Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-11-07
THE THREE POTS or GOLD.

We have all heard Of the tabled pots OF
bows touch the earth, but few of us have
had them pointed out with the minute
particularly which the three gentlemen
most prominently named for the Senate
from Virginia, have used. Governor Walk
er. the first in the field, informed us that
in his pot was the assumption of all our
state debt by the national government
a proposition so absurdly impracticable,
that it hardly attracted the serious at
tention of the people. Following him came
Hon. r. M. Il. Hunter with proposition
to pay for the slaves, as if there were a
probability of that and last comes Hon. A.
II. Fl. Stuart, determining not to be behind
his friends either in absurdity OF mconsti-
tn tionality, proposing to colonize the ne
groes in San, Domingo. The bestillustration
MI. Stuart's position may be found in the
story of an old countryman of the stage
coach times, who went to the depot to take
the train for the first time in his life. He
took his stand firmly, with his good lady,
on the neatly rallied depot platform, think
ing he was all right, and was astonished to
S ee the train move off "Good gracious
Sally said the old gentleman, s'the things
pulled apart And so it is with Mr.. Stu
art his colonization proposition. The times
have gone past him, and while he thought
he was on the train he.was on the station
cry platform. aH.
The inopportune announcement of Mr.
Stuart's views, mistaken by the blacks
for those of the Conservative party, of
which he is county nominee, had the eff
feet of setting the ignorant and alarmed
negroes to work like bees, and made them,
in this part of the State, poll at least a fifth
more votes than they otherwise would
have DONE What. Mr.. Jefferson, or MI
Webster OF Mr.. Lincoln might have said.
is of of very little moment with reference
to the negro as a citizen of the State of
Virginia and Of the United States, light
in which none of those gentlemen conten-
plated him.
He is now in position that he cannot be
moved against his will. and nothing can be
clearer than that he is not willing. The
only thing that the United States could do
to relieve itself of them, would be to pllr-
chase San Domingo and let the young col
red people emigrate there just as our own
young people emigrate West, leisurely and
if it suits them The generation now with
us wall not go away they are as ignorant
as children and as much attached to home
localities and as unfit to 90 abroad. 1t is
true they are most undesirable popula-
Iion it, is true that if every one of them
were substituted by white men, Virginia
would soon be abreast of Pennsylvania; it
is true that about election times they ag-
grayate us, by banding against every inte-
rest of the white man, until we all wish
they Were in San Domingo, or--somewhere
else. but after all is said they are here and
we must see that that they have their
rights as well protected as any white man,
and one of those rights is not government
colonization againstIthefr will. Mr.. Stuart
has made grave error. He has brought
us no nearer to the pot of gold. :
VALLEY TURNPIKE MEETING The
annual meeting of the Valley Turnpike
Company was held in Harfisopburg on
Thursday, the Board OF Directors having
been in session the day before. The old
officers of the Company, Samuel Shacklett
President, and Joseph Andrew Superinten-
6ent. were continued without opposition.
The report Of the President, shows that
this corporation ia in splendid condition.
Richard Peasants suddarth, well |
known citizen of Aibemarle ,eoupty, Va,