Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-05

uulet. peaceable and law-abiding. It
.aheS hurricane to sweep them from
tnelr mornings. Like their forcfathers,
,ney are deliberate before action. but
lihe an avalanche they are swift to
execute l have long been u resident
HI the State. 1 have seen them in
hours OF triul--in time of peace-in
time of war. and I have ever observed
them to be lehicnt, conservative. firm
and true: but l am free to confess that
l never saw them so deeply moved as
In the closing days of the recent can
Nass., The clash of the civil strife had
no erect upon their nerves. Amid shot
ana Shell they stormed heights and
6oned slowly to their conviction of duty.
ana they were willing TO. and did, die
for them. Our people bear no dlatrcd
towards the negro race. They irecog-
ni2e the race as fulcrum of power,
past and present, in the development
of our material prosperity. They feel
grateful to these people; they are at
tached to them by ties of lasting re-
membrance. Those of us. who have
known them longest. appreciate them
most. We neither want nor desire any
better, more efficient. more faithful la
borers. We neither intend to rob them
OF any personal rights. nor would we
submit to any law tending In that d.
rection. Knowing the race, we know
their natures. their great capacity in
incapacity for self-government We
claim the heritage of self government
was bought at q fearful price with our
ancestral blood, and that we have dem
onstrated our power to keep and de-
fend 1t.
All Europe once was sunk in barbar-
ism and in ignorance, save Greece and
Rome. They came in contact with
Roman armies and saw the light of
Grecian glory. They were conquered by
the one and enlightened by the other.
Rome planted her standard on African
soil. advanced their standard, lifted
high the beacon light of science and
art Along the Niles proud water was
settled Semitic. not negro race. No
republic. no we'll established govern
ment sprung the presence of Rome.
Even along the shores of the Inland
Sea. not even n vestige of decent gov
eminent remains. Toutaint L'ouvcrture
by wholesale midnight slaughter, by
midnight burnings. exterminated the
French in 1892. and proclaimed Hayti a
republic. Go, read the futility of the
attempt in her ruined sugar and coffee
plantations, in her desolation desolate.
The negroes inaugurated a carnival of
blood and anarchy. and their republic
of a hundred years is stencil and a
scorn among the nations of the earth.
We are not willing to intrust the safety
of our State to such impotent hand
to n people of such instincts. We have
said in our hearts that we will rid our
selves of n possibility of such a pande-
monium. For three decades we have
appealed to them for help to assists in
good government. and they have an
swered with dcrisive laughter. We have
heavily taxed land and personality to
elevate them by education, still they
shake in our faces the fist of a welded
phalanX-we have accorded them the
privileges of our public carriages, and
in return they have insulted our women
by their defiant obtrusion. This state
of affairs could not exist. 1t meant an
archy and ruin, civil and political. If
the tiger cannot be domesticated. he
must be cagcd-the poisonous fangs Of
n mad socialism must be drawn. There
fore. the people did their duty Thurs
day in n great upheavaf- to right a
wronG-to lay sure and deep the per-
petuity of our blood bought superiority,
and still no harm, but lasting good will
result to the inferior race.