The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-08-28

~ ~ my helSAt oi party rancCr ana Sec
tional hatred, a ooored man was placed on
the State ticket. In that canvass the Walk
en- party employed colored canvassers, courtcd
colored votes aud succeeded. Nor is chat Ill
In 1879, this same Democratic Conservative
party OF Virginia procured the nomination
OF Horace Greeley for the express purpose
o. influencing the colored voters Of Virginia
and the South against Gen. Grant. Failing
IN this, and losing the electoral vote of the
State, they now fail back on the desperate ex-
pertinent of tho aohite mans party as the on
ly means left to arouse the prejudioes, fan
the passions, and rekindle the sIumberins
fires Of deadened, but not extinguished civ
il strife. See their ticket. Observe their
papers, Hear their orators. Look to the
past, and prepare for the future, by at once
aroasing the dormant energies of the true
Conservative sentiment Of the country and
directing it to the real, vital, living, danger
Gus policy which tnderlies this felgned issue,
under and by which these very men who in.
augurated the late civil war, enforced seces-
sion, by ''firing the southern heart" again
seek to engraft on the legislation Of the coun-
try the spirit of the old Democratic party
Having committed the uppardonabIe sin of
sacrificing every creed, immolating every
manly and patriotic sentiment, effacing every
noble record OF the past, insulting the mem
DRY and discarding the teachings Of Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, jackson; ruthlessy oblit-
Grating and scornfully treading under foot
the true theory Of federative system Of gov
ernment; surrendering all, everything to
personal and party ambition,by worshippiug
at the altar Of Horace Greeley, this Demo
Conservative party Of Virginia have
now the bold and audacious effrontery to i'm
pugn the motives and arraign the policy Of
Virginians, who act nowas they did in 1872,
in mauly support of the administration.
which they directly or indirectly aided in re-
electng last November.
2. In 1874, when that great tribune of
the people, HENRY CLAY, was candidate
for the Presidency, this same Democratic
party assailed every Wing voter with the
same stale, personal charges, which they now
seek to revive, and charged them, collective
ly and individually, with being traitors to
the South, the enemies Of their race In
1860, when Stephen A. Douglas, the patriot
statesman of the northwest, was urged by his
friends as a fit and proper candidate for the
presidency, this same sectional Democracy
defeated his nomination, broke up the Char
lesion convention, adjourned to Baltimore,
/ where they then and there inaugurated the
civil war in which they lost all, leaving the
misguided people in perjury, destltution and
political slavery. Having IN the last six
years adopted every policy, rc-enacted in
in terms, every law Of Congress, they now,
in 1878, seek again to dodge every practical
issue, and to creep into power that they may
again abuse their trust under the covert issue
of the qDhlte mans party, and as means
| Of intlmidating the ao1tite men, denounce eve
| ny one Of them who votes the Republican
ticket, Gas a traitor to his state, and az enc
my to his race" Not only this They have
the boldness to threaten to draao the line Of
color, and hereafter to prescribe every white
man who votes the Republican sick ct as
companion and associate Of the gro. [,
for one, repel this base insinuation with the
stern rebuke of one who knows and feels his
social and professional positlon too we'll to
measure it by the vindictive exp,etives OF a
self.coustituted clique Of vicious, Greeley,
Democratic partisaus. II, in my judgment,
| believe it to be to the real, substantial in-
terest Of the agricultural, manufacturing, in-
dustrial and commercial interests of Virginia
and Virgin5uns, hat the State Republican
ticket should be elected, and an ovefwhelul-
ing majority of the coored men OF Virginia
agree acub me, shall /, because Of this fact,
surrender my convictions, abandon my poi
cy, and betray the whole interests OF the p.o-
pie and State, rather than co operate with
the colored people What a startling PROPOSE
ton Consider it,
An overwhelming majority of the colored
people Of Virginia, who profess to be Chris
tians, are commandments in the Baptist and
| NJ Methodist churches Will the auhtte preach
ers Of these most respectable and justly inau
entail denominations leave their pulpits, d :
nounce their creed rsnounce their faith, aud
dissolve their 20iltte congregations on this ac-
count? Do they or their lay members pro-
pose to associate and oiHliate with the color
ed people be cause at the sacred table of the
Lord theg commune acih them? If this
same pie, in my estimation, rightfplly and
earnestly worship at the shrine Of liberty,
shall I, because of that fact, refuse to wor-
ship at the same shrine and in fit of pas
sion desert my creed, and denounce my firm
faith If fifty thousand Of the colored peo-
| pie Of Virginia were, to- morrow to announce
their determination to vote for the Demo-
cratic Conservative nominees, would Gen
| Kemper, Colonel Withers, and Mr.. Daniel,
! lay down their asserted claims, and retire in
disgust?
Woala they and the Democratic press of
the State, not hail this neso demonstration
as an evidence of the patriotism true loyal
W to payty-of those coored voters and go
on their way rejoicing ?" For very shame
this shallow brainless pretence should be a
bandoned. It is as void of sense as it is
destitute of true manly Republican foun-
dalton. Away with it J!
3. This leads me to my third proposition.
| This effort of hese Democratic-Conservatv
men to array color and cast against each 9TH
err, is covert, artistic, disguised attack on
| labor It is not without Its meaning, in
which every working man, whether on the
farm, in the mandatory, in the machine
shop, at tho anvil on the shoe makers bench,
on the aray, OR anywhere, is personally ms
terested.
Nineteen twentieths of the coored voters
are laborers It is sought to prescribe them.
Who does this /? The owners Of the capital