The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-07
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1878.


WE fear that the capital stock of the
Conservative party is running lows
ebbing out faster than the tides of
human folly ordinarily run. The unspeak-
able bugbear that is constantly before their
eyes, is "Negro Supremacy in Virgins"
If the excellent and chivalric gentlemen
put in nomination by the Conservative
party are beaten, this terrible calamity is
certain to belall the state. So they con-
stantly say, swear, and affect to believe.
Morning, noon, and night this unspeakable
bugbear afflicts them. Martin Luther was
not more terribly disturbed by the visitations
Of the ''grim gentleman in black" (paren-
thetcally ycleped the devil than are these
worthy Virginia gentlemen by the
thought of "black supremacy in the state.
Their mental condition is such as really to
excite our commiseration. We wish we
could do something for them-step be-
tween them and this overshadowing weight
of dread that now 50 signally appals them.
We would make their sad, heroic souls glad
if we could. 1t is not in our nature to see
them so terribly, needlessly affrighted,
without desire to lift them out of their
stark-mad condition into the light of
confidence and trust in the magnificent and
indomitable white race to which it may be
reasonably suspicioned they belong.
With two hundred and fifty thousand
more white people in the state than negroes
this grand 'tcolor scare" borders immeasur-
ably on the ridiculous. The old heroic
times, we fear, are past, or else the present
unheroic times are sadly out of joint.
Neither the Nat Tyler rebellion nor the
John Brown raid produced half the nerve
SCATTERING effect of this shocking disloca,
ton, in these unhappy times. We only
wish we had the skill of Scultetus to re.
duce it; we would set ourselves humanely
at work with splint and band.
age and do all in our power
to alleviate the suffering, if not better The
condition of the Conservative party. Tai
aches from little toe-corns grow" is a phi
losophic observation that tops anything
that Emerson or CARLYLE has ever uttered
but tall craftsmanship don't come from
any Of the aches, pains, or pangs of thu
Conservative party in Virginia. by
their eternal boast of Virginia az
she was (Ilium fitiO, and of g the giant,
that lived in those days." they compare.
lively dwarf themselves down to first-clas:
pigmies, and in that state apparently de
light, like the Amorites Of old, to live and
flourish on the borders of the Dead sea
sea so dead, in fact, that it was nevel
once whitened by the sail of commerce
even under its most splendid Canaante
Irregular old Bourbonite) rule.
But this land of the Amorites wa!
finally conquered by Moses and assigned
to the tribe of Reuben, when better ant
more prosperous stale of things ensued
The idolatrous worship of Chemosh ant
Baalpoor was displaced by the humane
institutions and diviner worship of Israel
Of course the old-fogy Amorites deplore'
this state of things, and appealed to tn
d passions and prejudces of race in ordc
to regain the power that had Slipped
through their fingers, and never after
wards returned. History is a constan
repetition of the same or similar events
and what we see in Virginia to day j
nothing more than the tribe Of Reubel
witnessed in the unhappy land of Moab.
But, historical parallels aside, this " colo
scare" in Virginia is about the absurdes
thing that ever afflicted any branch of tn
Caucasian race since the great flood. It'll
too absurd and preposterous bugbear t.
brighten stark-mad idiots with, to sa,
nothing of those from the soberer land 0
bedlam. Away with it, then, or apply a
once for writ de htaatico, and hustle OF
the mentally afflicted. so as to dispense will
these more provoking streaks Of insanity il
the campaign. tai