Valley Virginian

There has been a great war between the whites on this Continent. They have lost, and you alone have gained. But once upon a time, the Indians, over a thousand to one, made war upon the whites, and where are they? There are 36,000,000 whites in the U. S., to 4,000,000 negroes. If you go for the Radicals our people are down on you; if you go Conservative the Radicals will turn against you, and both can do you immense harm. You are between the "upper and nether mill-stone," and we tell you, honestly, there is but one course to pursue. It is the same you pursued during the war. Work and let white people settle this question--don't vote at all. The only escape for you, from the fate of the Indian, is to make yourselves the best body of laborers in the world, and to avoid, by not voting, a conflict with any portion of the whites at present. The "blue veins" will rule, and your policy is to make enemies of no party, for, be the result as it may, you are bound to suffer. Hold on to your Registration, but don't vote. The fruit is very tempting, but you had better throw yourself on the generosity of the whites, and wait until it is fully ripe.

The Esteline Furnace is in good hands. This magnificent Iron property, situated in Augusta county, 20 miles from Staunton, about 4 miles from the Va. C. R. R., at Pond Gap, containing 6,110 acres, (a small portion in Rockbridge county,) was sold on the 17th, to Nelson Beall, James I. Hohlitzell, Horace Resley and John E. Russel, of Alleghany co., Md., for the sum of $35,000--one-half of which was paid in Land, to Burke & Kunkle, and the balance to be paid in 9 and 18 months with interest. We understand that the gentlemen who purchased this property are enterprising and energetic. They will at once proceed to develope the rich purchase they have made. This is but "the beginning of the end" of the development of the Iron interest, of old Augusta. This interest should, with proper efforts to secure foreign capital, prove as valuable to our people as the Gold Mines of California, and we congratulate them on the opening made. We again invite the attention of capitalists to this interest. When the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad is completed we will be all right on the Iron question.

Facts show, says the Philadelphia Age, that we are fast tending to this point, and it were well for both whites and blacks to consider and weigh well the result of such a conflict. As circumstances are now progressing, we behold with a conviction which no argument can weaken, with a vividness of perception which no effort of our own can soften, the certainty of an impending conflict between the white and the colored population of this country--the nature of which it is as easy to foresee as it is fearful to contemplate.

Colored people think of this. There are 36,000,000 whites to 3,000,000 blacks, in the United States! Let us avoid this trouble.

The policy of sending colored men to Congress is being seriously agitated by some of our people. The idea is a fair divide between the whites and blacks. The whites to take the State offices and the blacks all Federal offices, each party pledging the other mutual protection. In view of this, a number of persons have spoken of our black devil, "Dumb George," as a proper candidate for Congress. In reply we can only say, that George Tucker, deaf and dumb, is of a good family; is as honest as the day is long and a true patriot. He don't ask for office, neither does he decline. He has our earnest support.

In reviewing the results of the elections in Kentucky, the New York Freedman's Journal and Catholic Register, speaks some brave, true words. We will be more pleased when we see them carried out by acts. It says:

"The fact is, it is almost laughable, if it were not so sad, to think how easy it would be for the Democratic majority in these States, North and South, to assert their power--if they had but organization, and the most ordinary amount of courage! As it is, to our damning disgrace as a people, a Puritan minority are ruling us--and the managers of this minority are, physically, abject cowards! What a position for a great people, professing popular Government!

Let us resume the courage of the old time "unterrified democracy!" Let us assert it for North and South alike! Let us fight if need be, the corrupt plutocracy that seek to grind down the people! If we will only take the trouble, as a people, to learn the issues before us, as the intelligent men of Kentucky have done, we will win without a conflict. We will put the cheating Bondholders under our feet. We will pay them off in their own greenbacks! We will not let them reap gold for their greenbacks, while we have but greenbacks in exchange for the gold we used to own. They talk of "manhood suffrage!" Let them have it to the full! It shall not, however, be, as in Tennessee, a farce and a fraud, manipulated by violence upon a docile people. It shall be--if they so will it, a real exhibition of the popular power against the monied few. If the monied few persist in sowing the wind, we will give them the harvest of the whirlwind! The greenback-paper currency is rotten from beginning to end. S. P. Chase, formerly Secretary of the Treasury, left that position with thirty millions of debt incurred, without corresponding vouchers. The Treasury Department has been, and continues, a huge swindle upon the people! For every million of real debt, the people are burdened with other millions of fraudulent debts. Revolution--if necessary a bloody revolution--is our only escape. The finances of the country are bankrupted by official frauds, and the proofs will yet be forthcoming that this is so.

Kentucky has given us the rallying point. Now let Pennsylvania, and Ohio, speak, next. The issue before us is one, at the same time, of manly principle, and of personal self-interest. The principle, of manhood is this:--Will we let our States of the North be dominated by a Puritan minority, in Congress, pretending to wield the power of the Southern States against us, when, in fact, they have disfranchised the real people of the South, and have substituted for them the ignorant rabble of uncivilized and pagan negroes, who have stuffed the ballot-boxes with whatever tickets the military power has put in their hands.

The question of self-interest results from this action. A few are to be benefitted, but the masses of the people at the North, are to sink into subjection to the few cunning manipulators. These few are about to bring their nominal triumph in Southern States, by negro votes, to override our State dispositions at the North. This is the end and aim of the Black Republican party, that made war, in 1861, to change our fundamental institutions.

If we yield, we are lost--for a time at least, and can never recover liberty but by bloody war. Our evident duty is to meet the issue at once.

Civil war is a terrible scourge. It turns houses into mourning; it sets neighbor in deadly array against neighbor; it disturbs the order of society by deplorable excesses. Nevertheless, civil wars, of frequent occurrence, are part of the history of the human race. We see all the conditions of war gathering, here, in our Northern States. It is to be the war of the masses of the people against the few who are set on robbing them, and against those proletaries that the few may hire, or fool, to fight the battles of a monied aristocracy against the bulk of the people!

If this battle must be fought, the sooner it comes the better! Old Kentucky shows the way. Let Pennsylvania and Ohio fall into line! If the elections result in restoring the people to power, against the New England usurpation, all may be accomplished in peace. If not, then it is a matter more evident than most political events of the future, that the strong and bloody hand of counter-revolution will take vengeance on the usurpers that have oppressed the people."

Do we weep for the heroes who died for us?
Who, living, were true, and tried for us.
And in death sleep side by side for us?
The martyr band
That hallowed our land,
With the blood they poured in a tide for us?

Ah! fearless on many a day for us,
They stood in front of the fray for us,
And held the foeman at bay for us;
Fresh tears should fall
Forever--o'er all
Who fell while wearing the gray for us.

How many a glorious name for us!
How many a story of fame for us
They left! Would it not be a shame for us?
If their memory part
From our land and heart--
And a wrong and a blame for us?

No--no--no--they were brave for us,
And bright were the lives they gave for us
The land they struggled to save for us
Cannot forget
Its warriors yet,
Who sleep in so many a grave for us.

No--no--no--they were slain for us,
And their blood flowed out in a rain for us,
Red, rich and pure on the plain for us;
And years may go,
But our tears may flow
O'er the dead who have died in vain for us.

And their deeds--proud deeds--shall remain for us,
And their names--dear names--without stain for us,
And the glories they won shall not wane for us;
In legend and lay
Our heroes in gray,
Though dead, shall live over again for us.
Moina