National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-14
VIRGINIA POLITICS.

The break from the ranks of Bourbon
ism has already begun in this section. This Is no
hearsay statement We know themen--Fredericks-
burg Recorder.
A writer from Southwestern Virginia
says: General Mahones course in the Senate is
enthusiastically Endorsed. 1 have the first Read
juster to find who does not indorse him"
Ineyer saw the Readiusters more de-
termined, and if there are any that are not in
dorsing General Malone 1 don't know them. He
certainly has not betrayed his party in this county
From pirate letter icren By gentleman Of GIoUees-
ter, Va
The Readjusters and colored Republi
cans of King George County, Virginia, in a joint
mass meeting last week unanimously passed reso-
luton declaring that General Malone has done the
work of years in restoring to Virginia the promi
n ence of former period"
The Bourbon Democrats are raising
their hands in holy horror at what they call the
reputation principles of the ReadjusteEs. Did it
ever strike them that the s15,OOO0OO set apart for
West Virginia was repudiated by the Democrats of
that State? Yet such is the fact--Frederieks6Ur
Recorder.
To read the silly partisan Washington
dispatches to the Richmond Dispatch, the impress
Senate have been worsted in the debates during
the extra session. To read the official reports of
the discussions in the Record, quite q different
conclusion is reached.-SduntOR FirginiGn.
Malone has done more during the four
weeks that he has been in the Senate by his
boldly expressed liberal views to bring about a
kind and generous feeling between the North and
South than all of the men that the South has sent
to Congress since the war, and if his course does
not work out the proudes results for the South and
the whole country it will be because of the siren
uous efforts now being made to prevent it by the
pig-headed and bull-headed Bourbons, North and
SOuth.-Spirh Of the Valley.
At large meeting of the Readjusters
of Spottsylvania County, held at the courthouse
on the 4th of April, the following was passed by
unanimous vote:
'RcsoLred That We have in General William Ma
hone, Readuster Senator from Virginia, entire conf
dence, both to his ability and the purity of his pa
triotiSm-
"Resolrcd That heartily approve of his bold and
manly course in the Senate of the United States, and
of his expressed determination to pursue, without
reference party names, such Will result
in better feeling between the two sections of the
country for the future and in the ultimate restora
ton of peaceand prosperity TO the people of Viz nia
The Democrats in Congress have had
much trouble ever since the Senate met in extra
session over what may be called "sOur Malone
grapes or, in other words what they choose to
denominate Senator Mahone's hypocrisy and
apostasy to his Qhe Democratic) party. Ever since
the Virginia Senator saw fit, in the free and indie
pendent exercise of his own judgment, to cast his
vote with the Republicans, he has been vilifed
and numerically berated by the Democrats in the
Senate and out of it, by leading members and
journals of that party because he did not go over
body and soul to them, and support their meas
ures. 1t was their hope and expeetation-though
not placed in his present high Office by Democrats
or Democratic vote-that he would turn traitor
to his own real Virginia friends, and sell both
them and himself out to the Democracy. This is
the real cause of the whole NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
(ld) Union