The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-19
Dsnville rumors Of the shipment Of arms

nICunlvuu-IVuB pelUIe ANY uutpItdk W
curred-the knowing ones were heard to
whisper and mysteriously predict what
might be expected at the proper time.
The massacre in Danvills ia dignified by
bourbonism with the name Of riot. The
facts, as gathered from all sources, are that
upon Saturday evening preceding the elec.
ton, Just after the Danville negroes had
received their weekly pay and ,wereibuy-
ing their Sunday supplies in crowded
market place, white man appeared, had
an alteration with negro, and whipped
him. The fight was ended, and no other
negroes came to the rescue OF the pun
ished 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 murderous thropg
poured out of the building where they
were assembled, opening deadly fire up.
on the unarmed, defenceless and flying ne
groes.
uSARMED NEGROES SHOT IN THE BACK.
How many were killed no one knows,
and no one will probably learn the truth,
for the condition Of things still in Danvilie
Ia such that the truth cannot be learned.
That they were shot in the backs like dogs
while running away; that no pistol shot
was fired bya 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 poisoned rats that had crawled
away to die; that the negroes fled 10 the
woods, TO the State OF North Carolina, to
the four winds OF heaven; these are few
OF the facts OF this bloody, wholesale mur-
der, which was telegraphed far and near
bylbourbons as an insolent uprising OF the
blacks against the whites.
Simultaneously with these occurrences
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, minSling with
Sabbath day sympathies, from the bourbon
capital, and the race cry was shouted with
a brutal ferocity intense enough to make
Virginia the rival Of any Southern State in
her record OF bloodshed and lawlessuess.
Murders, deliberately planned and exc
cuted with remo,seless malignity, were pre-
sented to the remote and ignorant whites
Of the valley and southwest as the una
voidable self.deiense OF. these wolves
against the lamb assailants, Without the
means OF informing themselves OF the base.
ness OF these falsehoods, thousands OF our
party, deluded and deceived, yielded to an
impulse OF generosity so foully played up
on, and in the region where these ielonies
were permitted, the murderers themselves
paraded the streets, armed to the teeth.
TIE SAD CONDITION OF TIE NEGROES.
To me sas Virginian, a former slave
owner, and an ex-confederate, The saddest
feature oithis reign OF terror is the suffer.
ings 1t has il ti!Gted upon the negroes here.
This unfortunate people have had fate as
black as their skins They were originally
torn from their home and country and en-
shaved by the whites; they were then freed
from bondage; both without any agency Of
their own, and now, when they act on their
rights voluntarily accorded to them, they
are shot down like dogs for party purposes
by the benefciaries Of their toll for centur.
les. Unless such outrages be punished,
and their perpetrators branded rs they de.
serve, we may well despair ofthe mainten-
ance OF State or popular rights. for both
have been violated and degraded.
THE ISSUES AT STAKE.
The scope Of the readjuster party has en-
larged with its age and growth. It origina-
ted in an issue local, and to come extent
unpopular. With time, and tho changing
Issues which time brings, 1t has widened
its sphere, and, while its original object
has become leas prominent, issues OF ma
tionalism, OF human rights, of liberty, OF
peace, OF manhood, OF Republican govern
ment, have been forced upon Il by the
fierce onslaught OF bourbonism, until these
issues are broad enough to be national,
and 1t has the sympathy OF every man in
this nation who loves liberty aud abhors
the prescription and bigotry OF caste, class,
and race prtiudice which Is the life Of
bourbonism.
COMMON CAUSE AGAINST DoURDoEiSM.
We know that with bourbonism before
US we have an enemy TO 6ght, powerful
and dangerous to the interests Of the state.
We know that, masquerading in the stolen
livery ot democracy, it is no true represen.
tative Of democracy, either in principle or
personnel, and l believe the readjuster
party will when it next meets in council
unite cordially and thoroughly with our
friends, state and national, and make COM
mon cause with them againstthe bourbons,
their aiders, counsellors, and abettors, state
and national, by whatsoever name they
may be designated.
| repeat, therefore, that the struggle
against bourbonism is to be renewed forth
with and to the death, and, as your chair.
man, I call upon every loyal readjuster In
Virginia to rally to the standard and re.
form to fight new battle against their old
bourbon foe in the national campaign Of
1884.
Bearing in mind the old watchword Of
free ballot and q fair count, We have right
TO demand and expect support from the
State, and II need be, from the Federal
Government, in behalf Of the rights OF
man, guaranteed by both governments,
and put at stake to procure the ascendency
Of an INSCRIPTIONS party that sticks at
nothing 10 acquire power.
WILLIAM MALONE, Chairman.
PETERSBURG, Nov. IA, 1888.
BRIEF TELEoRAMS.
At Newark, N. j., tho Governor refuses
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