Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-06-16
Monstrosity Of the Constitution.

1 Monstrosity Of the Constitution.
In its vile purpose of Africanizing Virgini,
wisdom, culture and experience in public affair
have been pushed aside that stupidity and foil
might exercise their functions instead. N
task was too difficult for the pretensions G
these persons to undertake, and the trainers. Q
the proposed Constitution" disdained the vir
tue OF doubling their own abilities Travellin,
/ with railroad speed to conclusions on subiect
of abstruse political philosophy, the study o
which had employed the life time of profound
statesmen, they most aptly illustrated the
proverb that fools rush in where angels feal
to tread" And in order to complete the plan
tor the Africanization of Virginia, this "Con-
| stltutlon proscribes talent and experience, pre-
| pares for the plunder of property, denies
knowledge sphere Of action, and puts pre-
| MUM upon ignorance and vice. Virtue, it
proclalms, shall cease to be safeguard and in
nocence shield, and it ordains that the very
poles or the moral, social and political world
shall be reversed - y
This is just what the proposed ''Constitu-
ton seeks to do. If there be those who deny
1t, let let them study these questions and answers !:
Who made this Constitution ?''
Ignorant, indolent negroes and unprincipled
white adventures, who have no abiding inter-
est in the State Feg f.;.t
Who can be legislators under it?
None but the same class who made the
''COnstitution --s aht
Who can be judges?
Only the same.
Who can be jurors?
Only the same.
Who can 'pack" the juries?
The same. ~
Who can lay the taxes upon the property /?
The very same persons alone.
Who can collect, appropriate and disburse
the revenues of the State?
Only the same If s
Who are to pay the taxes? '.
Not the same, but those Uho are to I've de-
pTlred OF aH control of public affairs
Here then is a scheme of government more
unjust and iniquitous than any recorded in his
tory: 1t is monstrous beyond the utmost con
ceptlons of monstrosity which ever entered the
minds Of free people Here is practical confs-
cation in the shape of taxation without limit,
OF all our property, and absolutely no security
Our whole possessions may be absorbed by tax
alton, and at the same time a packed jury of
stupid negroes and abandoned white men may
lmprison or put to death any citizen who may
have excited their personal or political hostility.
Here Is villanous scheme of rapine, plunder
and MURDER which it is proposed to fasten up
on as Constitution, and which, if adopted,
at one tell swoop will take away from us every
thing for which governments are instituted
among men. Examiner aud Enquirer.
For the Spectator
Editors Stanton Spectator :-Gentlemen-
There has been published in your paper, a num-
Der OF letters written by |. n Young, from
Brazil, which letters have produced, upon the
minds of many, a favorable impression of that
Country The letters were no doubt written
under the same feelings in which they have
been received. He hoped he had found
Country with congenial climate, where he
could live free from the wrongs and expressions
which he has been subjected to and anticipated
IN the future, and that he might be a sort of
pioneer to those of his countrymen, who felt
as he did when he left this Country-he was
therefore inclined to look upon every thing in
that Country most favorably Having received
a letter from him of a recent date, justice, both
to him and the public, requires me to say, that
the experience of last Summer, differing vide
ly from the first. with incessant rain aud intol-
cradle heat, together with that loneliness pro-
duced from an inability to acquire and speak
the language Of the Country, has changed his
Impressions and produced a discomfort and
longing for kindred and nativity, that in my
Judgment, nothing will satisfy but return to
his native land.
1t seems that our people must fight it out
upon this line-let US therefore be true to our
selves-to our race and color Stand upon the
right and all may be well with us yet.
D. S. YOUNG.