Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1867-11-07
Resistanoe to Negro DominatiOn.

1
Like some rich and noble treasure ship, says
the Richmond Enquirer, freighted with the re-
pown Of centuries of Caucasion domination, the
merited wealth of historic glory and countless
ingots of proud traditions, Virginia has been
captured by black and mongrel buccaneers as
desperate as ever cruised beneath the red flag
upop the Spanish Main While the pirates
are gloatiug over the prize which they have
won bv fraud and the disfranchisement of our
ablest men, zee tel them az tie name Of the
,riite men, not only Of Virginia, but Of the
North, that the negro shall not rule in this far
STATE designed jy God 10 be tie dominion Of
tie highest tpe Of DE 'clite race.
We unfurl the standard Of resistance to the
wret,bed creatures who are soon to meet to
complete thework Of Africanizing Virginia, and
tell them that there are no chains which they
can forge in the shape Of mongrel organic
| law which can bind the giant limbs Of the Old
Dominion.
Firm in the conviction that God viii prosect
the right we now take the issue before the a.
reused and indignant North, and ask the tri-
umphant Conservative masses, Shall the land
Of Washington. jefferson, Henry, Madison,
Marshall, Monroe, be made a negro Inferno,
more horrible than that visited by Dante and
Virgil? Shall a negro dispense the mockery
Of Justice where Marshall illumined the name
Of American jurisprudence? Shall some bru-
tai black occupy the gubornatorial chair once
adorned by Henry and jefferson? and shall
the blacks Ike the frogs of Egypt, swarm in
the most sacred places of the mother Of States
and Of statesmen :'
We call upon the people Of this much ira
duced Commonwealth, by conventions, primary
meetings, resolutions, thorough organization,
speeches and public addresses, to prepare to
treat the work of the proposed Convention as
uu.Gty and a mockery Death is preferable
/ to negro supremacy, and revolution VIII be the
inevitable result of an attempt upon the part
of a Mongrel Convention to make a Hayti of
Virginia. We desire the people Of this State
to treat the proposed Convention from the very
outset as a monstrous and wicked farce. We
desire them toceaselessly proclaim to the North
their LOYALTY to the laws and Constellation Of the
Union, but their determination to oppose to
the death the elevation of the negro over the
white man. Let this issue be speedily and
moStdistiuctly made. Unless the ancient spirit
/ of the men. whose ancestors have ruled Virgin
| in for more than two centuries, is dead-unless
the splendid valor which famed forth in the
van of battle from Boston to Yorktown during
the Revolution Of 1916, has become a mere
phospborescent light emitted by the bones of a
declying ancestry all those heroes who
made the name Of Virginia the admiration Of
/ Chrs,sndon during the late civil war, have
| turned 60 dust. and our very women have lost
their noble enthusiasm,-this outrage shall not
and cannot be perpetrated. The negroand his
wrctched parasites shall not rule this State.
The race which has made it famous and re-
nowned. and which has filed the Senate and
the army with great statesmen and warriors,
shall not creep through life the helots Of their
| late slaves, and hide their sorrows in dishonor
in the grave No Convention can be permitted
thus to violate the relation Of the two races in
| Virginia, and no organic law, framed by mon
grel minority, can impose the CALLING yoke Of
negro supremacy upon the white race of this
/ State
In the spirit of these declarations, the coun-
try vii, recognize the public sentiment in Vir-
giuia, and the North will sustain us in the
sharp. well defined issue of " Tlginia must be
rl1s3 5y lcIiie men" &" IL hoe siguo riRc,s.