Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-09-30
Comments on the Canvass.

We can promise our friends in the
State a good report from Petersburg.
The ''skies are bright and Frightening"
Inder-AppeaI.
Accounts from various sections of
Rockingham assures US that the people,
wearied of strife and agitation, are fall
ing into line in favor of the plan of set
Element. We believe old Rockingham
will be redeemed.-Old Commonwealth.
The Whig's astonishing telegram as
to the Stafford meeting on the 18th
ought to open the eyes of its readers to
the absurdity of its truthful pretentions
and the utter fallacy of its political
prognostications. Not one, grain Of
truth in that bushel of chsff. FEEDER
icksbMy News.
We are serene, and we have ordered
some ROSTERS to crow for US in Novem-
Der on StaffOrd's account.
Our idea of Gen. Malone as q hero is
calling off his dogs and retiring to pri-
vate life. He will receive his second
hint that this is the desire of the people
at the MISUNDERSTANDING Re
cOrder.
Every intelligent man in Virginia
huOWS Lu6 U0DL 6CttIcmCub law, d6 IL
now stands on the statute book of Vir-
ginia, cannot be repealed unless ma
jOrity of the voters of the United States
should unite in a revolution to change
the Federal Constitution and establish
a vena] judiciary under the new tangled
piratical principles of Parson Massey
Manchester Courier.
Malone, Massey, Fulkerson, and
Paul are engaged in rebellion against
the legislative, executive, and judiciary
departments of the State government.
Will the people of Virginia indorse the
| Government or its foes? Shall the
handful of political insurgents succeed
in repudiating all the purest, ablest,
bravest, and best citizens of Virginia as
public debt Manchester Courier.
After patiently looking around for a
week we have been unable to meet up
with Readjusier in Northampton
county. One man did get up, we hear,
on one occasion at the Courthouse and
declare that reconstruction had wiped
out old Virginia's debt, but we believe
that the good people generally regarded
it as CHASTITY joke-indeed, they would
make ghost," politically, of any can
didate who advocated any such princi-
Piles Decentralization. Norfolk Ledger.
We will only remark in this connec-
ton that when the people of Virginia
shall so far forget what is due to the
honor, credit and fame of their grand
old mother Commonwealth as to refuse
to pay two thirds of the just debt of our
fathers and even SO much as one half of
the interest thereon, they will have for
feited all claims to honor and have
made themselves objects at which the
''slow unerring finger of scorn" will
forever point.-Salutotory in Ddnville
Post. a
The colpred man may not be particu
larly anxious to vote with either side.
| but if he does, it is morally certain that
he will choose that side which embraces
the leading farmers, merchants, manu-
facturers, lawyers, doctors and all the
ministers with scarcely one exception.
| He is not going with the riff All
the sophistries that Parson Massey can
conceive in his INSCRIPTIONS brain will
not induce him to do it. Mean white
folks, tricky white folks, he always did
and always will despise. Petersburg
Inder Appeal.
Good news, well calculated - cheer
the heart of every true patriot and real
friend of this grand old Common wealth,
comes to us from every quarter of the
State. The canvass is hot and progress
sive, and the war is being carried even
successfully Unto Africa" and there
the game of the cunning demagogue is
being blocked. They have been endeav-
oring to win over the colored vote to the
man who slaug htered their race in the
"Crater" by the most ext1avagant
promises-such, for instance, as repeal
Of the constitutional provision requir-
| ing the prepayment of the p0ll-tax-
which they know cannot be accom-
plished, and by promising them almost
everything which they know their ina
bility to perform.-Stdte.
Some interest has been developed
here in the issues now agitating the
public mind, since the recent court day
discussion at Harrisonburg. Upon can
wasting the public sentiment, we find
that it has undergone a very great
change recently, respecting the debt
question. Very many who we're
strongly opposed to what ia known as
the Brokers Bill, are now willing to,
as they say, give it a trial.
The speech of Attorney General Field
on Monday court day., had a great in
auepce in changing the minds of many.
Our opinion is that Bridgewater,
which was regarded. and justly too, as
one of the strongholds Of REIMBURSEMENT.
will probably give an adverse verdict at
the election in November. Bridgea0a-
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