Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-11-01

have addressed a letter to General CANDY
asking for instructions, which we hope will
be received in q few days and thus place
the m after at rest Being SATISFIED that 1t
will be easier for the Conservatives of the
State to get control of the Convention
than to defeat its action, we are unwilling
to advise any course which may tend to
ieopardize the success of Conservative can
didates, and if we become convinced that
vote for delegates will not be received I'M
less the question of Convention is also in
cluded upon the ballot, or even if there
should be any doubt IL regard to 1t, we Will
most cheerfully surrender our OWE position
and advise our people to vote directly
against Convention. In few days we hope
to place this matter beyond doubt. Until
then we shall keep our readers advised of
any information which may change our
[ opinion and control our action.
! Conflict OF Races
It is with no pleasure that we publish
extracts from the leading papers of Virginia,
showing the extreme lengths to which the
negroes of that State we're carried in their
hostility to the whites, by the teachings Of
unprincipled men, and by the oaths and
terrors of secret political leagues. The
spirit and result of the contest in Virginia
have demonstrated that the worst fears OF
the whites were well-founded. A party
based upon color has been established,
and the negro, with the aid of the Com
handing General, by frauds in registra-
ton and in voting, has secured the victory.
With white majority of nearly fourteen
thousand, after all the acknowledgements
Of the whites and the false registration Of
blacks possible, General SCHoTIELD gave
the negroes the ascendancy, by making
white mans vote 46 per cent. less valuable
than a black mans, and the negroes avalled
themselves of it by electing, in every III
stance, the most ignorant and Objectionable
candidates, showing by their very selec-
tons, by their lawless conduct IN many
places, and by their violence to such Of
their own race who had the courage to vote
; with the whites, the most bitter hostility
; to the old citizens of the State, and Il deter
mination to oppose every interest which
: they desired to foster and outrage every
feeling which they held dear.
5 Strangers in our midst, who come not to
, help build up the country, but TO reap the
l advantages which the chaotic condition OF
society and government presents, may de-
nounce the high toned and honorable peo-
2 pie of these States as Obstructionists and
, Traitors-men without established charac-
. tiers themselves, without local attachments,
, without even the interest which property
f or established business would give, may
t riot in the doubtful importance and repu
G tation which negro support will furnish
), these, all these are the legitimate fruit Of
: the republicanizing and africanizing pro
y cess to which Congress has subjected the
, States of the South That one party IL
y this election embraces all the loyalty ano
g virtue of the South, and the other repre-
S sents disloyalty and treason that the ne
groes and their teachers are the promoter
of reconstruction, and the whites actuatet
only by disposition to Obstruct 1t, the
people of the North do not believe, anc
+ have proclaimed their disbelief III the mos
r decisive and emphatic manner. The grea
g issue of reconstruction has not entered the
j. contest. The supremacy of the negro race
# and the subordination OF the white race
e was the inspiring motive of the success
a full party.
l. How long is this to last To what ex
e tremes is it to go? Are the laws of nature
J. and natures God to be reversed Is thi
@ great Government to be converted from It
q legitimate purpose. and made the ely5lun
is of negroes? Is American politics t. con
e tinue for another half century to be con
J. trolled for the benefit of the black man
# A devastating war; resulting in the freedom
IS of the negro, from the material effects 0
o which years must elapse before the countT,
y recovers the metaphysical effects will new
: err be entirely obliterated, seems not to sati
Y ate the fanatical love which the descen
IS dants of those men whose avarice establish
J. ed slavery in the United States have TO
b. the negro; nor is the sacrifice of men, ant
e treasure, and property, which has beer
g made, sufficient ibation to satisfy thu
l. offering they desire to make to this race.
IS Eight, probably ten, States are givel
n over to the negroes, and the whites mus
e obey the laws which blacks dictate t.
/, them-the employer will meet the ta7
o levied by the employe-property will bt
j.; controlled by the penniless, and the
: Government will be under the direction O.
e those least interested in, and least capable
b of, its wise administration. For what
# To reconstruct the Union ? White mel
l. established it, and in three wars have pro
e tected it, and are yet quite able to taxi
charge of it. To benefit the blacks Gen
S HOWARD, the peculiar guardian of thu
l. "nations wards" says that the negro pop
If ulation has decreased more than a million
o and a quarter, under the present treatment
$ since the war. For party purposes Say
y the Tribune the great organ of the Radi
; calls, "For the Republicans are bound tx
: go under if they don't enfranchise thu
a 1,1o1-o NToDbood cuAroro &c NO Gc;1,