Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-04-14
The Great Issue-Norfolk Virginian

Inc treat 1sSue-N0r1olK V1rglnlan.
1t is no disparagement to the other able jour
nails of the State to express the opinion that
the Norfolk Nirginian, edited by the dlstln-
guished poet, Jas. Barron Hope, is doing more
efficient service at this time than any other
journal 1t is favorite with us. 1t appre
ciates the magnitude Of the issue, and labors
theoretically to save the State from Radical
rule and negro domination. We quote from
it frequently as our readers have observed. 1t
is an efficient colaborer. From various num-
bers we have clipped the following paragraphs:
The issue before the people of the State In
the coming election is single one-negro equal
sty. Will all men, Wings, Democrats, Rebels,
and Union men unite on that one issue and vote
down the Constitution?
If you do not believe in letting the negroes
do all the voting and pay none Of the taxes,
vote against the Constitution.
No time for sleeping or dreaming. The work
before us is serious one. Come out white
men, on the day of election and vote down the
Constitution.
White Men, remember that all persons now
registered can vote on the Constitution. Let
eyerv man in the State who has not registered
do so when the opportunity offers, and vote
against the Constitution.
THE DEVIL DEvoTIoNS -
For him we preach,
For him we pray,
For him we labor night and day
That colored cuss from Africa"
VITAL QUESTIONS. Shall negroes and knaves
rule and ruin Virginia or shall her own true
sons, the representatives of the intelligence the
worth and the property of the State, save her
from such shame. This is the question for ev-
ery citizen who has not registered to ask him.
SELF Every vote is important, and no man can
fail to secure his right to vote without being
criminally derelict.
VOTE IT DowN.-The ratification of the
odious negro constitution will entail negro equal
ity on the people of Virginia beyond hope OF
redemption Come out on the day of election,
and defeat Radical dreams of personal aggran-
disement by voting down the Constitution.
THINK OF THIs.-Shall white men be en-
| rolled in the militia with negroes-perhaps I'M
der negro officers? This is one of the results
| for which those who refuse to register will be
| held responsible.
| White Men, read, ponder and weigh well,
| what the Radicals demand from the Southern
States and then, if you can, stand with folded
arms, and see the negro Constitution carried
by default in Virginia:
l. A national debt.
9. Increased taxation
3. Untaxed bonds for capitalists.
4. High protective tariffs for New England
| manufactures
5. Shinplasters for the poor.
| 6. Gold for the bondholder.
7. Negro mongrelism at the polls and in the
jury box.
| S. Disfranchisement of large proportion Of
our citizens.
0. Confscation of Southern lands.
| 10. Military satraps at an expense OF one
| hundred million dollars annually to the govern
ment instead of civil officers paid by the States.
| II. Negro Senators and negro congressman.
~ Negro judges and negro jurors.
Is. Negro Vice President.
a. Trials by military commissions instead Of
civil courts
Keep it before the people, that the policy Of
the hybrid Republicans is to impoverish the
country, centralize power, paralyze industry
multiply taxation and elevate the negro while
degrading the white man.
| Keep it before the people, that the ringed
streaked and striped negro constitution allows
white children to be bound servants to negro
masters, and allows negroes to become guar
dams of white children.
| Keep it before the people, that the carpet
baggers' constitution allows white men in the
militia to be commanded by negroes.
| WHICH IS BETTER, Government ad
ministered by intelligent and virtuous WHITE
| MEN, or a Government administered by needy
squatters, ignorant Africans and impudent al
lies of mixed blood?
Unless you are in favor of requiring voters
to swear merer to oppose the equality Of the
races, go to the polls and cast your vote
AGAINST Constitution.
| The proposed Constitution once adopted, any
man who opposes negro equality will be laughed
at. 1t will then be too late. VOTE II
DOWN!
Unless you are in favor of COMPELLING
the little children of the country, whose parents
are too poor to educate them, to associate with
little negroes, goto the polls and vote AGAINST
the proposed Constitution.
Do you want a negro guardian for your child
when you are dead and gone? This is search
ing question and one which you should answer
to yourself, for it may happen that court o.
negroes may decide so to dispose of your little
iaxen-haired girl, or your bright eyed boy. L
the new Constitution is adopted it will be com
petent for the negroes to do this very thing
l. e. give the daughter of John Stokes, white
carpenter, to Mumbo Jumbo, black reprobate
as his ward. There is no fancy in this picture
1t is grim truth. Who wants to see it painted
in reality? We answer the question, and say
that the White Man who can register and does
not is the fellow. Mark him Hunt him !
Brand him Make him an outlaw!
Mr. JOHNSON TELLS ON GRANT-Speakine
of the charge that he was drunk while on his
western tour in 1866, Mr.. johnson said te
MACK" of the Cincinnati Commercial:
They II find out, at any rate, that I didn't
drink half as much as one or two Others about
whose condition nobody dares to say word. "
II think | can guess the name of one OF