Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-09-29
Evil Counsel-bloody instructions.

The BALTIMORE Gazette says that, IF the
course Of events has brought freedom to the ne
gro, it has also brought with it unaccustomed
responsibilities. Had he been left to work out
his own future, he would have sought advice
from those among whom he was born, and who,
knowing him well, were best able to give it
But the men who claimed to be the liberators of
the negro, claimed also the right to mould him
to their own wishes. To win his confidence
they fed and pampered him. They filled his
imagination with visions of farms and farm stock
to work them; they invested him with the
privilege Of the franchise they taught him that
he was the equal of his master in many respects,
and in political power his superior They in
stilled into his breast evil thoughts, and sought
by all manner Of devilish devices to breed feuds
and foment disturbances between the two races.
If their teachings have not yet borne the bloody
fruits they were intended to produce, it is that
they have been baff1ed by the restraints which
the whites have put upon themselves, and tor
the reason that the great bulk of the negroes
have no inclination to be brought into collision
with men whose courage they know, and who,
they also know, would, in the event of a negro
rising and at the first indication of an intended
massacre of the whites, exact a sweeping and a
terrible retribution, Yet there are white men
base enough to promote conflict of this awful
kind, and there are negroes, suddenly elevated
to political power and a Fictitious importance,
who are insane enough to believe that their race
would obtain the mastery. That convicted felon,
inmate Of Sing Sing prison, New York, and, at
the South, an incendiary of the worst kind, has
followed up bis e4pulsien from the Georgia
Legislature by inviting the negroes ofSavannah
and its vicinity to send him to Congress. In a
recent speech at the latter city he was violent
in his denunciation of the whites, and threaten
ed if the negroes were interfered with any way
to lay Savannah in ashes and drench the soil of
Georgia with blood.
In the Georgia Legislature one Turner, an
other negro, menaced the whites with war of
races, and in the Legislature of Louisiana a
mulatto named Pinchback, who obtained seat
in the Senate by the expu lsion OF Democrat,
in the midst of violent TRADE against the peo-
pie of New Orleans said, menacingiy-'I want
to tell them to beware | mean to tell them
they have nearly reached the end OF their string.
The next outrage of the kind which they COM
nit will be the signal for the dawn ofretrbution,
of which they have not dreamed-a signal that
will cause ten thousand torches to be applied
to this city, for patience will then have ceased
to be a virtue, and this city will be reduced to
ashes" :,
We do not regard these declarations Of evil;
minded negro leaders as ''evincing settled and
disciplined determination Of the blacks to resort
to murder and arson. upon the slightest pre-
text but we do ceftainly deem them indica
tive of perturbed and dangerous condition of
things. The endurance of the white people Of
South, under almost every form Of oppression
that the malignity of North Radicals and their
lust for power could suggest, has been Of g
stamp scarcely less heroic than was their con-
duct in the battle field. But even the most
heroic endurance has its limits, and if the pro-
vocation onee overpasses the line, then let those
white adventurers at the South who, for their
own selfish ends, have educated the negro to
the point of mortal antagonism, beware of the
consequences.
newspaper in Cleveland, having advertised
that they would send copy OF sheir paper gra-
tbs for one year to the person sending them "a
club Of ten," received the ten spot Of clubs
from young lady in the country.
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