Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-07-27
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FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 81. 1877.
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FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 81. 1877.
Local.
THE PUBLIC DEBT MEETING.
SPLENDID SPEECH FROM MARSHALL
HANGER-A FIVE MINUTES CHEER--TWo
SETS OF RESOLUTIONs-ALL HANDS SAY
THEY DON'T WANT TO REPUDIATE-MA-
HOMES FRIENDS AT WORK-THE AID
JUsTERs TRY TO HOWL DOWN EX-sEN-
ATOR WADDELL AND GET HOWLED
DOWN THEMsELvEs-THEYW WITHDRAW
FROM THE MEETING AND ADOPT THE
ADJUsTERs RESOLUTIONS,
&C., &C., sc.
ty well filled filled with county people to
attend court and the meeting which had
been called Of FARMERS and mechanics
and the people at large of the county of
Augusta to take into reconsideration the
interest of the people and the credit of the
State of Virginia." The adjusters were
very confident and were assuring their OPP
ponents that they had three to one and
would carry the resolutions Of the former
meeting like a flash. About 10 O'Clock, af-
ter the country people had pretty we'll got
ten in, boy was found distributing large
number of copies of the Richmond Whig,"
four days old, containing copies of Gen.
Malone s letters on tue public debt and
schools and a letter from Charlottesville in,
which the following paragraph occurred :
''The Malone column has crossed the
mountains, and the county of Augusta,
claimed to be solid for Holiday, is shaken
to the centre. Beverly Manor district,
with Michael Harman at the head, is al
most despaired OF by the Holiday men, and
may be counted for Malone; and old Au-
gusta will give good account Of herself
when the Malone roll-call is sounded"
This put new face on the street discus
sions going on before the meeting. At l
o'clock the meeting assembled, Judge Hen
dren having given up the court room tenn
porarily for its session. There were about
were colored people in the gallery. Mr..
John Paris, President of the Board of Su-
pervisors was chosen President, and he ap-
pointed a committee on resolutions COM
posed of Absalom Koiner, S. Il. East, Geo.
W. Swoope, John Fl. Crawford and A. B.
Lightner, all prominent and well known
farmers OF the county, and Davis A. Kay
ser and VIM. A. Burke, commercial men
from the city. While the committee was
out calls we're made for Hon. Marshall
Hanger, Col. James HI. Skinner, A. M.
Bowman, S. Brown Allen, 3. A. Fulcher
and John G. Bell, but all these gentlemen
declined to speak until the committee
should report. MI. VIM. A. Frazier, an
old citizen, being called on, gave some in.
teresting "reminiscences of the scenes in the
Virginia legislature in 1912, when after
the great panic there were two propositions
one, to make the tax on property Is instead
of 10 cents and the other was substitute
for it, to pass stay law for the protection
Of the debtor. The last was lobbied by a
man from Mississippi, who had been
prom inent in reputation there. The hon
est proposition Of ansincrease of taxation
was adopted and the State went on in pros
perity. In concluding, Mr.. Frazier alluded
to the fact that a candidate for the COVER
norship had intinated that the State
would die of ''sickly sentimentality" and
be buried at the expense of her creditors.
He said he hoped the people of Augusta
would repudiate such a sentiment as that,
and his remarks was received with ap-
plause. Mr.. David S. Young, a member
Of the bar, also was asked to put in and fill
up the time. He said the debt could not
than the tyranny forced upon us by paying
this debt and added, 81 am no reputation
ist," which created great laughter. Judge
John H. McCue then took the floor and
said he repudiated reputation and thought
ninety-nine hundredths of the people of the
State agreed with him. He said there
could be no adjustment without the con-
sent of the creditors and after describing
the impoverishment of the State said we
must depend for relief upon the generosity
Of the creditors.
The committee on Resolutions reported
during Judge MS speech. There were
two reports-a majority and minority, the
latter being made by Messrs. s. A. East
and J. H. Crawford, and being the same
resolutions as were adopted at the ''Ad-
justers'' meeting, shorn of the unique
preamble which they had on that occasion
Capt. ]. N. Opie moved the adoption of the
minority report.
Hon. Marshall Hanger then rose and
made, what the friends of both sides of
the question i'll dispute, admit to be the
speech of his life. The statements were
plain, exact and fearless, and the speaker
was interrupted all the way through by
cheers. When he said that he voted for
the Funding Bill as the best adjustment
obtainable, and hadn't seen the day since
that he wouldn't have done it, the applause
was deafening. When he said that 70 |
cents in the 500 would pay everything
school tax and all-and the man who own
ed property and wasn't willing to pay that
to preserve the States credit, wasn't
worthy Of any regard whatever, cheers fol