made q report
full of that kind of falsehood and SANDER
then palatable to the people Of his party