Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-05-07
An Unfnnnded Claim

Wilson and his coadjutors are laboriously at
tempting to impress the negroes Of Virginia
with the belief that the Republican party are
their true friends, because emancipation and
suffrage have been secured to them by the ef-
forts of that party.
The truth is, that Northern intermeddng re-
tarded emancipation at least thirty years. In
1882. Virginia was nearly ripe for system of
gradual emancipation, under the lead of the
most prominent men of the State A bill was
presented in the House of Delegates and lacked
but five votes to carry it, providing that all
children of the African race born after the year
1910 should be free at the age of 49, The cause
was present during the debate, and some other
Northern medders, undertook to press the mat
ter, and assume sort of parental guardianship
OF it, and this caused decided revulsion of
feeling. 1t was considered, very properly, a
home quest on-and to be discussed and manag-
ed solely by the people of the State, and in a
little while a decided reaction took place. Men
whose ancestors had bought negroes from the
North had no idea of being branded as pirates
and man-stealers by those whose progenitors
had fostered the above trade-and, after pocket
ing the proceeds, turned round to free the very
negroes whom they had sold to Southern pur-
chasers
But if Wilson and the other Northern bab-
blers are so earnest in advocacy of negroes
rights, why is it that they do not harangue the
North and West upon the subject of manhood
suffrage? Why don't they ring the changes
upon the inalienable rights of the negro-North
as we'll as South? Is it not apparent that the
object now is to win over the negro vote for the
Radical Presidential candidate p Virginia Free
Press.
HENRY WILSON AND STATES RIGHTS. On
the 23rd of February 1855, Senator Wilson, of
Massachusetts,, delivered speech in the Senate
of the United States, from which we clip the
following extract:
We believe that slavery in the States is a
local institution, that we are not responsible for
its existence, and that we have no legal author
ity to interfere with it in any way whatever
| am content to leave slavery to the people of
the States where it now exists. recognize the
Democratic doctrine of States Rights, in it's ap-
pllcatlOn to slavery, as well as to other local af
fairs, and, while [ have seat in this chamber,
L shall resist all attempts to encroach upon the
reserved rights Of the sovereign States of the
Union! will stand side by side with nv
Democratic friends in vindication of the Vir-
ginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1889,
which they endorsed in Baltimore in 1852!
brave but unfortunate nation, crushed by
the weight of superior numbers, after making
great name through all the world by four
years of unparalleled valor and heroic endurance,
can survive persecution and the malignant cruel
ty of brutal conquerors, and the greedy spoia-
tons of con6scation, and after decade of OPP
preston may yet emerge like Hungary has just
done, radiant with the dazzling effulgence of
unsulied honor. But, when with it's wrongs
unredressed, and amidst the wreck of its liber-
ties it fraternizes ANONYMOUSLY with the authors
of all its insults, it sinks to rise no more-it goes
down shaved and despised forever -Rlchnond
Times.