Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-10-31
NOW THEM.

Tuesday is the day. Now let's all be
ready to do our duty, for it is duty as
much as any other obligation we owe to So
oiety. If there is any man who thinks he
can stay at home next Tuesday, he wrongs
not only himself, but his neighbor If
man remains in his regiment until it goes
into action and then stays behind, he is
worse than the deserter who left days be.
fore. The man who gives business or says
Il is ssnone of his business as an excuse for
a non. attendance at the polls next Tuesday,
is poor spirited man who doesn't merit the
rights Of citizen. If he wants to vote the
Radical ticket, let him dc it like man-it
is free country, but don't let him claim to
De Conservative We want to settle in
this election who the control of Virginia be
longs to, and we want to settle it by such
majority that there will be no more trouble;
we want to give such an assurance to our
fellow citizens of the north Of the perma-
nance Of white government, that they may
come down here with their capital, without
the fear Of having to pull up stakes, and fly
from Radical taxation under another admin
istration ! We want to give the assurance to
our friends in congress from the great West
that they may in safety vote government
aid to the James River Il Kanawha canal,
without the fear that four years from now
it will run through aturbulent and negro
governed State we want to give Presl-
dent Grant evidence that we are not un-
mindful Of the confidence he has shown in
US, nor ungratefu! for his friendliness to
Virginia and that she shall be, as he would
have her, an orderly, peaceful, prosperous
State-an asd the people Of the North would
also have her; we want to show our friends
Of the South the encouraging example OF
Virginia governed by its own people, with
no oppression Of an inferior race, no Ku-
Klux, no political riots, no outrageous tax
alton driving out her land holders from her
borders, no closed school houses in ruins,
and no public treasury robbed !; we want
to give the assurance to the colored people
Of Virginia that, with power irrevocably
lodged 10 our hands, We have no disposition
to take away their fran chise and that we will
not tolerate an injustice, by the law, to them
any quicker than we would to white man,
that their education, for which they can
alone depend upon US is as certain to be
given as if the giving were in the hands OF
Massachusetts, Or Ohio-and as freely ; we
want such union of everybody around the
Kemper flag, as governor for the '0ho'e
people. that there will never be heard again
the worn out cry of rebel and soallawag and
secessionist and carpet-bagger, and hnally,
by this election, We want to secure PEACE
for there is that in Peace that encourage
the growth of that genial, good feeling
among its citizens which is the coming glo-
ry of Commonwealth.
Let US all bear these good words in mind
till next Tuesday night and 1oork. II will
be cheerful work, rewarded work, gler-
Gus work, and the sun that sets Tuesday, ON
the heated turmoil Of a struggle for life, will
rise "Wednesday morning on happy farmer:
looking out upon fields that will not bs
made worthless by taxation, on business
men going to their counting houses satisfied
that their future is safe, on bright children
vending their way to school houses that
will still remain open for their education,
and on that happiest picture in all the worlds
history, free, self governed, prosperous
people. .a
TTIRN OTTT AIT THE POLLS AND