Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-09-18
For the SPECTATOR.
A Word of Counsel from Republican.


To my Comrades of the Confederate Army:
We of the Confederate army, who have
voted for Republican Presidents, have done
so in part for reconciliation, mainly to
carry out the economic policy of the old
Wing party on the tariff, believing that the
true policy to give to the United States and
the ''New South in particular, permanent
and speedy wealth and independence But
we are not to be understood as meaning to
give any countenance to what is called the
negro equality policy of the Republican
party er it's sentimental delusion and in
sanity. We owe it to society. to good
government, yea to the preservation of law,
order, and civilization in what are called
the negro States in the South, and as Vir-
ginians to the fame, honor and glory of the
Mother Commonwealth TO see to it that
these States in their State Governments are
are kept under the control of the Demo-
cratic party. To permit them to 90 under
even the partial control of the mulatoes,
the low whites and their ignorant follow
ers, and political. slaves, the negroes, would
be d crime against society and involve
both races in common ruin. It has taken
more than 5000 years of education and
some 1900 years of Christian teaching to
fit even the great Indo European, or Aryap,
or rather Adamite race for self government,
even it now capable Of self-government, a
problem by no means solved. For all
| things in America now tend in powerful
| current to Capitalization of power, which
means for the people at large merely nomi-
nal self-government. When craBks, re-
! ligious zealots, woman's rights people and
that class Of anarchists who infest all
nations, for it is said everything has in it
the seed of death, come forward anddemand
with bold and unblushing front, absolute
political equality for the negro and his
inscriptions master, the mulatto, we
must look to it that civil liberty suffer no
wrong at their hands, whilo this passing
popular delusion is running its course. All
that is needed to make of these Southern
States, where the negroes are numerous, a
Hayti, is negro and mulatto domination. -
From this must come race.contlict, anarchy.
paralysis Of products, and then the
| bayonet-and this will be the end of our
experiment in the capacity of man for
selfgovernment. For if the bayonet once
begins to glitter in the South it will not be
long before it will be called for at the
North.
The only protection the negro has is the
white men of the South. Make the white
man with whom he was raised his enemy,
and he will find the means to introduce
white labor in the South TO take the place
Of negro labor, and these white emigrants,
particularly those from the North, will
gradually drive the negro from every field
of his labor. So that he will gradually
disappear as he has done in all the nations
where he has been introduced as slave
Let us then, every man of US, in all State
elections, so cast our votes as to maintain
| ~ nf Eoto
| in the hands of the Democratic party-now
tho sole representative of law, order, aud
peace in our midst.
If Mr.. Harrison reflects the true senti-
ment of his party at the North, in the
course he is pursuiDg-if this is to be made
purely and simply a government by and for
the Republicans of the North--if the sensi-
bilities, and instincts, if you choose SO to
call them, of the Southern people are to be
offended and outraged by appointing
mulatoes to office and forcing the negro
whore he does not want to go-then the
more solid the South for the Democratic
party, and the sooner the Northern people
rise up and condemn the Republican party
! the better for the whole country and for
the economic policy of the old Wing party
now copied and adopted by the Republican
party and now in great danger. 1t is indis-
putable that our tariff-our mode of raising
revenue is whimsical and unjust and OPP
pressive in many things. protective
tariff here, at least. is dictated by great
public policy. But we may pay even too
much for that. What justice Or wisdom
can there be in taxing the American people
$40, 600, coo Or more every year in order to
enable the sugar planters i'll small district
in Louisiana to make and sell US al two
prices few million dollars worth of sugar
and molasses? What wisdom is there in
taxing materials for ship building SO great
~ as to make a ship cost one-third or one
half more here than in Europe in order to
keep few ship-builders at work on our
Eastern seaboard, to the very great loss of
our carrying trade.
When any given industry in America is
only to DO maintained at SO great cost,
that industry should be left to take care of
itself. These remarks will apply to other
things as well, particularly to machinery
and the internal revenue system. We
should not be made to pay extraordinarily
for everything. There is a middle ground
between a sweeping protective tariff and a
revenue tariff and this middle ground is
not now occupied by either party. Sub.
sides are legalized robbery and public
plumber anddo more harm than good. Cheap
machinery, cheap ships, cheap sugar and
moiasses, the poor mans luxury and ne
cassity; cheap wine, beer, &C., &c.
Cheap tobacco, and everything cheap that
adds to the comforts and happiness of man
is the true wisdom and policy Of any gov
ernmeut.
JNo. S. SWAMI.
Charleston, w. Va, lug. 31st., 1889.
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