The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-22
Malone or Virginia--Which?

The General Assembly OF Virginia viii
NOT be reconvcncd. A third plundcring Of
the public purse In single year by MA
WoSr,s order will not be suffered. The
surpassing infamies OF MAHoNE's caucus
will not be repeated. The lash OF thel'
master will not hound MAnoNE's sheep 70
their pen to b,cat and bah as he orders once
again in this year OF grace.
OF course public considerations nave
nothing to do with this. 1t would require
nm idiot of NO phenomenal nature ms to
suspcct MALONE OF patriotism TO ascribc
this happy result to any public cause-far
less TO any ,corthy cause. The simple Tact,
known to every schoolboy In the Common
wealth, Is, that MALONE finds lion in his
path. A new factor has appeared. The
unexpected has happened. Manhood con-
fronts him.
The fatal facility with which so many
men have clasped his collar about 'heir
necks as che pncc Of their servlll'y was
profIered or promised, had engendered IN
his mind the soothing belief that virtue ana
principle were the myths he wished they
were. The calm current Of his own sublime
sel6shness never having been RULED by
either. IL was as easy as It was agreeable 10
N.uoNE.to suppose they did not exist, ana
the readiness with which he fotind men
surrcndcring glorious birthrights for ca
mess of pottage F" justified his surmise
dan completed the proof. Not that
his experience has been without eX-
ceptions. There is not community IN
Virginia i'm which some devoted adherent
OF ten years since is not vehement roe 10
MALONE TODAY. No man ever exhibited
his faculty for converting faithful follow
ers into relentless enemies, and their hate
endures. for it is born OF knowledge. But
he has hitharto managed to Gil the gap
with new adherents. bcguiled by his pro-
LESSONS or tempted with his wares. And
having devoted his life to the bagging OF
place and peIi. he has never been short OF
considerations"
But now the trickle through the levee has
become a crcyasse. Everywhere upright
but deceived adherentS are tearing of his
slavish badge. Courage is contagious as
cowardicc ia. DeSertion has grown into re-
volt. Resistance swells 10 revolution. The
ltraditionary spirit OF freedom is abroad, and
Virginia's first boss is likely to be her last.
Certain 10 be, if those who have always
antagonizcd this defiling hand will do their
duty now. For, strange to say. there is but
one obstacle to our final triumph over this
"malign influence as Governor CAMERON
in one of his free moments described him,
and that comes from those who have been
always his foes. Some Of them now stand
with cold distrust and unhelping hands
gazing on this gallant strike for freedom
for our freedom no less than theirs, for
Virginia's freedom, for the freedom OF the
South. All these are involved in the inSur-
rection whose exponent and leader is JONI
L. MASSEY.
We are at Yorktown, and the French
have rushed to the assault. Will Amcri-
cans he content TO say, Let them fight it
out ?"
Surely not. And yet such is the advice
and such the proposed cOuse Of some
among Us whose elbows we have touched
in many fight, whose courage and counsel
we sorely need. We wish to consider
whether this De the path either OF patriot
ism or OF common-sense.