Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1869-06-04
THE CAMPAIGN IN VIRGINIA.
Interest of the the ColOred Men.

WE clip the following letter of Horace
Greeley, and the remarks thereon from
the Richtiond Enquire, &c Eramiaer.
1t points out uherrihgly and With very
great clearness the interests of the col.
ored voters of Virginia. We assure
them with all the candor of Religious
conviction that it is the part Of
wisdom for them to vote for Col. Wal.
ker. That they will do so and thus SC
cure as with hooks Of steel tho good
will and kind Offices of our people we
doubt not, But once let them array
the white population of the State agaiust
them, and 1t will not be in the limited
sphere of our power to say when they
will cease to repent of their folly,
NEW YoRK TRIBUNE. ,
New York, November 49, 1865
Ny Dear Sir - have yours OF the 10th. It's lead
Ing positions have long been understood and appre-
ciated in this quarter. Now hear me:
Eveay year one thousands OF your robels die and
one thousad Tor morel Of their sone become Of age
You can't disfranehise them. You have now I'VE
thousand majority. Six years at furthorest will
convert this into rebel majority of one thousand
Then the rebels will be enfranchised In spte of
| you, and the blacks will be left under foot-and
You underestimate these at two Thousand.
60 your own way, and see IL the rebels don't
have you under foo, In less than six years
speak from Vide experience when tell Won
that your house is built the sand 1t cannot stand
Every year VIII see the passion of the war cool and
the demand for ammesty streHgthened Notp you can
amnesty the rebels Soon the question will be, shall
they amnesty youf Look at Kentucky and Mary
land, and read your Oortain fate in theirs.
To tie Editor n n, wheeii,.g fatsiit0eneer.
"Look at Kentucky and Maryland, and
read your certain fate in theirs"
Upon this text from the epistle of the
Great Apostle to the Negroes, we propose
ind ulge 10 few elections for their edidca.
ton.
The advice was given to the r ideals OF
West Virginia but II will answer lust as
well in in Eastern Virginia. You negroes
are riding high horse here now with ban
ners and scaris and carpet bags, aud Lewis
Lindsay blowing his horn, yoh are parading
the streets of Richmond, and Other towns,
and shouting "Long hFe the carpet bag
gersP' and "DOWn with the White Folks %
Mr.. Porter, one of your fAvOrite champions,
is telling you that there is a good time COM
ing, and that "on the sixth of July the fruit
will be ripe, aud that social equality will
then be- fully and permlnonily established. ;"
He is urging you 10 Vote for the coLstitu-
tior, and telling you IL will 6 ve you ''per
msnent power aud ascandancy," and advi-
sing you "not to mind sending your chill
dren to the same schools wi b the rebel
children" g.. Your Eoenezer Club pass
ed = resolution the other night telling You
! to voie for tbs Tes Oath, which shuts out
all the white people from Ufiice-and 80 you
! go.
| Now the test oath and the disfranchi ing
clauses are goirg TO be stricken out of the
| constitution, and we are about to have a
| new regs ration and the whites will then
have about forty thousand majority 10 the
! State. Forty thousand. About one hun
dred and forty five thousa I'd votes, and you
1 will have about one hundred and five thou
sand, if so many. In addition to that you
are diminishing in numbers every day, and
the whites are increasing. In addition To
J that immigrants are coming in here from
the North, from Germany, from Holland
from ireland, from e gisni, from Poland
and in ten years we shalt probably have re.
ceived two hundred thousand Isibly five
hundred Thousand white settlers. 1t Is per-
fectly certain that you will rery soon be
nveiwhelm, in this Sta'e at the polls
Have you thought about iii Are you lay
ing up anythiug against wet day
You are seeking to disfdnch 50 the whites
now and to rHie them. You are trying to
drive them from every office in the State
for under the test-oalh, hardly one of them
can be q magistrate or an eyerseer Of q
road.
You are trying to force on them Mr.
Wells for their Governor, whom you know
hey hate at least, most Of you are, and
you give the cold shoulder TO Walker, whC
Is for universal negro suffrage and the re
construction acts. He is willing to give
you the right 10 vote and the right TO hold
office.
Nov we tell you, you are doing bad jot
for yourselves. We tell you, In the words
of Mr.. Greedy, to look at Kentucky and
Maryland, aud read your certain fate n
theirs" Possibly you may elect Wells we
do not think You will. But 1t will be hui
four short years, and you will have to settle
with a stronger and more numerous race
whom you will deeply have Injured.
You know very wen that this paper Al
least has never coaxed nor hAttered you.-
We do not fear you. We only warn you
We tell you 10 all calmness aud kindness
you cannot afford 10 quarrel toih the tchit
people. Tney are about TO Acquiesce In tbs
Reconstruction acts-not because they like
them, but because they can't help IL bu
they are abDnt to do IL, and you will vote
and hold office and sit on juries. IL tha
doesn't satisfy you, YOU arc not to be salts
fled and we must fight 1t out, as We will
we mean at the polls. Aud We shal
beat you, and you will get what you have
given.
II You hang by the carpet-bsggers now
you must look 20 them TO help you wheI
the whites get the ascendancy. You hav,
an opportunity now TO get all you want
and TO make friends with the whites at th,
same time. you try to grasp too much
you may loose ali. The Walker platioru
gives you eperything you could want. Con
tinue 10 siand In solid column against th'
whites, and they will remember TO stanC
In solid column against you. Ponder wei
the words of your friend, Mr.. Greely
Then the rebels will be enlranchised II
spite Of you, aud the blacks will be left un
der foot"
You see we talk t6yoh plainly not thu
way Mr.. Porter and Mr.. Wells talk to you
We do not fear you at all ; We shall Ger
tainly triumph nj the next election, anC
prSbably at lis. 1--we triumph In spite o
YOU, We will owe you no thanks-and yo'
need expect no favors. For our triumph
does not mean f your oppression and yon
disft chisement while our triumph mean
oppression and disfranchisement for us.
YOU put Wells on as, you stab us; and o
coursa when the wound heals, Il Is huuAi