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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-03-14
GIFT CONCERT.
GRAND CHARITABLE
PREsEsTArIoS coscYRf
IN AID or TIM
SOUTHERN ORPHANS ASSOCIATIONS ,
incorporated by the Legisls.ars Of v,,s,n,.
January %, 1901
TO 81 arvsE At TEE
MARYLAND INSTITUTE, BALTIMORE.
APRIL ssru, 1881.
The PROFITS Of this concert win b given 70 Ne
SOUTHERN ORPHANS ASSOCIATION.


we call the attention Of the public:
We, the ofhcen Of the Southern Orphan Asso-
citation for the maintenance and education Of the
destitute orphans Of deceased southern soldisn
ana sailors, earnestly solicit the sympathy and co.
operation In our Grand Presentation Concert OF al
VINO desire to see the " home and school " enabled
70 receive and care for all needy ones who seek it,
shelter and protection.
Thanking our friends for their past contributions
and assistance, We again appeal to them 10 help
Us In more extensive enterprise. II IL the do.
sign OF the Association to erect Q Home and
School " for the orphans Of the South, both male
and female, on an extensive scale, in the city Of
Richmond, Va. As an indueement to have the
building located there, the Common Council Of
that city have guaranteed SUFFICIENT lot Of land,
in an elevated and healthful location, and viii In.
crease the quantity OF land II needed.
Il is with q confident hope In . favorable 70.
Spouse to this appeal 10 public which has never
yet failed to sustain charitable institution, that
we have entered into IN arrangement with ksssrs.
L. T. PALMER CO., No. u Holiday street,
Baltimore, to organize Grand Musical Pressnta.
tion Concert for Its benefit, and earnestly solicit
the kindly aid and patronage Of the public 70 en-
sure its success.
(signedl
Mas. J. n; HAMMOND, President
Mas. Dr.. J., BsaN. Vice. President.
MRS. 81 a 4. a. kiaBsREY, Cor. sse'y.
Mr.. J. q. sGaIERs, Recording sse'y:
Dr.. A. q. KIMBERLY, Financial Sscy.
H. @. DALLAM, Esq., Counsellor.
BALTIMORE, February Is, 1887.
TRUSTEES.
Mas. B. A. ?. MEARs, Baltimore. Md.
Mas L H snsNnST a s.,,imS.s "a.
MAS: pr; 4; g; kIMgEstY. Baltimore. "a.
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JOIN w. DAvIys' 6oSss Main sszsses Sss
address communication 70 boz ~ 1|:asss 49,
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between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets.
N. BIS 900 BRICKS for sale low on accommo-
dating terms NH 8-lw
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
What will be the Effect ?

The New York World says that the great
Democratic gains made, and to be made, this
Fall, will change the whole face of national pol
tics. In the first place. they will cause the
white citizens of the South to stand resolutely
aloof from the bastard governments thrust upon
them at the point of the bayonet. No man OF
sense and observation can suppose that pure
negro governments can stand The pom parti-
cipation of the whites in State politics would
kill the reconstruction scheme of Congress as
dead as Julius Caesar. In the second place,
the moral effect of great Democratic gains will
paralyze Congress. Seeing that their scheme
must eventually miscarry, they will have no
heart to persist in it. AND 10 the last place, as
soon as the prestige Of overpovering strength
in the Republican party is broken, its decadence
will be so rapid, and the popular demand to
have the Union restored SO emphatic, that the
Republican leaders cannot resist it. Great ma
jorities in Congress amount to little, when great
majorities of the people are Of a contrary way
of thinking, -
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
Against a Convention.

Our readers will remember what cold re-
ception greeted us when, about month since,
the Inder was fairly and squarely committed to
opposition to the calling of a Convention.
Promptly in response to our call upon the
press answered the Lynchburg Republican, the
Norfolk Nrginidn, the Winchester Neacs, the
Warrenton Lnder, the Staunton Spectator, the
Fredericksburg Neaos and Herald, and in fact
Convention Petersburg Indsr, Oct. 17h.
The complacent assumption of the lnder that
the Staunton Spectator responded to its call to
oppose Convention, made ''about ia month
since, will excite the risibilties of the readers
of the Spectator who know that it has been op-
posing the Convention not only 'about a
month" but for about seren months-ever since
it has been presented for the action of the peo-
pie.
Since we commenced our opposition to the
call of the Convention, the editor of the Indec
constructed what is known as the Petersburg
Platform, mounted it, and earnestly called upon
the people to rally upon it.
If there be any credit due to the journal
which was first to oppose the call of q Conven-
ton, that credit is certainly due to the Specta-
tor, for it did not hesitate at all, but took that
position as soon as the bill was passed, flour Or
five months in advance of any other paper and
has maintained it earnestly and consistently to
the present time. If all the other papers had
been as prompt, decided, and earnest in opposi-
ton to it, the call for 2 Convention would have
been defeated. The Spectator has done its du
ty faithfully.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
TO the Staunton Spectator

If the wind is blowing from the Northeast,
and driving the ship towards dangerous coast,
you set your sails in particular way.
But if the wind suddenly veers around, and
blows from the Southwest and the sailor shifts
his canvass, is the sailor foolish sailor? has
he turned somerset?
We think not. The Chronicle has turned no
somerset, and we are sure the Spectator will, on
calm reflection, acquit us of having done So
Charlottesville Chronicle
When man has turned somerset his
face is in the same direction it was before he
did SO. So, 'on calm reflection, we acquit
the editor Of the Chronicle ''of having done so, !"
and acknowledge that he ''has turned no SOM
erset." In nautical phrase, he has shifted
his canvass in military, he has "right-about-
faced, and we think that he is now about
rightJdced, or faced about right, and hope that
he will so remain. Adopting his nautical meta
phor. he has ''set his sails in the particular way"
in which we have had ours from the beginning,
and is now sailing joyously in the same direc-
ton, and we cherish the fond hope that he will
continue to do SO throughout the voyage, how
ever tempestuous, whether the winds shall blow
from the Northeast or from the Southwest.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

The Lynchburg Republican says that, ''those
who vote for a State Convention will be obliged
to vote for very mean Constitution, or for
none at ALL If the negroes and mean whites
get majority in that Convention, as they most
probably will, they will of course adopt such an
odious Constitution as Brownlow has imposed
upon the people of Tennessee. If the negroes
do not get control of the Convention, then any
Constitution which rejects negro suffrage and
negro jurors, will be rejected by the present
Congress as rebel insolence and outrage The
best and most quiet plan, therefore, for the peo-
pie Of Virginia to pursue is, to vote down a
Convention, and content themselves to live
quietly under military rule until the Conserya-
tives of the North come to our rescue, and au-
thorize us to form such constitution as will be
acceptable to u.s. and such one as the people
of State have the constitutional right to form.
It seems to us that to vote for Convention
will be virtually to vote for the Shellabarger
BILL and directly in opposition to the recent vote
in Ohio against negro suffrage There can be
no two sides to this question. The North has
voted against negro suffrage, and the South
must do the same thing, or we are hopelessly
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
Give this day to your country. Those who
fail to do their duty to-day will regret it.
Peccayi! Peccayi Il

Such papers in the State as have favored the
call of Convention, one of the prescribed du-
ties of which is to incorporate into the Consti-
tution of the State unirersal and unqualified
saegro suffrage, must now, in the light of the
present suspicious circumstances, if they are not
wholly abased, degraded and radicalized, repent
in sackcloth and in ashes that they maintained
and urged the voters to adopt the unwise policy
they did We are sorry for such, for we know
that they must feel badly indeed, for they must
now be conscious that, to the extent of their in
they were doing injury to their country and in
8icting CHASTITY wounds upon Liberty. With
bowed heads they should now cry:-Peccaui!
Peccari!!
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
Chesapeake and Ohio r. r. Subscription

A few weeks since very sensible and we'll
written communication in opposition to the pro-
posed subscription of 100000 to the stock OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was publish
ed in this issue. In this issue, we publish an
other communication, marked with considerable
ability, upon the same subject, and also in op-
position to the subscription.
AS we wish the Toters to have the arguments
upon both sides of this important question fairly
set before them, that they may, on the 2lst of
November next, vote Understandings upon it,
we desire those who are in favor of voting the
subscription, and who are prepared to argue
the question, to write communications upon the
subject and to send them to us for publication.
Our motto is: "Hear all sides and then decide. y
We desire the voters to have all the light which
it is possible to shed upon this important sub
ject, that they may see their way clearly, and
be enabled to vote understandingly.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

We rarely venture to be prophetic, but we
can recollect few instances in which our predc-
tions have failed of the most literal fulflment.
We feel perfectly convinced that in less than
twelve months from to day, the negroes of Rich
mond will ornament the surface of Hunnicutt
with warm and liberal coat of tar and feath-
ers and treat him to gratultous ride upon
rail. unless he is rescued from his worshippers
by the admirable white police of this city and
in much less time than that they will blaspheme
hideously at the bare mention of the names of
their present treacherous advisers With the
inspiration of prophecy we distinctly see be-
fore US the tableau Of huge negro mob, bear
ing Hunnicutt in their midst, feathered from
the crown of his head to the soles of his feet,
like some huge ornithoogical monster! This
instructive tableau is as distinct to our eye of
prophecy as if the negroes were already at work
in the ornamentation of their delectable Mokan-
ma p0uirer and Examiner
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

WE believe this newspaper was the first in
the State of Virginia to take ground against
voting for Convention, and it is now most
gratifying to observe that nearly every one of
our contemporaries has assumed the same posi-
ion.-Lynchburg Republican.
Our able and respected contemporary is mis-
taken. The Spectator was the first paper in
the State ito take ground against voting for a
Convention, - and for some months it was alone,
uncheered by the voice of any other Journal
The Spectator did not hesitate moment, but
took its position as soon as the bill was passed
The Supplementary Reconstruction bill was
published in the Spectator, dated March Goth,
and in the next issue, dated April End, the fol-
lowing article, 1.-THE first under that editorial
head, J was published, and which, it will be OBJ
served, recommended the very policy now APP
proved by the Conservative party of the State ::
"REGIsTER AND VoTE.-All who are not ex-
cluded by the restrictions of the supplementary
bill should register, so that they will be prepar-
ed to vote or not as they may choose. We
think that all, who can do so, should vote, and
that they should vote for such persons as dele
gates to the Convention as would faithfully rep
resent them. and, at the same time, vote against
calling the Conrention-the only mode the peo-
pie have of recording their protest against the
unconstitutional and outrageous legislation of
the Radical Congress enacted for the oppres-
sion, humiliation and degradation of the South
ern people.
eff Convention shall sacrifice the rights and
barter away the liberties of our people, let it
not be done with the consent, but against the
protest, of the people in this section of the
State. We have but little, if any, doubt that
the Convention will be called, but we hope that
zens Of this and the surrounding counties We
hope that this good old county will not be num-
bered in that class of easy virtue which,
''Vowing they would ne er consent consented"
Spectator, april g
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

s'KErTLE CALLING THE PoT BLACK viii
liam B. Gordon, Jr., the Radical candidate for
the Convention for the District, commenting
upon the inconsistency of his opposing candi-
date, James G. Southal VIM. f. Gordon was
not only an ante bellum secessionist, but he was
one of the signers of the secret circular which
called together that unauthorized body of Sc
cessionists which assembled in Richmond to
force, by outside pressure, the Convention to
pass the ordinance of secession. Now he is a
Radical candidate for the Convention, and re-
lies upon the negro vote for election !! Com
ment is unnecessary.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
The Richmond Whig.

The Richmond Wing is noao doing yeoman
service in the cause of Conservatism and Con-
stitutional Liberty. 1t is now convinced that
the call of Convention should be 'voted
down. and now says that fen, # any, Con-
seruatives soiU nov cote for At. We are rejoiced
to see the Wing taking this position even at
this late hour and regret that its potential in
fuence has been, heretofore, thrown into the
opposite side of the scale. it's now apparent
that, if the election could be postponed month
longer, the Convention would be most certainly
voted down in spite of the negro vote in favor
of it.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

PROFITS OF ADvERTIsING.-A dealer who
advertised with us two years to the amount of
fifteen dollars, told us few days since that as
near as he could calculate he had realized eigh-
teen hundred dollars from the transaction. Per-
haps it is not often that the circumstances ad-
NIT OF anything like an accurate calculation of
the profits of advertising, yet experience has
demonstrated beyond question that they are
very large. -Leacistown Journal.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
Another Claimant Mistaken,

The Fredericksburg Herald also claims to be
the first paper which "avowed itself unmistak-
similar erroneous claims of the Petersburg Index
and Lynchburg Republican in other articles in
this paper. How many more claimants for this
honor there may be We cannot tell. They are
all mistaken-that honor is Enthusiastically due to
the Spectator. We call upon each of these pa
pers to acknowledge its error, or to furnish the
article, with its date, upon which it bases its
claim.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

With the Enquirer and Exam aner, s'we are
not disposed, in the complete and brilliant
triumph of our own policy, to treat with inhu-
mainly those unhappy journals whose labors to
make the proud OLD State Of Virginia sort of
Alsatia, or place of refuge for the condemned
and outlawed Radical party, have come to grief
Some Of these papers have already clothed their
limbs in sackcloth and have substituted ashes
for the dirt with which they implored us to
refresh ourselves Their contrition is timely,
and we believe sincere, and they are seeking in
some measure to repair the damage which their
counsels inflicted upon our people,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
Against a Convention.

The time has arrived when our people are
called upon to vote for or against Convention.
We hope that they will vote against it to a man.
IF we had million of votes, we would cast them
all against Convention. Let our people show
that they have sense enough to understand the
difference between acceptance where they have
a choice, and dignifed submission where they
have not. Let all vote for the CONSERVATIVE
ticket
WADDELL, HARRISON & SOUTHALL,
and
AGAINST THE CONVENTION.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
Conduct of negroes in Baltimore.

On the night of the 18th inst, in Baltimore,
II or Is shots were fired from negro company,
while parading the streets, into crowd of white
persons A white boy was instantly killed.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was, death
occasioned by musket ball fired from the rear
rank of negro military company, supposed to
be the Butler Guard, and that it was totally
without cause or provocation -
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

The Enquirer and Eran,iner says that this
is a most auspie;ous time for presenting not
only to the North, but to Christepdonl, the two
pictures of Radicalism and Conservatism in
Virginia We wish not ehly the present genera
ton, but posterity, to profit by the spectacle Of
rapine, anarchy, prescription revenge, and
robbery enlisted on the side Of the advocates Of
negro supremacy. We wish history to cruelty
and hang in chains that menagerie of hungry
rayenous Wild beasts which Radicalism will
send to the convention as its representatives.
But we wish to confront these advocates Of
Congo supremacy with as many representatives
of that proud glorious old race of Virginians of
the Caucasian type as can be elected by the
people. The North cannot long withhold its
verdict when Conservatism presents its array of
statesmen and men Of character against Hun
nicutt and bis ASSOCIATES.
Although recent events have made more i'm
perative our duty to vote against Convention,
let no respectable voter, for that reason, fail to
vote for intelligent Conservative candidates
While the white men of Virginia should, to the
last man. enter their votes as an indignant
protest against the call for Convention, they
should also guard against the probability Of it's
being called by eleeting as many respectable
delegates as possible.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

Hon. J. NJ. Bolts concludes note to the
Enquirer and Examiner as follows: my ex-
perience On the first of August last was not such
as to encourage me much in offering advice to
the assembled masses of Richmond
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
Reaction against a Convention.

Nearly all the papers in this State, except
avowed Radical ones, are now earnestly calling
upon the voters to vote against the Convention.
For many months the Spectator occupied this
position solitary and Alone The policy ad-
vocated by the Spectator from the beginning
without "variableness or shadow of turning, !"
is now endorsed by large majority of the white
voters of the State, and if the election were
postponed month longer, the Convention
would be voted down, Notwithstanding the ne
gro vote in favor oft. The course of the Spec
tator has been satisfactorily indicated
This is but another illustration of the great
truth that principle should never be discarded,
and that the right, if persistently maintained,
will ultimately triumph. The people should
never cease to cling to the right, and to hope
for its success. In the language of Buckle,
whom we have several times quoted recently,
Sin any country which pretends to be free let
no one be disheartened by the temporary over
throwal of the Right Weak, vain, and vicious
theories soon perish when brought forth into
that strong current which makes Truth only the
more robust There is no device nor cunning
which can long delay the march of Public Opin-
ion-and Experience soon tears to pieces and
tramples under her feet those Jaimsy DISCUSSES
and stratagens By aolsich bold and bad men seek
to perrert or mould to their olon benefit the des-
times of great, free and enlightened people, -
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

The Philadelphia Age has the following on
the beauties of Negro rule:
'Negro rule in Hayti made their paper dol
lar worth two cents and half With negro
rule in ten States, what will their credit be
worth? What will their prosperity be? How
will justice be administered? How much will
they contribute to the payment of the national
debt? White men, think of these things"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
Effect of being a Candidate.

James c.. Southall, Esq, Editor of the Char
lottesville Chronicle, and candidate for the
Convention for the District, composed of Au-
gusta, Albemarie and Louisa, says: ''We
somehow find ourselves more civil than usual
in the last few days"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

The Lynchburg Republican asks, what is
the true policy and duty of Virginia. and an
sWers the question very properly as follows:
1T is to vote down the proposed Convention,
and live quietly and submissively under mill
tary rule until the present Radical Congress
shall expire and the conservative masses of the
North place US in a position to form such
State constitution as we have the right and the
will to adopt, and as honor and interest de-
mand."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

The Nashville Banner perpetrated good
joke on Friday by publishing dispatch from
Cincinnati, saying: 'For Gods sake advise
Brownlow to send his militia to our aid. The
rebels have possession of the whole State; come
to the aid of the negro, or all is lost
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22
MiJI62ae9'u.
TTENTHON, LADIES!
I Fall and Winter MILLINERY,

constantly receiving large stock of Fall and
Winter Millinery Goods of the latest and most
fashionable styles, which she is prepared to fur
nish to her patrons on the most liberal and ac-
commodating terms.
Her stock consists of Bonnets, Hats, Ribbons,
Flowers, and everything in the millinery line, of
the most exquisite and fashionable styles. Give
her call at her store-room, opposite Cowan's
book store, up stairs. oct22-tf
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

No WHITE MAN should vote for any others
than those on the ticket we publish. This is
no time to throw away any votes in spirit OF
fun Votes are now more valuable than rubies.
Such as throw their votes away will regret it
when too late to repair the evil
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-22

The New York Times has the impudence to
say:
I'VE are inclined to think that the northern
States will not surrender their own rights quite
so complacently as they have consented to the
overthrow of those of the South"
Thus admitting that its party has overthrown
the rights of the South, and confessing its own
infamy.