The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-10-23

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can platform 10 1879; but dessrtiuyit 10 tn.
sndi falling back upon the white
man's plasfom,'of 1862. 'Ts,s was suoueedN
ed by a. mastery presentation Of the soclsa'
equaAsy question and tho rsiatation'~ OF tne !
charge againsv the Republican: paftys that It
favored it,. clsining that Sumner snd' Grsss
leY favored she bin introduced by SUMNER,
while Grant and the Republican party. op-
posed it,. Had. it been Republican meas
urs, is would. have been. passes, as tbs ihs--.
publicaos held possession Of evdry branch Of
the gosernment.. He then took, Up ths labor
question: and met the charge chat no clalm'
Jed superiority for ths nsgfoF over Che Irish
and, German elernshts.. This, point We have;
Iexplained heretofore, and il il presented on QUE
FIRST page: this week:ius. it, truss lighE
/ Col. Hughes closed his very shle SUD ar
gum en- tasixo speech, before he mad touohed'
on all the, poiuts he had intssasd tofnotice'.
he had to meet the cars ia Ssunton Friday
nich.. In order to roach Fairfsx G. H. Bat
ura.y to- ELL an appointments shsse, and NJ
.zandri. Saturday night ,,BsoEs. hs closes
he stated to- the audience that he Was eonil'-
dent Of his election. He did this in no
boa.sfuE spirit, but from personal Eno"tsdge
OF the prevailing sentiment throughout the
State, having travsrssd and spoken - a.
most every portion Of 1t.
We append few notes frens Col. Hjughss,
Gem municated to- us.in ! private I'M emorsn-
dula. Being unable, foE want a OF tins, To-
notice the points involved, wsssssm IT prop
or to give them to the publis in this eenass-
tion= -'F 4.
srAuNros UeT,. II, 1878.
Dear Yost:-I could rot get through
with all that I waited to say atsRarrison-
burg to-day for want OF tl1ne- -
I did net allude to the charge which
is made against nae ea the subjest Of con
.criu.iop. I was rot the editor OF the -Esr-
on,iaer during the war. It vaswholfy: and
exelue lively managed by John NJ Daniel, one
of the -sternest and most positive men this
State ever produced not at az The kind IT
man : to permit any other person to rule OF
control his paper for him. My, only connec-
tion with the Examiner during the war was
a. writer for it. I never wrote M article
on tbs subject Of CONSUMPTION. That sub
iect was peculiarly one Of Mr.. Daniels own
subjects. He had just spent eight years IN
Europe ssd was familiar with the mode Of
raising and recruiting the Europssa armies !;
and he did with his own hand all shs writing
on that subject I am sure Inever wrote
an article on the subject myself. r.
There is also charge that the Esassinsr
advocated the policy of the black flag. I
do net reeollsct any thing Of the kind In tho
paper. I have asked the business manager
Of the paper, and also the principal and sblest
paragraph writer in the war news columns OF
the paper, whether such articles ever appear
ed 10: it and both Of them tell me, that
thew have no recollection Of. such articles -
It was known that General StonswaA Jack
son was an advocate Of that policy = and, if
ANYTHING went into the paper in favor Of It
at all, it must have been to give currency to
General Jackson sviews on the subject. But
neither I nor the business niarager Of the
paper. nor the war news writer Of it, now
r.coNsct any such. articles. Certain it is,
that was not xn advocate of tho policy
No man can charge that wrote in favor OF
the black flag policy, .Hithoussperpe'rssing
falsehoed. - e--s'as.cs vi;
Il is pitI.bIe shift for grest p.rsy, in
great compaign Ike shis, to be compelled
to resort 10 charges such an those / have re-
fsrred to. am responsible for nothing that
appeared 10 the Examiner during the war,
except what wrote myself. IF any article
Of mine be published, I shosId not hesitate
to acknowledge it. But it IS y fact, that, OF
the sasy articles which have besn recently
published, purporting to hsves been taken
from the Eran,iaey, there is not oae which
really wrote. They can publish NO article
Of my own that viii not do me credit and
that il why my own are not selected fer pub
lisation. There is no possibility Of their in
juring me, except by palming upon the pub.
lis o. my OVID, articles written by others. l
say, this sort Of deception is unworthy OF
a great party in this important canvass, and
especially unworthy Of the journsIism Of Eur
State. ssN >
As to She charges agsinst me about bank-
ruptcy, they have uo truth in them. All the
fses I have ever received from bankrupt prac-
tise in the course Of two years previous to
nv nomination, would not amount to $500.
I never sought that practice. The office
which held, of U. S.. District Attorney,
30 far from aiding me 10 that practice, was a
hindrance. It was the only Office / ever held,
(exoept very inconsiderable one hold many
years ago, )and it was given NE without So
licitation so much SO, that after [ had been
nominated and confirmed, Gen: Davis tele-
graphed me to know whetherI would accept
it, The smoluments were not $4,000 year ;
and I resigned the Office on my nomination
as candidate for Governor.
The charge which I understand that Gov.
Walker made against me at fredericksburg,
that had received a fee Of $500 for pro-
curing the passage Of the Last. amendment of
the bankrupt act, is wholly untrue. am
surprised that Governor of Virginia should
be on the stump at all, ana, much more. that
he should resort to the pifIable expedient Of
making charges wholly unfounded in fact. -.
r. ". HueHzs.. =
The Wing still continues its researches
among the lava beds and. red sand stones,
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