The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-03-31

had never heard Mr. Rfddleberper express a fayora-
INDIANA on the national debt lLaughterl He al
so quoted from John W. Daniel, one OF the leaders
OF the Bourbon party in Virginia, denouncing the
posing to reverse them. He recommended the SEN
ators from Indiana and Delaware (Messrs Voor
hees and Bayard) to try and reconcile their differ
ences OF views on the financial question before the
senator from Illinois again discussed the subject.
AS to the senator from Georgia (Mr. Brown, who
seemed to be SO much troubled about re-ad1ust-
ment, he questioned whether the world had ever
self to all conditions and all circumstances.
lLaughter.] That gentleman had got ahead of the
people and Of the Democratic party in the effort to
dissolve the Union and the first governor in the
South to conscate private property in the courts of
Savannah and to seize Fort Pulaski before the act
OF secession. Rumor had 1t that the presidency of
the Confederate States the gentleman g object
at that time. In the struggle that ensued he (Mr
Brown was earnest for the until It's fortunes
began to waver, and then he abandoned it with his
militia. After the war he next heard OF in the
Chicago Republican convention In fact that gen.
tleman might say, with the Poet Laureate's brook:
ssMen may come, and men may 90,
But I go on forever" [Laughter.l
He was next heard of radical candidate for
the United State Senate but beaten by more
moderate Republican-the late Joshua HILL He
next appeared as the appointee Of the carpet-bag
governor Of Governor of Georgia-the prince OF CAP
pet baggers (Bullock-to the office of chief Justice
Of that State which position he subsequently re-
70 aa a sas rarSad
the Democratic party, and his explanation that
the Democratic rarity had erred, and abandoned
on his (Mr. Browns) grand reserve of undying and
Interchangeable principles. Laughter That gentle
were any truth In those rumors, then he (Mr. Ma
hone) was indebted, for any advantage he might
draw from it, to the fact that the from Geor
gfa did not know OF the opportunity. Laughter
On that point he (Mr. Mahone) would answer ali
the tnnuendoes of senators, distinctly and gravey
and with due regard to the dignity and decorum Of
the Senate. He hurled back with scorn and con, |
tempt every 1mputation that his action here had |
been induced by any other consideration than that
Mt nd or ha
welfare Of the whole country. He might occupy the
Senate for an hour with rumors to the manner in
which the senator from Georgia (Mr. Brown got to
the Senate, and the gentleman should learn from
that fact the valuable lesson that every senator
should be left TO adjust his accounts with his
constituents.
MR.. RIDDLEBERGER's NOMINATION.
ne ayowed his responsibility-h1s proud respon
name as candidate for office, but expressed his
readiness to withdraw that name II 1t true (as
report mad t) that Democratic Senators would then
Withdraw their opposition to the election of officers
OF the Senate.
He admitted the correctness OF the newspaper
statement read last Saturday by the Senator from
Kentucky Mr Beck as to the speech Of the colored
delegate Morse, and the motion for his expulsion
made by Mr.. Rtddleberger; and he proceeded to
explain that matter, intimating that II the motive
for expulsion had been account Of color, the
Senator would probably have regarded the motion
as recommendation to Mr.. R1ddleberger This
opposition to Mr.. Riddleberger was In view Of the
uphold stBourbonism' there; 1t was the desire to |
uphold party, which openly protesting obedience
1
purposes hostile to the Constitution It was to up,
hold party there which did not believe in the |
right Of the freedmen to vote It was to uphold
natl platform, in which full vote, free ballot and
an honest count had been demanded, had intro
duced constitutional amendment, requiring that
no man should not cast ballot for any office any
account until he had paid capitation tax. This
effort was to uphold party which defed the DEM
ocratic creed, and which had undertaken by meth
DDS OF 1ndirection to disfranchise the colored
That was the purpose, and whether his colleague
had voted dfSfranchiStug he |
not speak. He (Mr. Mahone) had never given that |
doctrine his assent either in public the ballot
box For one, he wanted no political serfs in Vfr
gfnia He wanted no longer any condition of per-
sonal servttude. He asserted the right, sacred to
ballot and whatever might be the professions Of
gentlemen on that subject, he stood prepared here
behind him at home to assure the country that In
Virginia, at least, there should be free suffrage
count. Applause In the galleries. He stood here
to guarantee the enforcement Of the laws and he
said itby authority OF the brave men who stood at
Senators that his friend Riddleberger made Of
sterner stuff than they calculated, and would sur
v1ve any record investigation.
NOMINATED AND ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE
The record refuted the statement that he (Mr. Ma
hone) had been elected by the "Bourbon Funding
party" He had been the candidate of the people
who had nominated him at the polls by majority
Of over 900 in an election whore the senatorship
had been made an issue He knew no consideration |
which could have induced him to have taken q seat
In this Senate to have held any place the hands
under obligations to 1t Its champions here
or elsewhere. His allegiance, under God, was to
ginta 1t was true the read1usting party had in.
structed its electors for Hancock and English but
1t was equally true that 1t had forborne and pur.
posely forborne, from instructng for those candi-
dates as the nominees Of the Democratic party. He
referred to the manner Of his election asserting
that there had been combinations against him. and
that the Democratic party which, like Caesars wife,
stood above suspicion " had been willing to trade
seat In the United States Senate for few country
officers. II that was the Democracy that the gen.
emen on the other side loved, none Of 1t for him.
The purpose OF the Read listers was to stay the I
retrograde movement of years, so to bring v1r- |
ginia back from number fifteen in the grade OF
States her original position In the ststerhood of
States. Far be it from him that his action here
should be controlled Influenced by caucus
whose party had waged war upon his constituents,
Ind whose party success was held paramount to
what he conceived to be the interest of Virginia
a nd the welfare Of the whole country.
THE COLOR QUESTION.
The Readjusters of Virginia had feeling of r
ace. He had faith, and it was his earnest hope,
hat the march Of enlightened civilization and hu-
amily should everywhere enjoy the blessings Of
'ivil religious and political liberty. The colored
conflict and bloodshed which had come Of the heroic
struggle In the war Of the sections. By act of
voked. He had not measured his duties by consid.
eratons of self Interest," not much could be said
rasst be m an me
pies held to be fundamental Virginia had not for
gotten her abandonment from that quarter, and
needed no counsel as to her duty. To him and the
people Of Virginia the South-as the phrase went
was a mere geographical expression" and no
longer ep1tom1zed dream OF empire do not
question, he said in conclusion, the grandeur Of
that hope and asp1ratton but it quenched In |
blood and the South of our day has aeuuiesced in /
The decision OF the war. The Democratic party !
afirms that decision in Its national platform and
IN the declaration of Its chairman. / am here to
assert that Virginia, the mother Of the Union re-
news her old time faith and devotion to the gov
ernment that her honored sons aided to construct,
Ind In furtherance thereof propose to give my
pest abilities and to exert my every energy. fAp
plause and Kisses in the galleriesl
At the conclusion of this speech Mr.. Malone
vas warmly congratulated by Senators Conkling
n Y2l Sherman Ohio, Dawes, (dass.) and other