The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-06
The Questions involved.

Z What are Che questions of to-daT
Shall the people OF Virginia be saved from
/" che shackles proposed 30 BE put upon chem
In the USDERwooD constitution?
What white man win vote to keep the
proscriptive clauses in the constitution
What white man viii vote to prescribe ana
degrade his own race? What white mad
would he dog, TODD that thing?
what negro~-what intelligent and Just
man with dark skin--would vote to put
shackles upon the man who has surrendered
nh opposition. to the political equality OF
colorcd people? Is the negro, in his own
estimation even, superior to white men, that
he should be exclusively entrusted with the
.Goyernments Does the colored man sup
pose that white men can be long deprived
of equality? Does he suppose 1t possible
that the governing power in Virginia can
be monopoIized by him9 Does he want 10
stand forth as the uncompromising enemy
of the white peoplep Is he not aware that
such an attitude viii be fatal to himself1
What, then, is the matter? Why Is
there struggle upon line Of color Inc
white nan Yields all the black can ask. Why
does the black man deny equality TO the
white man? Does the black man desire TO
pass away from Virginia?
Oh, it is ali to elect Governor WELLS.
And who is he, that to elect him great
people must be denied all right to Tartici-
!. pate in their own government, ali their
interests destroyed, and they trodden into
dust?
Did not Governor WELLS say that Viz
oinians were liars and could not be trusted
on oath? Does he not call them rebels, and
say that Shey can't be trusted with the adj
ministration of justice? Did not WELLS
for months sustain a relation to all persons
prosecuted in the United States District
Court accused of felony in frauds OF the
internal revenue which causes the most
damning suspicious to attach to his skirts
Has he ever cleared those skirts? Did
he not endeavor to Cypress and disfran-
chise our people? Did he not try to exclude
$4,000 men from the right to register their
names as voters? Did ne not make an at
tempt to manipulate and sell the property
of the State with a view to his own persona!
advantage? Did he not flatter the negroes
with the view of getting their votes, and pri-
yately, to MURDOCH and HUNTER, disparage
their capacity and distrust their disposition,
declaring, further, that they would not be
fit for holding office for one hundred years?
While protesting to oppose the "test-oath,"
has he urged single man to vote against IL {!
Did he not thus deceive General GRANT, who
was led to believe that he would earnestly
favor the liberal GRANT policy.
In short, has not Governor WELLS been
false to everybody? Are the people OF Vir-
ginia to be degraded for the benefit OF such
man? Are they to be ostracised that
man so obnoxious shall rule the State? Who
will say yes? Such n man as that, We're he
known. could, during his life, never be
screened from the " slow, unerring finger
of scorn," which would point to him as
faithfully as does the needle to the pole.
Then, what is all this agitation about? If
these matters are SO clear that just men
could not doubt, how is it that there are
enough unjust unwise men to make a sign of
fight against the plain duty of all good
people?
Are there any white men who are intelli-
gent, who know the right and have influ-
ence, who nevertheless cooperate with that
party-almost wholly colored-which sup
ports WELLS and will vote to shackle the
white people? If there are such, they are
necessarily parhcipes criminis with the
bloody proscript;yes, and cannot escape the
consequences of the relationship.
Here we have the questions. Let every
body answer them. You, men Of Virginia,
who have neither allianc s
at war with duty to your State-wth
your solemn responsibilities to society,
civilization, the public interests, and to JUS
tice--you who are yourselves the proposed
victims of brutal tyranny-you will stand
forth to-day unsupported, unstained.
Strike, then, for your affairs and your fires !;
the green graves of your sires God and
your native land