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The time is approaching when the people of Virginia will be called upon to select persons to represent them in Congress and the General Assembly. As was the case in the various elections for County and municipal officers, in regard to the reorganization of the State, if we elect men who will not be allowed to take their seats, we retard for a time the restoration of the State in the Union, and besides, the radicals will again imagine they have something to rail against. There are good loyal men in our midst, unexceptionable to any one, who are qualified to represent us and who will most assuredly be allowed admission to their respective bodies. These are the men from among whom we must make our selections if we desire the restoration of law and order here and the speedy resumption of our place as one of the United States. This course will relieve us of many drawbacks incident to the present disordered state of affairs and will also silence the tongues of the radicals, by disarming them of the only argument they have attempted to use against us to prove that we are disloyal still, not having yielded in good faith, and that we have sworn and subscribed to the oaths of Allegiance and Amnesty with a mental reservation. Therefore we suggest that the August Court, Monday 28th inst., when there will be a good a representation from all portions of the County present, affording a fine opportunity for a general interchange of sentiments, that a ticket be arranged which will be acceptable to the people generally and unexceptionable to the authorities.

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The Suffrage Question--A Dialogue

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Negro--"Go way dar; you Injun and Chinaman no account--no account a' tall."

Indian--"Ugh!"

Chinese--"Chinaman have big country--do much business. American man come long way to get tea, silk, many tings."

Negro--"Go way, I say; you got no right suffrage; you ain't a man and a brudder."

Indian--"Me right of suffrage from the Great Spirit. This country my hunting ground; pale face bring thunder and lightning and fire-water, and drive poor Indian away, but the Great Spirit looks on. Ugh!"

Negro--"Pale face no account; de chief Judge say dat nigger superior race down Souf, and I guess he know."

Chinese--"How much monish you got? You work now?"

Negro--"Catch dis nigger working now. Yah, yah, no sah, dis child under de protection of de Government--Yah, yah, work; yah yah. Look yeah you China man, we gwine to vote now we niggers, you China men and you Injuns belong to the 'ferior race, and dese white men no 'count tall. You just wait till Fred Douglass is de President, den you see who's de 'ferior race."

Indian--"My tribe fight for the pale face in the army of the great chief Pope, we have much farm, little Injun go to school, me go to see the great Father Lincoln, me no vote. Ugh!"

Chinese--"Me see great Mandarin American man in the great empire of ze sun; he say much fine thing; me come to America land, me like America land; China man no vote; me see African man vote; he no Mandarin; American man come to his country; Injun man fight for Merica land he no vote."

Negro--"Yah! yah! you don't know noffin tall; don't you see de declaration independence don't mean you folks; it means consent of the governed, don't you see; and we niggers don't give our seat, dats de ting; massa Sumner told me dat hisseff."

Indian--"Ugh! me fight pale face--Ugh! ugh! ugh! (with a war whoop.")

Chinese--"Me no consent, me steal much."

Negro--"Yah! yah! yah! You go long; you no 'count tall."

Exeunt Omnes