Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-07-07
Has She a Call to be a Wife.

Has she a call to be wife who thinks more
of her silk dress than her children, and visits
her nursery no oftener than once a day?
Has woman call to be wife who spends
her time in reading the --latest novels, COM
polling her husband, with depleted purse, to
Has that woman call to be a wife who cries
for cashmere or camel's hair shawl when
her husband notes are protested?
Has that woman call to be wife who ex-
poets her husband to swallow diluted coffee,
soggy bread, smoky tea and watery potatoes
SIX days out Of seven?
Has she call to be a wife who firts with
every man she meets, and reserves the frowns
for the home Preside?
Has she call to be wife who comes down
to breakfast in abominabe curl papers, soiled
dressing gown, and shoes down at the heel?
Has she call to be a wife who bores her
the history of broken tea cup, or the possible
whereabouts Of missing broom handle?
Has she call to be wife whose husband S
love weighs naught in the balance with her
next-door neighbor' damask curtains or velvet
carpet?
Has she call to be a wife who would take
advantage of a moment of conjugal weakness
to extort money or exact a promise?
Has she call to be wife who takes jour
ney for pleasure, leaving her husband to toll In
a close Office and ''have an eye, when at
home, to her servants?
Has she call to be wife to whom a hus>
bands society is not the greatest Of earthly
blessings?
Has she call to be wife who listens to out
side SANDERS against her husband?
We observe with pleasure that in several
places in South Carolina and Mississippi, the
people are organizing ''colored Democratic
Clubs, and we take the occasion to suggest
that it would be we'll for the people of Virginia
to do the same thing. We are confident that
groes in Virginia, who desire to coporerate with
the white people, and that they will do so if we
will give them nucleus to rally on, and will
assist and encourage them. Thousands of them
can be induced to abandon the Loyal Leagues
and join Democratic clubs if we will establish
such clubs and address them at all convenient
seasons. Those negroes who will join the white
people in this work, will be the favorties Of all
persons who want labor and trade and they
will be the first to get work and receive favor
Great events are accomplished by small begin
nings, and this is one that can be accomplished
by negro Clubs with Presidents and Secretaries
They may start with only ten or dozen mem
bers. and in a little while they will swell up to
powerful proportions. Honest and sensible ne
groes will soon join them, and abandon the
carpet-bag and scallawag clubs that now use
them for their mean purposes.
What say the white people of Lynchburg to
these suggestions? There is no time to lose
about matters of such Importance, and no time
for refined hair splitting. The conservative
negroes must have a rallying point, and we must
aid in giving it to them. The white people are
doing this with great success in the cotton States
IL, H. IL
can do it here with still greater success where
we outnumber the coiored men, Let us at once
furnish them with room and invite them in
to such an organization. We shall then know
who are oar friends, and they will know who
are their friends Lynchburg Republican.