Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-24

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II is suggested, that as there is now
a proposition to adopt the Reed gag-law
in the Senate, il would be a good plan
for that body to con over these sturdy
and truly American sentiments, which
are as true now as they were in 1856,
and which came from the mouth of the
author Of that very gag-law.
WOULD NOT THE NORTH HIT BACK
Why should the South not hit back?
Let the North put itself in the South's
place and suppose that such blow at
It's prosperity as the federal force bill
were struck. Would not the North re-
taliate by every means in its power?
And would il Dee SqueamiSh in the
choice Of its means9 II the boycott
were practicable aud the nearest to
hand, the North would boycott, as the
South is threatening TO do.
The tone I'm which the Northern Re-
publican organs are replying to Gen.
.GoRDoN's honest and outSpoken decla-
ration that if this infamy is put upon
them the Southern people will resort TO
the boycott In retaliation, is mean, dis
honest and hypocritical. No sane man
believes that their love for the Southern
negro goes a hairs breadth further than
his vote And that their party may by
force aud fraud retain hold upon
the administration and Congress they
applaud this proposition 10 ruin whole
section OF this country, and to place the
South where it was twenty years ago.
The boycott may be impracticable as
a means OF retaliation, but what man
with an honest heart in his bosom and
an appreciation of the fact that the
Southern people are but human like
himself, will blame them for entertain
ing sentiments such as those expressed
by Georgia's Governor?
A deadly blow is aimed at Southern
prosperity, progress and happiness and
the south declares il will strike back.
Ii is our belief that the sympathieS of
the majority Of the Northern people are
with the South in this matter. II is
only few reckless and dishonest parti-
sans, who have the power, who have
conceived and are engineering this in
lQuity. Long ago the ableSt aud most
patriotic statesman Ga the Republican
party decided 10 the wiSeSt and
best plan TO leave the South
alone % work out her own
salvation. These hen have passed from
the scene and the men now i'm control are
nothing but narrOw-minded, reckless,
ravenous. dishonest politicians. The
welfare Of the country is the last thing
To- Dee considered by them. They will
turn the country back to the darkest era
OF reconstruction. for votes. Let us
have peace, said GRANT. "Letus have
war, deSolation; let us commit any afro
city upon the South 70 retain our pres
emit power, say the greedy and little
minded men now in the place of GRANT
and his contemporaries.
Who. we repeat. can blame the South
should it goto almost any extreme in re-
taliatiou:
Mr.. HENRY WATrER>oN i'm closing
a magnificent exposition and dcnuncia-
ton Of the force bill paints the situa-
ton in vivid colors as follows:
The Black voter in the South is doingyeIy
well He is making satisfactory progress.
Leave him alone. Leave the South alone.
Cease these false. unworthy accusations;
cOnccdc 10 the South al that is claimed FOR
the North. and the political menace FROM
without and the race menace from Within
being gOnc-thc whites of the south, hay
iur no longer the cohesion OF selt-prcSerVa-
ton 10 hold them together, VIII break
asunder. like the whites OF the North.
Auart from this one sectional and race
question, there is no more tendency toward
solidarity OF opinion among the southern
whites than among the Northern whites
But there will never be decent RepublI-
can party in the South until the Republican
war upon the South, Us section, comes TO
am end: until the Republican party In and
out of Congress treats the South as 1t
treats the East and West; until, in short,
IL refuses longer tOuse the South as po-
Htical truck patch of rank campaign veg
citation. surrounded by a wall OF sec
tional preiudices and surmountcd by
the bloody shirt, as 40 once Scarc-crow
and an ensign. The moment however,
that external pressure is withdrawn from
the South. the whites Will divide up, and
with them the blacks, each set OF whites
taking care of its own set of blacks and
seeing that their votes are duly cast ana
fairly counted Then, and by no other
route. or process. viii the negro come bv
his rights. and all this hullabaloo about
abstract constitutional law, which nobody
denies. is of piece with the same sort OF
thing. which. i'm 1850, claimed that slavery
was a constitutional right and could 20
wherever il pleased, and that all efforts to
limit. or abridge il. were reasonable.
The end Of slavery was great war OF
sections Pray God that the end OF negro
suffrage DE not "a great war of races But
10 that war OF races are Mr. Harrison and
Mr.. Mckinley. Mr. Reed aud Mr. Hender-
SON. hurrying u.s. just as surely rs Mr..
Toombs and Mr. Rhett, Mr.. Wiglall and
Mr.. Yancey hurried our fathers TO their
war of sections thirty years ago.