Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-10-24
SITUATION OF AFFAIRS.

A
Richmond Dispatch says:
The blacks are bound together by secret
i,synes. and it is more than those who have
taken the obligations imposed dare TO do to
Ai,obey them SO far as to vote any other than
,he Radical ticket. Several cases have
occurred going to establish the vlndictiveness
with which every man OF this color is pursued
who does.not blinaly work in the traces. Some
tune ago a co!ored man reported to the Mayor
. violation OF the Sunday law ia relation to
drinking houses, the offender being popular
restaurant keeper of the party. The personal
ssfty of the nformer was SO violently threaten
Il that be was not only afraid to make his ap-
pearance as witness, but was Obliged to nee
ne city and at the public smeeGingsot the Con
seryatives few nights ago7nota a single colored
man in all that assembl blage could be induced to
accept a place on the committee appointed to
submit nominations. One Of them did, indeed
object was fully explained to him, he said it
was more than his lie was worth. to lend his
,nAuence thus publicly to the support Of "a
Conservative ticket.
In The face Of such extreme party tyranny,
ghat resource remains to the whites hut a
,ystem OF counteraction? They have tried con-
ClliltlUQ, ttity nave LilSu SfClJ way
but it has fallen like water on a duck 5 back.
If The blacks are determined to ignore them,
they can do nothing but ignore the blacks.
This may precipitate collision OF races, but
if 1t is to come.zthe sooner the better. After
the language of the northern elections, it is I'M
possible to come to the conclusion that the peo-
pie of that section will consent to the establish
ment of negro supremacy Overcome third of the
States of the Uuion-and that particular sec
ton, too, which has contributed more .han any
other to the national prosperity lag-e
From an address to the colored people IN
Richmond, a few days before the recent cleo
ton by Solon johnson, a respectable colored
uan, we extract the following.
II am not to be driyen enlightened from the
right course; and hope and believe there are
hundreds in the State who think with me, and
Who do not mean to be driven into voting for
the Radical ticket. Do you not know that the
best way for our race to, gain a respectable
stand hereafter is to keep with respectable
people; and although you are told to laugh at
lespectabiity, your own common sense will tel
you if you will think, that no party can thrive,
as no man can thrive without it, and you ought
10 be on your guard against men who are not
respectable, and who object to respectable
people, Another thing want to say is, that
the bread you eat and the homesof yourselves
- aud families are provided by the white people
" hom your candidates denounce, and whose.
property they saythey will confscate, and who
they say thew will not allow to vote. 55a.s
Now, suppose you had man ia your en-
poyment who told you to your face that he
Intended to take your property; away from you,
turn YOU out of doors, not let you vote or hold
office, how long would you keep him in your
employment? / think you would say not one
minute; and yet. if you will think minute,
you will see that most of you are saying exactly;
that thing to those who employ you. Now,
their human nature is just like yours, and they
will not keepayou "a minute longer than you
would keep pthem They wilt get other people
10 work for them, and you will have to go by
the board and the old kindly feelings between
gOu will never come again, and you will regret
10 the last day of your lie what you are doing
now; but it will be too late. .Ia,Ets.3s& z.l<5
Some of you seem to think nowthat this
Government was made for the coored people
Vi the South. [ think it was made for the
cannon good of all; and the people Of the
North, those who call themselves your friends,
He beginning to show you that you are going
TOO far, for they say you shall not vote among
them and if you show, by voting for such
men as those youhave nominated in the South,
that you are not qualified to Judge, they will
exclude you in the South too hereafter q
.SoLoN JOHNSON. i
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