Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-07-16
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Resolved That it be recommended to Virginia
to make her subscriptions in the manner and up
on the terms provided for in the resolution rela-
ting to subscriptions by counties in West Va.
Resolued, That committee consisting of three
persons be appointed with power to enlarge its
number, to prepare and have published an adj
dress setting forth the prospects Of success and
the advantage to result from the completion OF
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad as well to the
public as to the stockholders ----.
The vote was taken upon each resolution sep
arately and each was passed unanimously.
Mr.. Cyrus Newlin, of Monroe, opposed in a
speech, the adoption of the LIST resolution, though
he declined to vote against it. After the resolu-
tions had all been adopted without a dissentory
voice, estated that he did not wish to be under
stood as favoring them because of his declining
to vote against them.
The following resolution offered by Mr. Lyons
of Richmond was unanimously passed
ResoIred, That the vast interests of Virginia
and West Virginia require that the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad shall be completed cost what
it may.
Gov. Perpont having vacated the chair, MI.
Hall of Mason presided after the adoption of the
resolutions reported by the business Committee.
Thanks were unanimously voted to the Presi-
dent and Secretaries for the faithful performance
of their respective duties.
On motion of Col D. S. Hounshell the Con-
veption adjourned sine de.
The Norfolk Vdginaan, speaking OF the Al
bemarle corporation meeting, says:
s'In the county of Albemare the colored man
has been treated with consideration which has
never been excelled in the country. The Pc
tersburg resolutions were twice offered as ba-
sis of common action between the whites and
blacks the leading men of that region made
the most moderate speeches which have been
uttered in the State; and there also the Re
publican party has for the first time in the State
found number Of gentlemen OF large possess
ions and well known names ready to Go oper-
ate with it in Its policy, and march under Its
banner in gnominious, because voluntary, ohe-
dience. One would think that these concess-
ions would have had good effect upon the
colored people of Albemare; but such has not
been the case: We have the best evidence OF
this in the speech which a freedman Lewis
Lindsay delivered at Mudwall week ago.
He demanded an equal division Of offices and
perfect social equality. He claimed for the
blacks the right to elect Governor, members of
Congress and a part Of the Legislature He
demanded also, says the Charlottesville Chron
icze, that 'he should be asked into white
man parlor, and addressed as Mr.. Lindsay
when he called at his house. He sneered at
the action of the white folks in making ad-
vances to his race, and repudlated all such Of
fierce and revengeful in all his utterances and
the more sinister his speech, the louder the APP
piause
Upon text SO plain as this we need make
no commentary. The sense of power debauch-
es even clearer heads and better natures than
those of the negroes. 1t only remains for us
to exercise patience, keep our temper, and deal
justly with all men without regard to color
Let us continue in this path and in few
years-hard to bear these years may be-the
100000 whites of Virginia will have grown by
its tens of thousands, until the moral force Of
the white man will become power in the State.
Already the tide from the Northwestern and
Middle States has began to penetrate the Val
ley and the Southwest. In few years more
we shall have shiploads Of immigrants LOCATED
among Us, and a restored prosperity.
Let US mingle forbearance with resolution
h est # tibet be- torn a off for US by events