Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-11-28
Shenandoah Herald
WOODSTOCK VA.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1878.
We Can Defeat the Negro
Constitution.

truth. are in the habit of asserting that the
recent election for members of a Conven-
ton in this State shows Radical majority
Of As ,455 votes. Their madness is not
without method; the assertion is made for
an obvious purpose. They are very eager
to impress upon the white people of Virgi-
MIA that the cause of Conservatism is hope
less, and that it is not worth their while to
make any efforts to save the State from
negro rule. We will analyze this As, 455
majority and expose the barefaced menda-
city of which these negrophilists are gull
ty. They themselves are perfectly aware
that, when they assert that Virginia is
Radical by. As, 455 majority; they wilfully
and deliberately falsify the facts. They
dare not tell all to their deluded dupes,
for the result of the recent election for men,
bers of Convention in Virginia demon
strates most conclusively that their party
in the State is miserable black abortion.
We, to ascertain the aohoze truth, will exa-
mine the figures. Figures do not lie. :"
Their honesty and truthfulness cannot be
questioned, IN these days Of progress even
There were 221,754 persons, whites and
negroes, registered in Virginia before the
election for delegates to the Convention
1892 whites and 1O4,772 negroes -
There is therefore of the registered voters,
as the registers stand to-doy, a white ma
jority of 1920 votes. By reference to
the election returns, it will be seen that
IA, 1876 whites and 92,507 negroes voted
for Convention, and 81 ,249 whites and
638 negroes voted against Convention
total voting, whites and negroes, 1859, 229--
being less by So, 525 than the number re-
gistered. Of the 50, 525 registered voters
who did not vote, 40, 1913 were whites and
II ,627 negroes. which shows unpardona-
BILE apathy on the part of those whites ev-
en- who were registered-an apathy which
they are called upon by every considera-
ton of personal interest and social and DO
litieal welfare to shake off. The day for
"a little yet sleep, little slumber, a lit
tie folding of the hands to Sleep" has gone
by. It is criminal to lie supinely on our
backs in this time Of great public peril
We must be astir and on the alert, else we
will be "broken without remedy" But
to return to figures: how many of the
II, 1886 white men who voted for CONVEX
ton belong to the Radical or negro party,
and are in favor of negro suffrage? 1t is
an incontrovertible fact, that in many
counties Of Virginia tie white mans can
didate was voted for at the same time that
the voter cast his ballot for Convention.
In Page county, for instance, Walton and
Rust, Conservatives and white men, receiv-
ed all the white mems votes except 20 i; yet
1876 white men voted for a Convention -
There was no party organization among
the Conservatives, and consequently no
concert of action-evils which will be rem
edied in future. If all the IA 1876 Con-
vention white men were not Radicals
how then are we to arrive at the Radical
white vote of Virginia? There is but one
way, and it is to ascertain the number of
white men who voted for the negro suffrage
candidates. We are satisfied that of these
there will not be 5000, all told-barely
sufficient to cover the political adventu-
rers from the North who infest Virginia
-harpies that have fitted South to suck
the life-blood Of the old Commonwealth.
We are safe then in pronouncing that.
whine the Radicals assert as a naked fact
that the negro party's majority in Virginia
is As ,455, they are guilty of barefaced
falsehood.
We will now proceed to demonstrate,
beyond contradiction or cavil, that the vote
of the white mans party in Virginia,
which can be made available under the
Reconstruction acts, is sufficient to grind
the rotten Radical party into powder We
will begin by examining into the real Ra-
dical strength in the State. What is the
Radical registered vote? Add 5, 900 mean
white men to 104,0 900 negroes-we claim
that 772 negroes are Conservative-and
we have 100000 voters, which, besides
being the registered strength, we will show
to be fully the real strength of the Radical
party; for BY means of perfect system of
organization almost the whole negro popu-
lation entitled to vote under the laws of
Congress has been registered. 1t will be
seen by reference to the census of 1860
that the negro male population of Virginia
over the age Of 20 years was about 1884,
600. Subtract 5000 for West Virginia,
and there are left 1T 900. Again, SUBJ