The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-03
USING THE WHIP.

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USING THE WHIP.
The Richmond STATE JOURNAL, the |
ablest Radical paper in the State and In the
South, ridicules the nomination OF DR.. ID.
M. Norton for Congress from this district |
by the Republican Convention which met
at Bagnall's Hall, in this city, last Tuesday
afternoon, and says ''he aoould nccer hare
been thought Of as a candidate for Con-
qreSs except for lis color.o The easiest |
way to excite the rage ola white Radical is |
for a colored man to have the presump-
ton to ask the suffrages of his fellow cit
liens for an important Office. Oh, no!
All the fat places are for the white Radi-
calls! The negro must do the voting, the
white man will hold the high offices! Even
where the negroes are largely in the MAJOR
ity they must not aspire to the big offices
They must not vote for colored man be-
cause he is colored, although white men,
Radicals, vote for white men against
negroes in ninety-nine cases in a hundred.
We particularly call the attention of the
colored people to this threat of the STATE
JOURNALS: -...r -a- hes
And we here say to DR. Norton that if he wants
to run colored suffrage so far into the ground
that the shaft of eternal Judgment will never
reach it, let him force tbs test q guat!fcdtto"
upon the Independent electors Of this State.
In other words if colored people dare
to exercise the prerogativc of freemen, and
vote for men Of their own race in preference
to scalawags and carpet-baggers, the right
of suffrage may be taken away from them
1t remains to be seen whether the colored
voters of this district are to be deferred
from voting for DR.. Norton by this auda-
cious threat. Norton, Bayne, Riddick, and
their followers are not the men we take
them to be if they meekly submit to this
dictaton .-NorfoM Journal.
1t is gratifying to us to witness this new
born zeal of our Norfolk contemporary in
the cause of the colcred people Of his Con-
gressional district, and the ready champion
ship it displays in coming to the relief of
DIR. Norton, the nominee Of the Republican
convention which met in Bagnalps Hall in
| Norfolk" That was convention and a
half-the half being much the greater part Of
the whole. Five boiling delegates who
have done nothingbut bolt Republican
conventions since their leader came boiling
into the State, meeting at Bagnall's Hall,
without the first syllable of a notice to any.
body but themselves, and nominating d. M.
Norton for Congress, constitutes the big.
gest sort of convention" in the estima.
ton of the Norfolk Journal. 1t was no doubt
grand and imposing affair-almost equal in
point of numerical strength, to the meeting
of the recalcitrant Jack Winble and his two
fiery deacons TO elect new parson in the
Dutch church at Wimbledon. They were
not the men to yield to clerical dictation-
not they. Norton, Bayne and Riddick ar
made of the same stuff, and equally obi
vious to being driven. We are glad to hea
| it, especially from such confidential ant
perfectly reliable authority as the Norfoll
Journal We have no idea of driving an,
such chronic boilers as DR.. Norton. III
can nominate himself for every Office in tn
gift of the people, and run for as man.
different positions as there are changes t
, the inconstant moon, and we shall no
modest him. 1t is only when he attempt
to run as Republican, under false colo,
! and Democratic pay, that we shall strip tn
! mask off of his face. He is perfectly we
known by the colorcd people of the Secon
Congressional District as a trading polit
cian--as one who goes into a politics
, canvass to make all the money he can OF
of it. Beyond this he has no principle
4 that can by any possibility apply to pol
! tics. FL, ~,
}. The Journal resorts to the trick of
: small politician when it quotes a detache
g portion of our article, in order to make
/ appear that we meant one thing when
h knew we said quite another. We hay
o never objected to colored mans being pr
f in nomination for any office. We have r.
r peatedly said, and said it in the very artic
from which the Journal quotes, that coll
O was no ground for disqualification. An,
h as corollary to this proposition, we ha
o as repeatedly said that want of color w
: no ground for qualification. With US, col
d is not tobe considered, but qatdli,icati
e only and, having shown that, DR.. Mort
l. was put in nomination by the seceders, IF
h in number,) from the Portsmouth conve
n ton, simply on the ground that he W
o colored, we declared that.we would 81
d upon that ground of qualification, precise
/ as we would upon the ground that cant
It date was white. And when we said "let hi
a force Mts test" that is the test of color sill
1t ply we meant what we said |; and Br. NJ
l. ton has got brains enough to see what t
he effect of it would be.
er All that he seems to care for color
i suffrage is, to run it into the ground. If
can get the Democrats to "bleed" han
Of somely for d. M. Norton, at half doz
'e different elections every two years, it is
he that the immaculate D.. M. Norton car
,e for colored suffrage. This we are fore
ut to believe from the course be has invar