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| Address-sStaunton SPECTATOR" Stanton, VI.
Are You Freemen?
The time has come when every true
| Virginian should ask, "Am q free
man, or do I bend the knee to boss
ism ?" If not, if the political freedom
of the people has departed, as mean as
it must be, as degrading as it must ap-
by the Boss, and his slaves cannot OBJ
ject. Truly he has been q consistent
patriot (?). His hand once saved us, it
Is said. from 81. II. Wells; to-day he
| wears Wells mantle, His hand cut
down the size OF ballots, and plundered
the boxes in which they were Deposit
ed; until he failed to ride into the office
of Governor of Virginia by such ras-
caily means. Then he turned his back
upon an honest party in which his foul
methods failed, and now are any so deaf
as not to hear the threats of this So.
called powerful Administrations Arthur.
Republican Boss as he slaps his fingers
in the face of Bourbons and swears that,
with Administration swag and the aid
of the negroes of this State, he and his
overseers (who every morning, by sun
up, rise and blow their hOrns) will rule
and make white people take back seat
and allow the aforesaid negroes and
B0ss's Overseers to come to the front?
Have Virginian's lost discretion? Can
they see that the time has come when
it is better to be black man, with Ma
homes favor, than to have fought for
the constitutional privileges and tradi~
o< lo O1I mi To- if hrov
to say if there is Democratic spirit of
resistance in your breast, banish it?
Let traditions perish and forget honor,
but haste thee, in the spirit of LIBERAL
ism, to the feet of "Mahone, Virginia."
or else his men with the execution.axe
will fall upon you, and security, alas
will fly from you as thing accursed,
and dire fate only be left you. Why
nourish honor against black majority
that can be bought, when 1t has so often
been said by Mahone's men that "hOnOr
never bought break kfast"? If you are
q slave, why remain in the Democratic
fold and starve for principle sake on
broomstraw and short grass, when the
Boss and his followers are up to their
flanks in millet and clover? Why fox
the sake Of good government, just and
equal laws, and a common benefit, per-
sist in trying to preserve the distinction
between refinement and indecency?
Do you get offices by it? Do you grow
fat? Not at all. Then, as they would
bid you,S ,Sforget these miserable "Bour-
bon-F -Funder fungus" ideas. Reject hon.
or, court the Boss, and initiate his ex-
ample. Did he not try Democracy?
methods by making him boss? Did
he not unfairly fight negroes and damn
Republicans until for the last time in
this State armed soldiers of the United
States army were sent to his own home
and his own precinct to prevent this
seme Malone from cheating the ne
groes of Petersburg out of "a free bal
Ist and a fair count" and the privilege
of voting for President of the United
States2
Did the Conservatives make him q
ruler for it? No! Turn, then, man Of
high opinion, exalted virtue, and lofty
ideas-turn your back upon all these
things if you can. Fail, if you are base
enough, to see how wrong you were in
not approving long ago the wicked
course of this broad. gauge Boss. Had
he been endorsed he could long since
have had the State under his feet; If q
slave, why resist him now? Has he
not at his back the Arthur administra-
tion-the Stalwart Republican party
that Virginians hate so well because of
its gifts of carpet-bagism, misrule, oner-
Gus revenue taxations, and liberal ap-
preparations Be ''liberap'-aye, be
"liberal" enough to forget that you are
a white man; be Liberal" enough to
damn the dust of the dead, despise Lee,
jeer Jackson, slander Stuart; be lib
eral" and progressive enough to forget
all else save the fact that if you expect
fat office you must hug the negro to
your bosom and fall prOstrate before
that small specimen of manhood from
the swamps of Southampton county.
Do all this if you can, and aid in the
destruction of your best political privi-
leges but remember you are strength
ening the hand of q ruler who will
delight to throttle you whenever you
dare avow, against his selfish, personal,
and ambitious ends, the first senti-
ment of freeman. This man owes all
he was up to the time he was made
United States senator, to the Virginia
Legislature and Confederate soldiers,
and yet he has sold himself to the ID
and a Republican President in order to
disgrace and destroy the people of his
State because they frowned upon his
corrupt practices.
daThe prince of scalawags, the king Of
negro-mougers, and the blacklist Of Re-
publicans as shown in his latter-day
politics, this man claims your votes. If
you are freemen he will not get them
in the pending contesG.-Rich Dispatch.