Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1873-09-02
Laboring Men, What Saw You2

Working men ye hardy sous of toll, whose
brawny arms and honest hearts are to-day, as
they ever have been, the chief buIwarks of
the Commonwealth, what say you to the insult
ing overture of Hughes & Co., that you should
degrade yourselves by joining bands with the
negroes Of the State, to place him and them in
powerI Is your poverty disgrace, that you
are thus called upon to become allies of an in
ferior race-associates, CO. laborers with the me-
groes? Reject with scorn the indignity that
has boen offered you, and arise 10 the majesty
OF your power and let these deadly enemies of
your race, these peculiar champions of the ne
groes know, that though laborers for your daily
bread, you scorn and spit upon the degraded
white who would sink to the level of the negroes.
by becoming their chums their boon compan-
ions, their allies 10 their crusade against Vir-
gnia, and their race and color OF all people
10 Virginia the laboring classes are the most
interested in crushing out this infamous party
that seeks the elevation of the negro, by degrad-
ing the whites to their level. Heaven forbid
that we should ever pen line to the injury of
the colored race. We would protect them in
their every right, civil and political we would
educate, aud In every way promote their hap
plness and prosperity, but he is meaner than
dog who would elevate them only at the ex-
pense of the whites.-Rich. Wing.
The black voters of the State, and the few
white voters who are mixed 10 amongst them.
are all marshaled on one side of the color line,
and the great mass of the men of intelligence.
public spirit, moderation, liberation and broad
patriotic principles, are marshaled on the 9TH
er side The battle is between ignorance and ed
ucation between prejudice and reason; between
shiftlessness and thrift; between spoils-seek-
ers and property holders between working men
who want their industry encouraged and their
earnings protected, and politicians and the
dupes OF politicians, who are aiming to obtain
place and the profits of place, and to legislate
the inferior race into Fictitious equality with
| the superior race. In word, it Is a contest
between the negro and the associates and allies
of the negro, on the one hand, and the white
man who holds himself higher than the negro,
on the other. ln such political campaign,
the Radical leaders in Virginia need not be as
| tonlshed to hnd Northern men, known to them
and to all their fellow-men as Republicans, sup
| porting the white mans ticket in preference to
| the black mans ticket. .-EaQuirer.
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WHAT THEN ?-Northern settlers will come
| to Virginia when they carefully avoid other
Southern States
Why is this?
| Because the honest Republican is afraid to
entrust his life and property to the Radicals.
| He knows he is safe in Virginia but he has
no faith in Radical rule.
| If the Radical ticket is elected-what then I?
| No more settlers
| No more capital
No more industrial progress
| Instead Of going forward, we shall 90 back
ward.
Brethren from the North, ponder well on the
| future before you cast your vote and influence.
| Be not deceived.
But as far as you are able, strike manfuly
| for the salvation of your adopted State.
| Let Radicalism go where the woodbine
twineth. "-,St. Andre,o in FarmuiIe Conansoa-
s0ealth.