The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-06-13
v,rrinian Proindices.

MT. PULITZER. OF INC w VFtu, " fcsptct-
fully asked to read the following-w written,
not by the editor OF the Dispatch, but by
the editor of the State, and to recollect
whilst reading it that the state speaks for
the Democracy Of Virginia:
"Eycn those white men, with few ex-
ceptions, who still held aloof from Us, since
the damning act Of Cameron and his Board
in placing over oux white schools negro
trustees. have now determined also to re-
pudiatc Mahoneism and all It's enormities.
II was. we say. proper then that these
white voters should be represented in
the party meetings and conventions by
delegates in whose election they had
had voice; and may we not hope
that this tender of TIE olive-branch to
our seeding Democratic brethren who
left us only because OF the difference OF
opinion which Lad arisen as TO the power
OF the people 10 change the contract and
readjust the debt, and whose hearts are
still with us in all things that concern the
welfare and prosperity OF the State and the
purity Of their proud race, which must
control its destinies in future, will be ac-
ccpted readily by all OF them in the same
friendly spirit in which the overture Is
made, and lasting covenant OF peace De
thus made between US and them.
This matter settled on this friendly
basis. and all back again save those few
rencoades who have strivon to entice
the Democracy Of Virginia into the
Radical ranks and sell il out for a prlee-
for the thirty pieces Of quicksilver,
and whom we never will take back-we
saw. this settled. and the Democratic-C
seryative line reformed in all its entirety
upon the same old field, we may then feel
that Virginia and Virginia's proud race OF
white men. sprung from white mothers
aud fathers. are once more safe. we VIII
then have no miscegcnatiOn, assimilation,
amaIgamation, or unitication, except that
more perfect unification OF the white peo-
pie to protect the purity OF the race from
the contamination now threatened by Ma
hone and Cameron, and which has been
begun by them in our free schools as the
best point OF attack, because promising the
greatest immediate results"
We also commend the following, from
the same true Virginia journal, to the at-
tention OF Mr. PULITZER:
Our stamch Democratic friends OF Eliza
beth City county are under the lowering OF
cloud. Long has been their sorrow, but
their hearts are undaunted. With silent
courage they await the changes that must
come for them in time. But as yet they
are at the mercy OF that negro supremacy
which the petty Boss pretends through his
organ IS impossible in Virginia. May this
evil never spread, rs the Boss and his
henchmen are wishing to have it spread,
so long as he and they can secure spolls for
themselves.
But hear the history Of Elizabeth City, a
county which is so dense with misguided
colored men that in the late election 1t was
impossible for itsvOte TO fall into line with
the splendid Democratic gains among its
neighboring counties. COlOred 1t had been
before. but till MAY it had not been be-
smirched with utter blackness.
Hear of the humiliation OF its pure and
noble people. In the late election that his
toric old county was for the first time hand
ed over to the care OF negro sheriff. y
negro was made its commissioner of
revenue. A large number OF its justices
of the peace and its constables were
chosen from among negroes. The NOR
tifcation of the noble people of that
county, the robbery OF their freedom,
which makes them the subjects OF an
inferior race, their very misery would drive
them elsewhere had they in their war
stricken poverty elsewhere to go. But
they suffer. and we ask in their name and
in the name Of their brother Virginians
everywhere if this great and broad and
free State is to be put under negro rule by
the white renegqdes who are seeking to
elect a Legislature that will make nine out
Of the ten congressional districts black
Radical, as it was proposed to make them
in the last Legislature?
Let the men OF Virginia wake to their
duty and save their rights. Let them re-
member that this is not only the fight OF
to-day, but that its resul. carries with it
the fate of the tender ones that cling to
them and trust in them. and believe with
unialtering faith that their future is in the
hands of Their fathers.