Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-10-29
Election. Tuesday Next. Nov. 9th.


On next Tuesday, in the language OF the
Lynchburg Naginsan, "the issue will be joined
between the friends of liberal policy and those
who would keep one-third of this Union under
the heel Of the oppressor; between the advo-
Gates of honest government and the supporters
of an Administration VIGOROUSLY the most cor
rupt that the country has ever known. DO our
friends in this State realize the near approach
of the momentous period, so deeply fraught
with the interests Of. ourselves and our children;
and are they preparing for it? Are they hunt
ing up the lukewarm and the Indifferent and
endeavoring to infuse into them proper zeal,
or arousing them to a true appreciation OF all
that is involved in the great contest? Much
work, we feel quite sure, remains to be done,
and the time is short. We can only lose Vlr-
ginia through the apathy of those who either
shut their eyes to the danger and think that all
will go well with US, as heretofore, without their
votes, or from blind persistence IL the fool
ism theory we sometimes hear preached, that
ssthere is no difference between Grant and
Greeley" We have hardly the patience to
meet such nonsense with argument, when the
Surroundings Of the two men ought to impress
even the most superficial observer with the
fact that there is very great difference. Mr..
Greeley turned his back upon the party Of cor
ruption and declared for reform; whereas, the
set who support Grant are the men who have,
coupled with his own incapacity and want of
rectitude, made his administration odious-the
most disastrous failure the country has ever
known; and if he is reelected, they will con-
tinue to control the Government four years
longer, revising upon tax-ridden and out
ragged people with greater vindictiveness the
legitimate results Of such NAL administration !:
Disfranchisement, monopoly of the ballot-box,
robbery, pillage and murder! We must turn
the whole pestiferous concern out or have a re-
petition of these revolving evils And what
then?
In view Of our past, present, and possible
future, we see not how any Southern man,
especially, can be Indifferent in the present
crisis. The great mass Of the good people OF
the South support Greeley, and it is assuming
good deal for any one man, here and there
protesting to bea Conservative, to say that they
are all 1or0ng 1t would be like the twelfth
juryman who had made up his mind, but COM
planned that he had eleven contrary fellows to
deal with, who would not agree With him The
proportion Of Conservatives who support Mr.
Greeley in the present contest is even greater
than eleven tc one; and this fact ought to raise
grave doubt in the minds Of the comparatively
few dissentients as to the correctness Of their
position. Surely ali wisdom will not die witt
them. We copjure all such, therefore, to re-
consider. and endeavor to make amends for
their error in the past. by activity and zeal in
the future. We do not want to part company
With any vino have stood shoulder to shoulder
with US in the past in resisting the ongsrd pro-
gress Of Radicaiism. Let US stand firmly to-
gether aDd work from nov until the day OF cleo
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