The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-14
THESAME OLD WAR CRY
OBTAINS IN THE OLD DOMINION
Tia. stsrti.d the Negroes Far,s.r SO,,A Daring
the Bloody Rsisa OF the Ku E,ax-Th. DAa.
Vile Massacre and How It was Plahatd.
cOIOrsd Htn Shot for no 0Gsnm.

Vile Massacre and Bow Il was Piahatd.
cOIOrsd Asa Shot for no oHssss.
WASHINGTON, November lS-The Repub-
liean publishes to day the following special
from Petersburg:
siace Thursday's dispatches to the Re.
publican from here, mass OF information
has been received from letters from all
parts Of the State, and from communica.
tions made in person by local leaders from
many counties, all Of which shows that the
result oi last Tuesdays election created no
more surprise among the Bourbons than
would the baggipg Of any other game for
which they might deliberately go cunning.
Every mail'trings fresh proof that the
State was bordering on condition OF war,
aud the only wonder is that the DanRille
massacre was the only wholesale one that
occurred. The Bourbon faction exhautted
the supply Of firearms everywhere, and
how many were brought into the State for
Agentleman OF high character informed
me to-day that friend Of his, who was
making a purchase oil some sort in q store
in Baltimore week before election, and,
therefore, four days before the bloody
work at Danville, was told that during the
brief time he was in the store seven orders
for firearms were there received from Dam
vile. Another prominent citizen told me
that as early as Jolly q Fander told him
that his party intended to buy all the votes
they could, and when they had exhausted
that process they intended 10 bully enough
to m, Ike the thing sure. Another man was
told bosstingiy by Bourbon in October
thst on the 7;h OF November bis party
would spring something TN the Coalitionists
that would beat them, and It would be too
late for them TO counteract it. It Is now
evident that the mine thus to be. exploded
was the race issue, and that the instru.
mentality was 10 be the Dlnville circular.
This Is shown by the fact that this
precious document was sent into the conn
ties prior to November 1,with directions
10 withhold them from circulation until
that day. The circular was the chief bur-
den OF discussion at Bourbon meetings bt-
tween the lst and oh. On election day
dispatches were sent from DAnv:le saying
that the whites were standing In their
doorways. with shot gnns, protecting their
negroes, aud they did not dare to leave
their homes or go to the polls
.-. INFAMOUS Ro0RBAcKs.
These infamous roorbacks were printed,
and fell as thick as st,owHakes around the
streets in remote towns ef the southwest.
The Bourbons in these localities would
take them and hold them up 10 conserva.
tive white Readjus!ers, and would say
"Are you white man Well, Il you are,
here Ia the evidence that the fight has
come down between The white race and its
enemies; which side sre you on ~
Photographs were exhibited, one Of a
colorsd teacher shaking his fist at delicate
white child, causing II to cry, while ano.h.
er represented tllck school.trustee hold.
ing white child on one knee and q black
one on the other. < ~. Il
The cortident manner In which the
Bourbons declared that the whites Of Dan
vile were at the mercy Of. the blacks, and
the aggressive manner In which they de-
manded that their listeners should instant.
ly decide which race was entitled 10 their
sympathy and support, overpowered their
amazed and bewildered communities where
few blacks resided, and took them com.
pletely of their feet. The widest panic
was created by this bold and infamous
fraud, and there is no room fer doubt that
the declaration that vote for the Coalition
candidate would be vote on the side OF
the Danville negroes, led to the natural In
ference that to cast such vote would be
10 invite personal violence.
A member OF the military company sent
from Richmond 10 Danyille, to preserve
order, says that the negroes kneeled at their
feet, and claspi.ig them around the knees,
poured out their thanks to God for the ar
rival oi protection. The number OF the
bodies OF dead negroes found since the day
OF the mass tcre Is unknown, but 1t Is be-
lieved 10 be much greater than the public
has yet learned
THE REIGN OF TERR6R.
The reign Of teuer still continues there,
and committee Of forty Is about to make
an investigation under Bourbon direction.
Tho entire truth 1t will be difficult to as.
certain at any time, but q committee Of the
United States Senate would doubtless he
able to obtain testimony enough which
could not be controverted, to show that
the Danville affair and many lesser deeds
Of violence elsewhere in the State, together
with the highly wrought condition Of the
public mind produced by the lawless
methods Of the Bourbons, prevented any
thing Ike q free expression Of the popular
will in the recent so-called election.
From whatever portion OF the State men
come, all bring accounts Of doings fearful
10 contemplate in q country in which lib
erty and law are said 10 exist. 1give q fUw
specimens which recall from conyersa.
tons l have heard. Some time before the
election, at the county seat Of Madison, q
man demanded to know OF two colored
servants how they would vote. They re-
piled they intended to vote the Coalition
ticket. He said II they did they could no
longer work for him. Tney declined TO
give up their right to vote as they pleased,
and left.
and when near them drew his pistol on
the one nearest him and exclaimed, u be-
Iiieye / will kill you anyhow" The negro
turned, opened his Coat aud said, "fou
can kill me II you want to-" The words
were hardly out Of hls mouth before he
was shot dead.
BECAUSE HE wAsA NEGRO.
At staunton negro stood on the side
walk, looking down at the ground, when
man came along with q shotgun and when
within about ten feet Of him exclaimed,
loudly: "I'll shoot any d-n niger that
insults me-" leycled his gun and discharged
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