Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-11-04
The White Working-Man.


The GOODNESS and assurance displayed by the
Republican party in this State in claiming that
the white working men sympathize with it. is
quite amazing. The impudence of that party
is quite unparalleled; but this claiming of the
honest white working-men is the browning feat
OF their performance in this line.
There could be no greater insult to white men
than that their favor and sympathy should be
claimed by that party which never fails to set
them down as merely the equals of the negro.
Indeed, Mr.. Hughes, the Republican candidate
for Governor, declares his preference for the ne
gro laborer over the white laborer We have
no idea that the white man will receive, without
the iveliest emotion an insult such as that
But of what stuff do these Republicans sup
pose white men are made that they should dare
to insult them thus? Do they think them ne
groes with white skins and straight hair that
they should court the equality with negroes as
signed them. and that they are so ignorant of
the superiority of the white over the negro race
that they should tacitly assent to the Republi-
can assertion to that effect?
As amazing as is the impudence that thus
insults the white man, it would be more amaz-
ing if he did not resent it by casting his vote
and using all his influence against the party
that is constantly maligning and outraging his
race by assuming that 1t is either not so good
or no better than the negro race. This he will
do.
The shallow sophists, who are ever trying to
control their neighbors and believe themselves
altogether righteous, ignore color and any 9TH
er distinction made by God between the races
(for they are so much wiser than Cody and con-
slider dark man. (what soft phrase y that
is laborer, the same as white man who la
bors; and that the distinction between them
and other classes in both cases is the same.
To this argument is the negrophoist and sor
did politician, who have combined for our op-
preston, always forced.
What m0nstrous and outrageous assump-
ton Are not the poor whies possessed of the
same blood, the same dispositions, that the rich
haveI Aud do not the poor continually re-
plenlsh the higher classes? Are not the rich
and luxurious ever decaying aud their families
dying out, and are not the poor and rural class
es constantly supplying them with healthy and
vigorous recruits to keep alive professions and
sustain classes that not SO replenished would die
out! The class distinctions in the white race
are entirely artificial The member of any one
OIaoS 10 Ddtui0'Iy eiiSIuiS W any OI those ABOVE
that to which he belongs and so are those who
belong to the highest always 10 danger of de-
scendng in the scale to the lowest.
Is such the distinction between white and
black? Will anybody In the face of all expert
ence, all fact, assert that it is? The distinc-
ton between the negro and the white man is
natural and inextinguishabe It is made by
the Creator. 1t is impossible for him to rise or
to replenish the higher classes and pursui S.
Who amongst all the philanthropists deems
it possible or would in his own family allow an
illustration of its possibility to occur? Ifthere
be one such he would be regarded everywhere
amongst white people as leper, as demon,
to be Stunned and kept cut of sight-a crea-
ture who would better be dead than alive.
We wonder that any man should have the
hardlhood to draw a comparison between black
and white that makes his own white raoe-the
laboring part of them-either worse or no bet
ter than negro. 1t is enough to fill the hon.
est hearts Of working white men with the high
est indignation. 1t is enough to bring their
whole power down upon the men who thus dis
parage them with force crushing them to
hopeless political death. Knowing the wrong
done to this most important and necessary part
OF our own race, and thus to the race itself, we
detest their disparagement In this manner as
one OF the greatest of outrages, and we detest
still more the objects for which it is made-the
sordid object which makes a man dispraise his
own brother for personal advantage
This country is to be ruled exclusively by the
superior white race. 1.-THE fttest must tri
umph, is the law of Providence.