The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-29
THE UHRECOHSrRUCTED STATES.
PROGRESS Of THE BLACK REBELLION.
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Negro Supremacy in Virginia, Ala
bama and Louisiana.
ELECTIONS YET TO COME OFF.
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The War Of Races Begun in
Virginia.
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ELECTIONS YET TO COME OFF.
Temper Of the Virginia and
Other Southern Journals,


Virginia..
From the Richmond Whg Conservative Oct 261
The spirit OF the lste election in this State Will be
very incorrectly understood In the North If it ancied
tnere mat one OF The parties actuated by desire
promote reconstruction and the other by the disposition
oostruct IT. or thai one party represented republican
10 she North, while The sood in partzan
Ism to 1t Thess were not the issues in the
The prime and principal thing against which
the conservatives struggled the supremacy Of
The second one. which Incidental TO the first
was the triumph or an ignorant, vindicve and
law and the institutions OF government into chaotic dis-
order and TO suovert the very foundations OF society
Against these things We made what resistance could
aud made IN the spirit OF who contendiug for
Me, Tor liberty, for properly ami whatever else Is
valuable
As to the other side It may be said without the least
exaggeration or coorng that the idea Of promoting
construction, or OF sustaining the republican party
the advocate exponent OF any principle or purpose
that any decent member that party would be willing
20 avow, never cred the heads of the negroes
In Its stead was only some vague blu, intense belief
some awless and unnatural expectation that by support
ing the RADICAL candidates they tine negroes) would in
some way Come into possession Of the property
social superiority belonging TO the whies An upurn.
ing and overturnng OF the state OF things what they
we're olindly aiming at The handful OF white radicals
Of COURSE did not share these ideas They their
advantage 10 other ways they very careful not
70 discourage the common negro insanity. We ask
Northern men to consider calmly what is to be the
result in Virginia and the other Southern States of the
political ascendancy OF the negro race.
Hunn'cufs success .oiH make him an dspfrdnt to the
Presidency With the negro States to count upon as
unit, he Will be formidable riva any aspraui, how.
ever graf and Influential 1t may come TO this yet.
II he takes it into his head to run, he won't be ruled
out by any management He has shown that be has
will Of his own and, II the negroes back him up, he
may give his radical friends at the North world Of
trouble
DO the Northern whites negro Congressman, II
20 they will probably be gratihed The likelihood
that under the present plan Of RECONSTRUCTION they
VII have negro Senators and Representatives from every
60utntrn Stale.
from thu same1
The returns show with painful dstinctness that the
negroes have drawn deep red blood hne between them
selves and the whites and that with them principles
nothing color everything. Under the leadership Of
few pesent and Infamous whites, who wiil no doubt,
due TO their crimes, tho negroes with few, very
sscsptionsl bsvs arayed themselves in hostility
regard them henceiorward a. enemies.
From the Richmon Wing, Oct 1871
We loox forward 70 the approaching Convention In
e.. state with no pleasure y win not be Virgins.
Hunncut beasnsss and incendiarism. There will be
few good men In it. with all the best attributes that
Desong 70 Virginan character, but they will have
play for their talents and their virtues The sense Of
mutlity Will b constantly present with them, and
ably hithy body will render them uncomfortable from
ths time they enter until they leave the building The
ssqusred every day prevent MODS and n ne .a e
- We should welcome with outstretched arms
every white man who comes amongst u.s. and treat him
between tho Northerners and Southcrners must be
buried, ana when the former reside
us No must deal With them as II they our own
people Tho negroes have chosen to draw tue line
between the two races and We must hal every white
MAN mot Of the Hunnicatt stamp a. . friend and
brother
trom the Richmond Enquirer and Examiner Oct 26.I
None but the most depraved would urge measure OF
hand. none but the most cowsrdy would nesis to use
the power OF his arm for the protection Of his person.
And 30 10 when such occasions arise mankind
PEELED to obey the impulses OF and employ
the means which they suggest IS mere measures Of
safety The course OF the In this State In the ae
elecion-arraysd AZ they were in solid phaianx against
tho interests the property, and the lives
white peopspresents the most irsiragabs proof that
their hostility TO Is instructive and neradicabie
Nothing therefore. remains for out 10 meet the
issue they have thus thrust upon US and defend
fortunately the means Of our defence are not those OF
violence and boocshcd but the mere regulation Of
domestic arrangements history presents parallel
e the black ngraude which has characterized do
mestcs and employees in turning upon and falling into
the train Of wretchss who unprinciped apostate
own In Others whose appeals based alone upon
mpiacable hostility 70 the whites 90 should present
ths only instance Of people submitting 70 death and
NIT patience 20 await our impending EXECUTION. The
negroes have shown that blood 10 thicker than
with them and Ne can only accept the issue and
treat them with Offensive severity, differing net indeed
from the spirit but in the measure from the ,rgS
which our English friends used towards Sepoys
OF India when white safety demanded British severity
A have said wo need not the OF violence
and boodshed As our defence but only the simple remedy
Of cob6nng our selections Of domesics TO only
who are friendly disposed towards whether black
white.
We ask Mr. Greeley, In justice TO the whites repro
duce the following paragraph, which app AIRED during
city, edited BY the leading radical in Virginia who il
also member elect Of the convention. Here 10 tho
'.Notaern men, wu rant 20 Be his,ed al ersy corner
euery street. prescribed business and finally forced 10
leave the CITY and the Sat- voe the uaius rebi
hckf.n
We ask the Northern democrats-the white men or
New York-those VINO belong to our own race. what
they call themselves as partsans--to remember
that majority Of four hundred negroes elected i've
delegates 70 the convention from this CITY, of whom
two are negroes while majority Of thousand whites
IN Augusta could elect only three delegates. And We
ask them to remember at their polls that the polls
closed at the end Of the fret day cosntes the
and kept open three days In Richmond TO enable the
negroes 70 cast their votes No other pretext Ia
from the Lynchburs virsiniau.l
only remains for the white people Of Virginia 10
should concert measures without delay to ali the STATE
with white aborers from the North aud from Europe
81 an so%.n, ~ H.. s hinder hs mos rid tho
element that under the influence Of base white dema-
sogues-themseives without propsrsy-would tar tho
70 educate their children and for their paupera
There Is no other alternative efs us, and wish to
n bestir ourselves mako Virginia what il ought to be-
and would be with white labor. Let us have . white
Tor . hte man 10 i've IN We can do il ana should do
IL and then the irrspressibe conflict VIII ceass
fFrom the Charlottesville Chronicls1
BY Tuesdays work the negroes have seal 10
Mcir doom. There Is any peace The question
Is who shall occupy and rule the terrlory be-
tween ory aud tnirty-two degrees north latitudeths
blacks the whites Every conceivable effort has bssa
made here harmonic the two races Every form Of
overture has been made 10 the blacks BY the whitca
Every app ance was resortsd TO carry the election
All has been vain Drilled like army, mapuuvrsd
hks body OF disciplined troops obeying an order from
the central league Ike sign from baton, the
negroes have delivered their vote like concentrated
broadside Perhaps II Ia best TO bring matters 70 crisis
q once Let u be developed at once what negro suf
sagc means The further the revolution goes tho more
violent VIII be the recoiL The North viii not believe
elections are finished.
From the Lynchburg News
We are gratiaed 70 learn that one hundred and nty
ami fo al NJ he