Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-11-27
The South is Solid. and Why.

The National Republican has begun to
wave the bloody shirt vigorously, and con-
graduates itself that Nahone's defeat in
Virginia will solidify the North.
The National Republican is guilty Of a
political anachronism, as well as a loath-
some crime, in attempting at this late day
to fan the flames of sectional hate. The
time has long since gone by, thank God,
when the Northern heart can be fired by
SANDERS upon the South.
We will tell the Republican why the
South is solid, and why she will always re-
main solid as long as the present political
attitude of the negroes prevail 1t is be-
cause the negroes are solid-because they
follow blindly and ignorantly the lead OF
any one whom the National Administration
may endorse. There is no splitting their
votes-no persuading them to forego their
blind allegiance. Ignorant beyond the
comprehension of those who are acquainted
with the domestic life of the race, they are
entirely beyond the reach of reason and
argument.
The vilest demagogue who disseminates
Incredible and poisonous lies among them,
is believed and followed, while the words
| of their employers, to whom they owe their
daily bread, and to whom they appeal, new
tress, fall upon their ears with no more eff
feet than the idle wind. The consequence
| is, that the preservation of our institutions
| and the maintenance of our civilization de-
mands that the South remain solid.
AS long as the negroes. follow, like sheep,
| any pestilent demagogue who is unscrupu-
lous enough to appeal TO their passions and
take advantage of their ignorance, the
| white people of the South must stand to-
gether, shoulder to shoulder.
For any considerable division of the
| white vote means negro domination.
| A terrible experience under carpetbag
rule and the late disgrace of Mahoneism
are scars which will not be forgotten, and
the memory of which will always cause the
white people Of the South to band together
in defence of their civilization
| Therefore, without the use of any un-
necessary euphemism, we will tell the Stall
wart wing of the Republican party, to
which Malone has sold himself, and of
whose views the National Republican is the
recognized exponent, that the white people
of the South confidently expect to govern
themselves according to their own notions
of right, and that they will not stoop their
necks to the domination of the enfranchised
slave.
If this be treason, let them make the
most OF it.
| Let us not be misunderstood: we do not
purpose, and we will never injure or OPP
press the colored race, OF abridge any of
the rights guaranteed by the Constitution;
but neither, please God will we ever hand
over to him the governance of this fair
country, lest the flower of our civilization,
instead of becoming more perfect as the
years glide on, be trampled upon and de-
stroyed by the ignorance and the hatreds
of an inferior race.
| The white men of California, with one
accord, are protesting not only against the
suffrage of the Chinese, but against the
contamination of their presence; and yet
the Celestial is the child of civilization
which was hoary when the Anglo-SaXon
was skin-clad savage, worshipping Odin
and Thor.
| Should we, Neutrality-suspicious. who
found this continent awilderness and made
| it an empire-should we turn over the reins
of government to race of people century
and half ago imported from the jungles
of Africa, scarcely more developed in social
progress than the Fiji Islander who feeds
upon the bodies Of his enemies?
| The very idea is enough to thrill the soul
of every lover of the human race, and the
| believer IN the destiny OF the Anglo-SaXon,
with shuddering horror.
| None but the enemy of our race, who
would feast his hatred upon the spectacle of
our degradation and destruction, would de-
mand it.
The National Republicaa-organ of a
foiled traitor, the property, in great part,
of an unconvicted thief, the hater of every
thing that the people of the South love and
! al h-xUO11l1 hoVp II So
But let that organ, conscious Of impo-
tency, spit its imbecile venom. We are be-
You'd its reach. We are the guardians of
cur own civilization. We are the high
priests of our own political faith, and in
our hands we hold the destiny of our State
Virginia has triumphed, as she always
will triumph when the paramount issue is
before US. Our crushed enemies may
writhe-their curses and howls are music
to our ears Winchester Times.