The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-07-12
The Puture---Forearmed, Fore
- warned.
rFrom the Cincinnati Enouirer.l ~

ToduOlo VI IuC huqu1ACl, Ohoo We
published some time ago a state
ment from Southern sources, that
there were secret organizations be,
ing gotten up am ong the blacks Of
the South, under the promptings
of Northern Radicals and that the
purposes of these organizations
were to secure civil and political
rights to the blacks, as also divis'
ion of the cultivated lands of the
South among that class. The Rad
ical presses made light ofthe state,
ment, without, however, denying
its truth. gom aj,iW Ygeii9l aH
Byireference to one aofthe spe-
cial Washington dispatches, it. will
be seen that a display was made.
on the Fourth, at Richmond, Va,
by some Of these organizations,
much to the surprise of most of the
whites, who did not believe any
such organizations existed L3lgi
The existence Of these organiza-
itions was known to few, who
were not, however, the less sur
priSed at this open demonstrations
of their existence and power. sol.,t
The Richmond Times was of
those that had some knowledge of
these negro organizations. In its
issue of the I'd instant, it called at.
tentlon to the fact that "several
hundred young negro men meet
every night in that quarter of the
city known as Navy Hill, for the
purpose Of drilling" and adds: iaa
'Though the exercises which are,
in many instances, especially on
Saturday nights, prolonged
throughout the night, are conduct
ed on foot, the officers, are, in all
cases, armed with cavalry swords.
Their eyolutions and exercises are
so accompanied by yellS, shouting
and profane and obscene language
as to make the neighborhood OF
their musters almost uninhabitable
to respectable people. We are in
formed that quite an equal number
ofnegroes assemble for the same
purpose nightly somewhere in the
vicinity of the Chimborazo Hospit-
al grounds. There have been no
complaints of the disturbance ere.
ated by these negroes, for thereis
among our people a feeling that
the proceedings !" have g. the
sanction of the United States mill
tarv authorities" ol "MG2 1907 ,J
What does all that mean . To
US, who have been watching the
utterances of the pulpit and OF an.
niverSary negro celebrations, the
answer is easy. Another civil war
is the meaning, and which! civil
war will spring from war ofraces.
Our readers will call to mind the
extracts we have published from
sermons delivered, here and there
over the North, and resolutions
adopted by religiousLso.called4A
and anti-slavery bodies, to the ef-
feet that unless civil and politieal
rights were award to the freedmen,
theyAthe freedmen should assert
the right by force.d i.W io1 5n.
Any body of the least reflection
knows that these secret military
organizations of the blacks of the
South cannot exist withoutproduc-
ing bloodshed. The whites cannot
allow them to exist. Their own
safety demands that such. organi-
zationsbe suppressed. The whites,
in self-defense, will be compelled
to arm and drill; and nobody can
doubt that the result willGbe arm
ed collision. That is what the
Radicals of the North want And
to bring that about is their great
strategic point. 'aT ,IJ Bat ~.
| q Forewarnsd is forearmed. 1.-THE
Radicals can overpower the Presi.
dent, and carry the elections this
fall, civil war will follow just 50
sure as the sun rises in the morn.
ing and sets in the evening. And
civil war will be brought about by
these military organizations of the
blacks, organized and inspirited by
Thad. Stevens, Sumner, Wade & 90,
In view of this state of affairs, we
advise the people of the South to
prepare for the contingency Their
lives and their property. are al
stakey Both will be sacrificed i
the Radicals are successful ca
n4And,G ITO the peoplesof the North
welwill say, peace at homo requires
that the Radicals dBe lputIdown
Civil war at the Northis not more
sure than is a war of races at the
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