Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-06-03
Wise and Newberry at Bland.

"She, ana commenced by saying to the
people that he was here as a re-
adjuster, to discuss and defend its princ-
piles and measures, and not to appeal to
their passion or their bad blood, but to their
reason and judgment and the speakers
voice soon rose and began to echo in loud
and emphatic cadences through the hall
He had uttered but few sentences when
Captain Newberry entered and assembled the
rostrum, and the seats then began rapidly
to fill up. Turning to Captain Newberry,
the speaker said: 'cIf in the course of nv
remarks | should refer to you as dirty or
drunken Newberry, as you in your speech at
Wytheville did to certain other parties,
what will you do about it," GIL call YOU
to account for it," said Newberry; land I'll
render it," said Wise. But Captain Wise
never used either of those epithets as ap-
piled to Captain Newberry, but proceeded
in clear, forcible, and able speech to de-
fend and vindicate the leading measures of
REIMBURSEMENT passed at the recent session of
the Legislature, the debt and coupon bills.
the appropriation to the school fund, the
ample and humane provisions for our insane
and deaf and dun asylums, and also the
defeated measures-the land commissioners
bill and the judiciary and Congressional
bills-and in rigning tones warned the peo-
pie that if the filndcrs region the power at
the next election the readjustment of the
public debt will yet be defeated, and thirty
three instead of twenty millions will be col
lected from them by the bondholders He
defended Arthur's administration denied
that there is any difference in principle be-
tween the two national parties; alluded to
/ ft,.,l &c >.,>;> a.
Tended Mahone's vote in the Tebbs case, and
denounced Massey as the traitorous author
and concocter of the entire schism of the
Big Four; said Captain Newberry should
be ashamed of himselffor following his lead
ership, and thereby betraying the party that
elected him, and charged bargain on Mas
sey and the Big Four with the Fundcrs to
let each of them run for Congress without
ftnder opposition. Captain Wise sustained
his high reputation as speaker, and was
accorded courteous and uninterrupted
hearing by Captain Newberry and his
friends (only one question being asked Of
him while speaking)
Captain Newberry's reply was from the
beginning cool and collected, and from
his manner not unconscious of the taunt
heretofore flung out that he was now
to be squelched by this champion of
the Boss" but with determined pur-
pose-as sans peur ct sans reproache-to
turn the tables on his assailant at whatever
cost. Many of his Readjuster friends and
others, irrespective of party, all Of whom
concede to him the highest integrity of pur-
pose and conscienciousness in action, now
bent forward attentively to hear him. From
the very first sentence he was warmly and
pointedly aggressive, and poured out on his
| ..t l..
orally torrent Of whitening rebuke and
scathing denunciation such as the writer
has rarely if ever heard Whether it is the
peculiar manner Of Captain Wise, or wheth-
er goaded, stung, and maddened by the in
cessant stream Of hot-shot precipitated upon
him, he seemed TO show the effect thereofby
: much perturbation, and tried by frequent i'm
; pertinent Interruptions to divert the steady
aim of his powerful and fearless assailant.
Captain Ncwberry told him ut the outset,
You are here under orders from your boss,
and as his political bulldog to hunt and
hound me down here in my own county,
because l chose to follow my own conyic-
tons of duty rather than his corrupt dicta-
tes." you are here as his bulldog to do
his bidding" Yes, you wear his collar
now around your neck, and am here to tell
you Of it." Captain Wise replied, 1.-THE
collar has made the hair grow on your
neck" THANK God, rejoined Mr. New
berry. my neck has never yet worn collar
or owned Boss" Mr.. Newberry charged
upon Wise that he had only joined the read
justers for the sake of the spoils after Mas
sey and Fulkerson had planned the cam
paign and organized victory, and that Wise
TO which Captain Wise replied Interrupt
ing him. that his vote last fall was rejected
because he had moved across the street into
different ward. Then" says Mr.. New
berry, you are pretty leader to lecture
me about my votes, when you don't know
what ward to vote in yourself"
Captain Newberry said the charges of
boiling, conspiracy, and treason heaped
upon him in the columns of the Whig are all
disproven and falsitied by the Journal of the
Senate, which shows that he voted for every
measure in the readjuster platform-even
to the packing of the Supreme Court; that he
was not to blame for the defeat of the land
commissioners bill-the readjuster party
killed it rather than allow the said commits
sioners to be elected by the people; that he
could not conscientously support the gerry
mander Of the congressional bill, and op-
posed the judiciary bill because the Fund
ers, if at any time in power, could adopt the
preceuenI anu again remove the Judges at
will He indignantly repealed every insinu-
alton of bargain on his part for office, say
ing he expected merely to be in his place in
the Legislature two years hence
, He denounced the alleged grounds forthe
removal of Massey as n shallow pretence,"
because his successor had, with two or three
exceptions, appointed his own clerks. But
, Captain Newberry directly charged upon
E Captain Wise bargain with the Boss" for
the nomination for Governo-; that Wise had
told him he expected to run; that he is to be
the Boss's candidate, and as part of the
: bargain is to do his dirty work about over
the State, and among the rest to hunt and
hound Newberry down here i'll his own
county and district, and that the other gen
tlemen accompanying him here from Rich
mond Ballard and Browning) are also here
in the interest of the Boss, are. now round
taking notes for him. At this point. Mr.. ].
S. Browning, private secretary to Governor
Cameron, exclaimed, you're a. liar SIR"
Quick as thought Newberry hurled cane
at his head, and advancing leaped upon him,