The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-10-04
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We announced some WseRs 3nAuIS sus
turn from Europe Of Mr. SrovALL, ZODIAC
corist, OF Henry county, who who intfep 9I
, e,ip,ife,red upon the most unconsidered ana
.erratic canvass that we retnemberanY young
4, mar, with tolerable promises to have FRO
cce.edei in. AS IL he had not undertaken
more than be could well accomplish, ne VEN
tured to copy W1LErAm MAHoSt's artifce IN
skirmishing for the colored vote.
In that he made calculation fully as CT
roneous as that OF the ostrich, which, having
hidden its head in the sand, was SO stupla
as to think that bis neither part, when IS
out OF all proportion greater than the rest
OF his body, was completely out OF slght!
In 1876 disturbance arose IN pau
vile in which there were some ugly
Indications amongst the laborers there.
Some excitement was caused, anu MI
sroyALL was amongst those most hlgniy
wrought into indignation. lie Tell into
inyeighing bitterly, and taking tue
view that il was intolerable that the
co,ored tyisters and screwers should be IN
terruptipc business that had proved to
him very lucrative, and he fell to beratlhg
them through the newspapers rather an un-
usual mode of getting ut them), ana wrote
them rapidly into disrespect, and even as
repute, amongst ewspapcr-readers.
Under the sharp criticisms OF Mr.. STo-
VAIL they suffered as much as they co'ia
FOR awhile. Mr.. STovALL afterward went
to Europe.
Before going there he was always c'assed
with the community of honest deot-payers.
On that subject he was swearihgiy en-
phatic and prospectively oathlcal." he
was a warm friend of the debt settlements
ayowed his determined fidelity TO the oo-
iect OF final aud permanent arrangement
of the long.agitated question.
Mr.. STovALL left Virginia to cross the
Atlantic most emphatic advocate OF the
honest settlement of the debt question be-
tween the debtor and creditor. But sad was
the change that came over the spirit OF MS
dream in foreign land; this, it is supposed,
was chiefly wrought through things tnat
came across the water from his home not by
ANYTHING he saw or heard there. Even the
fast horses and fine entertainment ana eie-
CANT dresses were things more admired
than censured and more envied than a0-
horred BY him, notwithstanding that upon
his arrival at home he canted indignantly
about them all. No man then discoursed
more nimbly about "boatea bondholders."
" funders," and "broker BILL"
He leaped vauntipgiy and blatant into the
ring candidate for the Senate from Henry
and Patrick counties against Colonel Penn,
the gallant and able lawyer and one-legged
Confederate soldier, and made afuli share OF
noise for young tobacconst OF little expo
rience, reasonable amount OF money, and
great deal Of vanity.
TO our friend the matter OF being pledged
to The debt settlement seemed to be no
trouble. He never asked for a document
or sought information to strengthen his
views in favor OF the debt settlement after
his return home. He had no further use
for these things, but went Immediately to
cut adrift the one-legged Confederate,
PENN.
But here comes hitch. MALONE had
exploited the scheme of wheedliag the I'M
suspecting colored man, and STovALL knew
that he had dreadfully abused that man.
There was the rub. What was to be done,
thought be. His offence against the African
was huge. His abuse Of him was unqualified.
Look at this paragraph, 4 sample of the de-
nunciation heaped upon him by STovALL:
IT do sincerely hope that the people OF
all classes will turn their back on Radical
ism and its leaders, and not longer listen to
the bias Of their feelings in favor OF any
man, though he be q personal friend, who
even so much as courts the popular vote OF
the negro, FOR he Is SURELY LIKE THE SER
PENT THAT WOULD STING THE WARNING
BOSOM, OR THE FEROC1OUS BEAST THAT WOULD
BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS HlM.'-StoudH
in rs.
It is corner" for STovALL. Whatll
he do say you. Well, from General JAMES
A. WALKER he sought escape by saying
that white Radical named FERSALD had
hired negro to burn his (STovALL's) fac
tory, and he had denounced negroes there
for. "This is too thin" Mr.. STeyALL had
had no right to denounce negroes for sus-
picion such as that; but more than this,
STovALL, raised amongst negroes, knew
them sufficiently to have satisfied him that
they were or were not worthy OF the de-
nunciation that they were not to be regard
ed as the serpent to sting the breast that
warmed them, or bite the hand that
fed them. This lie said, and had no ex-
cuse for so saying, on account of the man
FERNALD. AL, no, that won't do. II JUS
tilted before going to Europe, STovALL,
Just returned therefrom, cannot repudlate
it, and fall to worshipping the African.
By no means. He has the still greater
offence of not only denouncing the negro,
but expressing his preference for the Chi
naman over him, and declaring that Virgil
mia should welcome the Chinese and eXpel
the negro. That is an offence the African
cannot easily forget. More than this, he
charged that the negro burnt his factory,
and that FERNALD hired him to do it. This
makes FERNALD his inveterate and unfiag-
ging enemy, and his modes Of exploiting
his hate to STovALL's disadvantage have
been actively employed. But independent
OF this, how can ST0yALL, without any
change whatever in facts, eat his own
words, and, without explanation. proceed
at once to oppose the McCULLoCH law, and
assist to throw Virginia into general DIS