Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1882-10-03

Turning away from the mirror, sb,
exclaimed bitterly:
"Too late, Helen Armstrong! AS you
have sown, 80 must you reap. ."-FTor.
ence Revere Fender.
Maj. John W. Daniel in Harrisonburg,
AN ABLE AND ELOQUENT SPEECH-HE
CAPTURES THE LARGE AUDIENCE,
Maj John w. Daniel delivered at
Harrisonburg, on Monday, September,
18th, (COurt-day,) to q large audience
an able and eloquent speech. The Reg-
lister publishes quite lengthy and in
teresting report of it, and we regret that
we have only space to publish the fol.
lowing extract:
He then referred to the Hon. John
Pauls profession two years ago of fealty
to Democracy, and said that men In this
district had voted for him as q Demo.
crat, and that after going to Congress
he had voted every time with the Radl-
calls and every time against Virginia
and the South. He said the late Con-
gress had given Virginia a United States
Courthouse at Lynchburg, Abingdon,
and Harrisonburg, in order to try and
convince the sensible Democrats of this
State that Malone was the advocate of
Practical Politics. Said the government
could we'll afford to make this appro-
priation when Virginia paid each year
into the treasury Of the government six
millions of dollars in the way of inter-
nal revenue tax. This State now pays
something over two millions to the State
treasury, and some six millions to the
Federal government. He said that
when Mr.. Paul went into Congress
there never was such an opportunity
offered for favoring the South, and for
relieving Virginia. When Mr.. Paul
went to Congress he found one hun
dred and fifty millions of surplus reve-
nue. in the United States treasury. OF
that surplus Virginia paid six millions
annually. There had been an effort
made by the Democrats to remove from
the people this immense burden of tax
alton by abolishing the whole system
of internal revenue. The vote on this
measure stood los for to LOG against. If
Mr.. Paul had not voted to give the seat
of q white Democrat from South Caro-
lima to a negro Radical, the bill would
have been carried and become a law
AS it was the bill was defeated, and our
old State must grOan under the load.
The Radicals would never abolish the
revenue system, because it was from
that source, to great extent, they de-
rived their political assessments, and
secured money to perpetuate themsel YES
in place and power. Referred to Mr..
Paul's having failed to vote for the Riv
er and Harbor Bill, the only measure
that was presented during the last Con-
gress that looked directly to the up
building and benefit of the South. Mr..
Malone, likewise, had failed to. record
his vote for that measure, because Pres
ident Arthur did not look upon it with
favor. This bill proposed to appropri-
ate something over four hundred thou
sand dollars towards the Improvement of
Virginia rivers and harbors, and very
large amount towards the repairing Of
which had been swept away by the
dent vetoed the bill because it favored
the South, and Mr.. Paul and Mr.. Ma
hone failed to vote for the bill when it
was passed over the veto of President
Arthur, because they did not dare to
oppose the Administration.
Mai. Daniel then went into a review
of the prescription which has been
practiced by the Republican party since
the war. He illustrated the spirit of
malice which has actuated them by re-
ferring to the Tebb's case, in which
Malone voted against the removal of
his disabilities, because he was page
in the Confederate Congress. He said
that he bore malice in his heart towards
no one, bnt SO help him God he would
never vote for nor affiliate with a party
who would brand him and his COM
rades in the late war as traitors. He
said he accepted the war with all the
issues it decided, but never, no never,
would he aid in holding up the hands
of party which proclaimed him trail
tor because he honestly and sincerely
thought he was right in the late war.
Malone, the Little Flopper,' who was
denominated by some as the hero of
the Crater had voted against his COM
rades in arms during the late war; he
had voted to leave the brand traitor up-
on their fOreheads. It had been better,
he said, for Malone to have fallen in
an honored soldiers grave at the battle
of the Crater, with his arms calmly
folded across his breast, than for him
to have lived to turn his back upon the
men whom he ordered to battle and to
death. He said some claimed that De-
mocracy was the opponent of the poor
man. He denied it. Democracy was
the friend of the poor man. He referred
to the Democracy in Virginia having
protected his interest in the past, and
the pen of the despised Funder, John
w. Daniel, had framed the bills fol
their relief He said Democracy was
essentially opposed to Bossism and in
favor of freedom, and that Radicalism
was SYNONYMOUS with oppression, ty>
ranny, and Bossism.
He then spoke of the fact that during
the last campaign Cameron had claimed
that Virginia was too poor to meet heI
obligations, and yet, as soon as he had
gone to Richmond, he had The Legisla-
ture to pass bill appTopriating $40, 600
to be used in putting up mirrors In the
Gubernatorial mansion. He said that
if he had been elected as Cameron was.
every time he looked into those mirrors
he would have blushed at his own
treachery, and every time his feet would
have pressed that carpet thousand
thorns would have pierced his feet. He
then referred to Mr.. Massey. He said
he had said many hard things about
him, and he believed when he said them
that they were true, else ne WOulo noC
have said them, and he had no word to
retract, but he said when he saw that old
man standing in the Legislature last
winter in direct opposition to Malone
and his tyrannous caucus, he saw that
there was manhood in him and his
heart went out towards him with feel
ing of admiration. He said Massey
stood to-day in Virginia as the cham
pion of freedom, and as such he heartily
desired his success; He paid a glowing
he had known Sam Newberry person.
ally, and that he was man who would
dare to do what he thought was right
under any circumstances. He showed
how the Big Four had prevented Ma.
hone and his partisan Legislature last
winter from fastening upon our State
iDiuuitOuS u,oaauroa which woro oCr