Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-03
NEGRO DOMINATION.
How it Strikes the Northern Mind-Its
InitiatOFy Exeesses in VirginiR-TO
What il Ii Driving, ete.

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InitIaIOry Exeesses in virginia-TO
What il Is Driving, ete.
From the Richmond Correspondent of the New
York Worli 4.
With a clear white majority of 1900
votes, the State was so gerrymandered that
the negroes were enabled to elect fifty-six
delegates and the whites only forty-three,
when il should have been the reverse
fifty-six white Conservatives to foTty-three
negro Radicals.
The negroes had been drilled so we'll, and
were in such dread of their mean white
managers, that they voted almost unani-
mously for the nominees of the Radical
party, no matter who were their opponents.
And not only this, but by violence and
threats they prevented the blacks that de-
sired to do so from voting the Conservative
ticket. In Albermarle county, one of the
richest and most populous counties in the
State, Judge Alexander Riyes, who has
been Republican all his life, before, du-
ring and since the war--a man of intelli-
gence, wealth and position in society-did
not receive dozen negro votes but man
named Thompson, from your S,ale who was
publicly denounced as totally unworthy of
a United States officer, and negro named
Taylor were elected almost unanimously
over him. A similar case occurred in Hen
rico, where Mr.. franklin Stearns was the
candidate, nominated by Republicans, whose
Unionism no one doubts, and who was
beaten by man whom no one knew, but
who was the nominee of the negroes, and
whose only claims 10 their suffrage was that
he hid in the swamps during the war, and
because he was a member of the league
and their President In Mecklenburg
county, a negro who cannot read or write,
and who has been convicted FIVE times in
the courts for stealing, was elected over a
respectable Union man. All over the
eastern portion Of the State the same results
have been secured; but the above will give
you sample of how Virginia and Sir-
ginians are to be governed in the future
NEGRO VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
Facts have recently come to light show
ing that the Radical leaders, not satisfied
with having everything their own way at
the polls, have actually gone so far as to
influence if not assist in the formation of
a negro vigilance committee for the pur-
pose of intimidating and threatening white
PNOptNs 11ClC hOtuC vi kilt ldtlS n
respectable, hard working man, named
Monroe, originally from the State of Maine,
had the boldness to denounce Hunnicutt
and his gang, and this is the result: He is
ordered to pack up and leave the city, and,
if he chooses, he may take his family. Mr..
Newdecker, who carries on a large tobacco
mandatory, also received a note from the
vigilance committee, to leave the city be-
cause he had the temerity to discharge
some of his lazy, impudent negroes, who
would not work themselves nor allow others
to do So The following is the order of the
negro vigilance committee sent to several of
our leading citizens:
RICHMOND, VA, Oct. %, 1867.-We,
the colored people of the city of Richmond,
having formed vigilance committee, warn
you to leave the city in forty-eight hours
after receiving this notice. We are aware
OF your hostile feelings towards Mr.. Hunni-
cutt and his political party. If your family
choose TO go with you they can do so, or
they can remain-we will not interfere with
them. If you do not heed this warning
you will have to abide by the consequences.
After you have spoken of Mr. iHunnicutt as
you have, we are fully determined that you
shall leave the city atthe expiration Of the
time given you.
BY order Of the committee,
T. B. G., Secretary"
| DEVELOPED FACTS.
From the New York Herald.
There ia no longer a necessity for theo-
ries in giving an analysis of the political
condition OF the country. The late elec
tion returns, showing the immense negro
| element in mower are as follows