Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-11-04
VOTE EARLY-DONT WAIT TO BE
ASKED TO VOTE
NOW Or NEVER.

NOW OR NEVER.
This day will mark memorable epoch in the
history of Virginia, for upon the result of this
days election depends the veal or woe of this
dear old State. Her true sons should do their
whole duty on this day. This is not the time
for argument, but for action. AS Mr.. w. w.
Walker SO eloquently said On Thursday night
last, ''the bombing of the cannon has died all
along the lines, the sharp rattle of musketry
has ceased, and the time for the deadly bayonet
charge has arrived" We are now ln the midst
of the final and decisive struggle, and the last
rays of this day setting sun will gid as it floats
in triumph either the banner borne aloft by the
true sons of Virginia, betokening her present
salvation and future prosperity and happiness,
or that of the black cohorts prognosticating her
humiliation, degradation and ruin. Which
shall it be? 1t depends upon your action this
day. Will you do your duty? Will you try
to save your mother? Can you fail to do so :?
r. You must act now day-for no,o is the &C.
cepted time, and if you do your duty. nos0 is
the day Of Virginia's salvation but if you fail
to do your duty, aud suffer this election to be
lost, Virginia will be ruined beyond the hopes
of recovery, for, in the language of the Fred
ericksburg Neaos, ''if by any dire chance, Con-
servatism fail to win its righteous and deserved
triumph, never again in our day and genera
ton will the lost opportunity return, the fair
promise Of peace and hope and stability for
Virginia and her people be fulfilled. The bril-
liant bow of promise which now spans our poll
teal heavens will fade away from our eager
vision, and leave only the dark cloud on whose
tears it was painted. Through tears and blood,
through sorrow and sacrifice, through war and
worse, Reconstruction Virginia has kept her
proud pre-eminence, her untarnished shield
And no0, when the end approaches, when the
last die is about to be cast, when the momen-
tous issue rests On one more struggle. when the
begins, when the last charge of the campaign
is imminent, the decisive blow to be struck
can aCe fail and every Virginia heart shouts
back, NeUerl We cannot, We dare not fail.
White men of Virginia, now is the time to
prove your manhood and your common sense.
Now is the time to show that you are worthy
sons Of your dear old Mother State. She calls
you to her rescue from Radcalism aud all it's
horrors. You can save her from dishonor and
shame and beggary and anarchy. Her life, her
freedom, her glory, are 10 your hands By the
love you bear your own Mothers by all the ties
of affection and patriotism and home and hap
piness, by the claims Of Country and the higher
claims Of principle and duty, deliver her not
into the hands of her enemies and yours Now,
her right to your allegiance and your vote is
paramount, because in her right all other poll
teal, domestic, local and social rights which be-
long to you as citizen and son of Virginia are
inextricably bound up. The most solemn obli-
cation, the most obvious duty, the dearest pri-
viiege Of your life, nOao. is to vote the Con-
servative ticket. fyou do not, you will never
cease to regret it, and in the abasement and de-
struction of your native State your once glorious
Old Dominion, you Will reap the fit reward of
you recreant apathy and crime Virginia needs
every Conservative vote. Every vote counts
and every vote sWells the victory. We want
not only Conservative victory, but Radical
rout. We want not only to beat, but to ami
hilate them. We want to utterly destroy every
head of the Hydra which lifts its snaky crests
to devour our substance and ourselves. We
want not only to conquer, but to crush our foes
And We can do it, if every Conservative votes
Men of Virginia, aoiW you do ii? Give your
answer at the polls Virginia is for free-born
Virginiaus. Away with carpet-baggers and
scalawags. South Carolina, Louisiana, Missis-
slppi, Texas, do you not hear the clanking of
their chai0s? Do you want Virginia to be as
they are, and take away from them the last
hope Of political salvation in this grand battle
OF Virginia Conservatism which alone and sin
gle handed stems the black tide of Radical op-
preston in 'the South. 0 men, comrades.
brothers, fight like heroes now Never give
mp. Meier surrender-to such foes"