Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-05-18

We may avert many evils of fearful magnitude
by prompt and united action now. We can
take the shackles off the thousands Of our best
citizens, who are now disfranchised and dis
qualified for holding Office. We can drive from
our borders the horde of hungry adventures
who are now gloating ovef the prospect Of living
upon the public treasury, which they vii: take
good care to keep we'll filed by such taxation
as we have never yet felt. We can secure the
Legislature, and this is more important and
vital to our interests than anything else.
Is not this enough to work for? Do we need
any other stimulus TO arouse US, to put forth
every exertion to secure full registration and
full vote? The struggle is one Of life and
death. 1t is no time now to mlnce words. =
| We must work, and work vigorously, to save
even a remnant OF liberty.
| We have decided upon our own course. We
think that every consideration of honor and
| duty requires US to labor With all our might to
prevent the intliction upon OFF long-oppressed
Commonwealth of such evils as the election of
| Wells and his negro lieutenant and the adop-
ton of the unamended Constitution. We can
see no way to do this, but to vote for Colonel
| Gilbert O. Walker, and voting in solid column
against UGH obnoxious clauses as the President
| is pledged to submit to separate vote.
| Bitterly opposed as We have been to the
| of nine, who have been SO Influential in bring
| ing about the circumstances which nov surround
US, We shall indulge in no idle vaporlngs. We
cannot afford to indulge in the luxury Of i'll
| humor. The times are too serious for that
| We shall work as earnestly and cheerfully to
carry out the views of the Convention as if our
| own wishes had been met 1t is true that the
| Convention did not, In words, recommend Mr..
Walker. Their silence upon this subject was
proper, fer reasons obyiQGs to all. We know
very well what they intended.
Let US fall into line, and organize for fight
against carpet -baggers and thieves. Bedford
Sentinel
The RIGHT SPIRIT B. Fl. Shackelford,
Esq, whose resolution as offered in the recent
State Convention was voted down by the ma
jority, is out ia the Alexandria Gazette in a
letter declaring that he is still candidate for
Congress, and in the following clear and un-
mistakable language pledging himself to the
support of the Walker ticket land, what was
not demanded of any Conservative by the Con-
vention promising to vote for the expurgated
constitution. He says:
Il shall, therefore, advocate the election of
the Walker ticket, and the adoption of the
amended or erpurgated constitution as it is ex-
pected to be submitted and | entreat all Con-
sentative men to lay aside cherished opinions
and prejudices, and save us and our posterity
from the evils of the Wells Underwood consti-
| tution-which means exclusive negro suprem-
acy and white disfranchisement
ANNUAL MEETING OF BISHOPS. an
nual meeting Of the bishops Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South took place on Friday,
at St. Louis. The names of the bishops in at
tendance are
Rev. James O. Andrew, of Alabama. presi-
dent; Rev. Robert Paine of Mississippi: Rev.
George T. Pierce, of Georgia; Rev. Fl. H.
Kavanaugh, Of Kentucky Rev. w. NJ.
Wightman, Of South Carolina Rev d. S.
Dcggett, Of Virginia Rev. H n McTeiyre,
of Tennessee. Bishop Marvin, of Missouri.
(now in California; and Bishop Early, of Vir-
ginia, were absent The meeting is private
one, and the business transacted is not made
known large number of divines from all
parts of the South have repaired to St. Louis
to meet the bishops, who may not conclude
their business fer some days
The Episcopal CoUNcIT.-The seventy
fourth annual Council Of the Protes Epis-
copal Church in the Diocese Of Virginia will be
held in St Georges church, Fredericksburg,
ON Wednesday. May 26.
The Typographical Union in Washington is
agitated over the question of admitting to
membership the negro compositors appointed
in the Government printing Office. Ugh
The last rail is laid, the last spike driven
The Pacific railroad is completed The point
OF Junction j. ,OS5 miles west Of the Missouri
river and ESQ miles east Of San Francisco