Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-05-05
a State Ticket.

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The Conservative Convention which assem-
bled last winter in Richmond says the Norfolk
Tirgi,aian, appointed an Executive Committee,
which is charged with the duty of marshaling
the forces of the White Mans Party, and con-
Quoting the campaign against the adoption of
the negro Constitution, and the establishment
of negro supremacy in Virginia. One Of the
most important duties devolved upon the Exec
utive Committee will be the nomination of an
able and popular State ticket, upon which the
votes of the Conservative party may be concen-
trated in the coming election. The time has
arrived for the nomination of such ticket, and
we hope the members of the Executive Com
mittee will be convened for the performance of
that duty without further delay. The negro
Convention is about to adjourn, and the pro-
posed Constitution, the infamous work of their
hands, will soon be promulgated Are we pre-
pared for action? Are our forces consolidated,
and ready to move at moments warning p
We take it for granted, that the county and dis
trict superintendents-t chiefs of fifty and
leaders of ten, have already caused every man
within their jurisdiction to be enrolled, ready for
registration, and voting when the time arrives.
This being done, we want leader worthy to
represent our cause-a chieftain in whose hands
the banner of the White Mans party may be
placed. We want no trucking, time serving.
place-hunter, but Representative man, of the
Old Dominion, thoroughly imbued with Vir-
glnia sentiments and feelings. We want man
who enjoys the confidence and respect of our
people-one whose sympathies harmonic with
theirs, and who is bound to them by the ties of
common suffering in the past and common
hope in the future, IF the Executive Commit
tee will nominate such man for Governor. the
people of Virginia will delight to honor biim.-
They will rally to his standard from the seaboard
to the mountains, and elect him triHmphantly.
lie may not be permitted to qualify, because he
cannot subscribe 20 the odious test oath; but
the responsibility will be upon the Radical Con-
gress and not upon us. If he is not Inaugural
ted, military government will be continued over
us, and that is infinitely preferable to negro
rule. At all events, whether he is inaugurated
or not we will be spared the shame and humili-
alton of voting for man to be Chief Magistrate
of the State, whose only recommendation is that
in our greatest struggle for independence, all
his sympathies were antagonistic to those of his
own people and kindred
The Richmond Enquirer says: eve beg
that every decent white man in Virginia will
help Cuffee to force the black mixture of social
equality down the threats of the carpet baggers.
Let them be driven into the embraces of the
negro. They should everywhere be placed I'M
der the ban, excluded from the society of the
whites whom they have betrayed, and forced
to live with the negroes. What right has a
filthy carpet-bagger, who believes that negro
is his social and political equal, to polute the
house of decent white man with his presence
We should treat these political outlaws as the
lepels are treated in the East, and spurn them
as unclean and communicating. The negroes have
Informed these demoralized incendaries that
they must treat them as social equals; and the
negroes are right. Let them dwell in sweet
harmony and brotherly love until long an in
innate association gives to the world mongrel
race, which shall blend the rare qualities of the
carpet-bagger and his negro BROTHER
The Lynehburg Republican adds: 'aThis is
correct advice. Every man with white skin
who has thrown himself into the political en-
brace of the negro, should be discountenanced
by the white people of the South, and made to
live and die on that side of the line. They are
disgrace to their race, and we should always
prefer negroes to them"
WHATEVER any white man may think about
any single separate provision of the new consti-
tuition, let HIM remember that its leading fea-
ture is negro elevation, and white depression.
1t becomes him, therefore, to resist this infa-
nous abomination as if he fought for his life.
and In defence Of all that is sacred and honor
able. Any white voter who refrains from ex
erclslng his right to vote against this bastard
code, should be ignored forever in the society
OF decent people.-Lynchb'rg Republican,
'Twould be odd to see lobster SMOKING 9 81.
gar, or toad chewing tobacco; but to see an
editor at ease with himself and all the world
and up to his knees in prosperity, would be still
more strange.
A fond parent, anxious that his son should
be sharp in his wits, and profound in his tho'ts
has sent him to sea-so that he may be rocked
in the cradle of the deep.
The gate which leads to life, is strait gate
therefore we should fear; it is an open gate. |
therefore we should hope.
Human Charity is often for moment. |
Christ's charity is never ending.