Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-04-11
Gold in New York, S1.13.
The Richmond Wing.

Under the heading Of "Perso-
nal," the Richmond WING has the
following, which we inser. simply
because much has been said in this
county, which the article will re-
tute.-I Ed. NEws;]
We are we'll aware that the Impress
ion prevails, to use the language OF a
contemporary, that peculiar rela-
tionsn exist between Gen. Malone
and this paper, and we have taken no
pains to contradict the statement. If
by peculiar relations" it is the inten-
ton simply TO convey the idea of o
general concurrence Of views, the
charge Is atrictly true. Nay, more if
the undisguised fact that we entertain
for that gentleman the most profound
respect and admiration gives rise to
the suspicion that his UOunsels are
should be so. Gen. Malone we es-
TEEN most highly. AS man Of brains,
of clear judgment, and of indomitable
energy, we hold him to be the peer of
any man in the Commonwealth. His
integrity will be impeached only by
those imposed upon by designing
knaves, and his nerve questioned
alone by INSCRIPTIONS, cOwardly enc
mics. Knowing the man intimately,
and having seen him thoroughly test
ed, we have implicit faith that he
would burn at the stake sooner than
be guilty of an act of even questiona-
BILE propriety. In all our intercourse
with men, we have met with none
whose nice sense of honor, and whose
generous, noble impulses and devo-
ton to Virginia more impressed US. -
We were proud to claim him as a
friend in the bright days of his pros
perity, and we esteem him all the
more now in the hour of his ADVERSE
ty, when deserted by his summer
friends, the base. contemplate eyco-
plants, who but yesterday bent before
him the pregnant hinges of the knee
that thrift might follow fawning. So
much for our appreciation of Gen.
Malone as q friend, true man, a pa
triot and a high toned Virginia gem
tleman. But having said so much, it
is but proper tina. we should add, for
once and all, that the influence that he
exerts over the columns of this paper
Is precisely that, and no more, than
would he exercised by any other gem
tleman, in whose integrity, intelli-
gence and patriotic devotion to the
State we had like confidence. 1t is
absolutely false that he owns even 80
much AS one share of the stock of the
establishment, or has pecuniary in
terest in it TO the extent of dime
On the contrary, we are as free to OPP
pose his views, when in conflict with
our own, as we would be those of any
other party in the State. For years
prior to the appearance Of Gen. Ma
hone upon the theatre of Virginia pol
tiles, the WING held aud maintained
identically the same views that it does
to-day in the relation to the railroad
policy that should prevail, ever con-
tending that the construction and pro-
lection of east and west lines are es-
sential to develop the growth Of large
and fiourishing commercial cities upon
tidewater, and we shall not abandon
them now, because of the fact that
Gen. Malone, at the head of the only
road Ia the State differed and con-
trolled solely by Virginians, and In
Virginia's interest, has illustrated and
made manifest. as the statistics Of Nor,
folk will verify, the correctness of our
views.