The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-10-05


Senators. and the Electoral vote for Hayes
& Wheeler, as the Legislature casts it.
In the municipal elections in Connecticut
the Republicans make large gains.
Seventh Congressional District.
The Republican Convention for the 9TH |
Congressional District, which met in Staun- |
ton on the Doth OF September, completed its |
work by nominating Capt. E. w. Early of |
Charlottesville, as the Republican standard
bearer in the approaching election for Con-
gress. While the Convention was not rs full |
ly attended as we desired to see, yet those |
who were here showed their devotion to |
their convictions, and the courage to declare |
them, which promise that We shall have |
workers in this contest, who will intrepidly |
labor for the promotion of the Republican |
cause.
A number of the delegates we've colored !
men, all of whom exhibited more than ordi-
nary intelligence. and some of them stood
rs testimony to the improvement they have
made, since the shackles of slavery were
stricken from their limbs. Wken it is re-
membered that these men never had the ad
vantage of education, that the laws Of the
State made il a criEae to teach them, and
that all the knowledge they have has been
derived from application to books in the
limited hours they could spare from their
daily labor, since emancipation, their i'm
provement is marvellous, and calls for the
highest common dation.
In the selection the Convention made, the
people of the It'll district, have presented for
their suffrage gentleman In every respect
worthy of their confidence. Belonging to
enc Of the oldest and most respected families
in Virginia. endowed with excellent natural
capacities, educated at the University Of Vir-
ginia, and in the schools Of Germany, and
possessing those manly and self-reiant char
acteristics which inspire the respect of all
classes-despising duplicity and treachery,
and keenly alive to all the demands which
society has a right to make upon the gentle
man, Capt. EARLY will bear worthily the ma
tional standard which is the emblem Of the
and aspirations of the Republican par
ty. The people OF this district and. Of the
State will find him above the arts and devil
ces Of the demagogue; and that anything
inconsistent with fair. frank and manly
canvass will be rcpugnant to his nature and
education.
We hayc just ground upon which to APP
peal to the people for his support. He re-
presents the national sentiment which we
believe to be predominant with the. masses,
the ballot-box but for the prescription and
denunciation that have been visited hereto
fore upon those who have had the courage
to antagonize the selfish and corrupt leaders
of the Democratic party. These men have
never dared to meet the Republicans in a
ties, as affecting principle or public policy.
Their stock in trade has been appeals to
race prejudice, the Remuneration of the Re
publican party as the ''nigger party, and to
inAame the passions Of the people by declar-
ing that the issue was the negro against the
They know, too, that but for this contempt
ible and disgraceful device, and with fair
expression OF popular judgment. they would
be condemned by the honest masses. For
tunately for the interests of the State, and
the welfare Of the people, these chronic
demagogues have overreached themselves,
and in their blind zeal for the perpetuation
of their power, they have distinguished this
canvass by earnest invitations and appeals
to the negroes to join them. They have
hired negro speakers, bought up few negro
voters, and organized few negro political
clubs, and thus courted the alliance and CO.
operation Of the negroes in the campaign
they are new making against national au.
thority and national laws. They Thus rccog
nize the political equality Of the negro they
thus aspire to his political association and
havesby this means taken out of their own
mouths the very arguments they have used
to condemn the Republican party.
With this record now before the people
and the appeals which fill every Conserva
tive paper in the State for the negro's VOTE
and cooperation, the Democratic party be
comes as much the negro party as the Re
publican party. The only difference Is tina
the Republican party is animated by sin
cere desire to enlighten and elevate thu
moral and mental standard of the coloret
man, while the democratic party is seeking
to use him in the hope of destroying the onl!
party that has honestly aimed to promote
his welfare. AS an humble member OF tin
Republican organization we regard it as I
high privilege to direct our endeavors to tin
advancement of tie colored man i'll all know
ledge that effects community and his owl
destiny. We believe it to be a religious dutl
to defend his legal and constitutional right
and to stimulate him to effort in his menta
and moral Improvement. And this is TIN
controlling motive with the Republican par
ty in Its relation to the negro. The Demo
cratic demagogues are governed by no sucl
elevated purpose. 1t is to perpetuate thei
own disastrous and corrupt rule, and keel
the negro forever down to the condition
substantially, that distinguished him wheI
his body was food for the market block AMI
his soul matter of bargain and sale in dol
lars and cents.
Capt. Early represents, in this canvass
the great Republican Party which has prin
ciple ard moral conviction to control it. Re
publicans make no cheap clap-trap appeal t
the negro for his support. They point t.
the history Of the party as the evidence o
its devotion to the interests and welfare O
all the people. Its measures and public policy
are alike adapted to the promotion and ad
vancement of the masses Of all parties ant
shades of colors. It is governed by no spo
radio impulse Or Pickering enthusiasm.
is the great principle of human rights-th'