The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-06-27
NEw YoRK, Juno 28,--The Herald
publishes the following;

NEw YoRE, Juno 2G,--Tho Herald
publishes the following;
STIRRED UPTHE ANIMAIS
NvRAT HAisTEADs ARTICLE CREATES DECIDED
SENSATION.
Spccta! 10 he Pittsburgh Iosi.
CINCINNATI, June :, ls9l-Murat IIGiyteRds
article In the Comm rriGl GrssVe advocating the
lOOlishInent OF Tho fifteenth amendment has
created O Widespread senAGiiOn here. lS utter
AnCcs are NO boil aud tho measure proposed so
radical thnt all classcs arc aStOnlshGd Leading
Republicans interviewed to-day are opposed 10
HANieEd's idea,
TX Governor Foraker said; 81 do not agree
with ualsIead, md l hope TO live long cnuugh
tn see a President IN the white house who will
enforce the constitution"
Colonel MCClunG, collector o, internal reyen-
ne, said; "IlalStcGd mNkc9 some brutal state
menls. ! am In favor OF the amendment ana want
" saG II enforced"
Amor Smith, surveyor Of customs, raid, Hal
stead lswriung Tor effect IsRy do not only let
the amendment alone but enforce It,"
George Cox, tho local Republican boss, said;
"ltatalGGd is going over hiS war conduct again,
lie fought The Union armies thCn; now no iiglls
his party, lie was wrong then aud IS again"
OioYGr two hundred Republicans interviewed
less than q dozen Endorsed Halatcnd'a idea.
have read the above with Keen APP
probation, aud there il, l presume, no
doubt hat tho expressions quoted are
as nearly authentic as coarse hand re-
porting will permit The head lines
are the contribution OF tho accom-.
plished Post, Of Pittsburgh. 1t is q
pleasure TO boar that my article has
aroused something than mere per.
functory opposition. There is nothing
so imprOgnable as Indifference. II l
have succeeded at last in puncturlng
the public shell on this subject l count
myself fortunate,
MISTAKEN AMENDMENT.
The fifteenth amendment was, after
the fourteenth, a mistake. The fifteenth
asserts u certain thing shall not DO done
that the fourteenth provided should be
punished with u loss OF political power.
Tho presumption Is that what the
fifteenth says shall not DO is not and
therefore there can be no penalty. Tho
fourteenth had tho real solution. Ex-
aCtly applied it was that blacks not on.
f%ranChis0d should not be enumerated.
Taking tho fourteenth aud fifteenth
amendments together, and the black
millions DISTINGUISHED Nre enumerated,
and this gives tho Democratic purity in
the south an enormous and dangerous
advantage. ThOro is an extensive and
obtruaiYO unfairnoss about this that
proVokea public Indignation. In times
Of slavery thrOe-6tths OF tho
slaves were counted aud tho whites
voted for thOn ConstitutiOnally. Now
all the blacks are counted and the
whites in tho old slave states vote for
them unconstitutionally, but with
greater efficacy than before tho war.
Tho political power added to the solid
south by tho emancipation OF slaves is
about equal to that OF the state Of
Pennsylvania. II the whole disfran.
ChIsed muss OF blacks were excluded
from emancipation according to tho
fourteenth amendment tho loss Of tho
political capacity in national affairs Of
the solid seCtion-in the house Of rop-
%rosentatives and tho electoral colleges
would DO equal to New York, Pennsyl.
Yanin and Ohio combined. That Is the
full magnitude Of tho wrong-tho fault
Of tho fifteenth amendment.
1t is this tremendous force hurled at
tho Republican party in u mass regard
less Of principles BY southern sectional.
ism, race prejudiCes and perpetuated
war feelings and issues that makes the
Democratic party so formidable and has
ut laat landed the country in tho hands
OF that organization Of political mischief
and business ~inCapacity.
Vhn fnurInnnIb nmnOImnn WOu IN
constructed that it was seli.enforCing.
1t was obviously fair that disfranchisod
citizens should not DO represented, and
tho perpetual induCornGnt Of increased
political potency in exchange for suf-
iragc was Il wise adjustment. This was
craftsmanship. Radicnlism came on
with tho fifteenth amendment which
was supposed to confer universal sui
irage. Has it dono so? Compare the
census tables and tho election tables
and sOel There are black voters, but
not whore they count in national al
fairs. Tho fifteenth amendment has
been nulliGGd in tho interest OF the
Democratic party for sixteen years, and
for four years before that-tho second
term Of Grants administration-the
pTOCGha vi lulllllIutlOl Mud EOlHB Ol
steadily. General Grant was FRESH
dent, with an incompatible military
prestige. General Sheridan reported
10 him that thousands OF black men,
ovor twenty thousand--had been killed
and wounded bocause..they we're Ropub.
licans. There was talk Of moro
law to meet the case. The real
trouble was there was too much law
already. President Grant did not lack
power. He had General i.ongstrcGt at
the head Of the Republicans Of Louisi.
ana and General Sheridan In command
there, And what did it all Nyail2 Moth
lug but tho Improbable, tho %unavenHed
shedding Of blood. II was not Presi.
dent Hayes who removed the troops
from southern state houses and gavO up
the use Of tho army at the polls. Iroai.
dent Grant saw and conceded tho civil
and military necessity Of retaining
from the further usO OF arma, and all
prctenCO Of the enforcement OF the
fifteenth amendment Wns abandoned
from that day TO this. Moro than that,
tho mon who called Themselves "stal.
warts"-ustng BlRtne's woodland
abused Hayes for accepting Grants
Initial i've, and following his example
and advice whom they wanted u third
torn for Graut, did not hesitate to ap.
pOal in his behalf to tho south, saying
Ito WIS tho man who shOathod tho
sword and said lot us have
peace" And so no was. Who
now challenges his good faith