Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1865-12-15
FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER Is, 1865.

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| 4 gress, not content with the overthrow of
slavery in the Southern States, seem intent
upon still further goading our section, under
the. shallow pretense Of projecting the eman-
cipated slaves They know full well that
the best friends the poor negroes have are
the Southern people, their former owners,
and if left alone, they will be made useful Ia
borers and be properly cared for. But this
does not suit the Radical faction. Without
the negro as a hobby their party must sink
into oblivion. Desperate cases require des-
perate remedies, and desperate are the efforts
Of the Radicals to keep their party together.
Just before the assembling Of Congress,
Radical caucus was held and course mapped
out, evidently looking to the forestalling of
public opinion on the forthcoming message
of the President, and likewise to commit the
Republican members to the Radical policy
In the pursuance Of this plan, Messrs. Sum
ner, Wade and Stevens, On the first oppor-
tunity after the meeting of Congress, pre-
sented a series of resolutions and bills, aim
ed directly at the further humiliation, if not
the destruction of the Southern people.
Among these, the bill presented by Mr..
Sumner, to preserve the trial by jury, to the
effect that, in sections where one-sixth of the
population are Africans, one-half of grand
juries shall consist of persons Of African de-
scent, and a like proportion Of petit jures,
where the cases refer to injuries inflicted by
persons Of African descent upon whites and
uice eersa, and prejudice to said race is made
the ground for challenging or expulsion, is
most particularly aimed at the Southern peo-
pie. If not, why not make general law for
such formation of juriea, for descendants of
the African are to be found in every section
of the Union? This bill aimed at the South,
if passed, will not effect us for great length
of time. The result will be that immediate
ly on its passage, African labor will cease to
be employed and white labor will take its
place, and the poor negro will be necessarily
forced to go North to find employment.
Being a citizen, no laws can be framed by
Northern Legislatures, as was done in days
gone by, to prevent his coming among them,
and soon in the Northern States, and no where
else, will the African number one-sixth of
the population. The South will then have
no further trouble on this score, but the
North will Their juries will be framed in
the plan of this proposed law Of Congress
until the unnatural climate of the North
brings to early graves the African race of
this Continent.
They can live long and easily, become use
full members of society and be amply pro-
tected, and increase instead of diminish in
the congenial climate of the South, if their
pretended Northern friends would cease their
silly and malicious interference, and it is to
be hoped that they will cease ere long, for
every blow struck at the South, thus far, falls,
and falls heavily, on the head Of the poor ne
gro.
N Nhe people of Philadelphia were startled
4 on last Thursday, Thanksgiving day,
by the Sermon of the Rev John Chambers,
a great apostle of Republicanism, in which
he enuncated doctrines not generally obtain
ing in the Quaker City. We give the tenor
of his sermon in a condensed form as follows ::
"What was being done 10 better the con-
dition of four millions of human beings thrown
upon the world, who had never had care
or anxiety about the future? Sympathy ros
felt but it would not feed, clothe or shelter
them. Hundreds and thousands are dying
on account of the cruel way in which they have
been thrust upon the world. Ifslavery was
to be got rid of it should have been done
gradually. It was the duty Of Massachusetts,
and Rhode Island to take care of them now,
for their ancestry chiefly brought them here
and reaped immense fortunes thereby. (Here
he pays a handsome compliment to the South
and former slave owners) The negro was
not injured by bringing him here, for in their
native Africa they were merely animals, but
here their minds were raised from darkness
and degradation and exposed to the consoling
influence of civilization and christianity
Our condition as nationis a deplorable one
because. we have departed from the old land
marks, and are attempting to amalgamate
discordant elements, which God never in
tended to be united. We are nation of
white men, and let us keep it SO or die
We cannot mix oil and water We cannot
amalgamate that which God has made 50 dis
tinct."
These are the utterances of Republican
Preacher, who sees that the tendency of the
policy ef the Radical leaders in Congress is
q gloomy, perhaps calamitous one. He
would retrace the steps ere it be too Late
He would 60 back to the ancient landmarks.
and that speedily, rather than emulate the
fate of Rome and Greece. If the members
of Congress would take lesson from reason
rather than passion, and like this Philadel-
phia Divine, do every thing in justice, mercy
and charity to better the condition Of the
poor African all would yet be well. But in
the endeavor to place him in position, which
he is neither calculated to occupy by circum-
stances, instruction or intellect we, like the
Reverend John Chambers sec, nothing for
the poor African or the Republic, but a
! rloor,v future