Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-01-12

| let US stand firmly together and permit no an.
cry discussions, which would only tend to dis
tract and divide us. We cannot afford to frittel
away our strength in this manner. United. we
stand Divided. we fall Let these disturbing
questions remain IN allegiance for the present
and when the time for the assembling Of the
convention shall arrive, and the report Of the
committee shall be made, we may be able to
agree fully upon the policy to which we should
give in our adhesion. If every overture on on,
| part shall be rejected. by Congress-, under the
malign influence OF carpet-bag counsellors. then
let every man in Virginia take his position. and
| use all the influence which property and supe~
| rior intelligence can exert, to defeat the infa
nous constitution which alien adventures seek
| to impose upon US A constitution which
administrated by such men, would involve u:
in bankruptcy, ruin and everlasting disgrace
From the Richmond Examiner
The scheme is to adopt negro suffrage and
| incorporate it into the organic law of the State
as IAN offering on the altar of peace in order
| to propitiate the Radical party, and the com
| mittee is composed Of nine well known gentle
men, selected by Hon. A. H. II. Stuart with
| himself as chairman, appointed by the meet
| ing Efe SID
Several publications which appeared in these
| columns previous to this meeting had prepared
the public mind to expect some development
on the part of forty self appointed citizens
| in the direction Of an aggressive warfare upon
State government The zeal of these seif- an.
pointed citizens was subject of some comment
| not very complimentary to their happening
| conduct in attempting to GUST the Executive
Committee Of the Conservative Party, appoint
ed by the largest and most enthusiastic
convention ever assembled in Virginia, and tax
ing upon themselves the functions which the
people had confded to their chosen agents.
But all suspicion vanished under the prevailing
idea that the extent Of their action, at furthest
would only embrace the sending of "a committee
to Washington to watch and counteract the
movements of the carpet bag emissaries who 90
thither from Richmond every week. The de-
finite and tangible method Of doing this was
hardly understood by any one perhaps, but
there was something like vague hope that
such committee, composed of gentlemen of
high character and personal worth, could do
something, at least, in the way of exposing the
malignant Vaccinations Of Wells and his pimps
and minioDs, and, by setting forth the truth in
regard to affairs in Virginia, disabuse the minds
of any fair minded Congressman, if any such
there be, Of the false impressions which these
creatures have been constantly creating for their
own purposes. The wisdom of even such
by nearly every rejecting Virginian outside of
the small number with whom the proposition
originated ,aE
But what must be the amaZement OF the peO-
pie of Virginia when they learn that these self
appointed citizens have actually inaugurated a
movement, whose sole effect, if it succeed will
be to surrender the Commonwealth into the
hands of its enemies not for day. but for all
time to GOMEZ What will be their indignation
against this scheme, whose first resolution pro
poses to accept" negro suffrage as the organic
law of Virginia to endure for generations to
come, and whose second provides the means
ito give effect to this purpose!'' This is the
sum and substance of the action Of the self ap-
pointed Representatives Of the people of Vir-
ginia who met at The Exchange last week. 1t
is 'peace offering which sacrifices everything
for which we have been fighting the political
battle, surrenders our whole ground and places
us entirely at the mercy j of the enemy, bound
hand and foot.
For ourselves, we most earnestly protest a
gainst such action being received as inspired by
the sentiment of Virginia There is not in the
broad limits of this glorious Commonwealth
enough white men to form constituency for a
single Congressman who, under any circum>
Stances will ever acknowledge the equality OF
the negro race, no matter under what coercion,
and no matter how pressing the opportunities
of 'eypedency." The mention of such project
will arouse the spirit of Virginia. and the
primary meetings which these self appointed
gentlemen recommend will sound the note
| OF indignation against such trifing with the
honor of the Commonwealth in tones which
will reverberate from the seashore to the noun
tains.
People of Virginia You have behind you
| a mighty Past, and your feet are even now
pressing the threshold of mighty Future
With generous and proud consciousness, you
feel that there is something in you more noble
and god like than the unworthy whisperings OF
misnamed prudence" and 'philosophic com.
prehension Of this little Present You have
before you grand and glorious destiny Let
| not the perils of the pathway which leads you
to it cool your determination. Above all, be
not seduccd from the highway of honor, which
| into road claimed to be less arduous, but only
known to be more dirty.
From the Fredericksburg News
Was ever such AFFECT political cravings
wholesale abandoning the fight on the eve OF
| the conflict Senator Pomeroy could not be-
| lieve that the Conservatives, who had the ma
| jority, could make such proposition, and sup
posed that the Radicals in despair of ca ryne
| this new movement" in order to secure negro
! suffrage
| Do what you please, gentlemen, but of one
| thing be assured, Tide0ater Virginia scM moi
| and Ought not to consent and seek to become Hkt
| Louisiana, without at least one manly effort tc
avert that calamity.
| From the Petersburg Express.
The movement of the so-called ''do some
| thiprc - or colP tscapcblo on -
to accommodate negro suffrage to universe
amnesty. Or to accept negro suffrage if Con
gress will for their political assassination meas
ure, of which we shall have something to say
| hereafter
| This latter requirement, be it remembered, i;
unconstitutional and an er post tdcto law, t.
avoid the operation which, so far as Virginia i:
concerned, the ''do something's are willing te
accept negro suffrage or rather propose to ac
| quiesee in the unconstitutional law SO far az
other southern States are concerned.
| 10 other words let us ''save our own bacon,
and as to the other, devil take the hind
| most"
| There is a different mode to get rid of an e1
posi-. tdcto law and an unconstitutional provision
| which does not require such questionable actor
exemption, but that of all All this purposeC
parley with Congress proceeds from too grea
eagerness, and at very unpropitious time, anc
| requires our assent to a thing which VIC admit
is aerong and unsafe. We are opposed to it to
| the bitter end
CONGRESSIONAL
House OF REPRESENTATIVES. Tuesday
Jan "a resolution directing the Postmaster
| General to withhold payment from Wells, Far
| go 4 Co. for the Pacific mail service pending