Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-11-29
GEN. MAHONE'S ADDRESS.

Gen. William Malone, as Chairman of
the Readjuster State Committee, has issued
a powerful address TO the people Of Nir-
ginis, and TO the country.
The opening paragraphs Of the address
are recapitulation of the points made in
an address issued before the election. and
which were published at the time in the
Champion. These points cover the neces-
sity for the organization of the Readjuster
party in the first place, and its career since;
how its plan for a settlement of the State
debt has been accepted by even the Fund
ers themselves; how the securities Of Vir-
ginia have advanced under Readjuster rule;
how Virginia has improved in the matter
Of common school education how the ex-
penses of the State government have been
reduced; how public enterprises, as rail-
roads, have progressed in Virginia and
the figures are produced TO prove these
assertions. 1t is fact, that neither the
Republican dudes and Pharisees, nor the
Southern Bourbons, have ever disputed
these facts. In all the silly and malicious
abuse of Gen. Malone, North and South,
we have never seen the beneficent influence
of Readjuster rule denied.
The address, after this preliminary state
ment, gives an account OF the late Bourbon
campaign in Virginia. How the Bourbons
started by appealing to white men only
how they changed their tactics and talked
smoothly to the colored people for while;
and how at last they threw off the mask
and iuaugurated reign of terrorism and
murder. The story ofthe Danville masracre
is thus briefly and graphically told:
'The massacre in Danville is dignified by
Bourbonism with the name Of riot. The
facts, as gathered from all sources, are that
upon Saturday evening preceding the cleo
ton, just after the Danville negroes had re-
ceived their weekly pay and were buying
their Sunday supplies in crowded market
place, n white man appeared, had an alter
cation with q negro, and whipped him. The
fight wrs ended, and no other negroes came
TO the rescue of the punished man. But
the programme was not interrupted by this
circumstance. An armed gathering Of the
"best people" Of the ''best and bravest'
was conveniently near, and in moment a
murderous throng were assembled, opening
o deadly fire upon the unarmed, defenseless
negroes. Unarmed negroes were shot In
the back while running away. How many
were killed no one knows, and no one will
probably learn the truth, for the condition
OF things still in Danville is such that the
truth cannot be learned. That they were
~ to- a. 4. l. nj o
away; that no pistol shot was fred BY .
black man /; that no white man was injured,
save by his own friends !; that for days the
poor victims were found dead In alleys, In
warehouses, and under houses, like poison
ed rats that had crawled away to die that
the negroes fed to the woods, to the State
of North Carolina, to the four winds Of
heaven those are few Of the facts Of this
bloody, wholesale murder, which was tcle-
graphed far and near by Bourbons as an In
solent uprising OF the blacks against the
whites"
The DanviIle affair was but n part OF the
regular programme carried out all over
Virginia. The details are given with min
uteness, and we venture the assertion that
the statements given in the address will
never be disputed, except in a vague and
general way.
As to the future OF the Readjuster party
in Virginia the address says:
1.-THE scope of the Readjuster party has
enlarged with its age and growth. 1t orig
mated in an issue local, and to some extent
unpopular. With time, and the changing
issues which time brings, 1t has widened
its sphere, and, while its original object has
become less prominent, issues of national
ism, of human rights, Of liberty, of peace,
of manhood, OF Republican government,
have been forced upon it by the fierce on
slaught OF Bourbonism, until these issues
are broad enough to be National, and thas
the sympathy of every man in this nation
who loves liberty and abhors the proscrip-
ton and bigotry OF caste, class, and race
prejudice, which is the life OF Bourbonism."
81 repeat, therefore, that the struggle
against Bourbonism is to be renewed forth
with and to the death, and, as your chair
man, call upon every loyal Readjuster in
Virginia to rally to the standard and reform
to fight new battle against their old Bour- |
bon foe in the National campaign in 1884,"
Republicans in the North should under |
stand that Gen. Malone and the Readjuster |
party of Virginia represent all the Republic
can party contends for in the North, and
everywhere. To oppose him and his party |
lie to oppose progress. and to strengthen the |
bloody hands of Bourbonism, red with the
slaughter at Danville.-Cadmpion.