Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-03-23

men IN the Virginia House of Delegates,
seriously and sincerely propounded, and
refused to say whether he would vote
with the Democrats in the Senate he
was guilty of concealment that con-
tanned all the ingredients of prevarica-
tlon aud deception; for even admitting
that most OF those Conservatives who
voted for him knew his ultimate lRten.
ton in that respect, it was not so with
the great mass ofthe Conservative peo-
pie OF the State, who, misled by the
declarations of his friends and supporters
during the canYass, believed that he
was just as good a Democrat as the
best. aud only differed from others IN
bis party-from Col. Wilhers, for ex-
ample-on the question Of the settle
ment of The debt, becaTse that was the
sole matter on which they differed.
Gen. Malone and the majority Of the
men elected to the General Assembly
on The Readjuster ticket knew very
we'll that had they proclaimed in adj
vance that the first act of the Legi:la'
ture would be to form a coalition with
the negro Republicans in order 10 turn
out all the Conservative officers, in
cludiug Judges of the courts, in The
State, and fill their places with theil
own supporters, and elect a senator ii
Congress to represent them in place OIL
their then Democratic senator, whose
first act would be to declare his aGilla'
ton With the Republican party, does
any one in his senses suppose for a
moment that any respectable number
of Conservatives or Democrats would
have voted for them: Therefore, the
whole people OF the State were most
shamefully hoodwinked and deluded by
the game OF deception these men put 10
practice aud successfully carried out.
And that they have been fully awaken
ed to this fact was seen very plainly
when the pretended electoral ticket tor
Hancock and English was placed ia tile
field, and utterly repudiated by the
Conservative voters, who defeated il
bv a vote of more than three to one,
and carried the State for the Demosra-
tic ticket IN spite Of the combined efforts
of the Malone party and the Radical
party to defeat 1t.
This same system of organized de-
ception was to have been persisted in
and carried out during the canvass this
summer and fall, and might have been
as successful in misleading the people
IN the rural districts as if proved two
years ago but for the timely exposure
forced upon Malone in the Senate by
Mr.. Hill. Had it not been for the bolc
and determined course OF that senator,
who assumed the responsibility OF tear
ing off bis disguise-of unriddllng the
sphinx-he might still have wired in
and out" through the whole extra ses-
sion, and left our people wholly in
doubt whether be was going to or from
the Radical camp.
but Hill tore the mask from his face
10 no gentle manner, aud in his rage
Malone admitted all, boosted the full
extent Of his treason to bis people and
his party, and stood forth a confessed
as we'll as convicted traitor. We do
not say a traitor to his few hundred
personal supporters, for to them and
their selfish purposes he is still true;
but we empeatically declare that against
the people ofVirginia who he claims
elected him to the place to represent
hem, their sentiments and interests,he
has been guilty Of a treasoa most VIII
ful, objectionable, and measurable, and
in order to make good our assertion we
impeach him before the bar of public
opinion aud hale him for trial in No
vember next. II is DO longer a qles-
ton of the State debt, but OF treachery
10 the conservative people of the State,
and to prevent Its full cOnsumation we
call upon all Conservatives and Demo-
Gratis TO prepare at one for the contest
which has been forced upon them by
the course OF this man. 1t will not do
to daily with this matter, but it must
be met, and that vigorously, and the
people must give him to understand
once and for all that he nor any other
man IN the Commonwealth can be al
lowed to use the rabble for the purpose
Of subiecting the better classes to bis
yoke and give him control of the whole
Of our Government, that he
may make of it the instrument Of his
OWN pltlful ambition and purposes Of
revenge.
Let no one among US from this on
be permitted 10 plead ignorance Of the
zeal motives and intentions Of this fac |
ion, for he cannot honestly do so, but
et US hold each 20 a strict accounta bilitY |
Who shall with open-eyed perddy assist
ese:men in carrying out their shame
al scheme for the degradation Of the
White race 10 Virginia aud she tomple-
ion Of its social, political, and material i
uin.
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Gen. d. H. Hill, one OF the Confedei-
te leaders, is now president Of the
Arkansas Industrial University, as
fayetteville, in thai State, At salary