The Van Buren press., 1867-11-22
DUTY OF CONSERVATIVES.
Organize = Hold Conventions = Act Will
,'fA u the Democratic Party. .

the ueM0craUc farty,
3. We offer few suggestions to the Con
servatives Of this State, and all lovers
thereof. The Radicals arc close cement
cd, are energetic in their work all over
our State to secure their ends and the
control of the State Government That
control, we honestly believe, will achieve
the ruin OF the State, and result in ban
ishing thousands of good and old citi
zens from their homes and in placing
under ban thousands more who will be
unable to get away.
We believe the establishment of negro
suffrage, with its consequent negro domi-
nation, with all its agrarianism, ignorance
corruption and imbecility, will be the
very greatest calamity which could pos
sibly befal the South This risk the Rad
icals are keen to run in order to erect
and maintain their power; and to such
end they are now diligently working. 1t
becomes us, therefore, to be as diligent
in opposing them and their Vaccinations
in obstructing their mad and fanatical
schemes, chief of which is negro suf-
frage. This is the pivot on which their
success is to turn. NEGRO EQUALITY is
THE ISSUE. ... I........ r..
SCitizens Of Arkansas, are you agreed
to this ? Are you ready to see the negro
force himself into your parlor, sit at
your table, ride with you in the same car
riagc? Are you willing to admit his
equality, or suffer him to share equally
with you, your rights as free born Ameri-
cans? If not, you must work You
must organize; you must read and talk !;
yon must tell your neighbors what you
read and hear on this absorbing subjec !;
you must fight, and fight hard, and to the
last, this hideous doctrine of negro equal
ity. "Nigger or no Niger" this is the
cry. .....r .... .......... ....
Organize, hold meetings, work, and
that NOW The Convention will proba
bly, be held--God grant it may be defeat
ed---but the chances are that it will be
called. u 1t matters not now, whether
these chances are honest or not; the
Radicals. by hook or crook, will hold q
Convention Our people we're divided in
their counsel d regard to the propriety
Of yoting fnb4 lqnNt1tion, Some Con
servatiyss Nv adalor ii and for conserva-
tive men as members Many voted
against Convention; but the greater
part remained at home. ! speak of the
Conservatives who were registered and
therefore had power to vote. Either all
such ought to have acted in concert and
voted against q Convention, in an entire
vote, or, to the last man, they should
have abstained from the polls Either
would have defeated Convention II
is too late 10 regret that one of these
methods was not followed, But it is not
too late to learn from this what is now ouI
duty. We must not make the same mis-
take as to concert of action. All must
vote. @. hsa s'
Every man Of intelligence who can
speak, ought to do it; canvass each his
county or township, and stir up the
people to sense of their danger and their
duty to prevent it in the legitimate way.
The people are right; all they ask is to
know their danger and they will do their
duty. Every man who reads ought to
impart his information on this moment
Gus subject to his neighbor who does not
read, and awaken him to the imminency
Of the States falling into the hands of
nsgros, ingnorants and the corrupt. Con.
gress has graciously allowed us, that is
the registered voters of us, to exercise
the right, at the ballot box, by which we
may receive or reject the Constitution
which the Convention may adopt. Should
this Convention meet it will, doubtless,
inclose in the Constitution which it shall
frame a provision giving indiscriminate
franchise to the Negro. 1t will be a
constitution suited to the Radicals, and
in complete accord with the plot which
begot the Reconstruction Acts, viz; to
give to the Radicals the Electoral vote Of
the South rv ~
We can vote such Constitution down.
Itas our right and duty to do 50, and
Posterity demands it Of us, and that in
exorably. Four -ffths Of the white in
hahitAnts of Arkansas. are unalterably
opposed to negro equality. II isastench
in their iostrlls. A very great majority