Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-03-15
ssThe Complaint Of Sectlonalism. -

Tribune has long article, in response
to a letter published in its columns,
written by s. G. Redd, of Hanover
county, Virginia, who gives very good
reasons why the better class IF white
Southern people have been forced to
assume position of antagonism to the
Republican party. Among other things
Mr.. Redd wrote to the Tribune:
eff you were to put yourself in our place
you would not wonder that the educat-
ed people of the South are solid in their
antagonism to the Republican party as
1t exists here. The Republican party
in Virginia is composed almost entirely
of superstitiOus, uneducated negroes
and white people who use them as their
tools to satisfy personal ambition and
lust of gain or Office"
Nothing could be truer than the al
legation made by Mr.. Redd. And to
this the Tribune replies, in part, as fol-
lows:
"Now, to begin with, we do not
wonder that the educated people of the
South are opposed to the Republican
party. It is not to be wondered at,
since that is, and has been ever since
the Republican party was organized,
the principal part of their political edu-
cation. Nor do we wonder very much
at what we must consider their blind
obstinacy in refusing to see that their
true policy is to divide the negro vote
instead of solidifying it by antagonism.
Negro Reimbursement is too young yet
Al - h0
slave period to be forgotten or laid aside.
That is one of the changes we must
wait for time to work we can do little
to hasten it"
Now, says the Lynchburg Nirginian
the Tribune ought to know that it is
much easier to talk and write about
dividing the negro vote" than it is to
accomplish the result, since it has been
the policy ofthe Republican party, from
the beginning, to solidify the negro ele-
ment against the Democratic party.
The white demagogues of that party,
base their appeals to the negroes for
their votes, upon the ground that the
Republicans set them free and enfran
chised them, and that their votes nat
urally belong to that party. Moreover,
they avail themselves of every occasion
to impress upon the negro mind the
conviction that the Democrats are their
enemies, and that that party would
take away their rights, and their free
dom, if they could. The Tribune should
we'll understand the influence and ef-
feet of such appeals upon an ignorant
race, who have little reason, and readi.
ly accept such statements from those
who profess to be their peculiar friends.
And so, the fact remains, that the Re
publican leaders first solidified the me-
groes againt the intelligent, respectable,
property holding classes of the South,
and are laboring still, with great sue
cess. to keep them solid.
and so the Southern whites, accept
ing the inevitable, he'd to solidify too,
for their own protection, and to secure
such government as would protect their
right of property, and enable them to
live with some degree of safety and
comfort. And that is the whole his
tory in a nutshell. It is therefore idle
for the Tribune and its party associates
to attempt to shift the responsibility for
the condition OF things they pretend to
deprecate and so long as they labor to
keep the negroes "solid for Mulhooly''
and the Republican party, the great
mass Of the white people of the South
will remain aoliid. for their own protec'
ton.
CRooKEDNEss IN THE WESTERN
JUDICIAL CIRCyIT.-Mr. c. G. Lancas.
ter, special agent of the Treasury De-
partHent, has made report, which re.
fleets seriously on the management Of
affairs in the Western Judicial Circuit
The Washington correspondent of the
Dispatch says ''if he is correct in his
statements, Judge Rives and United
States Marshal Lewis have not beer
careful in looking after their subordi-
pates. Mr.. Lancaster charges thai
scores of deputy nerahals; whose names
will be given, have arrested hHndFsdi
of persons on frivolous pretexts, anG
have taken many of them hundreds O.
miles unnecessarily to increase theil
fees. He further charges that United
States commissioners have been equally
crooked, and that deputy marshals have
employed paid spies, negroes and whites
TO work up cases, opt of which they
might make fees. The hardships o.
their victims are clearly set forth, anG
the judge and marshals will be mos
derelict if they do not act promptly in
the matter. Clerks of the court do not
escape censure, and the officials compli
mented for doing their duty in the Yves
tern district are few and far between"
| CHANGE IN RATES OF POSTAGE
The following important changes in the
rates of postage have been ordered by
the Postmaster General: Bills partly
in writing; price current with the prices
filled out in writing; printed CONNER
cial papers filled out in writing, unexe
cuted deeds, waybills, invoices, unexe-
cuted insurance policies, and all other
matter partly printed and partly writ
ten, which have heretofore been mailed
in unsealed envelopes at one cent fol
two ounces, cannot be mailed except at
letter rates, three cents per half ounce.
FIRE IN FREDERICKsBURG.-
steam tannery, bark and sqmac mills OF
John q. Hurkanp, of Fredericksburg,
were destroyed by fire on Saturday
night week, together with large stock
of manufactured materials. The loss is
49,, 200; insurance, $3.50.
SUICIDE OF A VIRGINIAN.-S. Frank
Hubert, resident of Salem, Roanoke
county, Va, committed suicide at