Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-02-20
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l(EREMIAHl 5. WISE SEES A VISION
Mr.. J. s. Wise has been to Boston
to tell them of Negro uprisings about
to begin in the South. He is very I'M
easy about the negroes rising and kill
ing white people, and then he of course
predicts that the white people will
rise and kill negroes. The point al
which Instructions usually start is
Boston. The people of Boston, like
Mr.. Wise, can scent trouble further
off, and get further off from the trou-
BILE than any other animals save the
ancient war horse and that New York
regiment at San Juan Hill. Mr.. Wise
can make the negroes contribute to
his sup port of course by this sort of
chatter, be can to some extent avenge
himself upon the people be so cordi-
ally despises in the Southern States by
this clap trap. He can stir such men
as Crumpacker ct id omne genus to
efforts to cut down the representa-
tiOn in the South because of what he
terms Acknowledgement of the negro,
but Mr.. Wise cannot do what he would
like, he cannot make the negro the
80 cial equal of those he hates so bit
terly, he could not induce anybody
else to praise Jim Hayes even after he
had set the illustrious example by
pOrtrayiDg beauties in Hayes never
discovered before. Mr.. Wise's nose
has lost It's sense of smell, but not so
with those he left behind him when
his virtue and desire to associate with
decent people called him North, and
before that had called him into the
Republican party. The people of
Virginia who know Mr.. Wise, and
they of the Democratic party who re-
member the dirty mixup he engaged
in with the Malone gang, are proud
to live in State and belong to a party
which have been made purer and bet
ter by his absence. We hardly thought
money could drive Mr.. Wise to such
extremes. we KIN ow it is no love of the
negro, it is hatred, that bitter, deep
hatred which the anarchist feels for
those who decline to be governed by
his low methods and distempered
ideas which cause his anger to get the
better of him and cause him to emit
the sulphurous and belittllng stuff,
or rot" He would like to kill some
body, but he can't just fix on the per-
son. He wants to be avenged, but be
does not know just how. Virginia has
gotten on some how without him and
he is like Gagged snake over it. He
will find his own fangs imbedded in
his own body sooner or later unless be
stops this fool talk, this crashing of
his teeth, this furious ranting.
A word to Mr.. Wise may not be
amiss. We have no fear down here of
beholding Gen. Wise and Gen. Jim
Hayes leading negro onslaught |
against white people except with their
and those will be from Boston {
or Washington as they have been, t
The COLISEUM Club of '
New Orleans made liberal offer to =
Gen. Jim Hayes few days ago, the d
same club may entertain a proposition p
from Gen. Wise now that it is the u
money making business. The jaw v
bone of Mr.. Wise seems now to be his Il
,nly and most formidable weapon. He Il
ong since laid aside the pistol he a.
Welded in 80 many imaginary, and CT
'lo0dless duels, though as Page Nc P
;arty is dead he may now remove The hi
eadly weapon from its holster, and e,
ut us all down in this quarter to tb
light. fe
But whether Mr.. Wise intends to hi
lad a negro uprising in the South or an
OF, need not be discussed, he will be te
rOperly taken care of when he does,
ut there is one thing we want to call
is attention to partic ularly and that bl,
that he has wholly and totally mis-. he
presented the facts when he says ba
lat the South ever promised to leave nil
sgro suffrage undisturbed, as one of ne
re results of the burdens imposed on be
lem by the war. The Southern States ma
sver did promise this, and the State VIII
Virginia never promised to leave dit
ffrage as Underwood and Malone TIL
led it upon her. Underwood by his be
ork made ignorance and vice para. get
punt to education and virtue. Vir- ror
mia had to some extent thrown off q n
is iniqulty, when along came Malone ing
d Wise and put back upon Virginia lik,
voters, men who had been convicted wa,
crimes and expiated them in jails wo,
the penitentiary, and we have had to
,se convicts on US ever since, until mo,
present constitution stepped in for
fixed standard for voters. The mo
ndard is not high because both Mr.. we
Sc and Jim Hayes could vote under en- $
but it is standard, given US by a ly ST
of Virglnians, not of men
were rehegaues, scallaWags, car Jt
baggers. deserters from the Con- burr
crate army, and negroes, but men time
D are in every respect the equal if Othe
the superiors of the expatriated burr
tleman who has so recently put and
Mt cork on his face and played the grea
70 commediau in various places.
last week In Boston.
Re want to say to Mr.. Wise that q
people of Virginia will never be w
erned by his ideas of right and OF u
ng, they are perfectly satisfied M NJ on n
Gne "orh VI Tie virginia conven- a ne,
/, and under it the State will RIM Cha
lg just as smoothly as a State can mar
un, and whenever negroes arrive F r. II.
he standard OF voters they will apce