The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1883-11-22
Especial to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
How Virginia Was Carried.

How Virginia Was Carried.
WASHINGTON. November 12-The
Republican will publish tomorrow
the following special from Peters
burg:
Since Thursdays dispatches to the
Republican from here, Il mass of in
formation has been received from let
ters from parts of the State, and from
communications made in person by
local leaders from many counties, all
of which shows that the result
Of last Tuesdays election created no
more surprise among the Bnurbons
than would the bagging of any other
game for which they mi ght deliber-
sitely go cunning. Every mail brings
fresh proof that the State was border
ing on condition of war. and the
only wonder is that the DAnville mas
sacre was the only wholesale one that
occurred. The Bourbon faction ex-
hausted the supply Of firearms every
where, and-how many We're brought
into the State for the occasion will
never be known.
A gentleman Of high character in
loI lueu IHc to-udy tlldO n IileHu VI HIS,
who was making purchase Of some
sort in store in Baltimore a week
before the 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 Danville Another prominent
citizen told me that as earl y as July a
Funder told him that his party inten-
ded to buy all the votes they could,
aud when they had exhausted that
process they intended to bully enough
to make the thing sure. Another
man was told boa~tingly by Bnnr-
bon in October that on the 7th of No
vember his party would spring SOME
thing on 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 ex-
plodrd was the race issue, and that the
instrumentahty was to be the Dan
villa circular.
This is shown by the fact that this
precious document was sent into
counties prior to November 1, with
directions to withhold them from cir
culation until that day. The circular
was the chief burden of discussion at
Bourbon - eetingS between the 1,t
and 9Th. On election day dispatches
were sent from Danville saying that
the white men were standing in their
doorways, with shotguns. protecting
their wives from violence at the hands
Of the negroes. and they did not dare
to leave their homes to go TO the polls.
These Infamous rnorbacks were
printed, and fell as thick as sn"wf4kes
around the streets in remote towns of
the southwest. The Bourbons in
these localities would take them up
and hold them up to conservative
white ReadjuSters, and would say:
Are you IA white man? Well, if you
are, here IS the evidence that the fight
has come down between the white
race and its enemies: which side are
you OIL? ?"
Photographs were exhibited, one Of
IA colored teacher. shaking his fist at a
delicate white child, causing it to cry,
while another represented black
SCuOCt-tfuSIeG uOlulIlS WILLIE Cultu
on one knee and black one on the
other.
The confident manner in which the
Bourbons declared that the whites of
Danville We're at the mercy Of the
blacks, and the aggressive tone in
which they demanded that their list
eners should INSTANTLY decide which
race was Untitled to their symp tthy
and support, overpowerrd the amazed
and b.wildered communities where
few blacks resided. and took them
cnm pietely off their feet. The wild
est panic was created by this huld and
Infamous fraud, and there is no room
for doubt tn 1T the declaration that Il
vote for the Coalition candidates
would be vote on the side of the
Danville negroes, led to the natural
inference that to cast such IA vote
would be to invite personal violence.
A member of the military company
sent from Richmond to DAnville, to
preserve order, says that the negroes
knreled at their feet, and clasping
them around the knees. poured ont
their thanks to God for the arrival of
protection. The number Of the bGa-
les of dead negroes found SINCE thu
dav Of thu m .i>s:q.e Is unknown. bnt
it i believed to be much greater than
the public has vet learned.
/ The reign Of terrur still continues