Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-19
The Importance OF the Next Election!

The Wing has said 70 little about the
.impossibility of negro supremacy in Virgin
ia In recent article the Whig drummed
up the figures 2O6, 900 whites against 1885,
600 blacks in support of its specious plea
that white supremacy is not in danger.
How absurd such a grouping of figures is,
must be plainly seen by all who remember
the desperate attempts of the Mahoneites
in the last Legislature to redistrict the
State for congressional representatives.
For it will be remembered that only one
out of the ten proposed districts would
have been allowed to be sure for the Demo
crats-a concession that was made only
because the careful redistricting of other
parts of Virginia, which was made in the
interests of Black Radicalism, left no chance
to the Mahoneites to do other than regret
fully to leave single district Democratic.
| If that bill for redistricting had been passed
| we would have been placed in the condition
of South Carolina and Eouisina in the dire
full days of reconstruction. But for the
gallant patriotism of the Famous Five, who
refused to obey the petty Boss, we would
have been sacrificed to the greed of that I'M
scrupulous politician who has sold himself
and has promised for few offices to sell
| Virginia itself to our worst enemies.
How, then, can the Wing pirate of fair
ness towards white and black? The " hig
knows well that the negro supremacy, which
it has claimed to believe impossible, would
have been established by the passing of the
bill for redistricting the State which was
proposed by the Mahoneites in the Legisla-
ture last winter.
| What the Mahoneites tried to do in the
last Legislature they will try TO do in the
next. They will attempt again to make
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of their leaders to deceive the unhappy col
ored people into following after them. But
they have little thought that they are call
ing to their aid the rude and gigantic mon
ster of trankens;tein. Once make the con-
gressional districts of Virginia black, how
powerless will the Mahoneites be to turn
| their color. These INSCRIPTIONS and reck-
less scoundrels, these leaders appointed by
Malone, who, together with their master,
are so grossly lacking in honor and in all
the other qualities of representative public
men, have no thought save that of plumber.
The Future is a name unknown to them
The Past they have is but short, and that a
too disgraceful one for them to care to re-
member. The Present is what they live for,
well knowing that no party whose only OBJ
lection is the spoils will long be tolerated
by free and honest people. Thus, for the
sake of winning the favor of a Republican
Administration, and thereby securing from
it the public plumber, these unscrul ,ulous
Adventures are willing to make Vii ginia
the victim Of Black Radcalism. Even
when their terms of office as Senator,' as
Governor, as Representatives, and as AL the
other place-illers of an accidental party
shall have expired and the people shall have
risen, as they surely will rise, to drive these
marauders from their midst, still Virginia
will have been redistricted beyond hope OF
recovery, and the negroes, clamoril1g fol
positions of greater distinction, will have it
in their power 10 succeed their Maho ne al
lies in the House of Representatives. The
Mahoneites will be forced to meet every adj
vance of the negro, and the result viii be a
compromise by which Virginia will be- rep
resented in Congress by black-and- tan
delegation.
1t is idle for these time-serving Malone
ties to pretend that such an abhorrent state
of affairs is not the probable consequence of
their treacherous schemes. Unjust be clear,
therefore, that the people of Virginia have
never had more important duty to perform
than the election of the next Legislature
Let our people organize in every county
and in every town. Let clubs be formed
and the people instructed as to their duty,
and warned of the danger that threatens
them. Let no man look to others to do
this work, but do all he can for the safety
of his people, striving with an earnest,
honest purpose in this great cause of truth
and ight.-Rtchmond State.