Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-10-24

LoulsiSna, IN many lnstdAcoS tAe PIoPeiCy
will not pay the taxes. These statistics are
gathered not from conservative data, but are
furnished from Radical sources and their
correctness can be relied on. Not one of
the Southern States have . milo of railroad,
or public improvement Of any sort to rep.
resent the enormous increase Of debt and
taxes.
And there are some things to be consid-
cred besides the taxes in living in the State,
thong h taxes may render it unfit to live in.
Such legislation as the Radical party in all
the Southern States, and in some Of the
Northern States too, would make Virginia
hell to live in. It will be,Qbserved that
in denying that he favored ID schools,
Hughes was careful not to would veto
bill establishing them, N0fwould he do
80. He cannot do SO. No Governor can
veto measure that State Convention Of
his party has refused to condemn, as the
Lynohburg Convention refused to condemn
the mixed school proposition. Such bill
passed would Of necessity receive his sigma
ture. He has not even pretended that he
would veto civil rights bill throwing cars,
hotels, &C.. open to whites and blacks alike,
and he dare not say that he would Eithe:
of the measures named would create civil
war in Virginia. Poor men who are not
able to send their children to private schools
would never submit to have their children
excluded from the public schools by1reason
of negroes going there, especially when they
remember that the whites are paying, by
their taxes, for the schooling Of these very
negroes. Such an iniqsity would bring
about revolution. In any phase that we
can look at it, the reign Of the Radical party
in Virginia would be disaster in which
white and black would suffer alike.
The general prosperity of the State in
which We are all pecuniarily interested would
be disastrously affected. 1t is remarkable
fact that while many Republicans threaten
to leave the State with their enterprises, If
the Radicals get possession, not one case has
been reported where man ever promised to
come here if they succeed, nor has any man
ever threatened to leave if the Conservatives
retain the government. The explanation is
that the State has been happy and prosper
Gus under the white peoples rule, and I'M
der the rule of the negro party every other
State IN the South has been cruciGed while
their leaders have cast lots for her garments.
No business man or manufacturer is AFRAID
OF the Conservatives party. Hon. VIM.
Milues proprietor Of the great Shenandoah
Iron Works in this Valley, who is Repub-
licsn. says he will give up and leave the
State If the Radicals get possession, and car
ry his capital with him. Col. 0. 7. Beard,
a Federal soldier and a Republican and
personal friend OF President Grant, who
came to Virginia to do business is making
speeches for the Kcmper ticket on the
ground thar his capt. al is invested here, and
he cau's afford as a merchant to let the ne
gro party get possession OF the State fig
1t is hard to believe that any party would
be guilty. # such wild legislation such short
sighted policy. as to force npoa the people
laws which womb be 81 disastrous-so bad
that the State journal urges that the sort
of men who would advocate them have long
since been laid IN the shelf by the Repub-
lican party. The stnemens is not true
The sau,o men @hu wrr in power in the
party whe it, Constitutional Convention
WIS hld IRE III power to-day Look at
that record OF the Convention as published
in the Enquirer =
L. The testoath was first introduced as
The proposition of an individual membsr of
the Convention BY Samuel f. Ma idox,
March, 18th 1868 He still retains the
confidence and is a perpetual ofice-hnlder
Of 9TH. par 81
2 Hin r ,'l..,l as substitute the
tes til .o.l.lAl.t.es report, which
was CIV II IN .rc utf"f,%isc than Maddo1's, and
this re ~. " H. so Of such men as Chas
H. Porter, NJ. G Peter G Morgan, then
and now shc lvaiiig colored Radical of Pc.
tersburg James Morrissey. then and now
an Office holder of the party Samuel B.
Maddox, then AID now an Office holder
Peter K Jones, then and now tue repre-
sentative colored Radical of Sussex. And
the same is true Of Kelso and Holmes, and
Massie and Allan, and Norton and many
others
4 To clinch the ACKNOWLEDGMENT, the
extraordinary proposition was then ordered
that every VOTER should take the same oath.
And thi- was made by Maddox
Neither Underwood nor Plat voted on
these propositions: SO they are partially re-
sponsibly for them if present and if absent
entitled 10 no credit respecting them
5. The di+franchising clauses in the con.
slitutiop wuich excluded from the right to
vote, hold Office, or sit on juries The dis
cussioD on these began OF the 9th Of March.
In order to avoid sweeping construction
Of the phrase giving aid and comfort to the
enemies of the Union. Mr., Snead moved
that voting for the ordinance of. secession,
or acts of humanity to soldiers or parents
kindness to child, should not disfranchise
a Virginia citizen. This WIS rejected
every Radical but six voting no; and
among the noes are Plat and Clements, as
we'll as all the above gang
g. A motion was made by Hine March
6th) to extend the Acknowledgement to Ger.
tain officers not thought to be included in
the reported list. and all the above Radi.
Gals tonether NTH Platt and Underwood.