The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-09-01
/" THE TYRANT MALONE"
Language Used to Designate nl'e'
ssa,es senator from virginia. LII
A CoI0RED REPUBLICANS STRONG APPEAL
TO Ills BRETHREN.
" Shall We Be Slaves TO this &tnp:"
civilian Malone Is a Traitor to the
Cause OF Liberty
r,o xvr,,h Of DeIuded Politicians Made
Manifest In Burning WORDS OF
Reproaeh.
R. D. BE(xLEYS TERRIBLE ARRANGEMENT

R. D. BE(xLEYS TERRIBLE ARRANGEMENT.
To the Coyored Republicans Of Virginia:
address this letter 10 you because am
q negro like yourselves Under the domin-
ion Of the white man for two hundred
and fifty wears, we have been sOrely tried
as n race, both in the hours OF personals ana
political slavery. Both were oppressive and
wrong. God, in His power and wisdom,
struck from our limbs the sllacklcs when
had bound our manhood for many years,
and for which we ought to thank linn de-
youtly. Our former masters found otller
means TO continue their prosecutions. we
have been since the days OF our lbera-
tion the victims Of political prescription
and persecution from those who ought 10
have been or dearest and best friends,
orr former owners. As a race, and nj
fine when their families and property were
left at our mercy, we forgot the wrongs we
had withstood, and like a devoted people
we preserved the latter and protected the
former. We did right. and Tor doing the
right we ask no credit but only justice. IN
the war which resulted in our liberation
vast sums in treasure and thousands oil
human lives were sacrificed. Shall we
prove recrcant to the trust which these
sacrifices lei, in our charge? answer Tor
myseli-never
The Democratic party OF Virginia has
ever since the war aimed its
SHAFTS OF TYRANNY
direct at liz, and but for the shield which
the Republican party placed IN our names,
and which we have defended so hcrOlcali!'
Inri.1 hpnoqfb fine
waves OF political sea. But three snort
years ago there appeared upon the stage
n transmogriied actor. From the chief
actor in scenes OF carnage ana nioou' III
which our people were the victims, THIS
man appeared, proclaiming him'ell worn
out with the part he had played. GOrgod
with the deep-hued blood OF negro VICTIMS
which failed TO bring him power, he APP
neared i'm the role OF the defender OF our
rights. He has been more successful IN
This last character. Failing his appeal
TO the white race Of Virginia to place the
CROwN OF POWER
upon his head. William Malone asked at
our hands that which had been denied him
bv the more intelligent men OF our state.
Well he knew that he must offer us an
atOnement for the past, and that he must
bring forth fruit meet for repentance. lie
came with professions OF deep repentance,
fresh from the scenes Of fraud and out
rage, and we accepted his proller in good
faith. We placed the sceptre OF power in
hands dripping with the blood OF
our people; his conscience we be-
lieyed lad gOaded him to acts OF
atOnemcnt. His fertile brain had Matched
all manner OF fortunes for you and
had ltn
publican liberty in Virginia, and delivered
her, bound hand and foot, TO his tyrant aSso-
ciate Walker. TO him more than to all
other men are we indebted for the outrages
and wrongs that followed our cnfranchisc-
ment, and which we have borne 80 pa
tiently. Had he thousand lives, and each
one could exist a thousand years and were
he to devote them all TO efforts to undo The
wrongs OF the past. they would not atone
for a 1.-THE OF the blood OF the victims OF
his
COwARDLY CONDUCT.
The hopes Of the confding negro were
raised a. in his humble cabin he thanked
God for this convert from bloody tyranny
TO pcaceiul liberty. surrounded by diff
cultics OF gigantic proportion, cautioned
bv our old political associates TO beware OF
; this modern saviour, discouraged by procla-
: nations from the White House at Wash
ington and halls Of Congress. We came
from the field and cabin, from the swampS
and forest, OF Virginia, and gathered
around the ballOt-bOXcs, into which We
trcmbingly dropped our atom OF power
that, condensed, made
: MALONE THE TYRANT
: that he is. We have lived to see the fruits
OF our efforts.
This actor, who three years ago came
, pleading for our help, has changed not
only his garb, but is PLAYING another cha
racter. Grown to gigantic proportions, he
struts upon the political stage, waving our
; black sccptrc OF power, and bids Us knecl
7 at his feet a. cTaycn- might. Shall we
, knce as he bids lis do, or shall we snatch
from his once bloody hands that insg-
t min Of power that We placed there,
G and send him back to that station
e from which wo rescued him? Shall we
| be slaves to this satrap, or strike an
e other and final blow for liberty: | hear
your answer rs il comes up from the fields
5 and patches Of the East; | hear it n it
comes rolling along the valleys and is
echoed from the mountains Of the West,
owe WILL BE FREE
J-NIUtlltt> tlt last d'NulIluiIltU- anu
gathering together that William Malone
is now traitor to the cause OF liberty.
7 He has with our aid, embossed us from the
: chariOt-wheels Of the many political des-
( pots, only to chain lis TO the iuggcrnaut Of
!, his own train.
: We must not and will not be crushed bv
this traitors treason. Believe me, my
: people, when tell you that it is with Us
now to redeem ourselves, and that we have
dangers to avoid much greater and more
Q destructive than those from which we have
/. escaped. Malone will be your master and
you viii be his slaves as sure rs YOU fail to
stand by the rights you have acquired this
fall. He has put candidates in the field
: everywhere in Virginia, who know OF his
= treason, and they will call upon YOU to in
vest .hem with power. warn you that if
you vote for one Of them, you vote for a
o Trojan horse within which Is hidden the
: form and features Of the tyrant Malone.
: have neither the time or space to te
. you Of the
OUTRAGES WHICH MALONE Is PENETRATING
everywhere upon our old, true, and tried
= Republican friends. 1t would take volumes
i IN which TO record them; but everywhere
/, and all around lis lie the mangled remains
\ OF those who in the days OF Mahone's
. bloody outrageS stood as mighty breast
work, behind which we could gather our
little ones and cry for protection Shall 40