Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-10-29
The Result and its Effects on the Two
Races,

The Virginia papers concede that Conven-
ton will be called in that State by cousid-
cradle majority of voters. The following
extracts from the Charlottesville Chronicle
and the Richmond Dispatch, both papers of
Conservative autecedents, and from the Lynch
burg IiryiHidH, show the general feeling of
the people as to the effect of the election upon
the relations existing between the white and
black races. The Chronicle says:
The election Tuesday settled the fact that
the white race and the negro race in Virginia
are enemies. The negroes gave voted almost
to man the most radical tickets \ large
number of negroes have been elected to the
Convention. Then come u body Of mean
white and Northern adventures. 4 number
OF native born whites of good standing in the
community, but of LITTLE parliamentary ex>
pcriencc, constitute the minority. BY Tues
days work the negroes in Virginia have set
their seal to their doom. There is no longer
any peace The question now is who shall
occupy aud rule the territory between forty
and thirty-twO degrees north lattude-the
blacks or the whites.
Every conceivable effort has been made
here to harmonic the two races. Every
form Of overture has been made to the blacks
by the whites. Every appliance was resorted
to, to carry the election. All has been IN vain.
Drilled like an army, mauGuvred like u body
OF disciplined troops, Obeying an order from
the central league like sign from a marshars
baton, the negroes have delivered their vote
like concentrated broadsde At one of
the precints in this county the commanding
officer OF this county, day or two before the
election, made speech urging the blacks to
vote tor Judge RIves, and dcnouncing G. l..
Thompson III the most unmeasurcd terms, aud
concluded by requesting all in favor of Kives
to rise. They rose to a man. An order
from the league here sent just after, reversed
the whole line, and at b. NJ. precinct Judge
Rives received two negro votes, G. j.. Thomp-
son BIZ negro votes, and Jas. Taylor, negro
3O4 negro votes.
Perhaps it is best to bring matters to
crisis at once. Let it he developed at once
what negro suffrage means. The farther the
revolution goes, the moro violent will be the
recoil. The North will not believe until they
sec; and they will see when the Southern
elections finished.
The Dispatch says:
Every one who has not been made acnuaint-
ed with the thorough system Of organization
through secret societies of the negro popuia-
ton OF Virginia will be amazed to see with
what unanimity they have voted everywhere
for the Radical nominees. There has been
no division amongst them. Not the slightest
respect has been paid to personalities. They
have voted as unanimously for tie most in
consistent, corrupt, and disreputablc men as
they have for those in better standing There
is hardly n single one Of their nominees who
Is respected in respectable communities but
there are some who are very much better than
others. Their black constituents show, how.
ever, no greater Difference to these than thew
do to all others.
y dreadful feature of this atrocious game
Is the complete alienation of the negro from
the white people with whom he has been
raised and with whom he must live
The returns from every county show that
they are completely banded together as one
man in war--yet only political-against
their people aud their own best interests 1t
Is the saddest feature of these monstrous
times. Our citizens find that they have
body in their midst which is wholly and
bIindly antagonistic to them No division
amongst themselves-no appeals to reason
from without-have made the sligbtes, i'm
preston upon their sou! union. 1t is as pain
full as it is incomprehensible
The IUginiun says:
The intolerance manifested by the negroes
'O"1Ius one OF their own
color who had the manliness to vote "thc
white mans ticket, as he called it, shows
the effect of the teaching they received from
their Radical tutors. All the savogery of
their nature was aroused. They hunted and
bounded their intended victim through the
streets ard beset him until, like a stag at hay
he turned upon his tormeDters and gave them
taste of his menal. They still threaten to
kill him, and his life is really in ieopardy.-
And this is the sort of freedom we are to have
under Radical rule and suffrage! Well did
Mr.. DOolittls say that the Radical Congress
lad organized hell in the South"
Tho official