South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1867-12-06
We insist upon il. that orr Federal Govern.

We insist upon it, that our Federal Govern
,nent and our State Governments arc, as
they ought tc be, republican in form, and
that the military authorities ought, at all
times, except only in cases Of actual war,
IN the future as in the past, to be held sub
ordinate to the civil authorities. We fur
Iher insist upon it, that the whole drift of
Radical legislation, for the last eighteen
months and more, has been and still is I'M
s'atesmanlike, anrepubiican, viudctive and
despotic-perilous to all The principles Of
enlightened self-government, and alarming
ly degrading and inilnical to the white civ
ilizstion aud progress of the entire New
Werli
Further, aud finally, we insist upon it,
that the good results which the loyal and
intelligent masses Of the country had right
to expect would soon follow the abolition
o. slavery and the suppression of the re-
bcllioD, shall neither be defeated nor in
definitely delayed; and protest that the dis
righteousness and treachery of the Radi-
Gals, since the war, seriously threaten to
neutralize oil the wise and patriotic labors
which the Republicans SO heroically and SO
rioriously performed, both before aud du-
ring the war We ask for the Immediate
repeal of all military laws which arc antag-
onistic to the spirit and form Of republican
government, and especially, for The speedy
repeal of all such political and mercenary
monstrosities as the negro bureau bill. We
also ask that the expenses of the army and
navy may be reduced at least one-balf, and
hat ha k,,r Sc NH
weigh so heavily upon white people, may at
once be lightcncd.
"With an eye and n purpose TO these
ends, we ask that every Radical Senator
and Representative in Congress, aud every
other Radical officer in the land, whether
national, State, county, or municipal, who
rs, or has been, an alder and abettcr of that
usurpatory and tyrannical oligarchy, Gu
phemized as the American Congress, shall,
one and all, at the very next elections in
which their names may be brought before
the people, be wholly and summarily with
drawn from official life, aud that new and
better men-men possessed Of good com
mon sense, men controlled by senti-
ments of justice for white people, no less
than by sentiments of justice for black pee
pic sufficiently free from sectional BIZ
as--men ofenlarged and statesmanlikc views
shall be elected in their stead. Let this
be done, and let it be proclaimed abroad,
throughout the entire length and breadth of
the land, that what the short-sighted and
fanatical Radicals are aiming at as 4 mere
possible good to four millions of blacks, is
u positive disservicc and evil to eight mil
lions Of whites. We want, and we will
have, no establishment of slavery. 1t is
safe to say that there are not to-day, in the
whole State of North Carolina, two hun
dred men of good standing or influence, who
would, if they could, have slavery rc-cstab-
ished. Indeed, | doubt whether there are
FIVE thousand white men in all the South
who would now or at any future time be so
unwise, so rash and so reckless, as to undo
the acts of emancipation, even if they had
the power. The only persons here who, in
any considerable number, would be willing
to incur the odium aud infamy of voting
for return to the system Of slavery are ne
groes themselves, whose instincts tell them
hat if really put upon their own resources
IN communities of white men, and in no
manner propped up or sustained at the ex-
pense and degradation Of greater or less
number of whites, whether 10y servitudc,
under an oligarchy Of shareholders, on one
hand, or by negro bureaus, under an oil
garchy of Radicals, on the other, they will
gradually fall behind in the career Of life,
fail to multiply, the inferior race, to which
they belong, die'out and become fossilized
While, therefore, we are firm in the wish
and purpose not TO have any more slavery
in the South, we are equally firm in the de-
sire and determination to get rid Of the ne
groes if we can-not by hurting a single
fibre Of hair Cor wool upon their heads,
but By colonization, in or ont Of Mexico !;
and in this effort, which will be in perfect
harmony with that wisdom and patriotism
which, through the mighty energies and en-
1erpriscs Of white men, have brought i'm
perishablc greatness and glory to the North
we most earnestly and tTustingly solicit your
ffaternal cooperation.
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