Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-02-10
FAYETTEVILLE, TENNESSEE
Ths'.day Horniug, Feb'y 10. 1870
Admission OF Virginia.

may as well be banished from our
political lexicon. State Sover-
eighty has been arbitrarily abel-
ished by act of Congress in every
Southern commonwealth, and when
the fifteenth amendment to the
constitution shall have been final
ly adopted, will be extinct, for
the time being at least, in all Sec
tons OF the republic.
Virginia, after having fully CON-
piled with the stringent terms
upon which the party majority in
Congress consented to reinstate
her, was denied the boon for which
che had honestly rendered the re-
CURED equivalent. Her repre-
sentatives having been contempt
uously thrust back from the doors
of both Houses of Congress, she
was compelled to remain under
military rule, while her case was
reopened and re. discussed in both
wings Of the Capitol. In the
course Of this new ordeal she was
snuboed, bantered, belied and GOV.
cred with unjust opprobrium by
clique of extremists led and In
spired by Benjamin F. Butler.
Butler had, and still has, we
presume, a vehement and bitter
spite against Virginia. In that
State he had been Inundated, a.
based, rendered ridiculous, and q
time when he could take his re.
venge sately having arrived, he
determined to feed fat the ancient
grudge he owed her. He had been
''bottled" at Bermuda Hundreds,
bumbugged at Fortress Monroe,
disgracefully and disastrously
beaten at Big Bethel, and made
the laughing stock of the whole
country by his engineering 6asco
on the James river, and was eager
70 wreak his wrath on the State
where be had played the military
mountebank amid the Kisses and
sccrn of the whole country. His
scheme has proved successful, and
Virginia returns to the Union
under onerons restrictions.
The negroes there-all of them,
at least, who are under ultra-rad-
ical infuence-regarded this con-
tumelious treatment of the CON-
monwealth as grand triumph Of
their race over the whites. At a
meeting held in Richmond on
Tuesday, the 18th, tocelebratethe
re-admission of the State, the black
extremists took the lead, shouted
down the white speakers, de-
nounced all southerners as disloy-
al, demanded that the State Offices
should be filled with colored men,
and warned the white population
that "ths little rights they had
just got should be taken from
them unless they submitted quiet
ly to negro dictation." So savage
and furious did the black mob be-
come under the infiammatory har-
argues of the ringleaders, that
the conservative whites deemed
it prudent to withdraw in order
TO escape violence. Butler, Sum-
ner, and their coadjutors in the
House and Senate are responsible
for this threatening demonstra-
tion and for any outrages that may
follow in its train. The speeches
Of the negro orators were modelled
after those Of their Congressional
patrons and champions. The Ian
guage was more coarse and brutal,
perhaps, but the threats were of
the same character, and the de-
mands made by the colored dema-
gogaes for themselves were not
whit more prepOsterous than those
made on their behalf by their
hackers on the GOor of Congress.
We are glad, however, that
Virginia has been reunited to the
Federal family, even on Buffers
terms. We are glad, too, that her
white citizens are determined to