Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-07-01
Asfsfssess. Of the Democratic and
Conservative congressman to
I the People.


The Democratic Senators and Represen-
tatives in Congress, have issued the follow
ing address
TO our Felloao- Citizens of the United States.
Friends Of Constitutional, Economical
and Honest Government
The undersigned beg leave to call your
attention to the peculiar Importance of the
elections which sake place this year, and
beg respectfully to submit some suggestions
for your consideration. By the State Leg
islatures 10 be elected, nearly one third Of
the United States Senate will b. chosen. -
Nearly all the members of the next House
Of Representative are to be elected next fall
Upon the coming elections there depends
the question whether the Democratic and
Conservative element in the Senate shall be
increased and whether that element shall
have majority in the House of Representa-
tlves, and as Il consequence whether we shall
have a constitutional, economical and honest
Government, or a continuance of the revolu
tionary extragagant and wasteful partisan
rule whether We shall have general, uni
form, just aad constitutional Legislation with
reasonable taxation and frugal expenditures,
Or unconstitutional, partial, unjust class leg
islation, with oppressive and unequal taxa
ton and wasteful expenditure That we
have strong reasons to hope for favorable
result is plainly apparent. Elections already
held clearly show that the tide of Reform
has set in with power that cannot be re-
sisted if no blunders be committed by the
friends of reform. If they do their duty
and act wisely--if they throw off all apathy
and act with vigor and steadfastness-there
is every reason TO hope their efforts will be
rewarded by success. Let there be no dis
sensions about minor matters no time lost
in the discussion of dead issues no man.
festations of terror or proscriptive feeling :;
no sacrifc of the cause to crafty personal
ambition or resentment, and let the best
men be chosen for candidates, and we may
hope to see our country redeemed frona mis-
rule
And in this connection we beg leave to
say word to our fellow citizens of the
Southern States: Do not risk the loss of
Senators or Representative by electing men
who cannot take the test oath, OR who arc
under the disability imposed by the four
tenth amendment, whatever may be said
Of the validity of that amendment Or of the
test-oath act. You may rest assured that
Senator elected by the votes of members of
the Legislature, who are held by the Radi-
Gals to be thus disqualified, will not be per-
mitted to take their seats, and that mem
bers Of the House Of Representatives thus
disqualified will also be excluded. 1t is the
plainest dictate of practical wisdom not to
incur any such risks We hope soon to see
the day when all disabilities will be re-
moved but in the mean time do not, we
entreat you, lose the opportunity to
strengthen the Democratic and Conservative
force in Congress, and the possibility-nay,
probability, Of obtuining majority il the
next House of Representatives, by putting
it into the power of our adyersaries to over
throw or disregard your elections.
Five car loads of Cinnamon have passed
over the Pacific Railroad on their way to
Alabama. They are portion of the large
contract entered into by Koopmanschap to
be furnished to the planters OF some of the
Southern States.
Mrs J. H. Latty, wife of the sheriff of
Des Moines county, Iowa, is her husband s
chief deputy, and u very efficient one at that
She boldly faces desperadoes who attempt
to escape fogs prisoners who are bolster
Gus, and takes convicts to the penitentiary
all this single handed and alone.
L1BER1A.-Letters of recent date from
Morovia, in Liberia, speak of the republic
under the new president, E J. Roye More
coffee, sugar, arrowroot, ginger and pepper
have been planted than ever before. It is
stated that thousand applications are on
file from freedmen in North Carolina and
other States for passage from the United
States to Liberia, next November.
The Democratic newspapers of Indiana
printed the names of upwards of three
| thousand men who have been active and
efRsient workers Of the Radical party, who
announce that they have left that party on
accoun. of the Fifteenth Amendment and
other negro-isms which the Radical load
ers are seeking to fasten upon the country
| A lad named Baldwin Alexander, o.
Pulaski county, Va. having been appointed
q cadet at the Naval Academy on recon
menda,ion of Hon. Mr.. Gibson, refused t.
take the iron clad oath, as required before
admission, because he says he did sympa
thize with the South during tie war. Al
effort will be made to remove his d;sabili