Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-25

IAIEIIE Will prove This. Mr. Neale
was not the first man we followed until he
surrendered, and We would under the same
circumstances do so again,
SEVERAL NEALE DELEGATES.
Malone Virginia-Which!
From the Richmond Dispatchl
The last Assembly scene of servility so
disgusting witnessed also Il public virtue
worthy of the heroic age. The day ofapos-
tatcs is ever the day of martyrs.
Malone had demanded. rs the price OF
favor, Il pledge in writing of the peoples
representatives that they would do the Boss
will. And alas! white men were found so
abject as to give it.
Success seemed certain. Everything
legislation. officers, men, and measures
had been promised. The private judgment,
the individual will, the right to discuss, to
object, TO amend, to protest-all had been
ahjectly surrendered. and surrendered to Il
man who was shrieking through the Senate
chamber his lofty independence and boast
ing his scom Of caucuses!
But even there, there were some who
dared to call their souls their own;" and
few though they were, they called Il halt in
the mad and prolligatc career of the Boss
The ring shreked with rage, and the
fugitive Scnator-this Coryphcpus of false
Interchangeable his very teeth as the
hated form of Il true independence crossed
his way
vi these few one was Il native Of another
State and i republican; and either because
OF failure i'll the effort to browbeat or bride
the noble -Four, or because Pennsylvania
and an Arthur republican was thought
likely to fall Ill easier prey, this stranger
and republican, became the victim of special
assault. To secure him was to Mahonize
Virginia. His one vote would insure the
political slavery Of the white people of this
State; the prostraton of all the railroad in
tcrcsts at the feet of this 'Railroad Ish-
mael," already gorged with illgotten gains
from their depleted treasures the CONSOLE
datlon OF his power in every county by
fastening his oiliceholdcrs and quartering
his newspapers on Il defcnceless people; the
alteration Of every municipal charter, plac-
One single vote. No wonder the conspra-
tors fingered for it. They offered this noble
citizen to arrange his Congressional district
to suit him. He refused to surrender his
independence for that bait. They offered to
fix his judicial circuit to suit him. He re-
fused. They offered to secure him the
marshalship of this district. He refused.
They brought him letter from the repub-
llcan members OF his old State Legislature
counsclling his subserviency. He refused
A deputation from Washington, headed bv
the notorious Gorhanl, came down to bend
his Vlrtuous spirit He refused to bend.
An autograph letter from the President is
SAID TO have summoned him to Washington.
and rumOrS are current that the Chief
Magistrate Of this Union committed the
tathomless infamy of uniting in this ATTEMPT
to debauch this incorruptible and courage
Gus citizen by even greater brides. He re-
fused He was shown the party advantage
to the republicans which the surrender of
his conscience would involve, and we can
easily imagine the amaZement of the pratt
cal crew who had so easily parted with their
own manhood at the wondrous spectacle of
q man without price. But he persevered
10 the END, and the passive courage of Senu-
tor Williams, of Nottoway, triumDhed He
asks no reward for what he claims was his
simple duty, but he invokes the people of
Virginia to give their voices and their votes
TO one who in this long assault upon his in
tegrity stood by his side, and was his tried
and trusted friend-John E. Massey. Such
an Endorsement should pass any paper in
Virginia.
The Coalition Convention of the Fifth
congressional district, after Il two-day's ses-
sion of great bitterness and disorder at
Rocky Mount, has put up Winfield Scott. of
Floyd county, rs the candidate of the party.
The friends of Colonel William e. Sims
made desperate effort to have him nomi-
mated or endorsed, but the other candidates
combined and secured his defeat The
| nomination ofScott created intense dissatis-
faction, and 1t was openly charged that the
Halifax delegation sold out. A strenuous
night was made to have the vote reconsider
eel, but Scott's friends rallied in sufficient
force to defeat this move Sims was an
nounced before the Convention as an indie.
pendent candidate on the Readjuster plat
form The franklin county delegation, head
ed by Lizard Claiborne, withdrew from the
Convention after move for reconsidera-
ton was defeated The motion to make the
nomination of Scott unanimous failed.
The slmon-pure, strightout republicans of
the Sd Congressional district are not well
pleased at the candidacy of John Amber
Smith as the standard bearer of their party.
and there has been considerable talk Of
putting al unauthorized straightout in the
field both as against Smith and Wise, and
IN this connection John Oliver, we'll
known and prominent colored politician of
Richmond, has been mentioned.
The democratic congressional convention
for the first Virginia district meets to-
day ut Tappahannock. Hon. Geo. T. Gar
rlson will be renominated by reclamation.
There is no opposition to him in the conyen
ton.
He Spoke from Experience.
BUCHANAN, Ca, July S, 1881.
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