New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1873-09-25

IoTTsBURGH, Va, Aug.

holiday visit at the protracted meeting here
All unconscious of their sad fate, we anx-
iously kept breakfast aud lookout for our
friend DR.. Nash, the mainstay of Republi-
canism in this region.
He was to arrive early saturday morning,
with Il. d. Beckley, Esq, and Rev. Mr. Dun
lap, Of King George county.
Thank God. these lives, 50 precious to
the best hopes of our colored citizens, were
providentially saved. But the accident kept
them from the convention, whittier they were
bound, to nominate the Senator from their
District.
This untoward disaster changed the whole
moral aspect Of that convention.
King George was entirely unrepreaented.
There was no earnest voice to plead ade-
quately for the great interests at stake.
-Four years of legislation to repair the mis-
a representative Of fre counties Just rescued
from being the famous old slare-powmg
market ground,
How all-important for this mass of colored
people to have friend in the Senate.
One who would be true to their civil rights
trembling in the balance; one anxious to
carry out for their benefit every provision of
the State constitution schools, just taxa
ton, free speech, and a free vote }; one who
has been untiring as faithful, intelligent
working member of the constitutional con-
vention, and ever since, to lift them into
enlightened, worthy citizenship.
O! how heartily we thank you for your
words of advice to the colored men to vote
for DIR. Nash.
In no other way can they secure the Just
fruits Of the ballot.
1t is greatly to be regretted no one was
present to call out the good sense and cour-
age of the colored delegates to obtain either
the nomination of DR.. Nash or a postpone
ment till fair chance could be had.
As it was, the few present fell an easy
prey to the ovcrbold assumptions Of the old
Shareholders, who clutch at the sceptre OF
political power through the ballots Of their
enfranchised slaves, while dcspising their
manhood, treating, speaking, and thinking
of them rs ''niggers" on all occasions except
when counting their sutlrages.
One, who confessed himself without credcn-
lials, falling of his desire to be nominated
himself, proposed and carried the partial and
Illegal nomination of fellow STAKEHOLDER,
BraNtnn he and others voting without their
credentials.
We suffered kcenly from this blow to our
great hopes to have worthy candidate, one
we could truly commend to the colored
voters. We had no confidence that at the
end Of four years they would owe single
step of progress in true liberty to the vote of
Draxton.
We prize such political crisis as the present
as the best opportunities to instruct the
people in their rights, duties, and RESPONSE
bilties as American citizens and we cannot
advise them to support men certain to betray
them. The nomination of such men is de-
feat.
In our distress ray Of hope reached US
in the circular of the State Republican Exec
utive Committee, earnestly imploring that
nominations for Senate and county officers
should be postponed till October. This
gives us a chance to get another trial, and
we shall do our utmost to secure the nomi-
nation, and after it the election, of DR..
Nash.
1t is painful to US that the Fredericksburg
Ledger proves hindrance and not help to
the real worth and stamina Of the Republican
party in the Northern Neck.
1t is Mr.. Sener, NJ. C.'s, paper, and gives
every advantage to the unprincipled bummers
of the party who seek to rule or ruin it. II
we are banked in securing fair and just rep
resentation Of the cOlored people and their
rights in the Senatorial and county conven.
tons by these creatures of Sener's favor, we
wiilappeal to higher authority than his to
get them removed from posts of public trust
which they use now, as heretofore, but to
betray all the best hopes and prospects OF
the party.
have detailed the dangers that beset the
cause your paper SO fearlessly upholds-
equal civil rights in thi. corner Of Virginia
that any helpers who may come to aid us in
thiS IAN > sliugSie, may uiiuCiStduu II, anu
be in harmony with oar purpose to gain a
real substantial victory.
Your estimate of the national importance
Of 1.-THE contest now looming up on the sa-
cred soil of the Old Dominion" is very
just.
Well do you say "a victory now for the
Conservatives will be as trumpet call to
the slumbering hosts of secession"
Never were the heroes and lions of the
rebellion pushed so boldly to the front to
fire the Southern heart with new zeal and
fresh hope for the cause, - which they boldly
say is not lost, as now in Virginia. The
Hhig COOS gently TO the New York Erening
Post about Jetf. Davis 'utterances passing
as UNDECIDED as the distempered rawlings Of a
disordered brain, and blandly asserts that
the prosperity and happiness Of the negro il
the anxious desire of the Virginia people"
Let Northern Republicans beware Of the
''wolf in sleeps clothing" 1t is the old