Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-24
Prepare fer the Contest.


The sweeping clause adopted By tho Black
and Tan Convention, noW assembled in Rich
mond by which Fifty Thousand of the best
men in Virginia are to be disfranchised, is an
act of such Radical vlllainy that it will make
the blood mantle to the cheek Of every lover Of
constitutional liberty and Of his native land
The object Is 50 transparent that none can fail
to see that it is to substitute the negro for the
white man and place Virginia-the land Of
Washington and Henry and Madison-under ne
gro domination. Will the white men Of Vir-
gina submit to this? Can they submit? The
Constitution may be forced upon the people,
even after they have expressed their detesta
tion and scorn of its provisions, as in Alabama !;
but the time will come When the people will as
sert their rights-the bayonet cannot rule for
ever. And here, we would remind our readers
that Notwithstanding the dlsfranchising clause,
there are white voters enough in the State to
defeat the Constitution, if they are only true to
themselves and their race. Thank God-not
the COnyentiOn-this wholesale dlsfranchise-
ment cannot affect tae vote against the Con
stitution, because all who are properly regis
tered, can vote either for or against the inqui-
touS, unjust and tyranncal instrument. There
is no mistake about this-let the white people
take courage, grid on their arnor and prepare
for the contest. The Constitution will soon be
presented for your acceptance or rejection-the
Issue involved is momentous-whether you are
to be freemen or slaves whether your sons are
to be ground under the iron heel of despotisn
and the negro substituted In his stead, or
whether they are to remain free.
People OF Virginia-if you wish to preserve
your liberty and transmit the inestimable right
to your children, you must rise in your might
and teach the despioable tyrants at Richmond
that all their efforts to yankeedoodleize Virgin
la are in valn-that come veal or woe the white
race must rule. Organize, then, organize-all
| is not lost-and by vigorous, determined and
united action you may postpone the day OF your
enthralment and ultimately wrest from the ty-
rants who would trample upon you the rights
| they have usurped,
| Congress has Just passed law of grave i'm
port-they have authorized the State Conven
| tions to provide for the election of members OF
Congress as well as all State officers at the time
the vote is taken upon the question of ratifying
| the Constitution. None but the very best men
should be presented for any Office, either State
| Or National; and as the Convention cannot de-
| termine who is to vote on the Constitution, 1t
| follows that you may defeat the one and elect
the other This is the last chance that will be
offered and if you prefer negro magistrates,
negro tax collectors and so on, stay at home,
gentlemen, and you will have fastened the
shackles upon yourselves and your children
which nought but blood can unloose. This Il
no idle vaporiDg-the di,tranchsement OF So
600 white voters as effectually enslayes you,
can prevent twill you do it?-RodnoEt
Times.
| GRIM PICTURE FOR THE EYES OF Poor
MEN.-We cannot picture to ourselves the re
suits which will accrue if the Radical party OF
| Virginia gets possession of the State. No fancy
= not that of an Opium Eater in the horrors OF
his arrangement, can paint for us the realities
of Africanzation The dissolution Of all socia
order follows, fraud, theft, wrong, oppression
outrage, violence, chaos, all follow; but there is
one consequence which our people may as vel
| consider IN advance.
1t addresses itself to the poor men more di
rectly than to any others, and involves the flu
let it be pondered over, let it be discussed, lei
it be proclaimed from the house tops, that the
whole system of education in the South is to be
remodelled, and the principle of equality In
troduced. Look at the effect of this. ltmeans
that the poor mans child-boy or girl-shal
sit down cheek by jowl with the depraved and
abandoned
1t means that this attendance upon schools
which will be taught by strong minded women
and nose talking men, shall be compulsory, and
that under the supervision of black police.
This is "a grim picture, but it is one upon
which the people of Georgia, and Louisiana
and North Carolina, look as far as the law goes
it is one of which we have been duly warned by
the report of the committee on education in the
Richmond Convention, and it behooves us all
to study this question in all its bearings in time
to avert so great calamity
Who would submit toit? How would we re
sist? The plain path to escape this awful de-
gradation which would dishonor us through the
corruption Of our children, is before US. Let
every man turn out when the time comes and
vote down the Constitution which would deba,e
his child. .-NoJoM Kuymian.