The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-12

WHEELING, ". VA. NOVEMBER y, 1883.
"VirginianIsm."
II may be that General Bradley 7.
johnson has given Us word which has
come to stay. In q Baltimore interview
(Which bears the marks Of the Generals
pen) he describes the result Of the Virginia
election as "the triumph Of virginianism."
Let US take the definition in General john
sons own words:
The election in Virginia Is the result OF so
cial forces more than OF political ones-so-
cial forces directing aud governing society In
It's fundamental organization. II was the
supreme effort OF the civilization, the Gull
tuTe and tho morals oil a community to shake
off and destroy bAleful influence, which
was blasting the State. The intelligence, the
virtue, the property and the education OF the
State rose up and vindicated the moral
forces that control society. It was no ques-
ton OF debt paying, nor OF Democratic prin-
ciples. The result Is not party triumph
alone. 1t Is the triumph OF order, consei'
yatlsm aud good government. 1t Is the III
umphof VLrgiuiAlism. Virginia Viotrt1, Is
her title to-day.
in the Virginia newspapers we have q
definition more rugged and stirring. Thif
istrom the Richmond STATE, whose editor
recently had duel with the editor Of the
Richmond IHhiG
White supremacy or negro supremacy,
Remember that the darEers Of an abhos'
rent social equality stare US In the face.
Shall we have negro trustees to whom youT
daughters must apply for permission 10
teach?
Now that the liberties OF cur race are In
yaded and all our born rights threatened
shall we not, too, cry Blood Is thicker than
water" and range ourselves shoulder 10
shoulder in the same great cause.-the Gauss
OF all white Virsiniars.
And this from the Richmond Dipatch, the
foremost newspaper Of Virginia:
One thing Is certain, and they may as we'll
understand IL now US later, and that Is that
the white people Of Virginia do not intend to
hold their rights at the will OF the negroes.
Itisdifiioult to restrain the utterances oil
the exaspeIa!ed feelings which find place in
every tue white mans bresst when writing
of such conflict between whites and blacks
ap that which took place yesterday at Dan
vile.
Was it a question Of "white supremacy
or negro supremacy" Had the colored
race Invaded the liberties Of the white
racer Virginia hiss quarter Of a million
more whites than blacks. In affairs Of
government is one colored man stronger
than one white man? 1t is not 80 in Mis-.
slssippi, where there are 10000 more
blacks than whites; where the white mans
party" has the State its own way and the
Democratic majority for President is
saved" by 10000. It is not so in South
Carolina where there are over zoe. 900 more
blacks than whites in a population OF less
than million. 1t is not so in Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Louis
lana, in all Of which there is large colorcd
population, in some cases falling very little
short Of the white.
In all these States the superior race"
rules, partly because it is the more intelli.
gent race, having had superior advantages;
partly because it is the capitalist race and,
therefore, the employing race; and partly
because it has been willing to resort to
fraud and violence. In one way and an
other the white people OF the South have
been able 10 defeat the full enjoyment by
the negro OF his political rights.
The Changers OF an abhonent social
equality" have never stared in the face any
Southern community. That is merely the
convenient cry Of the race-hater, who can
not tolerate as voter the creature whom
he bred and sold as a chattel, and who
makes his oAenae more henious by refus-
ing TO vote tho race-hater's ticket. We can
imagine something more abhorrent than
the red flag which the Virginia Bourbons
Haunted in the face Of the people-a clash
between whites and blacks such as this
spirit Of malignant intolerance must lead
to unless common sense and fair play shall
assert their rule.
The ignorant whites OF Virginia have
been iniamed to bring them to the polls.
That flame can not 80 easily be quenched
with the closing OF the polls. The negroes
have heard these appeals TO the race preja.
dice Of the whites. They know what hap.
pened at Danville, where there was re.
gro rising" which ended in the killing Of
half dozen colored men, and the wound.
ing Of three times as many, two white men
being accidentally hurt by their own
friends. In Virginia the two races are in
splendid condition for trouble,
There are in this country six millions and
q half OF persons Of African descent. They
have upset the theory and refused to die
out. They are increasing faster than the
whites. They will not emigrate. This is
their country and they can'tbe expatristed.
They are here to stay. The two races must
live together. God forbid that "virginian-
race war Of the ballot, and where
the ballot fails, fraud and the shot gun
shall take the place Of that "equal protec.
ton Of the laws" which the Constitution OF
the United States declares that no State
shall "deny to any person." In the new
Union colored man Is "person."