Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-07-30
Stauntotl Spectator,
WEDNESDAY..JULY 80. 1880.
Confidence.

.et.re Confidence.
The confidence of the Southern people in
their natural resources for rich develop
ment, has had more to do with the intro.
duction of capital and practical effort and
increasing population for that purpose
than may occur to many persons. To ex-
anime the matter in general way, it will
be observed that in the localities where
resident parties have attested their faith
by their works, there the most decided and
promising advances have been made
Nothing is more reasonable or natural, for
capital is conservative and needs assurances
for its judicious employment. a
Now, when SO much of home resources,
both in the available money and properties
as we'll as ceaseless effort, have been en-
barked in our industrial designs, by eur
own people, they should be alive and reso-
lutte, and by wise Judgment and conserva-
tive action bind in indissoluble interest, the
thousands of men and the millions of del
lars that have come from the East, the
North, and the West of our own country
and from foreign countries for the common
purpose in which all are engaged. This
course-this assurance on our part of a
united and common interest in a common
destiny-will do more to furnish strength
and resolution equal to the emergency OF
any circumstances which may surround us
If Congress and the approval of the
President shall place communities of the
South under the operation of laws inflicted
for purposes of partisan designs of the most
Objectionable nature, we are still hopeful
that by course in which we shall con-
sistently maintain our purpose--even at
such a manifestation of the faction in
power, as is demonstrated in the Force
bill-not to depart from our patriotic en-
deavor to maintain the unity of the country
as we would the equality of the govern
ment upon all the people and in all their
interests under the common bond of the
Constitution. If the outrageous evils of
the Force bill are to be realized, the re-
sistence to its enforcement should not be
by means that will in the commencement
aggravate its enormities and divide the
strength of the sufferers. The united
protests and the deliberate, firm resistance
by the means which the people and COM
Enunities oppressed can bring to bear,
when sustained as the South would be by
the conservative feelings of the North and
the West, would in time scatter the factions
now controlling the Federal government in
all it's departments, and wipe from the
statute books the laws enacted for the pur-
pose Of placing the negroes in power where
they hold the numerical strength. Fac
tions of the white people whose chief pur-
pose is to degrade their own race that
power may be retained by the Republican
party cannot long hold the control of it,
The enormity and wickedness of the pur-
pose will raise up the stern opposition
which will sweep them from power and
correct the great wrong which was at
tempted.
1t may in truth be said that the eyes of
the civilized world are now fastened on the
United States Senate. That body can stay
the evil or it can inflict it, and thus scatter
the frebrands of discord and strife over the
land.
The industrial prosperity Of the South,
not to mention any other interest, though
the existence of government itself and the
freedom of the white race, in most of those
things in which it must control, if they re-
main inhabitants of the country, is at stake.
We regard it, therefore, as fortunate for
our people that SO many of our fellow
citizens from the North and the West are
among us with their means and their in
fuence in the crisis, if sach it is to be-
They appreciate the sincere and cordial re-
ception given them, and the spirit with
which we have embarked our fortunes with
their interests in the South. Hasty or in
considerate action should never be resorted
to, and certainly not before the time for
avoiding evils has arrived.
This line of thought could be elaborated
indefinitely. Whatever of purely party
methods may be exercised in emergencies
for the resistance of attempts to overthrow
our civilization, there are also other and
powerful means at our command to main
tain the ascendency of proper government
and consequently the continued progress of
the wonderful material interests that are so
auspiciously opening the way not only for
the enlargement of the prosperity of the
South, but of the whole country. Our con-
fidence is that the right will prevail, and
that the factions will be frustrated before
any great amount of harm will be done.