Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-06-18
RANDOM THOUGHTS.

ever yet forwarded in public or private
matters, by getting into "a passion.
Keep cool, both physically and mentally,
and everything will turn up right after
ALL The fiercest storms are the soonest
ovef, and the darkest horizon only
shades, but does not extingnish the
brilliant sunshine. 1t is the same with
our political, as with our solar system,
'the darkest hour is that before SUNRISE"
and despite the predictions of disap-
pointed politicians, the sunshine of con-
stitutional liberty-alias, the right of
local self government, will once more
illumine the majestic mountains and
fertile vallies of Virginia. The man who
despairs of this consummation is an in
voluntary traitor, not only to the present,
butt future generations, and must have
overlooked, in the pages of history those
numerous instances where the civilized
minority has subjugated the uneducated
maj )rity, AMI governed tLem by the
moral force of intellect and intelligence
To believe that negro suffrage will
place Virginia at the mercy of the I'M
educated mass of negroes, is heresy
against history, experience, and modern
civilization, and an indirect admission,
that we Of the present generation are an
effete branch of the Caucasian race.
Italy though beaten on the battlefield
by Hun, Vesigoth and Vandal, conquered
her conquerors by educating and civil
zing them. About fifty thousand Eng
lishmen govern the hundred millions of
Hindosran, and in every nation on earth
the intelligent few lead and govern the
unintelligent many ; and yet there are
many Of our leading public men who
affect to believe that with a large ma
jority of white men, Virginians will be
incapable of doing that which has been
done so often in ancient times, and
which is now being done throug bout
Europe. Such belief is an implied insult
to the SIN other of Presidents" and a
calumny upon that race of men who
fought on the banks of the Potomac and
Chickahominy, and the gloomy shades
of the evidences. ="
If such despairing thoughts as those
we have alluded to, haunt the minds of
our readers, let them keep cool and visit
the wharves of either of the ''twin
cities" and view the vast quantity of
vegetable produce, daily shipped to feed
the Northern multitudes. Let them re-
fleet that it is the surplus produce of a
bounte aous soil and genial climate /,
which under improved cultivation will
increase, one hundred fold, and give
active employment to fleets of steam
ships. Let them reflect upon the race
of men whose labor and sweat bring
forth the 'se products, more precious
than golcl or silver,--from soil that
was bar rem wilderness three centuries
ago. The N let them ask themselves is
it likely S, Ich country or such a people
could fall under and wither beneath the
Union of a corrupt fanaticism and a
half civiliz ed race. A race who are to
us now, what they were four thousand
years ago Ito the Egyptians-"hewers of
wood and drawers of water" A race
who have existed for centuries amidst
civilization without 1eing civilized, and
who never made one step even in the
rddiments Of civilized life unless under
the control of their white brethren. Let
our readers pursue this train of ideas to
their natural sequence, and the thought
of negro supremacy will evaporate like
the smoke of their cigar, and help them
to keep cool and comfortable while poll
ticians are sweltering in their exertions
to prove that we are ruined people.
'All bosh ,! We are an Impoverished
people, but cannot be ruined unless we
act as negroes and won't work; then we
will deserve to be ruined.
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For couple of months past, rumors
that A. Il. Stewart had joined the Cath
olic church have been in circulation; but
as rumors about rich men are always
flying about, this particular one did not
attract much attention. 1t is perfectly
true, however. The great millionaire
was received into the Catholic church
by Archbishop McClosky, with whom
he had been in consultation several times
before the event took place.
Wheat was cut in North and South
Carolina last week and the week before,
and from all quarters we hear the most
favorable reports. The crop is better
than for many years previous, and all