National Republican., 1882-08-14

gle over the authorship in the legisla-
ture, Mr.. Dickerson, who had been Mas
sey's friend, suddenly abandoned him,
and on being asked the reason, frankly
gave Mr.. Massey the reason by telling
him PARIS story as above related. What
followed we give in Mr.. PARIS own lam
guage, taken from his published state
ment in the Richmond Wing:
Mr. Massey denied that he had offered any one
any money. on being so advised by Mr.. Dlcker-
son / went with him 10 Mr.. Massey's Office, and
there, 10 Mr.. Masseys fnce and in the presence OF
Mr.. Amos Dickctson, repeated the statement had
made TO Mr.. Dickcrson of his (Mr. Massey's) pro-
posal TO mo in effect: " Help me all you can, and
If YOU need $500 you can get It,"
Mr.. Massey then and there admitted so having
spoken to me, but said his purpose was, as was n
poor man, to offer me loan. My reply was that
l did not understand why he should, and at such
a time, offer to lend mt money; ] had not inti-
mated to him or to any one else that l wanted to
borrow any money. believe now, as did then,
that Mr.. Massey intended TO furnish me with the
800 to bribc members TO stay out Of caucus and
vote with the Fundcrs to elect him TO the United
States Senate.
The Wing remarks upon the above as
follows:
1t is said, although the statements of Messrs
Parr and Dckerson make no alusion to 1t, that
Massey abjectly begged them, with tears, not to
expose him
What should hinder the Bourbon
thirst for reform from being slaked at the
fountain of Masseyism?
But not only does Massey feed the
Bourbon hunger for dcbt-paying integ-
rity, and quench its thirst for reform in
legislative and political Methods" but
he agrees with them on the subject of
education. Says the Wing:
Massey has sometimes paraded before the peo.
pie (fur votes) as friend of free education, but
on the 2Sth of January 1879 see senate journal of
1889, page l9S, &c), he, one of the joint COM
mittee OH constitutional amendments, reported
propositions, among which t0ds one 10 strike from
The constitution he prorison requiring STATE tar on
prOperyJOr The support ofJree schools and otherwise
deprvng the system of its State character, the
result of which would have been Of it was not the
| design, as Superintendent Ruifncr declared to
practically destroy the system and cripple the
schools!
As touch of nature makes the whole
world kin, so a single earnest blow at
popular education insures the man who
gives it the confidence of the party which
thrives best on popular ignorance. Bour-
bonism can trust Massey. What shall
be said of Republicans who favor his
election, either by direct vote or by a
vote for the sham Straightout candidate /?
If the Rev. John M. Dawson (colored)
could by his candidacy remand the State
of Virginia to the dominion of the Bour-
bons; if he could thus abolish the State
tax on property for the support of COM
mon schools; if he could restore the
whipping post as q machine for dis
franchising his race, through scourg.
ings for crimes not committed
and if he could put the black
men of Virginia back into political
slavery, and glorify their oppressors,
he would be like black overseer whip
ping refractory slaves into submission,
and new" Uncle Toms Cabin" would
have to be written that he might figure
in it as black Legree. But there is no
such destiny for Mr.. Dawson. If he
does not reconsider his action, and
decide to abandon the enemies Of
his race, and all their works, he
will find himself without followers
enough to save him from general ridicule
and contempt. He will find that if the
Coalition, when newly formed, could de.
feat John M. Daniel and the Straight
outs last year, much more can it nov
defeat the nondescript Massey, who can
not command two-thirds of the Bourbon
vote, and the Straightouts," who arc
reduced to handful now that the Re
adjuster leaders have declared for the
Administration and the National Repub
lican party is heartily for the Coalition.