The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-10-20

with which these Funder gentlemen are q
tempting to scare the people of Virginia.
This attempt to get up scare. upon til
question strikes me as the most absurd, ar
by far the weakest device yet attempted /
this demoralized and panic stricken party
lnVIrginia we have at least seventy thousar
white registered majority; the white poop
have nearly all of the property; they have ii
better education. and with all this these woul,
be statesmen pretend to fear the NEGRO rule
As said lately in an address to you zeal
| led forth by the Lancaster slanders1. to az
init the possibility of NEGRO rule" under sue
circumstances, is palpable and undeniab
admission of the inferiority of the white rae
| 1t would be impossible for the colored rae
to succeed in establishing their domination IN
der sucis a state of facts even If their race
equal to ours; consequently when any, one &C
mits the possibility of negro rule under th
existing circumstance he is 5d,t,ad to a6aaat des
| superiority ~ II f sss
In other words, if what the Democracy ha
always heretofore claimed to be. an inferio
race can rule race which. has claimed to b
the superior, when the latter have nearly a
the property and education and the over
whelming majority of seventy thousand vo
tiers, then the colored race must in reality b
more than equal; they must be superior.
therefore assert that all
THIS TALK ABOUT NEGRO RULE" rs THE vERI
EST BOSH, sex
and intended as desperate effort to save
sinking cause.
Let no man have any fear of NEGRO rule
until he is prepared to admit that the colored
race is not only equal to the white but gastl
SUPERIOR
have argued this question upon the as
sumption that the cOlored race-was really dis
posed to make race issue, but every man O
intelligence knows that such is not the case
andI only assumed that it was. in order tc
show the absurdity OF any such danger, even
under that state of affairs.
The colored people have recently declared
IN convention, composed of representative
colored men from every part of the State,
their earnest depreciation of any attempt to
inaugurate fight on the color line and this
convention was composed ao1soAy of col0red men,
who were true representa- tives of their race.
Another side issue with which these inge-
NOUS Bourbon Fundefs attempt to pursuade
you to defeat the good cause OF reimbursement,
is the effort to make the Democratic Readjust-
ers believe that Gen. Malone is ATTEMPTING to
lead them into the Republican party, while at
the same time they try to drive the Republi-
cans from the support OF this great liberal
movement by telling them that i am endeavor-
ing to lead them into the Democratic party.
Now evidently they are wrong as to one or
the other OF these assertions, and are attempt
ing to cheat you into voting for Funderism by
such falsehoods.
Never trust man or party after you once
ind them attempting to cheat you.
THIS ABUSE OF GENERAL MALONE
has been low, mean and sneaking, and infinite
ly below the dignity of any man of common
think can say, without fear of successful
that Gen. Malone has done
more for Virginia and her people than any
man who has appeared in politics since the
late war
HIS intellect conceived and has great execu-
tive ability has carried out successfully so far
the great scheme of again placing Virginia in
the front rank of States from which position
she had been dragged by the policy OF the
Bourbons.
His ability is only equaled by his courage,
and # his life is spared l confidently believe
he will succeed in placing the State once more
in her proper position.
He has the brasn he has the ne70e and he
has the aos1, and unless our people are foolish
enough to be deferred from following his wise
counsels, old Virginia will enter upon such an
era of prosperity as she has never known be-
fore.
There is another assertion made by these
gentlemen OF the Bourbon persuasion by which
they hope to scare off some tinid and weak
minded Readjusters, and that Is THAT all the
Republicans are supporting the Cameron ticket
and consequently that it must be Republican
move"
Such logic would disgrace a sch COL boys de-
batting club, and it seems to be so foolish that
sge1a Fatader speaker would hesitate to use it.
The fact is that this is struggle
BETWEEN LIBERALISM AND BoURBoNIsM,
and all liberal Republicans are giving
it their hearty support, while all Bourbons,
be they Republicans or be they Demo
Gratis, are working might and main to fasten
Bourbon Funderism, with all which that i'm
plies, upon us.
As proof of that we find such white Re-
Dublicans as Gen. WINS. c. Wickham, Messrs.
Jorgenson and Dezendorf and such colored Re-
ou6tscdns as Messrs. Geo. M. Arnold, W. H.
Lester and others, doing everything in their
power to encourage and aid the Daniel ticket
Now it would be just as logical to charge
hat Messrs. Daniel, Barbour and Mckinney
IRE Republicans. because the white and col
bred Republicans above mentioned are sup
porting them, as to charge that the Readjuster
movement is Republican movement, simply
because those Republicans who want to lber-
re the politics of the State and to inaugurate
certain reforms, are supporting it.
In conclusion, fellow citizens let me warn
you against this s0-callet1 party of ''honor and
honesty" and show you that it is unmista-
zably and undeniably pre-enasnently a party Of
0Ise pretences, which is only disappearing as
! party of honesty in order to again snyoJue u0at
~ the naeshes of Funderssm.
Ii we search the history of political parties
rom" the time whereof the memory OF man ruin
leth not to the contrary" down to the present
it will be impossible to find so dis
honorable and dishonest record as that OF
his so-called honor and honesty party.
While prating about "honor and honesty"
It has kept itself in power 10y the boldest, most
outrageous and most unblushing frauds. upon
The ballot and the ballot box which were ever
known in the politics of any country
don't propose that this charge shall rest
solely upon my assertion. could get. if it
were disputed, quite an array of Funder testi-
mony, but at present I will content myself
with some quotations from an editorial which
appeared in The State of Richmond, simply
that everybody recognizes 1.-THE
State" as one of the ablest as well as one of
most candid of the Bourbon Funder papers.
In an editorial which appeared on the 18th
Of May, 1881, and headed "a free ballot and
fair count" the Estate" says:
Snow we have never pretended to any great
amount of virtue in this respect; on the con-
trary we have boldly admitted over and over
again that our elections in many places in the
South were little more than farces, so far as
the voting of the people or counting their
votes was concerned"
The article then goes on to assert that the
people of Virginia had been badly treated by
Congress by having laws which they didn't
want forced on them, and it declares emphati-
cally that Mr.. Tilden had no more right to the
votes of South Carolina, Louisiana and Flori-
da than we haye to the millions of VIM. H.
Vanderbilt" In then says:
Coming down to the direct point, the peo-
pie Of the South do not and never have denied
the fact that whenever it was necessary, and
they could do so, they made the ballot and the
ballot-box serve their ends in establishing and
securing the best governments they could for
their own people"
And now come these hypocritical Funder
leaders and deny that there was any necessity
for any move in favor of "a free ballot and a
fair count," and pretend to be indignant with
the Re-adjusters for "traducing the old State"
when they declare in favor fan honest count
Obi hypocrisy, thy name is Funderism
But Ishave not done with their false pretences
yet. ~
This so-called honor and honesty party
while talking grandiloauently about paying
the public debt, and actually having the imS
pudence to arrogate to themselves the nameof
Tebt3Glers have nersistentlv and consIstent1v