Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-02-22
The Bourbon Address.

The Bourbon Committee shall have Its
cay. We spread 1t before our readers,
without dottng an |, or crossing a t.
We wish these people TO see It,. For
cool eflrontcry II SURPRISES an iceberg
drifting Into tropical waters. After
pasting the McCulloch Bill on its banner
In 1859 and ordering It's forces to fire into
every Readjustcr who should dare ques-
ton Its authority or it's policy It was
beaten and piloricd by the people of Yir-
ginia. In 1880 II denounced ms traitors
and mathematical us Pariahs every one
who did not how down to It's May Tick
OF, and now, In Its opening resolution, It
calls even on the 81 900 who voted the
July ticket, TO como to them to "receive
n hearty welcome" 10 this call we now
decline answering We shall trust to
the forgiveness Of party which can so
quickly welcome us from the July trca-
son. As they pardon us for that we can
at nny time get pardon for the new of
tense we propose committing.
II sings pcans to the work of Malone
and his friends, who saved the State in
1860, and valnly tries TO cover its pro-
posed union with Wickham just ten
years later, by calling on Rcadjusters TO
do what many of It's leaders attempted to
do In '69--to turn upon aud denounce
Mahonc's leadership. II dcnounees, for
ihat Ia Just what It amounts to, the eff
fort of the Rcadjustcrs rs one to restore
the State to Republican rule and negro
domination, and Il claims for itself fee
simple title to the "piriuc, character, IN
teiiigsnco and property Of he State" 1t
loudly bawls for the color line, aud says
white supremacy "must be saved, what
ever IL lost" II now protests that II
will add nothing to the burdens of the
people by way of taxation, when II hNs
for years pccn demanding ncr subjects Of
taxation, thinking the people are idiots
and will not know when they are called
on for dollar, simply because 1t is not
from mn old subject of taxation. II in
suits the public Intelligence by asking
the election of "mcn who will faithfully
reflect their (Ihc pcoplc's) opinions" aud
yet they have had for four years the will
Of the people vetoed by one man. II has
the unparalleled audacity TO claim that
they will "securc the public school sys-
TEN Of the Stntc," when the children of
the Commonwealth know That they have
taken u million and n half Of their school
money to pay the ronsol holder, and
have refused TO refund IL, IL assumes
that the Fundcrs Orc tho people, instead
of defeated, condemned ana dcposcd
faction, tried for the high crime of d. !
vertng from Constitution ends the rove
nucs of the State. II asks now TO be re-
stored to power OIL la own promise to
re-crcct those idols of which II has been |
the sole lcono,lnsts. II asks TO be nj |
lowed TO settle the public debt on lis as-
ecrtion that II Ia "a matter ~ admitted |
and urgent need aud this Il does after
having placed the debt above the sovcr-
eighty Of the state, aud after having |
boastnilly declared that no power on
earth can undo that work. II declared |
REIMBURSEMENT both n faNc and crime
and now asks to become its patron.
Who N this now asking of the people
10 be made their high ambassadors to me-
goiiatc for the lost position and soycr-
eighty Of the Commonwealth The
Record answers, those who vetoed the
Barbour Blii, and the school bill, and !
the RiddlcbcrgeF Bill. Those who give
10 two-thirls cf the creditors the rcvc-
me Of Virginia, aud to the remaining
third nothing. Those who broke down !
the equal lAlu or which they o,und