The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-20
From the Wilmington North Carolina) Star.
The Second Emancipation of the
RIpeIxS

Blacks.
The negro race Of Virginia ought to re-
ioice over the recent victory of right over
wrong in that grand old State. And for
two reasons:
!. They have been released from slave
nv more CALLING than any that has ever
existed in The history of the world.
I'd. Because it secures for them the
GOOD will of the whites, on whom they must
rely for employment and counsel.
In Virginia, as in all the other southern
States, the negroes have, since the war,
been completely at the mercy of set of
political vagabonds and Adventures bent
on place and spoils.
The colored people know what 1t is to be-
long to the "Union League" which may
very properly be termed q league with
heli.n They know the horrid oaths Of that
accurscd organization they know the poison
it instilled into their minds they know the
false doctrines inculeated; they know the
delusive promises made by their unprinci-
pled leaders, and their jealous, systematic
efforts to impress the colored people with
the belief that the real object of their old
and tried white friends was to inaugurate
another "rebellion" and to establish
slavery.
All these things had their influence in
alternating the blacks from the whites and
until recently the despots of the League
have oacned the unfortunate negroes, soul
and body. They were the victims of a
slavery more exacting, more degrading,
more tyrannical, than any to which human
beings we're ever subjected-a slavery that
resulted in benefit to the few and injury to
the many. AS long as the leaders could
hold the negroes in terror, and vote them
in solid body for the accomplishment OF
their own selfish purposes, ali worked
smoothly for the carpet-bagger and scala
wae. Devices could go to Congress, and
Jaybird jones be superior court judge.
But the glorious result Of the election IN
Virginia is the first grand step in the second
emancipation of the negro. Carpet-baS-
gers, leagues, and scalawags, are dead dogs
in the Old Dominion; and similar tate
awaits them in Texas and Mississippi.
North Carolina, too, will in the next cleo
ton, as she might have done in the last,
sign the death-warrants Of all the Letilns,
Schencks, Dewecses, Tourgees, and others
of that species, who are now luxurlatlng III
positions of honor and profit.
If Wells had been elected in Virginia,
with the Underwood constitution as his
guide, sad indeed would have been the fate
of that proud and honored old Common
wealth. And to no class would such re-
suit have proved more disastrous than to
the negroes. Bitter and proscriptive feel
ings would have been engcndered between
the races; and with paralyzed trade, a
bankrupt treasury, and uncomfortable taxa
ton, the negroes must necessarily have
been driven to other States IN search OF
employment.
But, resulting in majority of $4,000
against Wells and ruin, the election will
proyethe greatest blessing that has been
vouchsafed the people of Virginia since the
close of the war. The whites now entertain
a kindly feeling towards the blacks-eyen
including those who voted against them
thus exhibiting that generosity and mag
nanilnity inseparable from virtue and IN
telligence.
Now all Virginians, white and black,
will work together in common cause. The
interest of the two races are identical; and
ali the powers of Radicalism combined can