Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-09-16

We extract the following from the Charlottes-
Vile Chronicle, which is, at least, suggestive,
and may lead to reflection on the part OF the
most intelligent of those most deeply inter
ested
l"It is now perfectly clear that the colored
neople, as il inn elled by malign destiny,
(which perhaps looks to their disappearance
from the border States, are all moving towards
an offensive political alliance with the most I'm
scrupulous, violent and dangerous enemies Of
their Southern friends and employers We
cannot fail to see that they are already in the
keeping Of ignorant and unprincipled white ad
yenturers, who at once proceed without the
ceremony Of an invitation, to appropriate all
colored voters as the legitimate property of the
Radical party-indeed, as a prize captured in
war. Thus the poor African, so soon as eman-
clpated from servitude to the Southern master,
IS practically subjected to the domination of
political Overseers hired by the Northern Rad
icals to lead them in solid column to the polls
mot 10 the interest OF their own race, but as
mere machines to manufacture success for
decaying party which, in antagonlzing them to
their neighbors and friends, will, upon the first
supremacy of the black race, be compelled to
That accomplished and enlightened friend of
his own race, Frederick Douglass, recently at
Portsmouth, warned them of this terrible and
impending danger, and counselled them to re-
frain from arraying themselves under the lead
of rapacious white adventures against
the Southern people, among whom they
reside; but they admired rather the
inhammatory harangue Of palefaced dem
agogue-who had everything to gain and moth
ing to lose by using them. He told them,
after the conclusion Of Douglass conservative
speech, that the lands were theirs, and the
South was made rich by the labor of the slaves,
although the Republican party now in power
is opposed to confscation, and was founded on
the idea that slavery, as the most wasteful and
expensive form of labor, should be destroyed
to enable the South to prosper as the North,
under the white labor system has done.
Educated coored men at once recognize that
the paramount duty of ther race Especially in
the border States where they are outnumbered
by the whites) is to spurn the counsels of that
renegade secessionist- Hunnicutt-and of their
ever-loyal friend" Buttz, the European trav-
eller-but the stupid, uneducated masses, who
are falsely taught that they can get our land;
without price, live handsomely without work.
and govern the country we'll without education,
will all vote the Radical ticket-aad so will
they coerce their intelligent men-until they
all find, by the bitter experience Of poverty
and neglect, that they are deceived and ruined
by pretended friends. Then they will appeal
to us-and then the Northcrners, who wish to
make the border States W white mans country,
will push them remorselessly out Of Virginia,
be none to help them, whether we are ruined,
or whether we triumph over their allies.
Our colored friends are even more deeply
interested, than We are in the success of our
efforts to defeat the Radical policy which, un-
der Brownlow, has already blighted Tennessee.
They are, generally, poorer than We, and they
cannot afford, being our employees, that we
should suffer heavy loss.
Far above this consideration is the great
the colored race remain in the
State Of Virginia?
We answer, No No!-unquestionably No! if
they provoke a contest with a clear majority,
which will be continually reinforced by rapid
immigration from the North, and still more so
by the Southern whites fleeing from the Afri
canized Gulf States and settling in Virginia,
two-thirds of whose terrtory-the Northern
counties, the Valley, and the Southwest-is
already controlled by the white race.
The policy of the State will, assuredly, be
moulded by the white majority.
Personally, we wish to see the coored man
prosper and be happy We are for giving
him and his children liberal education. We
would not deny him equality before the law,
nor exact justice. We even favor magnani-
nous consideration for his condition. Nor are
We at all jealous Of any laws and constitutional
provisions giving him ample protection tor
person and property. Nay more, we would
not vote for any Constitution that exposed him
to the mercy of brutal, passionate negro haters.
But, in advising the white men Of Virginia to
protect themselves by powerful and compact
organization, against the horrors Of Negro
supremacy, we also feel constrained to show
the colored people that, if they suffer the Rad.
lcals to array them against US, it will be out OF
our power to help them when the day of wrath
shall come-that awful day which is much
nearer a. hand than many of US now ina agine.
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