The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-10-15
FOR THE yALGEY VlRGISIaS.

Naj. lost:-
While am free to confess my op-
nostion to the bill now agit4ting ths public
mind ana is the hobby Oh which candidates
are expecting to get to Congress, mean tile
civil Rights Bill,'' / think all the fIss and
bombast about that bill is the verlest nonsense
and nsed more for buncoinba and to prejudice
and Influence the public mind than any real
fear Of the passage OF such a law Dy congress;
In rrmarl to mixed Schools, | think it would
be very iniudiciol,s and in,pnudent. and oil the
laws Congress could pass in session cannot
place the rich and poor, the learned and the
lnl,arncd the industrious and the loafer, iii
the same social scale. Oil and water cannot
be made to miX-n0 law can regulate Or COM
pei me to admit to my family those do not
want-hence, all that is said is the interest clap
trap and humbuggery, for political effect
When did you hear of Democrat WHO re-
fused seat in Congress or the Legislature be-
cause negroes were members OF those hotties
Why. sir in Virginia, we have u Harris,
OFarrall, Tucker, Hutton, Goode, Cabbeil,
Terry and Walker, all engaged in canvassing
for seats in Congress, and should they sue
coed in getting there, they may be seated next
neighbor to a ''big, burly, black aagger," and
lookels-on in the gallery are amused ut the fa-
milialty between them and the earnestness OF
the Democrat in trying to get his fellow mem
Der to vote for some bill in which he isso much
Interested The smell of tie ''nigger' IS not at
all offensive then-Oh, no! But when he Is
around the polls on election day, with Re
publican ticket ia his hand, the smet! is abso-
lutely unbearable. Then look at the anxiety
Of Democrats to get their sons III the Naval
Academy and West Point. No .'nigger" ca
diets there? but perhaps they don't smell as
bad there as they would in common Schools
repeat that all this fuss is for political effect
and nothing else. Why, sir visit Richmond
during the session Of the Legislature and heas
how the ''nigger'' members are addressed by
the accomplished speaker and President OF the
Senate. There they have rs members, equal
rights, and are protected and respected Wlsii=
out partiality CT otherwise. s-.s, II ~
Ii the smell is dsagreeable and unpleasant,
10 such sign is shown. There in the Commit
tee rooms, you will see that old Virginia gen
tleman and sage-A. III. TT. Stuart and Judge
Cochran, busily engaged, side by side, VIII
their fellow-membars- the 'nigger-iiivcstigatina
the papers referred to them, and on. rising tc
speak on subjects under discussion, you will
hear language like thisi ..Ihe gentleman
from Prince EtlWard';-not 'suncle Dick" as
they are wont tc do in q poltiea! canvass-se
that different circumstances, alter cases. The
Civil Rights Bill'' is not a Republican measure
recognized in the national platform or OF ANY
State. 1t was the great hobby OF Hon. Charles
Sumner and Horace Greeley, who were rcpu-
dated by the Republican party of the United
States, in 1872, and supported by the great
Niger hating Democratic party OF the
South. And had Greeley been elected P-es
dent, it was confidently expected that his trav
cling ompanon-Gilbert G. Walkcr-Woult
be in the Cabinet, Grecley's advocacy of Civil
Rights, mixed Schools to tie contrary notwith
standing, and Oh which the said Gilbert NOW
looks With such holy horror
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