New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-06
MIXING THE MOST or A RIOE

The Virginia campaign is ending as 1t was IN
tended that it should bcgin-with an attempt to
rally the whites against the blacks Just be-
fore the Lynchburg Convention was held in
July, there was determined attempt to arouse
q feud between the races. Governor Cameron
had appointed two cOlOrcd men as school truS-
tees, and this appointment, in spite OF the Tact
that such appointments were by no means un-
prcccdcntcd, was made the prctcNt OF great
cutlery against the blacks. The demand was
generally made that the Bourbon Convention
should draw the color line call for 4" white
mans government" etc. When the convention
met however, it was found that the BourbonS
in the strong negro counties were opposed to
such a course, because they hoped to be able to
win negro votes. Negro suffrage did not appear
to them to be such terrible evil. if they could
get some of the votes. So the convention con-
tented it>clf with dcnouncing mixed schools and
the appointment of colorcd trustees for white
schools.
In this way they avoided the danger of an
auti-ncgiO campaign, and now the Danyillc riot
gives them just time enough to iutlamc the
white voter, of the State with a rage against
the negro, before the vote is taken The BOur-
bon leader, will make all they can out of the
riot, and by their own confession they were
eager to have something of the kind happen be-
fore election II il less than a week since
press dispatch, abiding TO disturbances in Hall
fax County, in which, according to the usual
rule. only negroes were killed, and the whites
were only wounded, declared that the killing of
a white man by n negro would make it impo>si-
bic for Malone to carry the Legislature, Ii will
be noticed that the privilege Of becoming fm-
Gus because one Of their race has been killed by
one of the other is strictly reserved to the
whites. The negroes are expected 10 be serene,
if not grateful, when negroes are killed by
white, This is real stakeholder, logic. The
Bourbon managers did not get a dead white
man in the Danyillc riot, bat they came rs near
to it rs they could. The first report sent out
wa, that three whites had been mortally
wounded !, appears now that two OF them will
recover, and that one Of them WAS shot only in
the hand, and that accidentally. But under the
influence of the reports sent over the State, in
tense excitement seems 90 prevail among the
Whitcs-Or at least the BOurbOnS are doing their
best 10 have it appear 50. Meetings were held
at valiou, points, that mt Richmond being an
immense gathering of citizens who affection
atcly. earnestly and solcmnly' cntrcatcd all
whites to take the part of their own race y
whenever the race conflict shall arise. 1t is an
nounccd that the riot will have decided
effect upon the voting and, having in view the
c1cilabc Southern temperament, this can easily
be believed.
The account given by The Richmond Dispatch
shows that the whites began the quarrclling
OF course the negroes should have submitted
to any indignity, and then there would have
been no trouble. But being men and having
spirit, they resented indignitc,. In some IN
stance, they went even further and did little
marrclng. This was shocking, of course
only whites have the right to quarrel in Nir-
rinia. and the existence of quarTclsOmc negro
in Dmyillc is u good reason why every white in
the State should vote the Bourbon ticket and
why there should DC loud Onlcry for a war of
race, from the Potomac TO the Carolina border.