Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-11-05
DETERMINED TO RESIST.


defantly sounds the slogan of resistance, which
will find hearty response in the hearts Of the
conservatives of the Old Dominion, and we
trust will be re echoed from the hills and
valleys of the North, in the elections to be
held to-day. We cannot better employ our
editorial space than in presenting this gallant
appeal OF the Enquirer:
Like some rich and noble treasure ship,
fIeightcd with the renown of centuries Of
Caucasian domination, the merited wealth Of
historic glory and countless ingots of proud
traditions, Virginia has been captured By
black and mongrel buccaneers as desperate as
ever cruiScd beneath the red flag upon the
Spanish Main" While the pirates are
glOating over the prize which they have won
by fraud and the disfranchisement of our
ablest men, ice tell them !" tie name Of tie
'rhne men, not only IF Virginia, Jut Of the
North, Mut tie negro shall not RUE an tbs
fair State Gesigno1 Ly God 10 De tie dominion
Of the hnyhes' type IF the lchi'e race.
We unfurl the standard of resistance to the
wre;ched creatures who are soon to meet to
complete the work of Airicanizing Virginia,
and tell them that there are no chains which
they can forge in ;he shape of mungrel or
Cunic law, which can binG the giant limbs of
the Old Dominion.
Firm in the conviction that God will pro-
tect tie ri Sht, we now take the issue before
the aroused and indignant North, and ask the
triumphant Conservative masses, shall the
land of Washington, Jefferson, Henry. Mad
ison, Marshall, Monroe, be made u negro H.
feru", more horrible than that visited by
Dante and Virgil? Shall Il negro dispense
the mockery of justice where Marshall ilu-
mined the name Uf American jurisprudence?
Shall some brutal black occupy the guLer-
patOrial clair once adorned by Henry and
Jefferson aud shall the blacks, like tie
frogs OF Egypt, swarm in the most sacred
places Of the mother of States and Of statcs>
men
We call upon the people of this much
traduced Commonwealth, by conventions,
primary meetings, resolutions, through organ
lznIion, speeches aud public addresses, to pre-
pare 10 treat the work of the proposed Con-
ventiom Il nulli'y aud u mockery. Death is
preferable la negro supremacy and revolution
will be the inevitable result OF an attempt
upon the part of M"ngrel Convention to
make Hayti Of Virginia. We desire the
people Of this State to treat the proposed Con.
ventIun irnm the very outset as a monstrous
and wicked farce. We desire them TO cease
lesSly proclaim to the North their loyalty to
the laws aGd Constitution of the Union, but
their determination to oppose To the death the
elevation of the negro over the white man.
Let this issue be speedily and most distinctly
made. Unless the ancient spirit of the men.
whose ancestors have ruled Virginia for more
than two centuries, Is dead-unless the SPLEEN
did valur which famed forth in the van of
battle from Boston TO Yorktown during the
Revolution OF lI16, has become n mere
PhosphOTescent light emitted by the bones of
n decaying ancestry unless all those heroes
who made the name of Virginia the admira-
ton OF Christendom during the late civil war.
have turned to dust, and our very wsmen have
lost their noble cnthusiasm,-this outrage
shall not and cannot be perpetrated. The
negro and his wretched parasites shall not
rule this State
The race which has made it famous and
renowned, and which has filed the Senate
aud the army with great statesmen and war
riors, shall not creep through life the heIots
Of their late slaves, aud hide their sorruws
and dIshOuor in the grave. No Convention
can be permitted thus to violate the relation
of the two races in Virginia. and no organic
law. framed by mongreI minority, can i'm
pose the CALLING yoke of negro supremacy
upon the white race of this State.
In the spirit of these declarations, the
country will recognize the public sentiment
in Virginia, and the North will sustain us in
the sharp, well defined issue of :. Virginia.
rmces.' The war cry which toppled over
Radicalism in Pennsylvania. paralyzed the
party in Ohio, and which will soon deliver
New York from the bondage of fanaricism.
mas, strike u chord of ~ mp1thy when hurled
by Vir.iniaus in the teeth Of the Mongrel
ConVention which will soon attempt to Atri-
cauize this noble State.
Uudismayed by the result of the late cleo
ton, confident of the undeveloped strength
of the Conservative party, assured of North
crn sympathy, and outraged by the character
of the delegates elected To the so-called Con
veution, We declare thus early our determined
hostility to it. We ask from the press and
people of Virginia united. determined, en-
thuSiaStic Resistance and def moo Of tho los,
attcmp; winch will ever be made to African
ize the Old Dominion.
In view of the brutal lust for power mani.