The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-06-21

should be tried by a jury of judges, with
the evidence before them in printed form,
and ample time given to make up their
conclusions. The idea OF examining a man
for six months and then requiring him to
digest it all in twenty. -four hours is moth
ing more nor less than absurd.
Amusement"
The following article appeared in the ed
itorial columns of the New York World
of the 18th, the national organ of the DEM
ocratic party. Its healthy tone, it's rebuke
to the Bourbon methods in and Virginia
its catholic and just sentiments. seem to
have caused CONSERVATION in the Bourbon
camps about Richmond. 1t reads
Gov. Cameron, of Virginia, is beingNse-
verely censured, we observe, for having
appointed some negro school trustees in
the city of Richmond. Several of the
Virginia newspapers are advocating a
State convention to amend the Constitu-
ton so us to provide for the separate MAIN
tenance of white and colored schools-tax-
ing each race for it's own schools. The
Richmond Dispatch, in the worst spirit
imaginable, says:
1T might as well be understood first as
last that the whites of Virginia do not in
tend to permit negroes to be trustees of
white schools. This is a humiliation to
which nobody has a right to expect the
superior race to submit
This talk about ''humiliatiOn' and the
superior race" is in exceeding bad taste.
The Constitution Of the United States has
made negroes citizens in the fullest sense
of the word. They may fall short of the
whites mentally and morally, but when
they manifest the capacity to lift them
selves upon plain of equality with the
rest of mankind they should be encouraged.
1t should be the duty of the Democratic
party OF Virginia to protect, encourage,
and assist this lowly race instead of MAX
ing eternal war upon it. If Democracy
means anything it means sympathy for the
poor and the ignorant and the oppressed.
This is the Democracy of the World, and
miss forever the blind prejudice which the
Richmond Dispatch seeks to foster and
stimulate.
We respect Gov. Cameron fol- the step
that he has taken, 1t is time for this war
against ringers" to stop. The negro in
the South and elsewhere is entitled to ev-
cry right of citizenship. If he fails to
maintain himself the fault is his, but no
white man has a right to bar single av-
enue to his advancement.
The Dispatch comments us follows upon
the just and lawful views of the World:
''Mr. Pulitzer, the new editor of the
New y DIRK World, has none Of the preju-
dices of white man. On the contrary.
he commendS Gov. Cameron for appoint
ing two negroes trustees of the public
schools of Richmond. Upon what ground
Because 1.-THE. Constitution of the United
States has made negroes citizens i'll the
fullest sense of the WOrd.N The WOrtd
says this seriously in the face of the fact
that neither Gov. Cleveland, of New ork,
nor Gov. Pattison, of PENNSYLVANIA, nor
any other Governor in the North, Demo
cratic or Republican, has ever dared to in
suit the people of the State by such al act
as the one the World endorses. There are
twenty thousand negro voters in New
York State, and at some elections they
turn the scale in favor of the Republicans
but there is no negro ever elected OF even
SO much us nominated in that State for
any high office of honor OF profit, nor
where he will have to supervise the work
of white men.
But such question as this calls for no
argument. The white man who does not
instinctively rally to the white man s
standard cannot be induced to do so by
newspaper articles. Mr.. Pulitzer, who
has none of our Virginia prejudices, will
be glad to learn that every Democratic pa
per i'll this State takes exactly the same
position us does the Dispatch, and that not
one of Governor Cameron'S own party
friends outside of the otlice-hoding class
has come out in a letter endorsing his con-
duct.
I'VE regret that the World has fallen
into such hands. If it's Democracy is of
the kind indicated by the article upon
which we are now commenting, the people
of Virginia will have nothing to do with
it,
And the State goes into Mysteries because
the New y ork editor has manifested the
good sense and the patriotism to refer to
the race issue in Virginia, as it is sought
to be perverted by the demOralized and de-
mented Bourbon press of the State. in the
fit and proper terms it has. The State
says:
ABATEMENT THE New York World,
with MI. Pulitzer at its head, sprung a
mine upon the people of Virginia and of
the South this morning, whose explosion
was the more startling from the fact that
1T was so wholly unexpected from that
quarter. The COnfederates at Petersburg
were looking for the ''Crater mine'' to be
sprung, and were therefore pretty well
prepared but the negro mine by Mr.. Pu-
litzer's World, SO far from having been To-
Gated, was not even remotely suspected as
i'll contemplation. Surely the Worlds new
editor could not have had the least idea of
the CONSERVATION, not to say havoc and
panic, his dynamite paragraph in support
OF Gov. Cameron and his negro school
truStppS was calpulataI tO oToata ~, tlic
State and city, and the South. Amaze
ment was on every Democratic brow in
Richmond this morning when it was
known that the World had come out for
Cameron and his negro appointments.
What vagary. what lunacy, indeed, was
this? And wherefore were we stabbed in
the back by our own friends? We could
only account for it by supposing that the
article must have crept into the World
without the knowledge of the new western
editor, who could scarcely have sanctioned
it, and still hoped to be recognized in the
South as a Democrat. But if. on the other
hand, such are the sentiments of it's new
editor and such the views the new World
proposes to advance, we must frankly tell
him that the World will not have many
friends or readers among the Democracy
of the South. and will have to rely for en-
CouIdSelHolll Ill IlllS quarter wholly upon
the Mahoneites and their negro allies. The
Democracy will not countenance such
friendship as has been exhibited for it in
this article, but on the contrary, with one
voice, will cry out, ''Save us from all
friends of that sort!n
The Philadelphia Times, abitter opponent
OF the Readjusters, says:
The Times has not found much to praise
in the administration of Governor Gamer
on, of Virginia. But the Bourbon news
papers of the State are not aiding the Dem
ocratic cause by their senseless TRADE
against him for appointing some negro
school trustees in the city of Richmond.
In this matter the Governor is right and
the Democrats wrong. The negroes need
schools, and as citizens are entitled to their
benefits us much us any other class of citi-
zens. If there are colored men in Rich
mond or any other Southern city capable
of filling the position of school trustees
they should be accorded such positions us
Il matter of encouragement to the cause of
education among the colored people. The
white people have us much ut stake as any
body else in having the colored people be-
come intelligent citizens and they should
encourage Governor Cameron OF anybody
alSe i'm Such work