Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-11-01
E,.o.to,, in Observation-Disclosures VS.. Blacks.

Election in Virginia-"Ilites VS.. hia0AS'
Sufficient returns have not been received
from Virginia to speak defnitelv-of the re-
snlt. The latest intelligence says that the
Convention is called, and that the RADICALS
have secured a predominance IN that body
This result must have been expected, for
although the whites had a majority of up
wards of thirteen thousand registered votes
in the State, the representative d'sVrlc'S
were so arranged by the military authoH-
Ties that the negroes could send majority
of delegates, and we suppose they have done
SO.
It is impossible, as yet, to analyze this
election in order to reap all the benefit we
ran from the lessons it teaches. There IS
one fact more prominent than all others,
however. and that is the unanlmlty with
which the races have been arrayed against
each other. It is the beginning OF the end
of the contest between the races lnaugura5ed
bvthe characterless adventures and stran-
gers, for the mastery in Virginia. 1t may
be confined to the ballot-box, but 1t may
assume q more terrible form. 1t will go on
nevertheless, until one triumphs, and the
other goes down in defeat. The returns
indicate O. division amounting almost to
nnanimity. few whites here and there,
voting with the blacks, and about an
eoual number of blacks voting with the
whites, aChe2'e they acre not lntamadCte0 6y
threats or cruel uioIence from tier oen
color from doing so.
No person or party, of course, shoulders
the responsibility for this state of things
The fact that the negroes are a1lenated
from their former masters and old TRENDS,
is a mere chance, the feeling against one OF
them exercising the right to act with the
Southern people, amounting to criminal
violence, is the natural consequence OF for
mer condition and present relations. For
do not white men, who superlntended the
welfare of the souls of negroes on Sunday,
and their political well-being through the
other six days and nights Of the week, write
for them, and have adopted in their pa6ht
meetings held in Churches, made sacred by
devoting it one day in seven to God, and the
remainder of the time to Mammon, resolu.
tions disclaiming everything of the kind. Oh
course they do; and how naughty it is, IN q
DISTINGUISHED rebel" to cast reflections
upon such holy and loyal benefactors OF
the colored people. What do results prove
in the face of the assertion of loyal men
that there has been no attempt IN thl'
State or elsewhere in the South, to array
the negroes against the whites Wha
business had General SCHoFIELD separating
their ballots so that rebels could ESTABLISH
their disl0yal statements? What q plous
loyal and republican affair the Radical
would make of their party, if the dirty ant
dishonorable means used to perpetual
their power could be contaminated with ou
further exposure than their delectable OF
gans see fit to make.
Congress intended that the races shoul(
be arrayed against each other as the et1ec
of their legislation, and ready and conYe
nient tools have greedily seized the oppor
tunity to secure such q result. 1t was tn
only hope Of preserving party ascendancy
and for this purpose they have doomed tn
negro to destruction by arraying hi
AGAINST the whites. We had hoped ia
result would have been different; we haV
labored that it should be-our warming an
our advice have alike been unheeded. Ih
alarm has been sounded at the Nortl
Ohio has most solemnly warned again
negro excuses and negro supremacy; bl
the election in Virginia shows that the le
sons of the egil-doers have been too deepl
impressed upon the ignorant understand
ings of the poor negro for them to compr'
bend its meaning. Other States will follo7
now there, then here, until the white State
of the North will be arrayed in solemn PHI
lanx against the negro States of tie Souti
when black Radicalism will make but
feeble resistance to white Conservatism
and the poor victims of personal and par
ambition and cupidity will go down befo
tie storm which false friends have create