Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-11-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
A Private Chapter From the Recent
Race Troubles and Excitement
in Virginia.
The Paraly2iug Force OF Danger the
Safety of the Negro Blood Thick
cr Than Water.
Mahone's Adhercnts--What Parsou
Brownlow said OF the Civil
Rights Bill.
Buffers Collapse Him aud Ma
hone Roth be Eniombed ut
Tcwksbnry.
ny Mali aud rclcsrppn,


ny Mall aud Telegraph,
Washington, November ILL have
u letter from an old friend and former
school-fellow, now citizen of Nir-
ginia, He writes from Staunton No
vcmber 18th, 1883:
''Go 20 the Office OF the Remington
Arms company and buy for me and
| forward by express pair of bull dogs,
self-cocliers. | have always approved
Mahone's plan of readjusting the state
debt, II Is right and Just, BY this set
Element we pay all that we Justly
owe, Let West Virginia take care Of
her share OF the old state debt. | have
been voting for Malone candidates.
! But mark You, that decision Ct the
supreme court of tho United States Is
right and wise and Just The negroes,
II Bob Ingcrsoll aud bloody shirt ora
tors did not mislcad them, would he
Infinitely prolited by n decree enabling
the common people TO act naturally
and forget that a despotic code sought
TO force them down to the negroes So
cial plano or 10 hit the negro, unLatu-
rally and wrongmlly, To u position be
| has not vet won. But lnpcNOll and
| his associate fanatics are urousing the
l
areto be robbed ofevery privilege uceiti-
zcnship and finally reduced to slavery
They refuse to listen To rs. They
think we want the money that Is IN
them. | tell thcm that | have been
voting with them for years and that
would not wrong tliem. They
| hear nothing | say, and only
listen when Ingersoll and
Fred Douglas rave and roar.
There may be bloody work Tuesday.
Never was there such profound feeling
excited In any former contest In Win
ginia. II ~, Il this fight begin, the end
of the negro race. The Virginia debt
question is settled. lngcrsoll aud his
gang and Mnhone's organ, the Nation
al Republican, substitute the negro
question. | vote, therefore, the Demo-
crntic ticket tomorrow. / can only
say that every Virginian concurs with
Gov. Cameron, the brains OF MahOne'S
party In the south, That II this CON
| ilict come, rs begun in DHnville, the
white race will be an unit The ne
. gro must so.
; send the pistolsby express. Yours
always,
WHAT THAT LETTER MEANS.
Blood, you VIII observe, ia thicker
| illdu NNltI, N.iu Wis w Itit HlInUktE
than those of partisanship, therefore
have concluded that lngersoll, Fred
Douglas aud the Washington Rcpubll-
can would transfer the entire white
vote of the mountain and southwest
crn districts of Virginia 10 the Demoe-
rncy--there lay Mahono's strength.
The rest of his force wax black.
There mouutainoer and West Nir-
ninlans were original pcr 81
, Democrats and secessionists. Their
representatives In congress, I'LL the
Interstate war began. We're the sup
porters of Henry a. Wise. They slew
linow-nothingism. They upliItcd Jen
Dnyis. They were nrst aud foremost
in seeessonism. The Whigs OF Nlr-
ginia and the Union men of Virginia
were the shareholders of Virginia The
over-rlghteous Thad Stevens and Rad
: icals of the North wanted strength In
the South. They could not affiliate
with the secessonists and abhorred
observation-disclosures, who were the Unions
lists of the South, and therefore could
only find proper allies Ia the negro
; race. 70 consolidate their power the
segregation of races must bG perfect.
The civil rights bill elected this pur-
pose, and now the rcmorseless knayes
having deliberately organized n war of
! races, by compactIng the one against
the other, hold up their filthy hands,
, when the inevitable consequences en-
sue or are impending, In holy horror.
lngersoll Is only Il wolf lelouling
, the stream above, that he may accuse
aud slaughter and deyour the lamb
below.
pARsoS BRowNIow.
j remember reading, when Parson
Brownlow was in the United States
senate his speech on this civil rights
bill now declared unconstitutional,
even ms Senator Carpenter at that
time asserted that IL would be. | do
, not recollect the exact words OF tho
, /, vigorous Tpnncsseean. j romem Der he
said that he "left the constitutlonality
of the question TO be determined ~
the lawyers OF the senate. He only
proposed 10 say That it, enactment
, would finally prove fatal 10 the peace
ful relations of races In the South.
such law can only separate them.
, IL viii constitute u barrier which tie
negro can never surmount."
III WAS PROPOSED
at that time 10 apply the law 10. the
free schools. Into which, Us well as
, into cars, hoe.ls and theaters, the
negro was TO have unrestricted access.
Senator i3rownlow said That such ala
enactment, even II congecss had tue
!. power TO make 10, would de-
stroy every school In Tennessee.
, Not only would the schools be
annihilated In middle and western
: districts, but In the hills aud valleys of
the eastern division OF the state. Ia
, which almost the entire population
are Republicans. Blood Ia thicker
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