Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-06-10
The Wise PARTY Defines it's Position

The mountain has labored long, but, at last,
the public expectation has been grati6ed by
declaration of its purposes from the great
third party in Virginia. whose constituent
elements are represented by Ex-Gov Henry
A. Wise, of Virginia, Brig. Gen. III. A. Wise,
of the G. S. A., and what is left OF the "Fear-
less Tribune of the People, In long letter
to Baron Hope, ESQ.,, Of the Norfolk Tlginian,
this party exhausts emphasis and italic caps in
showing the Radical or Republican party to be
the blacklist that ever cursed people, and re-
strained the full development of the powers of
the only "unrepentant rebel living, by its
test oaths," DISTINGUISHING laws" &c., and
it then proceeds to prove that the Conservative
party. which contains 10 its ranks nearly every
Confederate soldier in Virginia, nearly all of
the prominent men of the State and every true
woman, has out carpet-bagged" and ''scalla-
wagged' even the Radical party in endorsing
the rights of the negro, while at the same time
the gist OF this great party of the third part
| charges against Conservatism is that it wars
| upon said negro rights.
| Having proved all this to its satisfaction, the
''unrepentant rebel party goes on to show
there is no hope for the State, now or hereaf-
| ter, but in throwing overheard both the Con-
servatiVe and Radical parties, and eecting 1t
to office and power, upon grand 'oyster fund
ing, Estate insuring," United States paying
Virginia's debt" platform, with the Fearless
Tribune" perched high on top. To accomplish
this simple "wiping out, or surrender of the
principles Of both the other parties, this blind
Sampson" is willing to seize both pillars Of
the Temple, in his mighty arms, and feels con-
6dent Virginia will arise from the ruin a new
and mighty Commonwealth, ard renew her
life-daiy growing richer upon Life and Fire
Insurance" and waxing fat upon the juicy
''oyster fundum."
The moral sublimity Of the self abnegation
and perfect love for old Virginia, shown in the
concluding portion of this remarkable expos
ton Of the purposes Of the only pure and unde-
filed party in the State, has never been sur
passed, and, if equalled, never recorded in the
history of devoted patriotism, either in ancient
or modern times 1t concludes thusy:
eff thought could succeed in opposition
to both Of the present organizations of the
State [ would declare myself a candidate for
the Office of Governor Immediately but am
without purse and without press to contend
with the two already banded to make nomina-
tons. | will not incur the odium by running
of electing the one or the other. But IF either
the Conservative or Republican Convention aoiu
abstain from nominating q candidate Of ats
own I aoiU as an Independent candidate, OPP
pose the nominee of the other I care not aohich
abstoins or sohich dominates. If both conven-
tons nominate will not be candidate at all. y
If success acre certain, the Fearless Trib-
une' would be candidate against both and try
the role of the ''blind Sampson before men
toned, but being without purse and without
press" be is rather in the situation the ferry
man decided the gentleman to be ia who was
anxious to cross the River without a cent. -
He ''couldn't see the difference it made which
side be was on" And 50 thinking, no doubt,
the party of the third part makes the as
founding proposition, given above in italics. -
Of course, both the great parties will at once
clear the track, and are too patriotic to inter-
fere with the arrangements Of the greatest and
the wsest that ever offered itself willing sac
rifce for the glory, honor and future well-be-
ing of our loved old Virginia.
Judge Critcher is right in sayingth red hot
issue in the canvass this fall will be no ordinary
contest between citizens divided on such issues
as the tariff, but contest in which Anglo
Saxon civilization will be on one side and Afri-
can barbarIsm on the other.