New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-10-28
THE ELECTION IN VIRGINIA.


The pc0plc of Virginia, with those OF all the
| States lately in revolt, were authorized by the
last Congress to form State Constitution
organize a Government, and thcreup0n apply
for rcadmission to Congress and restoration to
all the privileges of Self-Govcmment. The
details of these important movements were
committed 10 the direction OF MaJor-Gen.
| Schofeld. commander of the Military District,
| who was certainly in no sense lnmcal To or
! dslikcd by the Whites OF that State. l'y ten.
| SchOfcld, officers were appointed, the legal
! voters registered the State districted for the
proposed Convention. and the day OF cleo
ton appointed. Congress has had nothing
to do with the details of the business.
| The rcgistrics, when completed, showed
a White majority of 10000 legal voters;
so that the Whites had absolute power To vote
down Convention had they seen fat. II has
been objected that the districts in which the
Black voters were majority were entitled 10
elect a majority of the Convention; but this could
not well he helped, because a cOnsidcrablenum
her of counties have eight or nine Whites To
one Black. leaving two-thirds of the state al
most equally divided between Whites and
Blacks; 80 that the dsfranchisemcnt of five or
six thousand leading Rebels left the Blacks
in majority. The facts that the Whites might
have defeated a Convention by 10000 majority.
and may still defeat the Constitution when pre-
scented for ratification, cannot he disputed.
The election has been held. No registered
White has been in any manner prevented from
voting. None has been bullicd OF browbeaten
because he saw ft 10 vote against the Blacks.
In a very few instances, the Blacks have been
irIitated into violent demonstrations 10y the
spectacle of a Black coerced to vote his own
and their Acknowledgement but the only man
killed at this election was Black Radical
and the two men wounded are also Black
Radicals. And. the election being carried by
the Radicals Convention ordered by at least
| 10000 majority, and at least sixty Radicals
(out of one hundred and five in ally chosen
| thereto, the victOrs have quietly returned to
their labors and the State is at peace.
Now let us see how the vanquishcd receive
their defeat, and how they propose to avenge
it. The following is from The LyRchburgNerS
of the 2jth inst.
1--WE hear Of persons in the country and In
this city who have discharged their negro employees
account Of their Radcaism, Ihs u conduct icH
| be general me part 0f the Whites; and the dcudcd
negro will find, when forever too late that Radcasm
does not put meat into his pot, nor does voting 6 his
cisive but we are confident win be attended with the
| most wholesome results IN the future
| The same paper says
1--WE are ratifed TO learn that $50 negroes employed
at the Wytie Iron Mines all Of whom voted the straight
out Radical ticket, We're discharged Tuesday by the
employer should ake with the Blacks who 10y voting with
Hnnnicutt and his SET declare themselves openly aud
! abOyebOard the enemies of the White race
They are "enemies of the White race"
Won see because they choose to be frccmcn,
and to vote as ircemen. They chose not to
vote for those who sought to disirauchise them
and their posterity for even SO they are to be
| first deprived of employment and then driven
from the State Says The charlottesville ChrOn-
| icIe:
"The election Tuesday settled the fact that the White
and the negro race m virginia are enemies lhe
| negroes have voted almost 10 q the most Radical
tickets large number Of negroes have been elected to
the Convention. Then come body oil mean Whites ana
Northern Adventures. number OF nAtVebofn whites,
OF good standing in the community but OF little para-
mentary experience constitute the minority
THE negroes have possession of the state OF virginia
They will give Constitution. the leading features of
which will he negro officials and aNaton OF ne Whites
This is Recolslrncon Tins Is Pacllcaton Tls Is
voters prescribed and the state gerymandered and Uni
versal Suffrage This peace on earth and goodwill.
Juror must xhaus itself The Northern people.
AS they recognize distinctly the fact at the south win
ASK IL II possible the negroes are M possession 0l the
south! Is the White under the feet OF lot Of ne
grOesi Is this what the Radical Congress mean by their
We shall temporarily suffer The reaction will he the
more marked by Tuesdays work NE negocs ~ Virginia
hare ssf Their 10 heir doom. There longer
pedos. The question now is, Who shall occupy and rule
the territory between forty and thirty degrees north
latitude-the Blacks or the Whtesl"
Says The Richmond Enquirer and Examiner:
"A correspondent ia King William County informs us
that but negro In that whole county voted against
the Convention and In favor OF the Conservative candi
date Col. VIM. X. Ayett. The name Of this negro II
Thomas Ruin, and the citizens OF King William have
united In subscription TO purchase piece Of land and
give this for home IN the county as his own
This Ia well done We have urged, and sui urge erery
employer Of negroes un odr all Uho r0'td NE Radical
Ticket and we equally earnest IN urging that all
who showed their kind feelings toward the White people
by voting on their side shall lie kindly and literally re-
warded Tor their good sense and conservatism"
A negro, you see, shows good sense" and
"kind feelings toward the Whites by voting
that his race shall nevermolc enjoy the Right
of Suffiage--shall he mere bootblacks and
table -waitors to Whites. But il he votes that
Blacks have some rights which Whites are
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