Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-12-17

the walls of bis wrath upon our people:
He sought his place at the hands of the
funders. The readjusters elected an
other good soldier in his stead.
1t Is due to Maj. Hill to say that he
is too manly to growl and snarl. He
made his fight with the funders, last,
accepts the situation and laughs the
case through.
The readers Of the HERALD have
heard, perhaps, of the socalled "unholy
alliance " between readjusters and re-
publicans. Poor dlscOnsolate funders
On our arrival here the organs greeted
us with the information that they had q
majority of the republicans, and the
funder countenance beamed with de-
light. They had 81 to our 40 in the
House and proved ii by the figures Of
the Dispatch and State. Then the al
lance was holy, HOLY. HOLY.
A word about this alliance. The
thirty nine had Rlyes, Hughes and
Wickham among their number. This
was the beginning. Yankee Allen,
Van Auken, Dezzendorf, Derrick and
Fred Douglass were among their can
vassers, and specially commissioned to
carry the colored voter. In Albemarle,
to beat Massey, Duke, one ofths thir-
teen who read us out of the party, was
on the ticket with Early, with colored
gentlemen also on Early's ticket. Ear
" and Duke were elected, and at the
next term of the county court the
funder Judge empannelled the first mix
cd Jury in Virginia, which example has
since been followed by another funder
Judge. Here we have the alliance, the
results and the price,
Next we found here Confederate
Brigadier General from the Valley, try
ING to barter the U. S. Senatorship Tor
republican votes to sustain the funders
in LEGISLATION. The Senator was to be
VIM. c. Wickham. To carry out this
scheme. a score offederal office holders
were quartered in the large parlors oil
the Ballard House for week, and the
poor colored delegate was carried ILL.,
lectured, pursuaded and abused by
turns About three went astray. When
the readiuster's conference.met the hrst
night a dozen Office holders lined the
entrance begging them to go with the
funders or stay out. One poor unfor-
tunate was gobbed up and hurried over
to Washington by Yankee Allen 10 try
the influence there, and when he was
brought back he was almost stupid from
good treatment. AS soon as he lapded
| called upon him in person, and though
his skin was not white, he was man
enough to haye resisted so strong an
influence as the administration and he
ouiekly told ane he was still readjus-
ter.
At another conference Of readjusters'
five of these eolored representatives
were locked within the custom house
of this city, and then detained TIL the
conference adjourned; but with this
they induced but one more republican
readjusier to join the republican lun-
ders, Ali honor 10 those who have
stood out!
would not have 1t understood that
all the funders here, either connived al
or approved of the traffic. Many OF
them declined 10 countenance it. lonly
reclte some Of the most revolving facts
to show what efforts were made to ac-
complish our overthrow, before the
garb of righteousness was resumed
and the honesty praters began anew
their role Of denunsiahon.
But this is not all, not halt. For
prudential reasons l refrain from writ
ing now what week or two will devel-
op. Then Virginians will avert their
faces from the shameful scene.
heartily wish every Virginian who
reveres representative government
could have been here to see federal
officers standing within the railing oil
the Senate chamber while the vote was
being taken on organization, with eyes
fixed on those they yainly hoped to ter
rlfy.
Think of it, people Of Shenandoah
The President and Cabinet onicsr
commanding people ct the ballot box,
and their subordinates interfering at the
organization ola State legislature re-
call the scenes enacted at the South
Carolina and Louisiana State Houses
under the regimes Of Scott and Packard
and kellogg, and then fall down and
worship at the shrines Of the self con-
stituted custodians Of all the glory, the
honor and the cbivalry Of the "Old
Dominion.
AS usual, all the appliances of Rich
mond are brought to bear upon the re-
adiuster Senator and Delegate. To
the pulpit and the society influence is
now added the caricature Of the thcater.
Last night Mrs. Oates varied her per-
Torrance by slang illusions to resdjuS-
tiers. But we are yet compact and
have the hope that those who had the
courage of their convictions in the last
contest before the people will not yield
Till the object Of their mission be fully
accomplished. No great good has ever
vet come of small effort.
l believe General Malone will be
elected U. S. Senator on the first ballot.
Every readjuster is bent on testlfylug
his appreciation Of the man who has
stemmed a tide Of personal vituperation