Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-02
WHEN PATIENCE CEASES.

Evidently the Democrats of North Car
ollna have reached the conclusion that
patience towards the Fusionists or that
State has ceased to be a virtue.
And so 1t has. The present condition
of things in that State must be abated
sooner or laser. and it would better be
abated now. An end can be put to the
unholy alliance now with less trouble
than would be possible at any time here
after
II is settled, and that fact is recog-
nized and approved by the people of this
country. that the whites OF no State are
going to allow themselves to be ruled by
a few white men at the head of hordes of
negroes.
The whites are going TO rule in North
Carolina and in every other State OF
this Union. Nor will they take counsel
OF any other race.
We think the Democrats of the Old
North state will triumph in the pending
canvass. but if they do not the struggle
will go on and on until it is won; ior
won il will be at last. The negroes
might as well see the handwriting upon
the wall; If they will not they are to be
pitied
Some doubt has been expressed as 10
whether the people of the western part
of North Carolina, where the negro popn-
latlon is sparse, will be able TO sympa-
ihize fully with their eastern brethren
IN the la4ter's effort TO assert their ST.
premacy.
The same question was raised here in
Virginia when our people were making
lust such a fight as the North CAROLYN
.ans are now making. When the subject
was fully canvassed, we found that me
virginians of the Valley and of the
Southwest would enter heartily into me
hight. They understood the issues clearly;
went into the contest resolutely and mads
the interest of the eastern communities
their own. And so, we suppose, IL VIII
be I'm our neighbor State. Why should
A. not be so? Are they not one people?
Are they not of the same ancestry? Have
they not a common pride in the glory of
the Old North State?
No; we refuse to believe that the white
mans cause will fail for lack OF help
from the up-country voters. our hrm
conviction is. that on the Sth instant there
is going TO be the grandest turnout OF
voters that ever was seen in North caro-
lima. and that the result Will be grand
turning out of the mixed crowd lhat
now controls public affairs in that line
old State.
II is worthy of note that the struggle
OF our Carolina brethren has the earnest
Of he Apop
people. OF course. North Carolinas near
neighbors understand her case better than
others do, but the general pubic Is
not Ignorant of the causes that have led
10 this uprising and. therefore, cannot,
and does not withhold its sympathy
Wherever we have heard the question
discussed. there have been hearty ex-
pressions of hope that the Democrats VIII
win, and will entrench themselves in
power for all time.
No body OF decent white people will
ever be content 10 be ruled by colored
race. II Is not their nature TO. Those
persons who refuse 10 accept this con-
clusion but fight against fate. In VAIN
will they strive against condition that
Is OF divine creation. Nor does IL matter
much that the blacks may have con-
siderable number OF whites cooperating
with them. The result may be delayed,
but II will be the same and the blacks
will always be the sufferers at the hands
OF their foolish and ambitious white
leaders.
The hearts and hopes of yirginians 20
out yearningly TO our Carolina brethren.
Knowing what we do Of their courage,
inteliigence. and determination. we cam
not but believe that victory will be theirs