The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-07
from the Washington Chronicle.l
1nop the Negroes nm Virgini

from the Washington Chronicle.l
War Upon the Negroes IN Virginia.
In the letter of OCCASIONAL" published
-os,erflay were a number of extracts from
VIRGINIA papers declaring a bitter aAtagon-
lam to the culored people, because they re-
f,srd TO vote on the side of those who for
,ncrly bought and sold and scourged them,
and insisted upon voting with the friends
Who delivered them from bondage and first
treated them as MEN and as having rights
which white men are bound to respect One
of these extracts was from the Petersburg
index. and urged employees to refuse en-
noyment to every negro who voted the Rad
icai ticket, and starve them into political
utilization with their old oppressors. a
private letter informs us that the suggestions
of this article were promptly adopted, and
that On the very day of its publication the
tobacco factories of Petersburg made gen
eral discharge of their colorcd hands, bid
ding them 60 and " work tor those they vo-
ted for The Southern Opinion, published
m Richmond. has an article if possible more
bitter than that of the Inder. The follow
ing extract from il will serve to show the
spirit of the men to whose tender mercies
Andrew johnson, who once volunteered to
he the Moses of the colorcd race, now asks
the country to turn them over:
Iden OF IllCilHOnu turn OH every negro
who voted the Radical ticket Give EN-
plovment and support no longer to those
who banded and voted with Hunnicutt and
his party to degrade and destroy you; who
have shouted insult and defiance in your
very face who have condemned and taunt-
ed your policy; who have left their work to
keep up in your midst saturnalia for three
DAYS: who have even mobbed men of their
own color who dared to vote the Conserva-
tive ticket; who would to-day cut your
throats if they could. Will you commit the
suicidal folly of employing longer these enc
mics of our peace and home! We ask the
proprietors of our toundries and workshops,
of our factories and stores. if it is possible,
after what we have seen in Richmond for
the last three days. that they are going to
receics back into their employment these ne
grocs who have affiliated with Hunnicutt and
his party for the destruction and extermina-
ton of the white people of Richmonde Our
eyes are upon them.
We call upon every man to think serious
" of the matter. Now is the time to
act. Let every negro who voted the Radl
cal ticket be turned off, and his place be
supplied by those few brave and deserving
coiored men who voted the Conservative
ticket; or, what is still better. let their pla-
ces be given to achite men. There are plenty
of seliite men in Richmond who can supply
their places, and who would be glad and
grateful to get some of the work that Js now
done by the blacks"
The same war will be begun in North
Carolina on the colored people, as soon as
the election is over There are some OF the
opponents of reconstruction who are gentle
men, and who VIII be above such conduct,
but many of the meaner class of Rebels will
vent their malice on the colored people by
discharging them from employment ard
prosecuting them, because of their honest
and fearless exercise of the right of suffrage.
White men will be treated in the same way.
They will be turned off from employment,
pressed for their debts, and prescribed in
business for voting for the Union. The same
Rebels prescribed and prosecuted white I'm
ionists during the rebellion on account of
their opinions. These vicious Rebels cannot
bear any man who has the independence to
think and act for himself. They are the mean
est tyrants on small scale that ever infested
any country. But, notwithstanding all this,
our people Will nobly do their duty. They
feel that it is better to suffer a little Low
than to have to endure hereafter the slavery
of secession rule.