The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1888-10-24
On Which Side Stand You, White
or Black!
Danyille Reg ster.

GanNhlo neg strI'
The New York Herald 10 its issue
{ Tuesday has one Of the suundest
and strongest editorials we have yet
SEN on the political stu alton. The
article sets out with the great i'm
portauce that New Yosk occupies as
the pivotal state in the forthcoming
election and then adds: ....
The issue is the Union in its larg.
est sense-not IN its political integri.
~. That was determined at Apo
mattox. The hand Of the clock
which then struck the destiny of the
southern Confederacy eau never be
turned back. But free, Democrat.
lie Uni n. con. m 'nsurate with tie as
pirations vi free men all over the
world-this j. the battle which nOw
iurns on New York. The tariff is Cd
sprhing, but that battle is won
whether We have the fruition or not
in November. The tax on wool,
among other iniquities, is an outrage
This We know. But all the wool
whi':h has been shorn siuce the FIRST
sheep bleated about the Garden o.
Ellen is nothing 10 the issue involved
in this honest, progressive Democrat
ic Union.
This Is strong language, but ii is
particularly applicable to the people
VI Virginia. How often have we
urged upon our people that the tariff.
while question Of great Importance
to all classes Of people, 10 a mere
side issue as compared with the great
question, the all important question
Of Democratic rue Ia this state, rs
against Malone rule and negro rule.
Aud the Herald brings this question
ID our very doors when, in the
course of the article to which VIC
refer. ii gives utterauce to the fol-
lowing:
II il DOT in the tariI On wool, or
iron or coal il 10 not "a Canada or
Mexico hat we find the stake, but
the Union, the free Union, with no
monarchism in reyersion. Let the
fighting word until the polls close
be the Tree Unicn. Are we 10 remand
the Southern States TO the desolating
barbarism Of negeo domination, in
eyilable under Republican ruley
Are We to abandon the farmers of
the northwest 10 the land robbers
AMI railway thievcsl Are we to doom
the labor of the Middle States 10 an
other generation Of Carnegies, 10 o
system under which the RIGA grow
richer, the poor pOorerf Are We TO
bring the industries Of New England
down 10 the level Of the much pro
tected Continental States, where
lives Of thrift and toll end In squalor,
exile or shamti This is the issue 10,
voIyed IN that Of . free Union, the
issue TO be de ermined by the re elec.
ton Of Mr. Cleyeland. Il Is no car
niyal strife Of bonbons and roses, but
a hattie 10 the end for oil that patri.
otto Americans hold dear--a battle
TO corserv aud consecrate the result
of the var, u battl' for the Union.
White men Of Virginia, white men
Of Danville, how do you like tht
pictufel Here 10 . great Journal at
the North, a imrnal that is not q
party organ, but which Is free TO take
sides with either party that will best
conserve the interests Of the Union
here. We say, is a Northern paper that
earnestly prays the peop'e Of the
North 70 continue tie Democratic
party in power 10 order to prevent
| the Republican party frvm remand
lRg The Southern states 10 The d'SOla.
ling barbarism Of negro domination "
Ii this a partisan vieMi Is the cd
itor Of tie Herald personally inter.
i, sled IN this question Of negro d mi.
nationY There are bat few negrojs
NJ the North and they do not enter
A iaciors 10 Northern politics. There
| il no sort Of danger Of negro DONNA
a u, Ia New York. hut the Herald