The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-08

publican Club OF this city tonight on
the situation in the South. He spoke
as follows:
In 1850 1 attended a great secession
meeting in Macon, Ga, the home OF my
boyhoOd, which was addressed by Viii
liam L. Yancey, OF Alabama, Robert
Baruwell Rhett, Of South Carolina, and
other noted secessionists; and when one
Of the speakers said, az the South se-
cedes, and an army OF $1,000 Northern
ers invades her soil, fifty southern gen
tlemen could drive them across the
border with riding whips" the APP
plause was deaiening The talk was
common in those days that zone South
erner can whip five Yankees" but dur
ing the terrible war for the suppression
Of the Democratic rebellion 1t was
proved TO the satisfaction OF every
tighter that in the matter OF physical
courage an American is an American,
whether Graded on the Blue Ridge or
among the Green Mountains, by the
Great Lakes or the Great Gulf. Long
before the rebel portion OF the Demo-
cratic party grounded its arms at Apo
mattox. the fighters on both sides,
when n contest was approaching,
were very glad TO know that the
odds were even little in their
favor. But what has come over the
spirit OF the men who made the most
magnificent fight ever known Tor lost
cause? Have they become towards all?
] cannot believe it; and yet, even in
West Virginia, where there are twenty
eight times as many whites as blacks,
leading men appeal 10 the former to
''atand Solid" politically, in order to
protect their homes and tiresldes against
the few darkeys scattered about, doing
chores. According to these gentlemen
the blacks are so impecuuious and IL
norant that they are hardly fit to be
slaves, and yet they appear to believe
that, II the whites, who are so many
times more numerous, wealthy and wise.
do not keep Democrats in office, the
blacks will somehow overpower and
ruin them. How are the mighty fallen,
when heroes in war lose their senses
even at the mention OF black man 1t
the polls. How would it do to present
Kentucky Democrats, for instance, with
banners stating their position in plain
English? "The United States is the
greatest nation on earth. Kentucky IS
the greatest state in the Uhion. Its
white people are the bravest, wisest
and best men God ever made, but in
politics, they need at least five to one to
hold their own against their late slaves.
Poor fellows! II Southern negropho-
bists are really as cowardly as they pre-
tend TO be, it would be mercy to clothe
them with pesticoats and retire them
from politics. Candidly. should not
every man who insults the people OF
the border states in the way these men
have been doing for twenty years. be
held up to ridicule and contempt?
vEsAL WHITES AS WELL As BLACKS.
l admit that ignorant and venal
voters, of any race or color, are con-
slant source OF more or less danger to
the state, but, while that is true, the
black vote is, il anything, less danger
GUS than the same number OF equally
ignorant aud vicious whites would be,
because the blacks are naturally less
aggressive and more docile. They are
also generally more easily led by their
preachers and the better class OF white
men who secure their good will by fair
treatment This statement will be de-
MED by no one conversant with the
facts; and it should not be forgotten
that any course calculated TO band an
ignorant class OF people together, and
make it feel that 1t is uniustly treated,
enormously increases dangers from it,
When Democrats draw the race line.
and openly rob the blacks OF their legal
rights, the inevitable tendency is to Gre
ate sullen discomfort, the possible fu-
ture effects OF which, in some quarters,
il adhered to, is unpleasant even to
think about, but, nevertheless, cannot
be safely ignored. Time will not per-
nit me to discuss this branch OF the
subject, butt repeat-and emphasize-
the assertion that most OF the machine
politicians OF the black sections whose
war cry is that "the whites must stand
together to prevent negro domination
are well aware that the situation is not
what they allege it to be. They know
that, il the race issue should be aban-
doned at once and forever, every south
ern state would continue to be ruled by
its white people, no matter what party
was in power. The whites, having so
much more intelligence and will power,
should and will rule. but they should
do so by honest and manly methods,
instead OF by mixture OF dishonest,
brutal and cowardly shifts. Very soon
after the Democratic party is forced by
its more manly memhers-aud by de-
feat-to abandon the race issue, the
blacks will undoubtedly divide, for
there will then be nothing to hold them
together. 1t IS not in human nature
for freedmen to help party controlled
by their old masters, so long rs that
marty is avowedly hostile to them; but,
en- all great questions their interests and
opinions differ, as those OF white mon
do, and, when the change comes, those
who treat them most fairly and kindly
will have the most influence over
them. The southern whites owe
great debt TO the blacks that has been
accommodating, with interest, since 1920;
and | submit that those southerners
who have any OF the old chivRlric feel
ing (so often laughed at, yet so very
real and noble) should come to the
front and insist that the political war
against the rights and aspirations Of
the weak, and against honest govern.
ment and common sense. shall cease
or, at least, that they will no longer act
with party whose skirts are not clear.
No, gentlemen, NEGRO domination"
always has been impossible in this coun-
49,, and alyrava will he There waa n
time when most white southerners were
really alarmed on this subject, but it is
now a searecrow and nothing more.