Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1902-11-28
THE APPROACHING CRISIS.

The contemplated attack on the Viz.
ginia constitution by the negroes OF
the State, assisted by some white Re
publicans, is probably the most Ill al
yised movement they have recently
made. In the first place the negroes
can fit themselves for citizenship II
thew will: in the second place they Will
40 outrage the whites that their c0nol'
ton will become worse instead OF bet
ter: in the third place they are wasting
their money on scheming lawyers ana
politicians who do not care anything
for their real welfare, provided these
shifty gentlemen pocket their cash..
The case made up is not strong, In
deed it does not seem case against the
constitution at all, but one against the
registrars who refused the particular
persops complaining the right to reg
lister. and from whose decision the
injured parties had an appeal which
thew did not perfect or even apply Tor.
The day has come in Virginia and the
South when ignorance and worthless
ness must take back seat. For near
Iv half century the vote of the most
Influential, capable and worthy citizen
could be nullifed by the vote OF the most
brutal, depraved, ignorant creature IN
the land. 1t was usual also that tne
depraved voter voted for the meanest
candidate in the field. while the opp0-
site was the fact in regard to the intel
ligent and worthy voter. Under ibis
state of affairs in the South and ID par.
ticular in Virginia, a scurvy lot OF
white politicians succeeded in getting
the federal Offices, and by exciting the
negro and keeping him wrought up Dy
brazen and persistent lies about Tue
designs of the white men to put him
again into slavery, held on to the posi-
tions they generally disgraced, and at
last under the excitement Of a read
iustment of a large debt owed by the
State, with the solid and unbroken
column of the negro vote, got hold OF
affairs in the State for brief period.
The history of that period we will not
pause to relate, it is too well remem-
bered, and the scars it left are too deep
and fresh to require recital mere.
Enough was learned from what then
happened to assure the people OF the
State who have any regard for decency
and her good name that they will
never permit q recurrence OF those
conditions If they can avoid it.
With the remembrance of that bale
full period, with a lot of the same class
and kind Of politicians still melting
the negroes to.acts he would possibly
never have of himself conceived, the
sober sense of the State determined to
put its electorate, as it had done its
Offices, in the hands of better class,
in SO far as intelligence, education and
property rights were concerned.
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