Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-12-07
Plain Facts for Plain People.
BY A PLAIN NJ.

Impartial Suffrage" is the new name
which the Negro Kissers have given to what
plain men, in plain way, call niggers vo-
tin Impartial Suffrage" sounds better
than niger suffrage, but it don't change the
nature Of the thing You may call a saw
buck horse fiddle, if you please; but it is
the same double X with transverse bar,
and makes the same discordant noise thatsit
did before. Call niger wench the " Rose
of Allendale," and she is no lovelier than
when you call her Dinah. just SO it is with
Impartial Suffrage. It means to let mig
ger vote, who don't know his A. B. C.'s it
means to give him the same voice in admin
istering the Government that the smartest
and most learned white man has; and none
but fool or traitor would favor such a
scheme as that amt much in favor Of I'm
partial Suffrage myself. Too many ornry
cusses vote now, that don't know what they
are dom when they give their vote. Ii this
wasn't so, the people would never have
put their foot in it SO badly as to vote
war, CONSUMPTION, and everlastin' taxation,
high prices and poverty on themselves. But
there's one g Impartial | go for. | go for
Impartial Taxation. I'm tired seem old
Hunks struttin' about like turkey gobbler,
with his fifty thousand dollars in hand which
don't pay any tax, while all the poor men and
poor women in the country are taxed on all
the property they have, and work their very
lives out to raise money to pay these taxes.
Pm tired Of that. would rather repndiate
the whole concern than to put up with this
sort Of thing any longer. The debt amt hon
est any how. hree-fourths of it was made
up of stealings that went into the pockets of
Yankee manufacturers, and contractors. 1t
was paid for condemned guns, and shoddy
blankets, and wooden-soled shoes, and the
rest went into the pockets Of thleyng quar-
ter-masters and defaulting paymasters.--
That's what's the matter. But even if the
principle must be paid, and if the bondhold
ers amt to be taxed, I've been calculatin',
and I make out, one way and another, put
tin the whole together, these shaves get
about twenty-four per cent. You see it
comes in this way! A great deal of this
debt was made when gold dollar was worth
three paper dollars. A fellow had ten thous-
and dollars in gold He would buy for this
$50, 000 in Government bonds, on which he
gets 6 per cent. in gold Six per cent in
gold, is worth to-day eight per cent. in pa
per, eight per cent on $4,000 amounts to
s., 400. This is the annual interest which
the holder gets on his original investment of
$40, 600. In other words, wear now, as
matter Of fact, paying twenty-four per cent.
on debt which is three-fourths fraud |
don't think this @ Impartial and [ think
we can do devil of sight better without
Impartial Taxation. / may be wrong; but
that's the way look at it; and, since ANDY
JonNsoN's been President, its pretty gener
ally admitted that every man has right to
his own opinion.
There's fellow over in England by the
name of John Bright sort of John Bull
Josh Giddings ,-who wants Impartial Suf-
frage for the coal beavers, and steyedores,
and navies, and SIGH like, who have no more
business with vote than child has with
one of Colts Revolvers, and all the Black
Republicans in America are hurrahing for
John Bright! This looks f." Impartial, too
don't it When these very same fellows
who are dyin' to see votes given to men who
were never entitled to vote and not fit for it,
deny ito the intelligent, brave, and noble men
of the South, whose votes, and wisdom, and
patriotism, in conjunction with the same at
tributes in the North before the days Of Black
Republicanism, made this the most powerful
and glorious government on earth! | go for
Impartiality Of the old, genuine sort; but this
Black Republican Impartialty is bogus, and
I don't want anything whatsomeyer to do
with it. That's 50. Pm plain man, and
say what I think in a plain way.-Marion
Democrat.