The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1868-05-01
N0PF FOR THE SOUTH.

.t.r.
II the voters of the North are con-
tent with the management OF the Ma
tional affairs by the ruling party. then,
indeed, there is no hope for the South,
and they and tteir children are doomed
to be hewers Of wood and drawers Of
water; but grating that those arc right
who believe that the people Of the
North are tired Of the rule Of the Re
publicans, and will be ready to vote
them out OF power by the next election.
We think that relief for our people is at
hand. II the ballot prevails, and the
Democrats come into power we are
saved; at least from the worst ills that
we apprehend. II the party now in
power ever ride the will of the people,
and by mingled force and fraud, Sc
cure the continuance of their power,
they win certainly have nothing TO fear
from any subsequent election, and they
will be established in the control of the
Government; whatever shape that gov
eminent may take, Imperial, under
Grant. as the Virginian anticipates, or
Oligarchical with Grant for q tool, as
the N. Y. Herald prophesies. Whom
will they then have to fear, and who
will be their natura, allies? The pco-
pie Of the North have never heretofore
felt the chains which they have helped
their rulers to forge around them, and
disnay will fastea on them as they
discover that they NO longer govern
themselves. SO the horse Of the fable
took the man on his back, to aid him in
hunting down his enemies, and when
the chase was done, could not make his
rider dismount.
The Northern people will be very
FESTIVE under the yoke, and will be for
nlidable, though their rulers will have
an army and navy to support them;
both quite cured Of any sensitive OBJ,
jections to bombarding the homes. of
their friends or Strengthening their fellow
citizens. ..-
We Of the South have despaired of be-
ing permitted to govern ourselves, and
have no better prospect than the hope
that foreign military task-masters may
continue to protect us from servitude,
under our late slaves. What have we
to dread from change in the nature of
the Washington Governments They
have been obliged SO far to keep us down,
even by method which brought them
much reproach, the use Of our slaves
against us; for We were committed full
ly to the opposition, the Democracy,
and to let us re-enter the Union on the
Democratic side, would have been sui
eide in the party in power. But sup
pose them once freed from apprchcn-
sien as to the suifrages of the people.
Suppose them resolved to have no more
elections, or only such as Louis Napo-
leon uses to 1latter his people, and re-
cord his will. Why need our rulers
then any longer keep us DOWN. They
would be no longer sectional party,
but an irresponsible power, hated most
by the section from which they come
and whom they have betrayed. Surely
our whole Southern people would then
see how much preferable for them 1t is
to have common master with the
North, rather than to have the North
forIa master. And we would give afaith-
full allegiance to the Government; we
would be the natural allies of the usur-
pers, aad recognizing the solid founda-
lions Of the alliance, they would only
too gladly abandon the poor negroes Of
whom they have been making ga cats
paw" and give us every possible OPP
portunity to reeuperate. At once we
would be ready to furnish them any
number of men, expert soldiers, house
less, homeless, desperate, scarcely fit
for aught else; and in avery fe W years
our advantages Of soil, climate &C.,
would enable US to give the best sup
port Of every kind to a government
standing between US and all We hate.