The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-08-23
/ TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
NO. 81.
Under which King /?

| Several months before the Lynchburg
| Convention, the Board of Education APP
pointed two colored citizens on the Board
Of Trustees for the Public Schools of
Richmond. The State and Dispatch forth
with raised a howl of indignation, which
was caught up by the lesser organs Of that
| faction throughout the State. The negro
question was harped upon with an energy
and persistency worthy Of better cause,
the object of which was to arouse race
prejudices with view to making the
campaign this fall on that alone. 1t was
interesting to read the vicious and sensa- =.
tiOnal editorials that ladened the columns
of every Bourbon paper about negro trus
tees directing and ordering white ladyteach
ers, mixed schools. mixed marriages andall
the ills and indignities to follow the recog-
milton Of the social equality Of the negro
and the white. 1t looked very much as
though the fall elections would be decided
ON the question thus made up and the
more bitter and illiberal Of the faction
seemed to be i'll high glee. All at once
there was wet blanket thrown over this
eXuberance of feeling and hope. The New
Y DIRK World quietly reminded the Vir-
ginia BourbOns that they were making
fools of themselves that they were offend
ing the enlightened sentiment of the coun-
try, and that not even the Northern De-
mocracy could countenance any such eX-
cessive and suicidal Bourbonism. The
State and Dispatch grew angry with this
of1iciouS interference with their pro-
gramme and denounced the editor of the
World as u miscegenationist, social equali-
fist, and employed all kinds of uncom-
plimentary epithets to express their disgust
and contempt for him. He was advised
in terse terms to attend to his own bust
ness and leave the Virginia Bourbons to
manage their own affairs in their own way.
Several other Northern Democratic pa
perS came to the support of the World,
and it became evident that the Virginia
Bourbon newspapers were about to have
trouble on their hands. Suddenly they
ceased to discuss the matter. Their i'm
FASHIONED appeals to race prejudices were
suppressed, and the Dispatch, when tainted
about it, announced that it would have
nothing more to say, until the Lynchburg
Convention had acted. The State sullenly
suspended its fiery diatribes, and to
appearances. determined to act in concert
with the Dispatch. We all know what the
Lynchburg Convention did. 1t did not
endorse the views and opinions of the
Metropolitan journals, but it went even
further than the Board of Education had
gone. Instead of two colored school
trustees, it resolved in favor of appointing
a very large number of them-enough to
govern and manage all the colored schools
in the State. It went beyond the Re-
publicans or Readjusters, went so far as to
expose its own insincerity and deception,
and excite the disgust not only of the peo-
pie of the Virginia, but of the whole coun-
try.
In view of this record, the question nat
urally arises-''Who is running the Bour-
bon party of Virginia, the New York
World or the State and Dispatch ?" 1t looks
like the World had the inside track, and
the Richmond journals had been pretty
squarely set down upon by the astute editor
Of the New York paper. Under which
king Bizoman? Speak or die.