Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-11-20
More Fraud.

Inc following circular was posted in
James City county during the recent cam
paign, and it is plain that it was intended
to deceive unsuspecting colored people into
the belief that they were in danger of being
reduced to the slavery from which they
were emancipated by the war;
''Let all true Republicans look out for
Democratic tricks.
sit is known that the Straightout leaders
will try and fool you to vote the Democrat
ic ticket.
''Vote the true OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Coalition ticket for D. NJ. Norton and R. G.
Griffin.
"Vote for your Freedom!
''Save yonr free schools!
''Save your FREQ ballot.
''Vote for low taxes!
"Spurn Democratic money, which will be
offered to enslaue you and your children.-
When the shocEtes are once on, you aciU be
lost .forerer.
''The Readjuster party is the poor mans
party!
Don't believe Funder lies, and listen
not to their promises"
Thus were the colored people falsely
warned that they were to be made slaves
once more and that their children, too,
would be put in bondage. This circular
which we print shows to what desperate
means the Mahoneites resorted in order to
keep fast hold upon the public plumber and
how they basely betrayed the trust of those
whom they hypocritically called their
could we look for from the corrupt gang
that hangs about Malone ?-Rich. State.
This false teaching was not confined to
Eastern Virginia, and it is probable that II
was general throughout the State. We
have been informed that, when ,lored
man in this county, near this city, was
asked why he voted the Coalition I'll ket, he
replied, that Mr.. c., (who occupies a
prominent position in the Coalition parity
said that, if the Democrats succeeded, the
taxes would be doubled; that there would
be no schools for negro children; and that
the negroes would be put back into slavery.
1t is in this way that the negroes are de-
ceived, and made to antagonizo their best
friends. Now that the Democrats will
soon come into power, the negroes will
learn how they have been imposed upon,
for they will see that the Democrats will do
none of these things-the taxes will not
be increased; the negro schools will not be
abolished, but cherished and strengthened;
and the negroes not put back into slavery,
but rendered more free than they are now,
for they will be given full control of the
colored schools, and will feel free to vote
with and for their best friends. Such free
dom they do not now exercise, because they
fear their own race who have been taught
to believe that the Democrats are their ell
emies, and that it is treason to their race
for colored man to vote for them.
CHARITABLE FEELINGS FOR THE NEGRO.
In the speech of Maj. Hill, at the celebra-
ton at Scottesville of the Democratic VIC
tory, he gave expression to the following
charitable sentiments which do his heart
honor
"Let the hour of triumph be also the
hour of Cancellation and liberality. For the
misguided colored people who followed the
black flag of the piratical Coalition have
only feelings of pity; for them no words Of
bitterness shall escape my lips. will only
say: Have pity on them, for they know not
what they do But for the white men, the
Simon Gertys, who, with full knowledge
of what they were doing, banded the color
ed men against their own race and sought
to involve their mothers, wives and daugh-
ters, as we'll as their sons, in common
maelstrom of degradation, have only feel
ingsa and words Of scorn and detestation.-z
Every true Virginian should and does say
of them, BE thou anathema maTanathap
Though, in view OF their conduct in the
past, it seems like hoping against hope, yet
we do not despair that the negroes will yet
learn who are their best friends, and that
they will govern their conduct accordingly.
They should have sufficient sagacity to see
that the party with which they have been
acting, has been drifting them to ruin.
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RAN fuckers VoIcE.-A correspondent
says that parts of Ban. fuckers speech at
the celebration of the Democratic victory
in Lexington On the Wednesday night fol-
lowing tho election, were heard mile from
the courthouse. 1t was voice like his that
was needed here on Monday night of last
week when Staunton was on the rampage"
in celebrating that victory. We venture to
say that of IRAN" had spoken here on that
occasion, he would scarcely have heard his
own speech, though he spoke with a stento-
rian voice that might have been heard a
mile at Lexington. Ii will be some time
before Lexington will be able to make the,
noise in the acorN that Stanton does
How THEY WERE CAPTURED.-It will be
remembered that, in his speech here, when
Blair referred to the fact that the Demo
Gratis claimed they were making gains in the
Southwest, he said: "They say they have
captured the Readjusters in the Southwest,
but we will capture them, you know, all
back again before the election" The re-
suit shows how Blair and Company captur-
ed them. 1t was as the negro captured the
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