National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-18
A Breezy Letter from Virginia.


You gentlemen away down in Wash
ington are missing all the fun. You should come
into this grand old Mother of States just to hear
our Bourbons howl and swear. Say they: Ma
hone has gone back on usI" ave cannot hereafter
support himp =" His ingratitude has no political
parallelp " Never will we vote for him" STEADY,
gentlemen; don't get excited. Pray when did
you ever support him? What political tavors
does Senator Malone owe to any one OF you?
When has he ever asked you to indorse him? Fray
when did you vote for him, or for any man who
did vote for him? Malone gone back on you!
How, when, where? Malone to you migrate
full When? Never will you support him! When
did you ever support him? Oh, how forgetful
these our Bourbons areI Fearful you may forget
some things the Readjusters don't want forgotten
in these your days of tribulation, we will refresh
your memories with some little incidents of the
past. Have you forgotten the campaign orders
under the head of Make it Waterloo" that Is
sued daily from your headquarters in 1879, and
were scattered, still damp from the press, all over
Virginia? Have you forgotten the campaign Or
ders issued by your "court-h house r1ngs IN ODe-
dience to the editorial mandates of your city
lance against the life of the State with wickham
Yost Echols, Daniel, Jorgensen, Lowell d GO. you
clustered and swore? When every man who de,
an intention to lean that way, was threat
ened, or made to feel the curse OF So
clal and business oStraciSm? When nar,
repudiator, " negro -Worshiper, sW1ndler,
= dishonest scoundrel," "moral blots on the
face of creation" sympathizers with id Radi.
| Gals" ignorant, striped, and deprayed verm1n,'
were the daily epithets applied to all who adVo-
Gated freedom Of speech, and thought, and action?
How often were Va told that negro was better
citizen than a white Resdjuster, and pirate or
horse thief Was better than either" Have you
forgotten when in your mean and cowardly hatred
you instructed your children to ostraeize and in
suit in their childish plays the innocent children
of Republicans and Readjusters on the school
greens, and daily sent to Republican parents in
helpless, and unoffending little ones? Have you
forgotten your innocent warning anonymous notes
advising exile or worse in ascot Bourbon success,
and all this hatred and spite? Why? Because
we dared to support Mahone and through
Malone free ballot and fair count, the aboll-
ton of unconstitutional restrictions on manhood,
suffrage, and free education. No, gentlemen
Bourbons, the Readjusters have not forgotten and
will not forget You! Malone has never betrayed
you and never will. He has not now and never
had anything in common with you but a common
tyranny TO powder, and if President Garfield will
throw Wickhams "grip-saekers" overheard and
" give Virginia to Virginans" he will do 1t. Don't,
gentlemen Bourbons, forget that Mahone's Read
justers intend TO follow him; they enlisted for the
war, and at roll call in November all will answer
here. Meet them when or where you will, their
answer is, God bless Malone" NJ
BoTEToURT COUNTY, VIRGINIA, March q, 1881
I'VE hope that M" will find the Republicans
who have been named by him in the above in full
accord with the Readjusters in the coming State
campaign. Let bygones be bygones ED. REPUB-