The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-05-03
their' proper position in society,
would4be saved from rapid extinction

would9be saved from rapid extinction
as q race.ei The settled and determi-
nate antagonism of the races (which
will be ipaugurated at once by such a
coonsaituiiop as tnisj precipitates i'm
mediately the beginning of the end.
Virginia. racked to the utmost capa-
.city OF. endurance, will be the first to
throw to the surface the disease which,
has so long preyed upon her vitals,
and though Tor some years the pitia-
BILE victims of aidisgusting eruption,
viii ultimately be restored to health,
to vigor and untainted blood.
IN protesting against the establish
ment OF negro supremacy, we plead
for both ,races-for the whites, that
they may be spared, depressed as
they now are, the, utter prostration
Of further violent changes in their
social system; for the blacks, that, in
the name Of humanity, they shall be
allowed. a fair Opportunity to save, or
at least to delay, the doom Of their
race. ~. -, =
In conclusion, making no i,ypocri-
tical professions, We affirm in sinceri-
ty and, in truth, that, the people of
this State desire to be restored to
the Union, and cherish no purpose
of disloyalty to the Government;
that they long FOR, the. re-establish-
ment of kindly relations between all
the sections of the country; and that
they entertain no other feelings or
purposes than those of kindness and
behevolenee towards the negroes.
The negroes behaved well during
the war; and we can trace all of the
disorder aud criminal misconduct
into which they have fallen since, to
the pernicious teaching of those
white adventures who are using this
ignorant and credulous race for their
own selfish and rapacious purposes.
II let alone to, deal with the negro,
the whites of Virginia would honest
ly endeavor TO afford the amplest pro-
lection to his rights of person and
property, aud to make every provi-
sion for his intellectual and moral
culture. But when it is proposed
for the palpably base purpose of ag-
grandizing a party-to deliver over
the property, the social order, the IL
berties of the whites, to the yindic-
tive and licentious rule Of the negro,
every instinct of duty, ever senti-
ment that can animate a man to ex-
ertion, calls upon the white people of
Virginia to repudiate and resist such
unparalleled oppression.
Every Northern State which has
voted on the subject since the close
OF the war, has rejected negro suf-
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later than last fall, did so, by a ma
jority exceeding fifty thousand. Kan
sas, Minnesota and Connecticut had
previously done the same thing. The
late Constitutional Convention of
New York deliberately recoiled from
deciding the Question. And Michi-
gan, hitherto SO overwhelmingly Re-
publican, has just voted down her
new Constitution by a majority of
thirty thousand, because it admitted
the negro to the polls. The census
shows that there were only some 35, :
600 negroes in Ohio in 1860. There
could have been only about 7, 900 ne
gro voters in that State had they
been enfranchised, (this in commu-
nifty where the white vote is nearly
500, 900, an inappreciable influence.
In Michigan there are only about 500
male negroes twenty-one years of
age. The white voters number more
than 10000. And yet this State,
where Republican Governor was
elected in 1856 by majority Of co.
O2e, refuses by some 81, 900 majority,
to let 500 negroes vote.
The proposition in Virginia is to
let 100, 900 vote. to make them oil
eligible to Office, to give them a ma
jority of twenty-one on joint ballot
in the Legislature, to give them the
local control in the counties and to
exclude a large number of the whites
from the polls, to render nine hun
dred and ninety nine white men in
every thousand ineligible to the Le-
gislature, or any State or county
Office, and to lay the taxes lit may be
so stately exclusively on the whites.
Is it necessary to say more? Can in.
justice take any grosser shape than
that? Was ever people summoned
to resistance by so neremntdrv . cal! ::
1t is difficult to realize the situation
which we have realized in the South.
The mind is stupefied at the initiation
of negro domination. 1t is walking
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