The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-12-16

The state IN tho recent cIsctlon has
,.ssed through a fcarfus3crisIsint rs history.
y nave lost the election Of Hancock, but
Tho state has been saved sgatn to The white
nso,,le. A combination Of the thirty thou
sand Maboueltes with the eikhiysodd thou
sand black aud white Republicans would
have given the State to the negroes. Here
lies our danger. The personal following OF
Mahone. Massey. RiddIeberger, Paul a. Co.
NAV be sufficient, Ia crisis like that through
which we have Just passed, In combina-
ton with the Republican, vote 10 give Tue
State 10 the Republicans. This means me-
pro rule In Virginia. under orders received
from the staiwart headquarters In washing
ton.
as TO what is the objective posot OF Mahone
and bis party. The negroes to-day regard
him as their champion. He Is the nrst
white man In the State who has turned out
OF Office a white crippled Confederate to
make room for negro. Remembering
this sacrifice which he has made OF himself
for the unprecedented elevation OF their
race in the State. he controls the $4,000
black voters in the State beyond any other
man.
This black vote II Mahone's trading capt.
,al, and be has no idea OF sacrificing II. lie
designs in bis own time to combine II with
those OF the Seyeuth-of.Julyers who look
to Malone az their leader IN order that DC
may obtain the control OF the State.
To effect this combination, TO retain his
control Of the negro, he must affiliate with
the Republicans in the Senate. The man
who thinks that Malone means to throw
away the biggest capital stock that trading
politician ever g!oated over, to go back on
his "faithiul allies" IN order inst he may
return to party who despises bim, mas wo.
fully miscaiculated. Suc0 course Would
be political suicide, and Malone OF al men
in the State lust now, does not propose to
die by his own hand.
II il this combination. to be sustained by
the stalwarts at Washington, with conSe-
ouences TO the white people OF the State
which are appalling to contemplate. that
stares US in the face to- day. II may be pre-
cipitated or avoided according to the issues
10 be made in the future by the ConseIya-
tive party OF the State.
The Conservative party had its founda-
ton in The necessity felt by the intelligent
white people OF organization in order that
the political power in the State might be re.
tanned TO the whites. The sole plank in its
platform was that the white people OF the
State should govern the State. This was the
issue then, paramount 10 all others. 1t is
no less paramount TO day. To-day, II we
would preserve Virginia to the white race
and not abandon her TO the negro, the
pines, and the opossum, we must Sink all
other issues until white rule has been hrmly
established again in the State. What do
Virpinians care for few hundred thousand
dollars OF the State debt, or whether cou-
pous shall be receivable for State taxes or
not. IL they are to be plundered by courts
and legislatures elected by the Malone CON-
bnaiiOn?
Two years ago we came very near losing
the State upon question as to how the state
debt ought to be settled. The danger is too
imminent TO be running such risks ia the
future. IL an honest adjustment cannot be
had. the fault is the Republican party's,
no, ours. The country can't expect that
we must risk handing the State over to the
control OF Malone and the negroes IN FUR
Their effort TO honestly reaOjust the State
debt. Without committing the party 10 any
plan. we can well afford TO commit its set
Element TO any Legislature Of representative
men. lDon terms acceptable TO the creditors
of the State. But true policy demands that
the State debt should not be complicated
with the question as TO how Virginia is to
he preserved for the white people OF the
State, or how the State is to be prevented
from again being converted into Military
District No. 1.
II bome-rule--wbite RULES to be the
single objective point OF the Conservative
party. how can this best be attained?
The principles OF party. il true, are as
as trutb itself. The party may
disintegra,e, but its principles will remain.
Resistance to usurpation, representative
government, States rights,
home-rue, are but synonyms representing
the same great principle under different
of time and place. "The blood
OF the martyrs may be the seed OF the
Church" From the scattered and disinle.
grated elements OF one party may arise
another infinitely moro potent for the vim
dication of The same truth.
The man on horseback is coming. The
question is not who does, but who does not
see him? President Hayes IN his recent
message recommends that the office OF cap
iain-general be created and COT ferred upon
General Grant as recognition by The Gov
eminent OF his prominent military SER
vices; that the army be increased TO the
maximum limit allowed by law OF $4,000.
and that measures be taken for "the organi-
zalion OF the aCtiUe-Qhe italics ale in the
messagel -milina OF the country. His
Attorney General, Mr.. Devens, proposes
measures which, II enacted INTO law, VIII
furnish employment for this unprecedented
military establishment ia times Of peace.
They are to form The posse con,itatuS OF the
United States marsbais, who are to attend
every yoting-piecinct in the country at
~. al Is tn
be used in order TO guarantee the freedom
OF elections, say Conkllng and Cameron;
aud the administration OF Mr.. Hayes thus
responds, aud thus they all beckon TO the
coming Cesar.
Who are to compose this "active militia"
TO be thus organized, in the southern States
Who are to compose it in Virginia, and
upon whom are to be conferred the COM
missions? A Republican Congress will ar
range these details, aud the commissions
will be portion OF the Federal patronage
with which General Malone will have il IN
his power to reward bis "faithful Allies"
The regulars and the "actlve militia"
obey ordeis. The soldier is Indifferent
whether the yoting-plice be is required to
attend Is north OF south OF Mason and Dix
on's line. Organized and sent by the north
ern people 10 enslaye the South, like Ac-
teon's dogs, they will one day turn upon
and rend their master.
Here, then, is The vital connection. be-
tween the homeJule, whte-rule plank
which we propose for the single plank OF
tlln Conservative platform in Virginia and
national politics. The northern people can't
ensiaye Virginia without at the same time
rive;ing the manacles on their own limbs
and the one plank platform OF Virginia Is