Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-11-12
The Northern Elections.


The rout of the Radicals was so overvbeL.
ming on Tuesday that their very Citadel Was
carried by assault Democratic banners SIav
are waving over Boston, and in blood stained
Kansas the men who sharpened John Browns
lnsurTectiOnary pixies have pronounced against
the Authorization of this continent through
the fundamentally Of negro suffrage. Since
the wrath of angry divinity fell upon the
AssyHans, and the rising sun looked down
upon mighty host which persisted In a night.
there has been no parallel to the terrible vet
righteous ehastisement which has At last been
VISITED upon the most wicked and merciless
OF modern parties.
On the distant shores Of California. on the
great lakes, amid the bOundless prairies of the
Nest, IN the very heart of the ,eky moun>
I4ins' amid the hOaTy forests Of ice-bound
Maine, Tor nearly thousand miles along the
coast OF the Atlantic, in three States each of
them an empire In power and wealth, and in
infant Territories where the Indians ana
buffalo have not yet retreated before the ad-
vance of civilization, the white man has ans.
en- IN his strength aud declared that the negro
shall rule not an inch of this great country.
That great crime of Radicalism, that black
objectionable sin of designing TO erect a
Kingdom OF DahOmey in ten American States.
has obliterated the passions and preiudieesof
New England even, hide bound in her
stubborn fanaticism, merciless towards the
South rs she was to Quaker and Baptist, finds
that the very men who applaud Phillips aud
Patronlze larceny in the person Of Butler.
will not permit the white race to be ruled bv
those unintellectual animals whom God has
Plantedat halfway house between the gorilla
aud the white man. When asked to sanction
the suicide of the nation for the elevation of
the negro, Puritanical Boston has startled
ChrlstendOm by hurting down and breaking
to pieces the brazen idols which he's peopie
have WorshIpped for quarter of a century.
me wonderful tornado which has just over
whelmed the Radical party removes all shadow
OF doubt as to the policy which the Southern
people shsuld pursue. Northern sentiment
tGW sustain ~s u, resisting to the last ertre1nitv
that r'te scheme IF Congressional Reconsfrrc-
s.C" 'eH'ch AIMS ut the SWpTenqUCy of the Re0rO
hat most infamous conspiracy to degrade
and dlShonor the white Tace. we must novr
resist to the last gasp utterly regardless of
the malignant efforts of moribupd eFFeto
Congress to Precipitate the debasement and
ruin OF the white race; provided We keen
before the Northern people the tact that Wo
are willing to return to the Union upon any
conditions which do not require the African
izatiOn Of the South
VIC nave u chartGr IN the result of the re-
cent elections at the North, rs '.illimitabIe rs
inc WIND, to oppose negro domination to
the last gasp. And with the helm of God
aud of the thousands of brave Southern
hearts that never yet quaied in the presence
OF fearful odds. We mean to avert So horrid
late from biIghting this old State. With the
Northern masses recognizing the fact that
blood Is thicker than water" there Is no
power IN the bayonet, in Congress, in Radical.
ism, or in the devil, to make us bow down IN
negro rulers, and submit to be despoiled by
negro tax gathersi Never, never. shalitbcse
contemplated Outrages be consumn,ated AZ
Will go aud lurce the German Diet" said the
sturdy Luther, although there were ss many
devils in the city Of Worms US there are tiles
upon the roofs OF the house" To that un.
clean gang Of human Teptilcs-to the mongrel
reneSades, the Iruculcnt black bruics. and
outlawed white reProbates foul Frank
ensteins OF the secret negro leagues. who are
TO defIc the capitol OF the State ON the IA
OF ce"ber.we bid like open and contempt-
uous defiance. In the name of VIRGINIA
ana OF the Northern masses who lave thuu-
dercd their verdict against them, we tell these
wTeichcs that no letters which they can forge
shall ever bind the white men of Virginia :
1t is not written in the book Of fate that
the people Of Virginia shall ever 'reuder
tribute TO negro Caesar. They cannot
frame an organic law which we will hermit to
dlsiranchIse our people or cOnfscate our
property by taxation. There shall be no negro
governors, judges, magistrates, sheriffs or
mayors iu Virginia. There shall be no foul.
brutal, Insolent African despotism reared upon
the ruins of that splendid civilization which
placed Virginia for three quarters Of a century
in the front rank Of American States. The
descendants Of host Of great warriors jurists
and statesmen shall never obey negro rulers.
No such fate is reserved for our people while
the men who held the most powerful armies
OF modern times at bay for four years have
their wives, their children, their firesides. and
the supremacy Of their race to defend.
The swiDish delegates" who have been
sent up by eight hundred negro leagues to
disiranchise, tax aud confscate the while men
OF Virginia will, By attempting in the face of
the recent elections to commit these crimes.
render their access to the PeDiientisry more
easy than to the places of power in this old
CommOnwealth.-Rieh. Eng.