Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-10-28
ONCE MORE.

This is the last issue of the SPECTATOR
which can be published before election day.
Since the nominations of our standard-bear-
ers,-State, Senatorial and County-we
have urged and entreated the democracy to
be vigllant and untiring in the work incum-
bent upon every man who would save the
future from calamities which misrule and
corruption would entail The government,
in the hands of the Republican party, would
become power of oppression, and would
pass laws of the most odious and grinding
character. Glass legislation and the subjec-
tion of popular rights to the base ends of
malignant horde of adventures and spoils-
grabbing partizans would be renewed with
a venom not dreamed of when Massey and
his associates stayed the horrible schemes
concocted by Junto seeking its own aggran-
dizement at such fearful cost to the rights of
the people. The interests of the people,
public and private, would be secuted with
imperial authority, and the Legislature re-
quired to make laws which would subordi-
nate the rights and privileges of individuals
i'll the courts of the land to the control and
uses of partizan interests and hate. ri
The long catalogue of arrogant and sell
fish designs in the shape of legislation and
executive edcts matured for a worse than
Egyptian bondage of the people of Virgin
ia and which would grind them into the
lust, under Republican rule, need not be re-
peated again. Warning notes from faith
full sentinels have been sounded all over
the land, and the decisive hour is at hand.
Democrats of Augusta, are you ready :?
Why depend on our great strength as the best
guarantee Of safety? 1t is not always so.
You should work to pile your majority
mountain-high, before you lie down in
your tents. Work for a great and over
whelming majority that it may swell the
State ticket in the aggregated count.
The spectacle presented last week, at the
beautiful metropolis of Virginia, where the
representatives Of her material resources,
good will and fraternal associations be-
tween the north and the south, have
mingled in a common joy in glorious
anticipation of bright and cheerful future
for the whole country, is one scene. In our
county Of Augusta, and here in the queen
city of the Valley, surrounded by all that
is cheerful and hopeful for the present and
the future, the hoarse notes of the ''bloody-
shirt shrieker" is heard, who has been in
vited to do his diabolical work by partizan
bigots, who, in their sham utterances for
peace, invoke strife and discomfort to
brood over the scene.
Were there no other reasons for the free
men Of Augusta to arise and strike a de-
cisive blow, the presence of the Ohio
chief who would strike from Virginia
her representative power in Congress as a
means to inflict new punishment upon her
people, would alone be sufficient. His in
reference in the politics of this State, at
this time, means nothing but ''evil and
that continually" If he came invoking the
spirit of Cancellation, already embraced in
all parts of the country, then we could
meet him in the fullness of his mission. He
comes to SOW the seeds of discord, and to
infict humiliation, and all that is left for
as to do is to hurl him back with patriotic
indignation, and to infiict upon his Vir-
ginia partizans merited condemnation and
defeat. Flushed, as he is, with coming
power gained at the cost of peace between
the people of the States, and to be exercis-
ed according to the Sherman programme,
there should be no room here for the accept
ance of his miserable doctrines.
There is time yet for renewed organiza-
ton. A few days are yet ours for prepara-
ton to meet the arrogant foe. Then, let
not one man fail in his duty-his whole
duty. Every Democrat should work, and
that earnestly, till the close of the polls on
Tuesday next.