The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-05-25
NO. Z
DEFERRED MATTER.

Malone and Don Cameron, it seems, ar
preparing fora grand campaign in North Caro-
INA, which We Interpret TO be The true mean
ing VI their Immense manufacturing under
taxing al Weldon. Itlstor the double purpos
OF controlling the politics OF that State through
Republican, capltai aud influence and injurin&
lie Trade OF klcnmond. What good halter h'
Is, and how it would rejoice him to make this
CITY and all noruhside irginia a bowling
wilderness l-Itschm0,sd State.
/ This is the construction our usually leye
headed contemporary Of the State places
upon an important ma.erial enterprise
which Senator Don Cameron, Of Pennsyl
vania, and Gen. Malone, of Virginia, pro
pose to inaugurate in North Carolina
They are wealthy, practical, sagacious bust
ness men. They see in the natural adj
vantages at Weldon its geograp zeal posi-
ton and the surroundings, an opening for
a successful nndertak ing which may largely
| benefit that locality and State, as well as
! themselves. 1t is given out that they in
tend to invest their money, experience and
energy in furnaces and factories there, and
build up industries OF various kinds, to
utilize the natural resources and employ
the native labor OF the Old North State
And because they happen to be shrewd
politicians and inyeterate enemies to Bour-
bonism, it is assumed that their object is
to break the Bourbon power and win that
State from Bourbon idols. The very en-
terprises they propose to- establish, are
what the whole South, wants, and have
been begging capital to commence. Argu-
ments and appeals are sent out from every
Southern State and important centre, for
Northern capital and experience to come to
their assistance. Gen. Malone, knowing
the wants as well as the advantages of the
locality has doubtless induced Senator Cam
eron to join him in great scheme for
building up Southern industry. They are
met at the threshold by the most moderate
of the Bourbon press with sheer and
jibe. Instead of a plan for industrial de-
velopment, tits contorted into an incendia-
~ job to blow up Bourbonism in North Car
olina. Well, if they succeed in both the
avowed and suspected objects of their un-
Carolina. But it is the manifestation OF just
such spirit which keeps Northern capital
and enterprise away from the South. Even it
the surmise of the closing sentence OF the
paragraph we have quoted were true. could
any reasonable person expect otherwise
Traduced and denounced as Gen. Malone
is by the Richmond press and people OF
the Bourbon party. could they expect him to
interest himself in their material welfare,
while they are belaboring him with cpl
tibet and slime There are many things
in Gen. Mahone's political course we do
not admire or endorse, but this would not
us from giving him credit for bust
ness sagacity, and if in his proposed ven-
ture with Senator Cameron he should build
up Weldon and break down North Caro-
lima Bourbonism, it would be glorious
for the North State and go
far to atone for any shortcomings OF either
of the Senators. 1t would be bossism to
be commended by all men. and especially
of North Carolina.
In the North american Re0ieao for June,
Senator W. B. Allison has a paper on ''The
Currency of the Future" in which he indi-
Gates the measures that will have to be taken
by Congress for insuring stable currency
after the national debt has been extinguished
A M emorandum at a Venture" by Walt
Whitman, is an explanation OF his purpose
and point of view in trenching upon topics
not usually regarded as amenable to literary
treatment. "Andover and Greed Subscrip-
tion," by Rev. DIR. Leonard Woolsey Bacon, is
a philosophical review of the present state of
dogmatic belief in the churches. Hon. Geo.
F. Seward late minister to China, in an article
entitled monaghan Immigration makes an
against the proposed anti Chinese
legislation. DR.. John W. Bowling, Dean of
the New York Homeopathic Medical College,
School OF medicine, against a recent attack
upon its principles andme; hods.- y. b. Froth-
ingham has a sympathetic article on Sweden
borg. Not the least important paper is one
entitled HAS Land Value?" by Isaac l..
Rice, it being a criticism of one of the funda-
economy Finally, Charles F. Lydecker es-
says to prove that National Militia" is
impossibility.
II must be exceedingly soothing to the
bourbon editorial fraternity OF Virginia to
have an occasion to relieve themselves Of
their superabundant supply of vulgar cpl
thets. Gen. Mahone'svote on the Tebb's
case furnished the excuse for this eruption
Of bile. There is no slang phrase, no low
malignity, no mean malice, so low and
mean that it is not greedly availed of to
give point and emphasis to their outraged
feelings. This is not the real cause. how
ever. The Bourbons have been kicked out
of the positions of trust and emolument
which they have so long abused, and they
see no present or remote prospect of recov-
erng what they have had to surrender
That accounts for the milk in the cocoanut
They care no more about Tebbs or the
question involved than they do about the
Comanches. They will catch at anything
that will offer f1imsy excuse to abuse Ma
hone who they charge with being the au-
thor of all their woes. And who do they
hurt by it Nobody but themselves. They
expose their own unfitness to rule or coun-
sci and justify the verdict of condemnation
the people have entered up against them.
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The Petersburg Iader Appeal is an exception
to the Democratic journals of Virginia 1t is
always fair anu just, and seeks to, give its
readers the truth as it understands it, whether
it offends political friend or foe Were the
press of the State generally animated by
similar spirit, we would have less of the bitter
partizanism and personal selfshness which
enter into public discussion, and more of reason
and common sense. The following paragraph
taken from its editorial columns, will illustrate
what we have said above: vsA'
We do not believe any of those Democratic
Senators who voted for the Tariff Commission
bill at its final passage on Tuesday, will have
occasion to regret that action Their names
are as follows: Johnston, Malone, Davis of
West Virginia, German Hampton, Groome
and Mcpherson. Mr.. Bayard would have
voted with them, but was paired. These gen.
tlemen haye not only voted for safe and or
derby revision Of the tariff, and against rash or
partizan action on that subject, but they have
shown generous confidence in the President
which must influence him, if such influence