The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-07-31

But there is class in the land who res
bel against this settlement, and have inau-
gurated in this State political campaign
on the basis of hostility to 1t. Their efforts
are vain. The settlement cannot be disturb
ed for it is the miraculous work of q
higher power than man. Nor will the
people allow it to be upturned for they
see the benignity and wisdom which in
spired it; they reverence it as the work OF
Providence, and they cherish it as, under
God, opening to our great, prosperous, and
happy country destiny such as never be-
fore was vouchsafed to any nation.
THE CONSERVATIVE PLAN OF CAM
t.Ft PAIGN 81 aassCaa
is that Of antagonizing the two races which
have lived so long in peace together on the
same soil, and which have greater reason
now for mutual respect, kindliness, and
trust than ever before. Our adveYsaries
have set out in this campaign, which oe-
ours at a time when all classes and inter-
ests of the state should concert together
for the common good, on The line of hatred,
intolerance, and prescription towards the
negro citizen and those who unite with him
in supporting the noble principles of the
Republican party.
WE ARE NOT TO DISCUSS QUESTIONS
OF STATE POLICY.
We are not to consider which party has
given relief to the people, and which other
has heaped oppression upon the suffering
classes. We are not to inquire whether
help can be obtained from Congress for
our school system, and what party is most
likely to secure that help. We are not to
ask whether the completion of the canal
will be undertaken by the national govern
ment and what party has control of that
government. We are not to inquire which
party is for educating the children of the
people, and which opposed to it; which
party is for elevating the laboring man.
and which for degrading him which party
is for teaching him the duties of citizen
ship, giving HIM home which nothing
can turn him out Of, and by these and
other means attaching the laboring class to
our state, and preventing it, by moving
| Oft, fiOm reducing US to that worst of all
conditions of helpless decline, the absence
of labor. W t3l isgcig abae
We are to consider none of these practi-
cal questions, but our opponents have
opened the campaign with the imbecile
pretence that the state is in danger Of fall
unworthy cry" Vtrg,nia for sOhite Pr
QinidnsW -ss .
| HYPOCRACY OF THE CONSERVATIVE
PRETENCE. fH sF4
/. The pretence is grossly hypocritical.
Those who make it have no fear of negro
ascendancy. As rational men, it is i'm
| possible that they can entertain such an
! apprehension. The whites in the state are
seven hundred and twelve thousand in
number, and the colored people only
| five hundred and twelve thousand
The whites have, according to the full
| registration Of 1860, 10000 voters, while
the blacks have only 10000. The whites
have practical majorities in sixty counties
Of the state, the blacks in only ten counties.
The Conservatives have cheated the colored
people out of even their rightful strength
by an outrageous gerrymander. 10 %
counties having III, 141 people, chiefly
white, are given Is delegates in the Genera
Assembly, while to 25 other counties having
307, s64'people. lchiefy black, are given onlJ
% delegates. The Conservatives have SO
contrived as to require an average voting
population of 30 800 in the Republican sen.
atoral districts, while voting population
| of only 81 ,035 is required in the Conserva
| tive senatorial districts. These disgracefu
contrivances and palpable facts explode thu
| pretence that Virginia is in danger of falling
under negro rule, and expose the hypocrisy
| of those who make it. 1t is notorious thai
at least 10000 colored voters are kept from
the polls chiefly by fraud and duress ant
the Republican party could not go into {
canvass with any hope of success withou
an assurance of at least one-thrd of TIL
white vote.
IT is UNCHRISTIAN.
2. This appeal to the prejudices of rae
is unchristian. The spirit OF Christianit
teaches that all mankind are of one brother
hood. Under the influence Of this sublim,
truth slavery persisted in the Old World
wherever Christianity prevailed, and unde
this same influence it has finally perishe,
here. There is a Nemesis in the providen
ces of God, and as an atonement for twt
hundred years of servitude he who rule
all events to the ends ofjustice has Above,
the African race, reared on the soil, To b
incorporated into the body of America
citizenship. Thus the proclamation from
on high is that the colored mai
is our fellow not only il
the bonds of a Christian brotherhood, blu
also in the bonds Of patriotism and citizen
ship. To incite, therefore, conflict of on
race against a brother race. is to rebe
against the ordinations of God, to rejec
the precepts of Christianity, and to ours
the land with the bitterest of all strife
and the fiercest of all antagonsms. Their
must be peace between races for the SAX
Of the material and moral welfare of tn
commonwealth, and there can be no peac
except by the triumph Of Republican prln
ciples. as s4 ~
IT Is A PENITENTIARY oFFENsE.
8. This agitation against the colored pop
ulation is in fragrant violation of the act {
our general assembly which condemns t
the penitentiary those ''who incite tn
white population of the state to max
insurrection by acts of violence or wa
} against the colored population" and til
reverse. What violence can be more flt
grant short of open war than the fierc
Indictment OF whites against blacks O
political questions, and bringing to bear 70
| this purpose all the machinery Of insul
and evaporation employed in polite.
, campaign such as that which our oppt
nents have inaugurAted? 1872
IT rs UNPROvOKED.
! A.. The clamor against the negro
= unjust and unprovoked. His conduct HI
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