The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-08-02

by both whites and blacks and not to place
the colored schools in such condition as
would initiate against their usefulness.
Of apiece with this species of deception
and low demagoguism is the declaration of
the Lynchburg Convention on the tariff
question. 1t was afraid to be honest. 1t
dared not declare for the Democratic doe
trine of free trade, but had to resolve for
either Good Lord or Good Devil, not know
ing where it's interest would fall. Such an
insult to the intelligence of the State will
receive its proper rebuke when the time
comes for popular verdict.
And not word is uttered against the Re-
adjusters Having exhausted the vocab-
ulary of epithet and abuse for them in
every contest for the past five years
branded them as thieves, public en-
emies, the scum of creation, and the
pariahs of society, unfit for decent asso-
citation politically and socially, all at once
it is discovered that they are Democrats
and invited to the embrace OF the hest
people" and to sit down at the feast with
the decency. the morality and the intelli-
gence of the Commonwealth What pic
ture for party to present that is seek
ing the support of the people of this grand
old Commonwealth. If its past acts and
perfidies were not sufficient to condemn
it for all time to come, the evidence of its
cowardice, deception and false pretenses,
furnished in the resolutions presented as
it's platform, should consign it to univer-
sal eXecration and bury it forever away
from the gaze of the public.
The volume of mud that is hurled at the
Republican party will have no other effect
than to expose the malignity, the want of
principle and the utter desperation of the
faction that stoops to it. 1t will have the
effect to drive every Republican in the
State, white OF colored, to the support of
the Coalition candidates this fall, and to be
careful to have every voter at the polls to
use his influence to prevent dissensiOn,
secure harmony and concentrate the whole
wealth in one supreme effort to give the
death-blow to this wicked and reckless fac
tion. No Republican, who has any self-re
spect can support it-no Readjuster who is
moved by the impulses and emotions of
manhood can for an instant countenance
it. The very means that have been en-
ployed to conciliate the colored voter will
excite his disgust and distrust, while the
effect will be on the white voters who have
heretofore supported the Bourbons be-
cause of race prejudices, to drive them
from such association and align them with
the political force that has proven its SIN
cerlty in legislating for both the white and
colored race, in the enactment of laws and
the administration of public affairs, with
reference to the improvement and eleva-
ton of the masses and the conservation
of all the interests of the State.
The platform of the Lynchburg Conven-
tion precludes the support of every Repub-
lican and Readjuster in the Common
wealth, and assures a more complete and
overwhelming defeat for the Bourbons
next fall than has ever yet beenvisited upon
them. Squelching Kelley and invoking
the aid of the railroad corporations cannot
save it. Its doom is in the air. and all
that is wanting to pronounce it is for the
day of election to arrive.