The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-01-31

Washington. The gentleman who was
president of the convention, to form
the constitution OF the United States,
was slave holder, from slave state,
George Wash ington. The gentleman
who wrote the constitution of the Uni
ted States (making it the best govern
ment ever formed on earth), was slave
owner, from a slave state, James Madl-
son. The first president of the United
States, under that constitution, and
who, under God gave it strength, con-
sistency and power before the world,
was slave owner, from slave state,
George Washington, and these were all
white men and slave owners; and what
ever ofpeace, prosperity, happiness and
glory, the people of the U nited States
have enjoyed under it, have been from
the administration of the government,
by presidents elected by the people, Of
SlaUe holders, from slave states Whenever
the people have elected president
from non-slaveholding state, com-
mencing with the elder Adams, anu
down to Mr.. Lincoln, confusion, wrang-
ling and strife have been the order of
the day, until it illuminated in the
greatest civil war the world has ever
beheld, under the last named gentle
man. Why this had been SO is not in
the line of our subject. We mention it
as matter of history, to confirm the
Bible fact, that God dltcays selects slave
holders, or from slaueholdiag nation, the
media through which he confers his
blessings on mankind. Would it not
be wisdom to heed it now? N lfa
One reflection and then we are done.
The people of the United States have
now thrust upon them, the question of
negro equality, social, political and re-
liglous. How will they decide it? If
they decide it one way, then they viii
make the Sirth cause of invoking Gods
wrath, one again on the earth. They
will begin to discover this approaching
wrath Q.) BY God bringing confus-
ion. (2.) BY his breaking the govern
ment into pieces, or fragments, in which
the negro will go and settle with those
that favor this equality 81 In God
pouring out the fire of his wrath, on this
portion of them; but in what way, or
in what form, none can tell until it
comes, only that in severity it will
equal in intensity and torture, the des-
truction of fire burning them up. ~
The states or people that favor this G.
qRality amalgamation of the white and
black races, God uiH erterminate. To
make the negro, the political, social and
religious equal of the white race by la,c,
by statute and by constitutions, can easily
be effected in ,cordS:. but so to elevate
the negro jaTe dioino, is simply Impossible.
You cannot elevate beast to the level
OF q son of Coda son of Adam and
Eye---but you may depress the sons of
Adam and Eve, with their impress ofthe
Almighty, dolcn to the level ofa beast
God has made one for Immortality, and
the other to perish with the animals of
the earth. The antedlluvians oAce made
this depression. Win the people of the
United States make another. and the
last? Yes, they will, for a large major
lty OF the North are unbelievers in the
Bible; and this paper will make large
number of their clergy deists and athe-
lists. A man can not commit SO great
an offense against his race, against his
country, against his God, in any other
way, as to give his daughter in mar
riage to a negro-a beaSt-or to take one
of their females for his wife. As well
might he ia the sight of God, wed his
child to any other beast OF forest or of
field. This crime can not be expiated-
it never has been expiated ON earth
and from its nature never can be, and,
consequently, never tcas .forgiven by God,
andneuer ,ciH be. The negro is now free.
There are but two things on earth, that
may be done with him now, and the
people and government of this country
escape destruction. One or the other
God l9iR make you do, or make you accent
his punishment, as he made Babel, Sodom
Gomorrah, and the Canaanites, before
you. You must send him back to Africa
or re-enSldue him. The former is the
best, far the best. Now, which will my
countrymen do9 l do not say telloao-
citizens, as ! regard myself but as a So
journer in the land, whose every politi-
cal duty is now performed by obeying
your laws, be they good or bad--not vot-
ing, nor assisting others in making vour
laws. WIN my countrymen, in decid-
ing for themselves these questions, re
naefnber-loiH they remember, that the first
law of liberty is obedience to Cod
Without this obedience to the great
and noble principles of God, truth,
righteousness and justice, there can be
no liberty, no peace, no prosperity, no
happiness in any earthly government
If these are sacrificed or ignored,
God will overturn and keep over
turning, until mankind learn his truth,
justice and mercy, and conform to them.
To the people OF the South, we say,
obedience to God is better than all sacri-
fees. You have sacrificed all your ne
groes. 1t was your ancestors, that God
made use of to form this noblest of all
human governments--no others could
do it. DO not be cast down at what has
happened, and what sis yet to happen
God will yet use you to reinstate and
remodel this government, in its just
and noble principles and at the proper
time. The North can neuer do it. These