The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-11-04

monwealth, the other for "causes sufficient
TO the court" and one OF them has fled IN,
town TO avoid indictment.
The notoriety which this state az THING,
has produced has attracted 10 the towr
large numbers Of idle and filthy negroe,
from the border counties OF North Caro-.
lima, aud from Halifax, Mecklcnburc. anf
Charlotte. Va. Although there IL n law
against Migrants, they are never disturbed
They iniest the streets and sidewalks IN
squads, hover about public houses. and
sleep on the doorsteps OF storehouses and
the benches OF the market place. They
impede the travel Of ladies and gentlemen
very frequently forcing them from the side.
walk INTO the street. Negro ,rOmen have
been known
TO FORCE LADIES FROM THE PAVEMENT
and remind them that they will .ledrn 10
sep aside merit time" In several instances
/ white children have been struck by grown
negroes. We know Of several cases where
the Ne has been giuen 10 d ,chite lddy TO he,
tdce by negro. IL is very common
\ practice for the negroes who are employed
about our houses 10 allude to white ladies
and gentlemen as men and lcOmen. and Ia
negroes rs ladies' and gentlemen. This il a
/ practice almost without exception with
the negro women. They do II TO irritate
and throw contempt upon the white race.
A-short time since; when the town was in
I great excitement over the murder OF q re-
/ spectacle gentleman and farmer Of Pittsyl-
vania county, in his wagon, while on his
way home from Danville, by three negro
/ htqhUdynen, n negro man in this town
stood in the centre Of crowd Of his
friends, with pistol exhibited on his per-
son, and with threatening gestures and
| loud oaths declared that he wanted to
start q row with some d--n son Of b-h
OF "a white man, that he might kill him."
few nights ago the negroes were very
indignant because they heard OF the earn
est work that was going on by the whites
TO register all Of their voting strength, and
called a meeting, which was addressed by
an incendiary negro named Peasants, q
postal agent, and one OF the town council
men, hired at the cusiOm-hOuse, and they
passed resolution requesting the Gov
ernOr TO have Federal troops sent TO our
town on election-day to intimidate the
white people at the polls.
They have also scheme to amend the
town charter, il they elect the Legislature
this fall, and take into the town large ne
=
called Jacksonville. by which they will get
several hundred more black voters, ard
then it ,ciA be impossible for any tchite man
to hold office in The torn. We knOu this to
be their plan.
1t is well known that hundreds OF the
North Carolina tobacco.rasers who live
within a few miles Of Danylle and used to
sell their tobacco in our market now 90 five
times as far to market in their own State
on account OF
TIE NEGRO RULE IL OUR TOWN.
At the negro meeting referred to above
one OF the speakers said they did not want
the people OF North Carolina TO come here
anyway.
Now, fellow-citiZens OF the Valley and
Southwest, we cry out to you in our aflliC
ton TO deliver us from this awful state OF
humiliation and lrretChedneSS. We know
that as o rule the cries OF the wretched
make but little interruption OF the general
progress OF things. The sun rises and sets
all the same, and the work IL the Govern
ment, and the work Of the feast and the
torture goes on with eXactneSS and tran
quillity. But we appeal TO you by that
sympathy which constitutes the bond OF
union between honorable men, struggling
in the cause OF freedom, TO help us throttle
this viper OF aeqrOiSm that is singing us
to madness and TO death By rOting against
the Coalition Rddicdi candidates ,cho are
yelling and screaming ,ciM delight at the
prospect Of fastening its JangS into as for
eJer.
We appeal to you TO say, do YOU think it
is just that we should contribute every cent
to the maintenance Of our town, pay our
town debt and appropriate not only lrhdt
the negro pays in the lcdy Of tar. but much
more besides, OF our own money, TO the
education Of his children, lchOm he raises
upon oar
MONEY TO BE OUR BITTEREST ENEMIES,
and then let him have possession OF our
town government. tooI Is it right that
the negro should have all this given him
and then be allowed to control our offices
and plumber our treasury besides?
1t is an injustice at which we know your
humanity will revolt.
1t is the injustice OF the frozen serpent.
which after being warmed into life by its
benefactor stings him to death.
Help us, icllow-citizenS, by voting for
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES candidatesio
the Legislature, for unless they are elected
lre. are doomed.
w. Il. CLARK, Merchant;
JAMES w. BRUCE, Merchant;
c. NJ. HENDRICK, Builder;
j. G. CONVICTION, TOhacconist;
REDD d JORDAN, Warehousemen;
DANIEL COLEMAN,
j. +. SCHOOLFIELD, Merchant;
a. q. FULLER. TobaccOnist
HAMLIN d HINTON, Merchants;
&. ii. NORTON, Contractor;
GEORGE A. LEE, TobaccOnist,
GRAvELY q BURTON, Grocers;
j. b. WEsTERBROOKS, Foundryman;
THOMAS l.. P0INDEXTER IL Son.
Warehousemen
RCFFIN, VOOLFOLK & BLAIR,
Real Estate and Insurance Agents;
john w. HOLLAND, Tobacconist;
w. =. GRAVES, Warehouseman;
J. VI. CONVICTION, Tobhcconist;
X. b. GRAHAM & Bro, Builders;
:. III. HOLLAND;
T.. l.. d A. GERsT, Tanners;
MOROTOCK MANUFACTURING Co.;
BooIH, WOODING & BOOTH,
Merchants;
ESTES e. WOODING. Merchants;
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