The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-06-07
Observation-Disclosures Address.

are. however, not only absent, but necessa-
r;,v absent. because the address describes
the gentlemen bearing them as "traitors" "
whom the Democrats despise, though
promnt 10 "utilize" their "trcason."
There's comfort In that declaration. 1t
shows that the Mahoneites have turned over
WILLIAMS and WINGriELD 10 the Straight
outs, and LYBRooK, NEwBERRY, and HALE
10 the Democrats.
Mr.. MASSEY receives the following fat
tering notice:
"Rut treason-the baleful concomitant
OF every good cause and every righteous
reform was again busy among your ic-
gislators, fomented no; alone by bourDons'
but by one whom you had honored win
one al the most Responsible oihces OF the
Government; one heretofore obscure, 10
whom YOU had given all the distinction ne
enjoyed, who now, inflated with seli-con-
ceit and moved by unrestrained ambition,
sore from disappointed aspiration, ana
rating his personal claims and ends
above those Of the cause and party,
refused 10 yield 10 the judgment OF inc
Rcad,uster legislative caucus, demanded
denomination and reelection without
the conditions imposed upon all other
candidates. and, finally. reyOlted from
every PARTY Obligation, dcfod your consti-
tuted represt natives. and sought 10 breed
dissonsion and discord in ahigh emergency
where harmony OF purpose and unity OF
action were indispensable TO the complete
iruition Of your bard-won victory. In this
he was successful only 90 an ign0mlnlouS
extent. carrying away from us and over 10
the Bourbon-Funders (at least, Tor all prac-
teal inteniS) four men in the Senate whom
YOU had elected rs RCadiusters. These
senators, who betrayed you in your dlreSt
need. and who cO0peratcd with your enc
mics 10 defeat important measures for the
promotion and peTlnancnce OF your cause
and policy, are left to you for Judgment
MASSEY and the "Famous Five" can
take care Of themselves.
II /. worthy OF mention that General
MALONE and his Coalition associates have
nothing to say about their disastrous defeat
in 1880. but skip from 1879 TO 1881. Per-
haps they thought as two thirds Of the Nir-
ginia CoalitionlSts Of 1881 supported Che
Republican candidate for President in
1880. it wouldn't look well TO refer TO
the elections Of 1880. by the way, the
address reads as il it had been written by
a Republican; fol- it speaks rs if the alii-
ance Of the Democrats OF Virginia with the
national Democracy were an offence to the
Stalwart bosses at Washington. Surely
nobody who in 1880 supported HANCOCK in
good faith could have penned such an adj
dress-this language, for instance;
1.-The LEGISLATURE 20 elected lin 1861
and so pledged was only true to you ana
its pledges so far and so long as was neces-
sary for the TeadmisSion oil the State into
the Union. That result accomplished, it
began course disturbing TO the harmo-
Nous relations with the Federal Govern
ment and with the enlightened thought Of
the country which you had decreed at the
polls. Prejudice and proscrip-
ton reared again their hated heads, and all
the passions of sectonaliSm. Of race, and
CT war were again invoked and infamed."
So ii is the southern people, and not the
northern, who are "prejudiccd" and
proscriptive,' and who are governed by
"all the passions of sectiOnalism, OF race,
aud Of war" \ charge which we might
expect NORTON, STEVENS, and the other ne
groes, rs well as Radical white Republic
cans, to make, but which no one would
have expected from General ELLIOTT. nor
from General MALONE, nor from any one
of several other gentlemen who from 1869
to 1873 voted and acted with the ConSerya-
tiye-Democrats. What do the people OF
Virginia think of such charges when ap-
piled to them, and applied for no other
reason than that they have chosen TO act
with the National Democracy rather than
with the HoARs, DAwEsEs, EDMUNDsEs;
GRANTS. LOGANs. and CoNRLINGs?
The address pledges the CoaIitionists IN
reseryedly TO the support OF the present
Republican Administration. We quote:
"Let there be no uncertain sound in the
conduct OF the campaign upon which we
are about to enter. II should be pro-
claimed in every formal declaration Of the
policy Of our party that the EeadiusterS OF
Virginia cordially rociprocatc the friend
ship Of President Arthur's administration
Tor themselves. and heartily endorse IN adj
ministrtion which gives no comfort on re-
cognition to sectionalism, and whose every
performance is Il pledge 0i pence to the
country"
Considering that most Of the signors OF
tAe address voted in 1880 for HANCOCK and
against ARTHUR, the above is decidedly
cool We are glad to see il. however.
Whenever the voters Of Virginia are called
upon 10 decide between their friends and
their enemies they will respond as they did
in 1850. A week before the election Of that
year General MALONE was rs ignorant as he
is now that his forces had deserted him
all but 81 900 OF them. The people OF Vir-
ginia know how friendly Mr.. ARTHUR and
his Senate are TO them, when General
MALONE himself declares that he east
vote which has seriously damaged
him at home, III the interest OF peace-a
vote that was necessary to placate our enc
miosl They know that the Administers
ton congressman, in caucus assembled.
resolved that the tax upon our tobacco
should not be reduced. These are General
MAH0NE's new allies.
But ali the topics discussed in This adj
dress Will be FULLY presented TO the voters
next fall. Ii is almost waste OF time 10
discuss them now. Remember 1880, and
that 1882. like 1880, is a year OF national
elections.
GENEREL FRI. LEE AND Mr.. Massey
The Alexandria Gazette reports that Gene
raj FiTz. LEE, while recognizing the cour-
ageous and conscientious course taken by
Mr. NEwBERgY and his friends in the last