Year: 1869

The Suffrage Question Again.


Will the Parkersburg Times try to dis
play little common senseH Will it
state when and where and how the
Democratic party has been "asking the


Republican party to enfranchise" the
rebelsi Will it point out the source
whence the Democratic party gets au-
thority to 'give guarantees for the good
faith of that class 7" The Republican
party is considering the question of
rebel enfranchisement solely because it
is compelled to do so. It's failure to act
wisely and promptly will, by the show
ing of its own journals, give this State
to the Democracy. Let it be distinctly
understood, Mr.. Times, that what your
party does will be done exclusively for
its own benefit, not as favor to the
Democrats. AS a matter of partisan
policy, the Democrats are not distressed
because you refuse to do right; your
cIIOIS dIc thSii aNNaHtSfSS' AOu aAO oV
perfect liberty to fly the flag of perpetual
prescription if you choose. ProlOug
your disfranchisement if you so desire.
Say in excuse that the Democrats won't
dance to your piping. Make that plea
in extenuation Of your wrong and see
if you don't receive the proper reward
for your bull-headsd folly. You have
no right to punish the rebels for your
failure to control the Democratic party,
and the people will so decide.


Your persistent assertion that the
Democrats don't "aocept the situation"
is merely "damnable iteration" Let
the Democrats do what they may, you
will adhere to that empty assertion so
long as you thiAk it productive of party
capital. Every specific objection you
raise had daylight let through it by
the REGISTER last Saturday. Possibly
you stick to them, because you have
nothing else to say. Ii so, your parrotry
is pardOnable.


If you want the negroes to vote, or as
you put it "want to see all true loyal
citizens in the enjoyment of their nat
ural and civil rights and political priv
ileges," why don't you give them the
BALLOT Your party is in power, and
last November had a sweeping majority.
If you so desire you have the ability to
oufranchiSe she negro yourselves, pro-
vided you "stand unit" upon the ques-
tion. Until you bring your own party
up to the mark on this negro business
you make yourselves contemplate by
hewliug that The Democrats don't "aC.
cept the situation Accept it your
selves first, and then howl till you split
your throats.


But those resolutions were ignored
resolutions which, according to the
Times, were prepared "by one of the
bravest of the brave among the Confed-
crate soldiers of this State" We never
heard of him or his resolves either ex-
cept through the Times, and think it
very likely that both are tgments of its
prolific imagination. However this
may be, we beg leave to state that those
Confederate soldiers whose cOunsels are
deemed worthy of respect by people gen.
orally, are about the last men to thrust
cut-and.dried platform upon State
Committee and ask that it be made
binding upon the conscience and con-
duct of a party. Let Democratic Con-
vontiOn adopt single resolution from
the pen of a Confederate, and the small
partisanS represented by the Times would
extract sufficient rebellion, treason, Ku
Klux and blood from the fact to furnish
the stock-in-trade of campaign. And
no W. because some mythical representa-
tive Of the 'lost cause" for whose ex-
istence we have only the word of the
tParkersburg Times, didn't get Demo
cratic Committee to resolve itself into
Convention and hand the Democracy
over to Radicalism, the Democrats don't
acquiesce in the results of the war.
The prophet of evil is always unwel-
come, but if Tom HUBBARD's fool-killer
should ever cross the Ohio river, we
greatly fear there will be an editorial
funeral in Parkersburg and one hand
short at the thGnder-pu of the Times.


To conclude: We are ready to make
rebel enfranchisement a ne party ques,
ton, and help elect Legislature on
that single Issue. But if the Republi
cans insist on making party question
oft, they opposing, and the Democrats
favoring enfranchisement, the Issue will
be cheerfully accepted. This We know:
the rebel in West TirgiHiG IS going to be
eatranchised. If the Republican party
insists upon butting its own brains out
hv staDdino nm for the dlsfraQCllSe