Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-04-05


thousand extra In counties or districts having a
population Of more than eight thousand, provid-
ed that the maximum shall not exceed 81 200. /
Pending the further consideration of the sub
ject the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES. the House, the
bill providing courts for the city of Richmond |
was passed. The registration bill was further
considered.
Programme of the sTrue Republicans"
We publish below the protest Of such of the |
'True Republicans" as they call themselves,
as oppose the attempt to divide them from the |
great body of the Conservatives of the State,
with whom they acted in the election Of the 9th |
Of last July. This protest, with the predatory
remarks as published in the Richmond papers,
is as follows: s
Be kind enough to publish the sabjoined pa
per. Several efforts were made to get meet
ing of all the members Of the True Republican
Executive Committee but failed, because of the
absence of some of them from the State, and
the business engagements of others. This pro-
test. however, was shown and read to eleren of
the original sixteen members, all of whom en-
dorsed its provisions and signed it, save Nor
mond Smith, John B. Crenshaw, John M.
Higgins and c. s. Bundy
TRUE REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES
PROTEST
The undersigned members of the State Ex-
ecutive True Republican Committee deem it
due, alike to the party they represented, and to
the great body of Conservatives with whom
they co-operated, in the elections of the 9th of
July last, and to their own consistency and self
respect to declare their opinion of the political
movement which occurred recently in this city
| The True Republicans were then invited to
aid I'm combining and perfecting an organiza
| ton which shall be made as effective and in
strumental as possible in support of the admin
istration of General Grant, and the policy of
the majority 10 Congress- The purpose was
1 declared to skill off His Excellency and the
rebel majority in the Legislature - and Senator
Le,ois, who left his seattin the Senate for the
occasion, thought proper to repeat the stale
SANDER of Radicalism upon the people who
| elected him, that the safety of every Union
man 10 the State depended upon rescuing the
State from the hands of the Rebel Democrocy'
that is from the hands of those upon whose
ticket he was elected Lieutenant Governor last
summer and who but the other day, made him
| Senator.
To compass these ends Senator Lewis, Por-
| ter, Platt, Wells and the like came together,
! with three members of the True Republican
| Committee, and have set On foot further mea-
sures to make the intended coalition com plete
and perfect, and to rally popular vote to its
| support What are the elements which are ex-
! pected to compose this vote? Not the mass OF
/ True Republicans and Conservatives who gave
! Goveraer Walker and the eSpdrgafed censtitn-
ton $4,000 majority 1t must comprise the
(! $4,000 colored voters and the 1000 white vo-
tiers who gave Wells his101, 000 The accessions
/ which are to turn this vote into majority must
| be drawn from the Conservative and True Re
publican ranks which elected Walker, and hi. .is
] ro.,,l+ - will IA oohsar,,, 90
ductions Of the Federal patronage, which these
men profess to command, the expected divisions
! to arise from competitions for the State Offices
and by what proselytism may be effected
| through the supineness and false security they
think they see in their opponents.
1t is apparent that the first fruit of their sue
cess would be to band the colored voters togeth-
er against the whites who oppose ii, es Demo
Gratis who opposed their freedom and are in-
imical to their newly acquired rights, to keep
up, and word, the war of races; and in the
next place to disperse the political party which
organized the State, and to defeat the policy it
| maintains
| What is the policy of our party
| 1t aims to maintain the control Of the affairs
of the State, and in that connection to give
firm and hearty support to the State admins
tration which it has placed in power. It would
consgn to the grave of the past old party names
| duu pdity uioScLISlOuS, aUG SifunS the renewal
Of dead political issues. 1t would secure to the
colored race all the rights properly resulting
from their enfranchisement, and infuse into
them, as far as practicable sound and whole
some views OF their new situation and of their
relations with the whites. 1t would strive for
the rebuilding Of the fabrics of the State upon
stable foundations, connecting with that object
| the renovation of its domestic resources, uudis-
turbed in its work by the baneful influence of
| 1,t -tl,,
| test-oath from proper representation In the
General Government, and thus Invested of in
| iiuence In Its action it will not be embarrassed,
| at present, with national political names and is
sues, but will reserve itself for the time when,
with restored representation in Congress and
In the Electoral College, the weight OF the State
may be fairly cast in the scale which will settle
what is best for all her interests.
Holding the new elements which are seeking
to coalesce, at war with the policy here ndl-
Gated, and with the successful party which
maintains it ef
Resolved, That to unite with and strengthen
the defeated Wells party, would be- on the
part of those who defeated it, an unprincipled
desertion Of the men and the measures which
succeeded in the elections of the 9th Of July !
and that we denounce all such attempts as total |
ly unworthy OF the approval or adoption of the
people Of this State.
heSOiVeu, nat the members OF the IAeglSla- |
ture who support these men and these measures
should, in our judgment, proceed to organize
the true Republican and Conservative vote of |
this State id time for the approaching contest. |
GEORGE RYE,
J. w. LEwELLEN,
Ii. j.. SMITH,
JAMES G. SMITH,
2. f. BOYLE,
JOHN VLEs,
B. HAssEL.