Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-19

status Of our debt had been distorted by legisls
tive fraud corruption and stupidity that the prin
cipal Of our bonded Indebtedness had been made to
seem ST, 600 more than our Indebtedness as
shown the public records, exclusive OF the one
third owed by the State OF West Virginia The
right to vote had been gradually curtailed by the
whippins post, disqualification and capitaton tax
laws passed in violation of the conditions to which
the State had solemnly pledged herself when readmit
ted to representation in Congress- until free suffrage
was a mockery in Virginia. The school funds
had been diverted from their proper
in like violation OF the fundamental condi-
the State in an attitude OF sullenness and narrow
adherence to defeated and discarded notions as to
State sovereignty and national obligations, most in
furious to her interests begetting dstrust, exclud
ing capital and immigration, and depressing enter
prise and development The righting of these
wrongs, the correction of these evils, and resistance
to the old Bourbon spirit of CASTE intolerance and
prescription which belonged to former period
these were the grand objects which had brought
together the great majority Of our people without
regard to previous condition of party servi
tude. Our enemies hated and bitterly opposed each
one of these objects"
Malone then calls attention to the economy under
the Readjester government, giving the facts and
figures to show the results. Since the accession to
power of the eadjusters 726 miles of railway have
been built; our principal port hes become the sec
ond cotton port in the country and Its exports have
increased So per cent; city has sprung up in our
midst, and grown from 5000 to $4,000 our total
values on personal property have increased over is
per cent; licenses tax over per cent; capital
has sought investment here ; mines have been
opened and capital and labor among US have been
aroused to greater activity than ever before our
commercial relations were never more satisfactory
than they now are at any time since the formation
of the Constitution the voice OF Virginia hf1 been
heard in both houses OF Congress in support Of
progress order and rghtul national authority, and
for The first time since the she has been treated
with the same consideration as New York or Massa-
tfa iilnn has
The recent election, Malone says was not a true
and fair expression of the peoples will, being
dragged at this late day under the domination Of
bloodshed and violence not whit less bloody por
less brutal than those which fiourished in the
| palmiest days of the Ku-kluX aud White Leagues.
| Speaking of the Danyile riot, Malone says: How
many were killed no one knows, and no one will
probably learn the TRUTH for the condition of things
is such that the truth cannot be learned That they
were shot in the backs ike dogs while running
away that no pistol shot was fired by black man /;
that no white was injured, save by his own
friends; that for days the poor victims were
found dead in alleys and warehouses,
and under houses, like poisoned rats that had
crawled away to die; that the negroes fled to the
woods, to the State OF North Carolina, to the four
winds of beaven-these are a few Of the facts OF
this bloody, wholesale murder, which was tele-
graphed far and by the Bourbons an insolent
uprising of the blacks against the whites.
Malone then shows where the Republican losses
occurred, where the negroes were largely
in the ascendant, and adds To me, as a
Virginian, former slave-owner and ex-
Confederate, the saddest feature of this reign Of
terror is the stuff ring 1t has inflicted upon the
negroes here. This unfortunate people have
had fate as black as their skins.
Now when they act on their rights, voluntarily &C
corded to them, they shot down like dogs, for
party purposes by the beneficares of their toll for
centuries. Already the voice of the nation is up
lifted against this awful outbreak in State hereto.
fore regarded as peaceful and loving Already the
cry of this word "a Freeman has become known as
making threat that unless you are Bourbon free.
man, your life, your liberty and your enjoyment OF
your political rights are at the mercy Of
| a band as lawless as highwaymeu and
as desperate as outlaws The motto of
Bourbonism, interpreted by the blaze Of their
| weapons, reads, Unless you are Bourbon free
man you shall be Bourbon slave or a Bourbon
made corpse" If this be overdrawn, where is the
first word of censure fro any so-called Democratic
source, in out Of the State, of the crimes which
are but feebly set forth in this recital?
| Malone argues from these facts that the fight
| against Bourbonism must 60 on, that nationasm,
human rights, liberty, peace, manhood and repub-
| lican government must succeed