The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-12-04
The Old Dodge.

resort TO every expedient and every appeal
TO cement its broken columns and maintain
ifs ascendancy in the control of the offices
and the dispensation OF the spoils of risg-
ridden and caucus oppressed Virginia. The
most effective appeal heretofore was to race
prejndices, but that was in the past when
people had not time to bring their minds
down to close examination OF the motives
which lay behind, and submitted patient
ly to the caucus lash and the despotic eau.
Gus manipulators. The wrongs which they
have inflicted upon Virginia-the ePpres-
sions which have pressed upon the necks of
the people-the desolatlon and paralysis
which have hung like an impending doom
over all the great interests OF the Common
wealth-have been the result of the domi-
cess by infiaming the passions and pervert-
ing the judgment of the constituent body. |
Broken, demoralized and rebuked by the |
outraged people Of the State, this same cau-
Gus dynasty proposes again to stir up strife, |
keep out capital and PROSTATE industries, by |
return to the old methods and the old ap-
peals, as evidenced by the following ex-
tract taken from the recent issue of the
Norfolk lTrginiam !:
s:Thank Sod there are enough achue men
in Virginia who have not and will not
change their color to preserve the compiler
ioa of the State. The issue now raised is
the old issue That the Conservative party has
fought before and will fight again. Debt
payers and rea. insters will meet together,
Join hands together, and will forget all other
issues in the perils that now confront U.S.
Brother achite men by your race and by
your blood, rally TO the achite standard -
This is the platform OF the old Bourbon
leaders-this is the appeal that is to be
made to the people ct Virginia, in order
that the despotism which has inflicted so
much wrong upon the STATE may be perpet-
uated.
1t is the dying gasp of a party that has
forfeited all confidence-abused every trust,
and inflicted wrongs immune raale upon the
patient and unsuspecting people-the last
desperate appeal to arrest the doom, that is as
sure to be visited as the sun rises and sets.
1t has lost its power. The people have
awakened to a sense of the wrongs they
have endured, and to a knowledge OF the
deception and duplicity through which they
have been made to bow their necks and
PROSTATE their manhood at the bidding OF
designing demagogues. A new birth and
new dispen sation have revealed to them, not
only the selfish purposes of these caucus
managers, but their own power and their
own duty. Hereafter, Virginia must be
cared for,and not the trading politicians who
have ruled and run the Conservative party to
the detriment of all the great interests of the.
Commonwealth.
In Blackwood's Magazine for November.
repubIished by the LEONARD SCOTT PUB
LISTING Co Al Farclay Street, NY, we
find the following;
''Reata; or, What's in Name" Part
VII. TIE first chapter is headed IS A Bro
keu Heart but it seems more like "a heart
sorely wounded but of great recuperative
power
San American Princess This article be.
ginning with reference to the ups and
downs in the lives Of the Bonapartes, is re-
view Ct the life and Letters of Madame
Bonaparte.
"Whg Reviewers as Painted by Them
selves" A History Of the early struggles Ct
the Edinburgh Rtriev, called forth by the
correspondence If the late Macvey Ma
pier,', who succeeded Jeffrey as its Editor
and retained that position for eighteen years.
Syria The Maroni.es'' The last of this
series of articles leads the reader through a
romantic country Astounding in ravines and
waterfalls, and inhabited chiefly by Chris
tian sects, who are occupied in the cultiva-
ton Of the silk worm, and in quarrelinq
with each ether.
IA Poor Devil Last senes in the life OF
an old actor.
Among the Aft hans'' is a sequel to pa
per published in Blackuood ia May giving
an account of the clans who live more in the
interior of the country than those formerly
described.
The periodicals reprinted by THE LEON
ARD SCOTT PUBLISHING Co. al Barclay
Street, N. " are as follows: The London
Quarterly, Edinburgh, Westminster, and
British Quarterly, Rsuieses, and Black0ood's
Magazine. Price 81 a year any one or only
$l5 for all, and the postage is prepaid by the
Publishers.
The Richmond correspondent Of the Index
Appeal states that Gen. Mahene has deter
mined to be candidate for the q. S. Senate.
'sThere is little doubt that he has made a
systematic canvass OF his strength among the
members elect of the General Assembly
within the past ten Gays and it is quite
probable that his recent determination
is based upon the reports received from that
canvass. 1t is also equally certain that Gen.
w. G. Wickham will be the nominee of the
republicans. He probably expects to get
the influence of the administration to bolster
up his cause with the white and colored re-
publican re-adjusters. II the Alternative is
between Malone and republican without
any chance of securing conservative, ir is
likely that some moderate readjuster who can
get majority of his party will be taken up
by our people and chosen as compromise
man of the two wings. The opposition OF
the debt payers to Malone as successor of
Mr.. Withers has not decreased In the slightest
and if be ever secures the support of single
member of that party 10 the assembly for
that place, it will only be as the least of two
evils-an a1owed republican or the leader Of
the new liberal party"
1t is impossible to draw Gen. Grant on
the Southern question. Mr.. Sharp, an octo-
genarian survivor OF the war of 1872, tried it
at Chicago the other day, and when he got
through expatiating upon the deplorable con-
dition of affairs in the solid South all the Gen.
eral remarked was, sob, Well get along all
right down there when new generation
springs up, and when we begin to have lit
tie prosperity in the South; and then be
changed the subject.
United States District Attorney Stewart
Woodford left Brooklyn for the South Thursday
evening. He goes to Louisiana on the invitation
OF leading citizens of that State, and will deliver
at prominent points some six eight speeches
in vindication OF the principles Of the Republi-
can party as he understands them.
IAN Old Physicians Advice
Coughs, Colds, Asthma and other pulmo-
nary affections should be looked to and
promptly treated in time, and thus all re-
rious results may be avoided, and for this