Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-04-28


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The great and paramount issue is :-SHALL
NEGROES or WHITE MEN RULE VIR-
GINA? All other issues are secondary and
subordinate, and should be kept so.
SHALL MARRIAGE BETWEEN NE
GROES and WHITES-amalgamataon-be
allowed? That is one Of the issues.
The day has been named for the vote in Vir-
GINA. Let every man prepare to Do HIS
DUTY at the POLLS.
VOTE AGAINST the Constitution, because
it forces NEGRO EQUALITY in the MILL
TIA-in the JURY BOX-in HOTELS-in
RAILROAD CARS-in CHURCHES.
The serious issues presented to the people Of
Virginia, involve matters of life and DEATH
Let the people, everywhere, comprehend them,
come out on the day of election and vote GA
GAINST THE CONSTITUTION"
The success of the proposed Radical Conyen
| ton will entail negro equality on the people OF
Virginia beyond hope. Come out on the day
of election, and defeat radical dreams of person
al aggrandisement by VOTING DOWN THE
CONSTITUTION.
Keep it before the people, that the policy Of
the hybrid Republicans Constitution is to i'm
poverish the country, CENTRALIZE POW.
Err, PARALYZE INDUSTRY, MULTIPLY
TAXATION and ELEVATE the NEGRO
WHILE DEGRADINGT THE WHITE MAN.
| We want the issues made in broad and strong
| line, and this has been run, as it were, with a
| plough share. The reprobate white niggers,
and the representative ''colored gentlemen
| have drawn the sword and thrown away the
scabbard
VOTE AGAINST the Constitution, because
| it will beggar our people-exalt the wicked and
humble the good-and ruin every true interest
| of Virginia.
| VOTE DOWN THE CONSTITUTION,
because It permits WHITE CHILDREN to
be apprenticsd to NEGRO MASTERS and
WHITE WARDS subject to NEGRO GUAR
DIANS.
VOTE DOWN the CONSTITUTION be.
cause it places many of our counties under r.
GRO GOVERNMENTS and grants NEGRO
EQUALITY in all of them.
Keep it before the people, that the Consti-
tuition compels solite children and negro chi-
dren to attend the same school. SIT on the same
benches, and be taught Jy the same teachers,
Dhether ohite or black.
Keep it before the people, that the new Con-
stitution alzous and encourages miscegenation,
or MARRIAGE BETWEEN NEGROES and
WHITE PERSONS.
| If you wish to muster in the CoRNsTALK
CAVALRY with blacI and s0hie-vote for the
| Constitution.
| The man who sustains the new Constitution
will he FALSE to the MEMORY of the dead, and
FALSE to the INTERESTS Of the living.
When Judge Snead (Radical) tells you that
he intends to oppose the Constitution because
of its iniquities, what ought you Conservatives,
to do? VOTE 1T DOWN!
|
General Schofeid denounces the new Consti
tuition with its infamous TEST OATH. How then
can We refuse to oppose it?
IF you wish your ta1es increased-vote fol-
the Constitution.
Shall white children have negro guardians
This is one Of the issues in the campaign before
| us.
There is not single redeeming feature in the
proposed Constitution. Its object is white
degradation and negro elevation, and every
word and line is SO written as to facilitate that
purpose White men of Virginia, VOTE IT
DOWN
This is what honest Republicans think of the
proposed Constitution. Judge Snead, of Ac
comac, declares IF THE INFAMOUS PRO.
VISION is SUPPORTED BY THE PEG
Pile OF VIRGINIA, | WILL MOVE TO
SOME MORE HONEST STATE"
And again:
II predict that the Constitution will be de-
feate.l-AS IT DESERVES TO BE-by ar
immense majority
Mr.. Allan, Radical delegate from Prince Ed
ward, declares:
Never will | consent to such an imposition
as this law, which excludes EVERY TRUE
VIRGINIAN from Office in his own State
The proposed Constitution would send negro
and white children to the sauia schools. What
do the poor white people of Virginia, what dc
the working classes think of that? Will they
countenance such social ruin, by refusing to
VOTE AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION?
| Shall we accept confscation under the gart
| of taxation? This is an issue presented to the
white people of Virginia, Will they have their
| lands plundered to support the extravaganza OF
| Radical and negro ruler IF not VOTE a
| GAINST THE CONSTITUTION.
The white man who neglects to register and
vote for his race, will never cease to regret ii
hereafter. Let nes business nor pleasure,
trouble or expense, prevent any @iEginlan from
registering or from VOTING AGAINST
THE CONSTITUTION.
ALAS. Poor Yorick!!"
On Wednesday evening last, Coy. Peirpoint,
Charles Lewis and ''Knee-deep" Lewis Lindsey
(negro) made speeches on the Public Square,
in Richmend-GoY, Peirpoiat being introduced