Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-10-15

The REPUBLICANS ENDORSE GEN.
JOSEPH E. JoHNsToN.-At a meeting of
the colored Republican Central Com
mite of Manchester, held last week,
the following preamble and resolution
were adopted
Whereas it has been considered i'm
practicable to place before the people a
Republican candidate for Congress in
this (Third) district; and whereas
there are two candidates now in the
field asking the suffrages of the peo-
pie, your committee. after serious and
mature consideration of the premises,
are of the opinion that 1t is best for the
cOlOred people of this city and of this
district to support and stand by the SOL
i'd and substantial men of the district,
of whom we receive our daily bread.
and on whom we must necessarily de-
pend for future prosperity; and whereas
it is well known by US that the leaders
of the Greenback party in this district
are boilers from the regular Conserva-
tive party of Virginia, and are seeking
only their own self-aggrandizemen
without any thought of our good as q
people, and to obtain Office. for which
they have neither capacity nor merit,
are now calling upon us not only to sup
port them in flooding the country with
irredeemable, hence worthless, paper
money, but to adopt their wild schemes
of the Kearneyites, communism, and
other doctrines, which, to maintain
would be ruinous to us as a people !:
therefore
RESOLVED, That we earnestly recon-
mend to the colored citizens of Man
chester, and also of the district, to cast
their votes for Gen. Joseph E. John
ston, and for the present let this new
party and this Newman alone.
A FORTUNATE EsCAPE.-We thank
the good genius which keeps a break on
political madness for having put stop
to the wild career of Greenback lunacy,
Had that inscriptions party chosen a
dozen congressman at the present elec-
tons, we here in Virginia, endeavoring
to counterfeit them, would have been
forced to great exertions. They have
more zeal and skill in fuss. making and
Dragging than any party so bad with no
more strength than it has, which we
have known in our long experience. AS
it is, the riotous wranglers and more
riotous claqueurs that follow the takers
about are ''quite chap-fallen." A show
err bath has come upon them as though
q river had been let loose, or another
dam disaster of great volume had swept
over them. Their tears of grief flow in
quantity to find its way to the earth and
to saturate that were it covered two feet
deep with greenbacks. The exigency is
such that we apprehend that MT. New
man and Major Camm Patteron will
have to suspend their campaign while a
council is held to determine what is to
be done in the emergency. The people
of Virginia are immensely indebted to
the people of the Northwest for putting
their foot upon Greenbackers. One
Greenbacker, to borrow smile, is like
grasshopper, who makes more fuss in
a meadow than the hundred fat cattle
which Craze therein. Had the whole
party been set to matchmaking by a
little moonshine from the plains we
should all be soon deaf.
Changing the figure somewhat, the
news has the same effect upon noisy
Greenbackers that tying of brick to a
Jackass's tail has upon him-silences his
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