Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-04-14
The Negro---what is to become of him?

From an editorial article in the Richmond
Wing, we extract the following:
Cost what it may, those negroes who want to
go to Liberia ought to be furnished transporta-
ton by the Government If they had claim
to their freedom, they have claim to this
1t does not require prophet or the son OF a
prophet to foretell their doom IT they remain
here, or that the race enmities increased by
their arrogance in their new character will has
ten that DOOM When the Radical excitement
now prevailing at the North shall subside, as
subside it must, sooner or later, the negro will
| have even more enemies there than here. Con-
greSs threatened to impose negro suffrage upon
every Northern State. Let it be done, and the
negro population of those States will greatly In
crease, and numbers will find death instead OF
| liberty at the ballot-box. Labor riots between
the two races will also occur, and when they
begin, who can answer for the results? Bu
| without such violence, the chances of the ne
groes will grow worse and worse every year,
They will be everywhere submerged under the
swelling Caucasian tide. The inferior race vii
sink lower and lower, diminish in numbers, ane
ultimately disappear like the Indians.
| The people of the North think much abou
the political rights of the negroes, and talk very
| glibly about their future improvement. Alas
They little know how they are sacrificing thel
| physical comfort and happiness, and Jeopardlnt
| their very existence in their insane attempt tt
make them in the North the equals, in thu
South the superiors, of the white man. AS the.
grow in liberty they diminish In vitality Stan(
and survey any assemblage OF negro politicians
look at their ashy, unhealthy and pinched faces
their emaciated forms, their tattered and ill-as
sorted garments; follow them to their home ant
look at the crowds that fill hovel and cellar, tn
half starved and half naked children, and tn
filth in which they all live, and deny if you Cal
that the Southern negroes are doomed to de
struction.
The weaker kinds of animals have an instinc
that teaches them to avoid the haunts of tn
stronger animals. This inclination toward
Liberia is the result of the operation Of their in
stinct in the negro We think the Government
is under obligations to send all those of the ne
groes to Liberia who desire to 60 there. Th
from Africa against their wills, ;" let them no1
be returned in accordance with their wishes
The Iron-C Clad Oath.
We publish below the iron clad test oath
that our readers may have their memory cor
corning it refreshed, and may know what mar
ner of men these are who are willing to take il
It reads as follows, and is prescribed by tn
10th section of the Supplementary Bill passe
July 10, 1867:
II, -, of --, county of -, an
State of -- do solemnly swear Tor affirm
that have never voluntarily borne arms again
the United States since have been q citize
thereof; that have voluntarily given no ait
countenance, counsel or encouragement to pc
sons engaged in armed hostility thereto; tn;
I have neither sought nor accepted, nor a
tempted to exercise the functions of any ofiit
| whatever under any authority or pretended al
thority in hostility tc the United States; tn;
[ have not yielded voluntary support to an
pretended government, authority. power
} constitution within the United States, host
or inimical thereto. And ! do further swe;
Tor AFFIRM that to the best of my knowlede
and ability, 7 will support and defend the Coz
stitution of the United States against all en-
miles, foreign OF domestic: that will bear try
faith and allegiance to the same; that | TAX
this obligation freely, without any mental reese
walton or purpose of evasion; and chat | wi
well and faithfully discharge the duties Of tt
Office oa which ] am about to enter: 50 hel
me God.