Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-11-05
Resistance to Negro Domination.

IfelgnteO with the renOWn OF centuries OF Eau
caslon domination, the merited wealth ofhlstorIc
glory and countless ingots of proud traditions,
Virginia has been captured by black and mongrel
buccaneers as desperate as ever cruised beneath |
the red flag upon the Spanish Main" While
the pirates are gloating over the prize which
theyshave won by fraud and the disfranchisement
OF our ablest men, ace tell them IN the name of
the ao}site men, not only Of Virginia, but Of the
North, that the negro shall not rule IN this fair
State designed By God to be the dominion of
the highest type Of the aosite race
We unfurl the standard of resistance TO the
wretched creatures who are soon to meet to
complete the work of Africaniziug Virginia, and
tell them that there are no chains which they
can forge in the shape of a mongrel organic law
which can bind the giant limbs Of the Old
Dominion.
Firm in the conviction that God will protect
the right, we now take the issue before the
aroused and indignant North, and ask the
triumphant Conservative masses, Shall the
and of Washington, Jefferson, Henry, Madison,
Marshall. Monroe be made negro Inferno
more horrible than that visited by Dante and
Virgil? Shall negro dispense the mockery
Of justice where Marshall illumined the name
IF American jurisprudence? Shall some brutal
black occupy the gubernatorial chair once adorn
ID by Henry and Jefferson? and shall the blacks
like the frogs of Egypt, swarm III the most
sacred places of the mother of States and Of
statesmen?'
We call upon the people ofthis much traduc-
ed Commonwealth, by conventions, primary
meetings, resolutions, thorough organization,
speeches and public addresses, to prepare to
treat the work Of the proposed Convention as
a nullity and mockery Death is preferable to
negro supremacy, and revolution will be the
| inevitable result of an attempt upon the part OF
Mongrel Convention to make Hayti of Viz
| GINA. We desire the people of this State to
treat the proposed Convention from the very
outset as monstrous and wicked farce We
desire them to ceaselessy proclaim TO the North
| heir LOYALTY to the laws and 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
sDlendid valor which famed forth in the van OF
| battle from Boston to Yorktown during the
| Revolution of 1916, has become mere phos
phorescent light emitted by the bones ola decay
| mo Tcestry-unless all those heroes who made
| he name of Virginia the admiration OF Chris
enaom during thecivi YER, have turned to dust,
and our very women have lost their noble
eDtbusiasm,-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 re
aowned, and which has filed the Senate and
he army with great statesmen and warriors
hall not creep through life the helots Of their
late slaves, and hide their sorrows and dishonor
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 a
nongrel minority, can impose the calling yoke
Of negro supremacy upon the white race OF this
State
In the spirit of these declarations, the coun
| -ry will recognize the public sentiment in Fir
ginia, and the North will sustain US in the sharp,
well defined issue of " Virginia. mast be ruled dy
.ohie men" ia hoe sjgno yiaces. . The war
Try which toppled over Radicalsm in Pennsy
vania paraiysed the same party in Ohio, and
which will soon deliver New York from the
bondage of fanaticsm, must strike chord Of
sympathy when hurled by Virginiansin the teeth
Of the Mongrel Convention which will soon at
.empt to Ali1canize this noble State.
Undismayed by the result Of the late election
confident Of the uudeveloped strength Of the
Conservative party, assured Of Northern sym
pathy, and outraged by the character Of the
delegates elected to the so-called Convention,
we declare thus early our determined hostility
10 it. We ask from the press and people Of
Virginia a united, determined. enthusiastic
resistance and defiance Of this last attempt
which will ever be made to Afiicanize the Old
Dominion.
In view of the brutal lust for power manifest
ed by the negro at the late elections, and Of his
objects and designs, the severest penalties which
Congress could infict, and the most protracted
military rule under the harshest military despot
would be preferable to the control of public af-
fairs by the negro and the renegades who have
degraded themselves below the black.-Ea-
T.