Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1890-09-19

the South and those industries and products
in which southern Republicans have the same
interest as southern Democrats.
THE LODGE BILL
is miscalled the ''force bill, !" because in ope-
ration it would be impossible of enforcement
to the ends pretendedly sought. TO enact it
would be to paralyZe the commercial progress
of the entire country, and to set back south
ern development in which northern capital is
largely engaged, Il half century. But the
main sufferer would be the negro, who by this
vicious effort to neutralize inevitable condi-
lions would be deprived Of all the safeguards
which now surround him personally, and
politically he would become the Scapegoat in
local strife in which MI. Lodge and Mr..
Reed would have no concern and no influence.
The passage of this act into law would be
APUBLIC CALAMITY.
Its passage by the majority of the House of
REPRESENTATIVES fixes the responsibility on the
Republican party. The call for halt by
Senator Quay in the Senate only voices the
protest of a frightened financial and CONNER
cial North and only proves that Mr.. Quay is
afraid to risk this campaign on an issue which
one section would regard as blunder and
the other as crime.
L see no reason to believe that
THE PRESIDENT
has not been in active sympathy with all that
his party has done and left undone in Con-
gress. His own performances have not how
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tive department. He has done nothing south
of Mason & Dixon's line since his inaugura-
ton except to recognize with reluctance that
any such country existed. His appointments,
with just few enough honorable variations to
prove the rule, have been of men not represen-
tative i'll character, influence or capacity. He
has shown utter inaptitude to square his ac-
tions with his utteranceS, his performances
with his promises, his principles with his
prejudices, or his status with his stature. He
has been the instrument, willing or unwill-
ing, with the machine elements of his party
and for the want of bold and brave and cath.
Ollie action he has made himself responsible
for the fact that in the North and West there
is a divided Republican party. and that in the
South there is none worthy of the name.
AFTER LESS THAN TWO YEARS OF HIS ADMIN.
IsTRATION
Mr. Harrison has removed the last vestige
with which we had hoped that the Republican
party, by fostering an American policy, by
SubOrdinatng the past to the present, by equal
consideration for all sections, by removal Of
unnecessary burdens of taxation, might prove
| itself the reStorer Of the Union as we'll as thu
preserver of the Federal Government.
1t is not worth while for one man, or one
thousand men, to seek to stay the current O
partisanry which has swept Republicanism
from its legitimate moorings. But one thin!
remains, in my judgment, for us to do-fo
men who recognize a higher duty than tina
which can be expressed by party name-ant
that is,
| TO FREE OURSELVES FROM ALL PART AND
| LOT WITH A PARTY
which has no faith too sacred for violation
and recognizes no pledge as too solemn to b.
| broken. | cannot lend myself to the oppres
sion of my people; and if there is 10 pofitica
organization Which meets the full measure O
our approval we can at least leave that whicl
violates our every idea of right and sentiment
Not prespming to set up for any other MAJ
or set Of men standard of duty, and Willius
to concede to every one else that freedom O
thought and action have always claimed TO
myself, my resolve, founded on desire to b.
true to myself and my country, is to refuse al
sympathy OF cooperation with the Republi
can party in the crusade against this section
which it now espouses and under the leader
ship to which it submits.
| Sincerely your friend,
WILLIAM E. CAMERON.
". s. Dash5sll, Esq, Richmond, Va.