The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-11-22
From The Richmond Enquirer.
The Do m of the Negro.

None but the most drpraved would urge q
measure OF retaliation merely for the sake of
spite and Oh the other hand none but the most
cowardly would hesitate t. use the power of his
arm for the protection of his person. And so it
is wIen such occasions N Use mankind are comptl-
I'd 10 Obey the impulses OF resentment and employ
The means which they suggest ms mere measures
Of safety. The course of the negroes in this
State in the hate eleclions--arrsycd MS they
we've in solid phaanX against the interests, nay
the property, aud even the lives, OF the white
people, presents the most irrefragabe proof that
their HOSTILITY TO US is instructive and ineradica-
tile Nothing, ihei eiore, remains for us to do
but to meet the issue they have thrust upon US
and defend ourselves like men.
WI OF Virginia have II great and glorious
county, Il commonwealth unsurpassed 10 the
advantages OF SOIL climate and production, a
population un qualled in all the elements that
overcome difficulties and make community rich
and prosperous. Shall we permit these things to
be lost to Us forever? Shall We tamely submit
10 the suhvesi OF all our prosperity and the
hopes Of the future by handful of arttul knaves
who use the brute force Of numbers to overcome
our intelligence, ta-nt and worth, by outvoting
us with II horde OF Ignorant and stupid negroes
Fortunately, the means OF our defence, are not
those of violence aud bloodshed, but the mere
regulation of our domestic arrangements As
history presents no parallel IF the black ingrati-
tude which has chara, terlzed our domestic enl-
ployees, III turning upon us and falling into the
train of wreches. who are unprincipled apos-
tate white men in most cases. and the most de-
PRAYED Of their own race in Others whose appeals
were based alone upon implacahle hostility TO the
whites, so we should present the only instance
of people submitting to death and destruct on
without an effort for safety, if we now permit
our patience to await our impending execution.
The negroes have shown us that "blood is thick
er than water" with them, and we can only ac-
cept the issue and treat them with defensive Sc
verify, differing not indeed from the spirit, hut
only in the measure, from tie treatment which
our English friends used towards the Sepoys of
India when white safety demat ded British severi-
ty. As we have said, we need not use the means
of violence and bloodshed as our defence, but
only the simple remedy of combining our selec-
tons Of domestics TO those only who are friendly
disposed towards US, whether black or white
Let US give employment to, and thereby support,
those only who are 10. nrrayed against our peace
and welfare. The test of this may be easily
made by counting those who belong TO the &C.
cret societies and vote the "Hunnicutt ticket" as
our avoHed enemies and those who do neither as
our friends. Let us discharge the former and
employ the latter. fthere lie not enough of the
latter at present, the deficiency will soon be sup
piled by white dumestics, and, in the meantime,
it is infinitely better for US, our wives and chill
dren, to perform duties and endure the res angus
tg aehi rather than continue to nurse a nest OF
serpents who have shown not only the poison of
their tangs, but their readiness to use them.