Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-05-07
Political Chess-Board.

There is game being played on the political
chess board in Virginia in the result of which
the true people of the State have great inter.
est, and which demands their closest attention.
The rivals in this game are both radicals, and
it is the duty Of our people to see that neither
| party gains such victory as will be preudicla
to the interests of the State.
One of these parties is seeking to organize a
negro party, hostile to the whites, which shall
embrace the entire negro population and only
such whites as will not come in competition
with the leaders of the movement for the Offices
and plumber in the event of success. This par
ty promises the negroes equality in all things
political, civil, educational, &c They are also
the advocates of confscation. They promise
the negroes free farms, cut out of the planta:
tons Of their former masters. Every effort is
made and every inducement is held out to the
negroes to enlist them in the ranks ofan organ
ization whose distinguishing features are anti
pathy to the white race. Hunnicutt, Ward
we'll & Co. head this party and are using great
energy and perseverance in building it up
They have already secured firm hold upon the
worst portion Of the black population in the
cities. The success of these fanatics In enlist:
ing the entire black population in opposition to
the white would result in war Of races with
all its terrible consequences. Of course such a
catastrophy should be prevented if possible.
The other party to this game is the other
wing of the Radical party, and represents the
authors and advocates of the S. S. S. bill and
its appendages. They, too, expect the negroes
to constitute the great mass of their party, but
/ they are endeavoring to enlist every man who
was the least disaffected towards the South du
ring the war, and all those weakened gentle
men who were furious for secession and are
now SO anxious to boot-lick some Yankee and
grow fat on that thrift that follows fawning.
| The object is to secure such number of NEAR
white men and political bummers as will, in ad
| dtlOn to the negro vote, constitute majority
The leaders of this party are strongly in favor
of Convention under the S. S. bill, and they
hope by the lavish use of the money at theil
command, and by threats and intimidation te
have Convention held and SO filed as thai
they can control it, frame radical constitution
and secure the vote of the State to the radical
party in the next Presidential election. Sena
tor Wilson is now stumping the State in the in.
terests of this party. A huge effort is to be
made to fasten Virginia to the Radical party as
Tennessee and Missouri are fastened, and if this
cannot be accomplished we will never be ad.
mtted to our rights under the government un-
| til the radical party is overthrown.
Let us stand united people and spurn all
the brides and threats of these radical leaders,
and all will, in due time, be well. The fact
that the Radicals are SO anxious to secure the
Southern States is evidence that their fortunes
are waning in the North. We can never aid
our friends by deserving to the camp Of the enc
my All such hopes are decisions, and your
enemies will teach you so if you try it. Look
with suspicion upon every man who is SO anx-
ious to be reconstructed as to talk of affiiiatng
with the Radicals in order to secure our rights.
| He is not the man for the times. -Ftncdstlt
| Herald.