Year: 1867

None but the most depraved would
urge measure of retaliation merely
for the sake OF spite and on the other
hand, none but the most cowardly
would hesitate to use the power of
his arm for the protection of his per-
son. And 80 il is when such occasions
arise mankind ere compelled TO obey
the impulses of resentment and en-
ploy the means which they suggest
as more measures Of safety. The
course of the negroes in this State in
the late elections-arrayed as they
were in solid phalanx against the in :
terests, nay the property and even
the lives, Of the white people, presents
the most irrefragable proof that their
hostility TO us is instructive and inc
radicablc. Nothing, therefore, re-
mains for us TO do but TO meet the is
sue they hare thus thrust upon US and
defend ourselves like men.


We of Virginia have o great and
glorious country, ommonwcalth
unsurpassed in the advantages Of soil
climate and production, a population
unequalled in all the elements that
overcome difficulties and make com
munity rich and prosperous Shall
VIC permit these things to be lost to
us foreverl Shall we tamey submit
to the subvorsion of all our prosperity
and the hopes of the future by hand
ful of artful knaves, who use the brute
force of numbers to overcome our in
telligence, talent and worth, by out
voting us with a horde of ignorant
and stupid negroesY


Fortunately, the means Of our de-
fence are not those of violence and
bloodshed, but the mere regulation of
our domestic arrangements. As his
tory presents no parallel of the black
ingratitude which has characterized
our domestics and employees, in turn
ing upon us and falling into the train
OF wretches who are unprineiplcd apos-
tate white men in most cases, and the
most depraved of their own race in
others, whose appeals were based
alone upon implacable hostility to
the whites, 80 we should present tho
only instance of people submitting
to death and destruction without an
effort for safety, If we now permit our
patience to await our impending exc
cution. The negroes have shown US
that "blood is thicker than water"
with them, and we can only accept
the issue and treat them with defen-
sive severity, differing not indeed
from the spirit, but only in the meas
ure, from the treatment which our
English friends used towards the Sc
poys of India when white safety de-
manded British severity. As we have
said, we need not use the means of
violence apd bloodshed as our defence,
ming our selections of domestics to
those only who are friendly disposed
towards us, whether black or white.
Let US give emnloyment to, and there
by support, those only who are not
arrayed against our peace and welfare.
The test of this may be easily mad 10
counting those who belong to the Sc
cret societies and vote the "Hunnicutt
ticket as our avowed enemies, and
those who do neither as our friends.
Let us discharge the former and en-
ploy the latter. IL there be not
enough Of the latter at present, the
deficiency will soon bo supplied by
white domestics, and, in the meantime,
IL is infinitely better for us, our wives
and children, TO perform domestic du-
tics and endure the rec dRgustG DOM
rather than continue to nurse nest
Of serpents who have shown Got only
the poison Of their fangs but their
readiness to use them. Richmond En-
quiTCr.