The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-11-02
{ Tho virginia Campaign.

..lt The virginia Campaign.
The litu.enanls Of Malone now on the
slump in Virginia ure able men. They
ure no. carpet.bagsers, but, on tho con
trary, representatives Of Virginia families
that 40 far baek in the history Of tho State,
Moreover they arc.men otConicdcratc ante
ccdenls. They have honorable records as
soldiers in tho ''lost cause They arc also
men Of Of unimpeaclmble private character.
And, lastly, they havea qualification that
seetus to couu. for much OH the stump in
Virginia, They arc duelists They 20 out
and Exchange shots" occasionally
between appointments. This counts for
mucl. in Il land where public opinion
tolerates II It does not favor, that sort Of
yindica.ion Of individual rights. nd
Around these men we refer to Malone
himself, and to Riddlebergcr,(w Whose soubrl
quot Is "thc game.cock Of the Shenando'
ah") to Captain John $. Wise, (son Of
Gov. Henry A. Wise}, and TO Governor
Cameron THE present Executlve), are ral
lied large number OF the young men o.
the State-thc men who arc in favor OF Il
"new Virginia" -ex. Confederate soldiers
many Of them, and all Of them Virginians;
who are attracted not only by their intelli
sencc but by the military phase which
these men-the leaders to whom we have
referred throw around the campaign
They have cut loose in large numbers from
the isourhons, and thousands Of them are
boldly proclaiming themselves Republi
cans, or, as they prefer to call it, "Admin
is,ration men," THE rose seems to smell
little swec,er by this name, but, all the
same, it is the Republican rose.) These
men arc OIL the stump in every part o.
Virginia and they arc making it hot
for the Eourbons. We notice, for in
stance, thut Wise msdc speech III
Williamsburg the other nisht-the ancient
capital OF Virginia, aud once the center o.
its wealth and aristocracy, and he sailed
into the Bourbons in a style that WIZ
characteristic OF his father in anti-know
Nohing days. Among other things, he
said that the Eourbons Of Virginia were
largely made up OF 'stick.whittlers, cross
road loaiers, dcfunct mossbacks, Bourbons
who lived on pedigree and past recollcc
TONS" Under their thrif,Iess supremacy
he said that Virginia was Sinking into the
present condition Of Spain," Spain rep
resents land Of deayel aristocracy and
played out greatness, and poverty stricken
pride) and contended that they hang
around the neck Of the State and its pros
perily as the old man Of the sea hung
around The neck OF Sinbad the Sailor.
1t having been said Of the speaker Tin
order, OF course, to prejudice the colored
vote asuinst him) that he was the son Of
the man who hung old John Brown, he
boldly net that charge by saying right out
to the colored people, II did not want you
to he freed; fought against il; but the
difference between ME and the Bourbons
is that have realized that you are free,
While they wont believe it until they have
another war, in which they will get licked
worse than before" As for the hanging OF
John Brown by his father, he said that he
had no apologies to make for that; that John
Brown was hung according to law, and de-
served to be-" but nevertheless John
Brown "was Il nobler. truer and drawer
man Than many Of the Sinking, pot-bel.
lied, shirt.ruiled Bourbon funders in tho
State" Here the style Of the orator, as
will be seen, gets little roughly
After this roughness the scion OF the
house Of Wise '"boldly announced himself
Republican, said he supported and cx-
pected to support Arthur, "whose admins
tration was Virsinia's only hope" said "hc
wished he had voted for Grant," and also
said that Malone, backed by the North,
had freed Virginia"
Ii, this reference to Wise and his speech
at Williamsburg We have made use OF the
Richmond Diputch's report, which is un.
friendly to Wise, but it serves ncverthe-
less 10 give some idea Of the heat and
v'gor OF the Virginia campaign. 1t looks
now Ms If Malone and his lieutenants would
win, and certainly no one who wants 10 see
iiourbonism in Virginia and ia the South
knockcdin the head, and opposition TO its
corroGiay rule made socially and POLITICAL
ly respectable, will be sorry over the result.
The Richmond Wing is the Malone
organ Of Virginia. Like its colleagues on
the stump it launches heavy and a,erciless
bolts at the hourbons. Here is IN extract
from one Of its calmer and more philo.
sophicat editorials. Il
mot only the good Of Virginia and Of
the whole South, but Of the whole nation,
is to BIO promoted by policy which
esche"s Il narrow provincialism or sectiou-
aiism Tor 4 broad nationalistn or Ameri.
canism. Patriotism and morality alike
concur i'll urging us 10 abandon an issue
which, having once been carried to
the lust arbilrament, has been &C.
cided conclusively against lis. We
were not only defeated. but We
surrendered; VIC not only surrendered, but
we ngrced to terms under which we under.
took to come back loyalty into the Union
rs u State and 10 resume our right and
duties as American citizens. Yet it is
hardly worth while to argue SO plain a
question with men who, i'll effect, persist
III carrying on war after Appomatox and
after reconstruction. That is all there is
in the sentiment which upholds a''Solid
south'-inspired by a hope that Northern
Democracy, false to us and. their promises
in,he actu;.l conflict ofarms, may now come
to the rescue" an. t.gE ,5Tt, Z