Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-11-27

THAN CATALINA.
When Malone found that he had been
''repudiated" by the white people Of Vir-
ginia, and that his party had been defeated
by large majority, he was wounded to the
quick, and writhed in agony of mortified
pride and baffled ambition, that was Of that
Satanic character that would "rather rule
in hell than serve in heaven Being de-
termined to rule or ruin, and finding that
he could not rule Virginia, he resolved to
ruin her, and to effect that purpose, to the
extent of his ability, he called to his aid
George G. Gorham, Editor of the Wash
ington Republican, most malignant hater
of Virginia, and, together, they concocted
the most outrageous ISLANDERS and false
hoods, which were put into shape by the
practiced hand of Gorham and signed by
Malone as chairman and official represent
alive of his party-thus making those OF
it who do not repudiate its ISLANDERS respon
sible for them-and published this vile pro-
duction as Mahone's address ''To the Re-
adjuster party of Virginia" The purposes
of this address are to defame the Demo
Gratis, to array the negroes against them,
and to unite the North solidly against the
South, that Republican President may be
elected, and the means resorted to effect
that object is to fire the Northern heart by
falsely charging that there is no freedom OF
election here, for the reason that the DEM
ocrats murder the negroes by ''bloody,
wholesale murder with generalization
and design without any provocation-that
they are guilty of murders, deliberately
planned and executed with remorseless ma
lignity"-that they ''shoot negroes down
like dogs for party purposes" &c.
In pursuance of that purpose, the riot
which occurred at Danville on the Satur-
day preceding the election-which was
brought on by the negroes, and in which
four iiegroes were killed and two white
men were wouRded-is seized upon and
falsely and maliciously represented as a
massacre" of the negroes by the Demo
Gratis, without any provocation on the part
of the negroes, and that the Democrats,
with generalization and design" 'delib-
erately planned and executed with remorse-
less malignity' "wholesale murder" This
is the grossest SANDER that was ever perpe-
trated upon any people, and proves Malone
to be worse man than his worst enemy
ever conceived or imagined him to be. For
true account of the Danville riot, we refer
our readers to the eport-published in an
other part of this paper-of a committee
of forty respectable citizens of that city
who carefully examined under oath, from
the 18th to the 21st inclusive, thirty-seven
witnesses.
AUGUSTA COUNTY.
The chief purpose Of this article is to
notice that portion of Mahone's address in
which he ISLANDERS most outrageously the
citizens of this county, and as to which
orr readers can themselves be witnesses,
and from what he says of Augusta they
will be able to judge properly of what he
says Of other counties
immediately following its false account
of what it calls the "bloody, wholesale
murders" at Danville, the address says:
the crack Of the bourbon weapon engaged
in political murder resounded, and the
bourbon knife sunk deep in the counties OF
Charles City, Halifax, Hanover. Floyd,
Augusta, Lee, and elsewhere"
There is not a man in this county, white
or black, Democrat, Readjuster, or Re-
publican, who cannot be a witness to the
fact that a more peaceful election was never
held in this county.
Though the interest felt in the result was
strong, Deep and intense, and though the
vote cast was much greater than at any
preceding election, yet there was not, so far
as we have heard. at any one of the thirty
voting places in this county, a single word
or deed of an offensive or hostile character
that had any connection with politics Or
political parties. This was not only the
case in this county, but i'll nearly, if not
quite, all the counties Of the State. The
election was peaceful and The vote every
where larger than usual
Is there man living in Augusta who can
endorse Mahone's SANDER of this county:
and is there man in it who will SO abase
himself as longer to follow his standard,
which now represents nothing better than
treachery to his party relations, enmity to
the interests of Virginia, and malicious
SANDER Of her citizens We can scarcely
balieve it possible. If there be such, max
him well, for he is an enemy to our county,
and 60oc not .iaSorva 70 ha o,,o Of 49,
zens Send him to Coventry
HALIFAX COUNTY.
. Halifax is one of the counties mentioned
in Mahone's address as being one in which
''the crack Of the Bourbon weapon engaged
in political murder resounded, and the
Bourbon knife sunk deep"
In reference to this charge, paper of that
county says
''What travesty upon the truth If the
crack of any Bourbon weapon engaged in
political murder" has resounded in Halifax.
General Malone is the first to tell about it.
The first fire in this county was made by
one of Mahone's leading men, and subse-
quent shots, and they were few, were only
defensive. No political murder nor any
other kind of murder has occurred in Hall
fax for many years.
Tho hoQest truth is, that there was less
bulldozing, less ''nagging,'' less intimida-
ton in Halifax in the last election than
ever before. The Readjusters of this coun-
ty admit this as well as the Democrats"
HANOVER COUNTY.
Hanover is also one of the counties men
toned. In that county one negro killed
another, but it had no connection with pol
itics. But it was there that he hoped to
make his strongest case of intimidation,
but has failed ingloriously. Jones has Civ
en- up his contest with Wickham. The
Norfolk Landmark puts it as follows
Mr.. Jones, sometimes called Colonel. ~
and most generally known as the stJersey