West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-01-26
TIE AOfthsyn View OF II.

-" "'' "N''ks Nh NcN " very suggestive
paragr'ph is the following troa the
New York Commercial Advertiser:
! "Een. joe Whccler has come
/ promptly to tn rescue oi Private lind.
say, % the Tenth cavalry. MO IN nm
der coOrtm1rtial son nteuce OF death for
4 hsRlng q frllcNN CrAoper. Linasnv a
negro, foOghN Nilh hsroism before
Santiago under his present advocate.
amt, although the crime of murder is
never l" b. rNlliSted this casa ani,ears
to present eNtcnNutinG circumStAnce$
| WarrSnting Executive ciemency anu
| toS cpnANtation OF his sentence Th,
prejudice et Sactiona,ism ia truly Virel
d away when nm cN-Con ~ icra,c Briga-
dior plcNds for thc lifs OF colored sol.
dior
| Washington Post Of Dec. II,h saws:
IL our SSt6emed New York contem.
! porary only knew IL ur SoNtd loo made
TO understand it, Gsn, Whvcler has
done tes most natural thing inagln.
pble. lie has done exactly What any
other Southern gentleman. OF the old
slave.holding class woald have done Ia
similar circumstances. 1; seems inpos.
] sibla, however 60 eradicate from the
average Northern minl tho stupid aud
prepostvrous idea that the southern
aristOerat entcrtains personal hatred
\ Of the negro. Northern editors aud
speakers and writers 50 on. year after
year, building uPon this false foundu.
tisu the structure OF their absurd thee.
ries and childish donuncia tions. Thoy
do not understand the Southern white
any moro than they do the negro
They persistontly igeoie the fact that
the SOutherner has boen in close con
tact with the negro all his lifeI that In
his helpless nfancv u black "namnV"
nursed and tended him; that in his
childhood the black boys ON the place
wero his daily playmates; that, during
the period of the civil war his foemer
slaves displayed an affectlonate devo-
tion and fidelity which he can never
forget, in this world or the noxt, that
the love and sympathy which existed
between him and his black friends
would never, to this day, have been
impaired but for the wickedness Of
SELF seeking demaRogues and the
pathetic credulity OF their colored
dupes.
|
hate the negro. He docs not shrink
from personal contact with him. lie
never hesitates TO succor and be-friend
hiu in his hour of nsed. Go whore You
will throughout the South, and You
w'll find that every where the negro
makes tho old Slaye-holder his model
and his refuge. IL nc bo IA distress,
4 prNnflpse uuI ,NifhA,t h,.,,,
goes TO the high.cluss Scutherh whits--
meyer To the beneficiary of his vote
Deep down IN his. heart he scorns the
adventurers and vagrants who claim
his suffrages. and reward him with u
familiarity which he intuitiyely rec.
ognizes as disereditaele. He votes with
the carpet-bagger aud the nercenary
through childlike yeneratipn fot the
party which he thinks Sot him free.
But ia trouble or distress. in search Of
sympathy and friendship, he goes
straight, and always, 10 his former
ownor or TO representatives OF thst
class, and he never for IA moment
doubts the welcome or tho kindness of
which he is ia neod.
| vi COURSE bch NheeIcT mas Oeiriend-
ed Private Lindsay in ms dire nredica-
ment. Gen. Wheeler is Southern
gentleman and he does not forget the
ties Of affection that bind him To the
negro. Gen. Lougstrcet, Gen. NJ G.
Butler, Gen. fttzhugh Lee--any one OF
u hundred survivors OF the Southern
slave-holding aristocracy we might
name would have done tho same He
would have done II as instinctively, as
utterly without Calculation, as
tbreughly as "a matter OF course. rs out
side Of party politics, any Southern
] negro would anque5tion give To-
him his loyal service and devotion.
/ Would that Northern men OF the better
class could understand these things
How infinitely better for the whites.
the biacss, tic coustry generally H.
they could.