Daily Republican., 1883-11-19
MAll0NE'S ADDRESS.
noURROSIAM THE FOE T , PEACE
AND PRONPERlrY-A BU-
GLE EBLAOr YOB REFORM.

state debt has been settled withouttaint
OF repudiatiOn Of dollar, either Of prin.
cipsf or interest. Our entmies have
this year, after years Of denunciation Of
our settlement, stamped II with thcir
professed approval. This settlement
saved the State from liability for $l3.
GOO, 900 of falsely created principal and
effected a saving In future interest of
S35, 100000. The judgment Of the fnan.
cial world upon this ascertainment and
settlement Of the debt Is att-sted by the
fact that the Riddleberger 8 per cent.
bonds are quoted at 81 TO day, while the
old bonds, bearing 9 per cent, are
quoted at but A.
"The BourbODs ruled the State from
1870 to 1850. When they took the pow
or they found 81 ,sl6, 400 In the Treasury
with no floating debt. They left less
than $23, 900 in the Treasury, with
floating debt Of nearly s2,0O0,OOo, Of
which 81. .5OO, 900 was due the to the
public free schools, and arrearages Of
over $5, SOC, 900 on account of Interest
and debt due the literary and sinking
funds.
Behold the contrast The Readjus.
ters, after three years of control, have
extinguished the floating debt, except
$7l5,OOO, and have now in the Treasury
over 81, 500, 900.
"The cost of maintaining the Govern
ment under Bourbon RUE averaged 3D..
Os4 6S4 annually, while 1t has been re-
duced under the Read justers to an aver
age of $500, ,234 annually. The burdens of
the people have been lightened by a re-
duction of the rate of taxation from 80
to 40 cents The cost of collecting the
revenue has been greatly diminished,
and considerable reductions have been
made in the assessment OF lands.
"Great reforms have been made In
the provision for receiving and caring
for the insane; they have been re-
moved from prisons TO comfortable
asylums, and, instead of confirming
their fearful malady by beating them
selves against the iron bars Of felons'
cells, they are cared for by humane and
expert attendants.
ain spite of $1,000 Bourbon votes TO
the contrary, the suffrage has been
liberated from the stumbling block of
the capitatiOn tax, and the whipping
post, erected as disfraDchising ma
chine against negroes, has been
abolished. Up to the recent election
the right to vote has been freely exer.
cised under Readjustpr rule, and all the
laws of the State have been admin
istered without discrimination between
rich or poor, white or black
claim that the Sta'e under Readjuster
rule has enjoyed the benefit ofthe gov
eminent of the people as they had or
dered it, The past is at least secure,
and much of the good that has been
done can never be undone. But can
this prosperity he OK xpected to continue
under a Bourbon despotism which
slaughters citizens for political Opin-
ions, and which, with flaming swords,
guard our northern approaches from the
peaceful invasion Of capital and immi'
grafton"
In regard to the recent race troubles
Malone declares that when the Bour-
bon faction assent bled In Lynchburg in
July last to formulate platform large
element Of its membership avowedly
and openly favored the adoption of the
color line and he charges that the
idea war only abandoned from motives
of expediency. Subsequently, he says:
"the Bourbon faction, finding naught
in their plato rm, naught IN the record
Of the Readjusters wherewith to break
the solid front of our party, deliberate
ly abandoned all other issues and threw
the whole power Of its speakers, its
press and its organization into the race
cry with the energy of despair.
As early as September a leading Bour
bon editor announced to a member OF
our party in public place that the Bour
bon plan of campaign was to bny all
they could and bully the remainder.
How faithful y this programme was
carried ut the sequel will show. Whal
was at the time regarded as senten
tious piece of badinage has now been
reali zed as the dim foreshawowing OF
b.ooly truth"
The Danville riot, Ma hone says, was
deliberately precipitated by the whites
He continues How many were
killed no one knows, and no one vii
probably learn the truth, for the con
dtion Of things still in Danville Is suct
that the truth cannot be learned. Tha
they that were shot in the back
while running away that no pisto
shot was fired by black man ; that nc
white man was injured, save by his owl
friends that for days the poor victims
were found 'ad in alleys, in ware
houses and under houses, like poisoned
rats that crawle,l away to die that th
negroes fed to the woods, to the State o
North Carolina. to the four winds o
heaven-these are a few of the facts o
this bloody, Wholesale murder, which
was telegraphed far and near by th'
BOurbOns az an insolent uprisingjof the
blacks against the whites
The Senator, after rehearsing the
methods which he says the opposition
restored to with Il view OF exciting
race pr judice to affect the niei'ion
says: In the history ofpsliIlcs in thi
SGate the recent campaign Is, thanl
God, without precedent and 10 the for
bra CO and long suffering OF tn
Read djusters, to this alone, is due th'
fact that this State is not now batlIe,
in blood.
"To me as Virginian, forme
slave owner, and an eX'Cohtedt ratt
the saddesr feature of this reign of terro
is the sutferinRs it has inflicted upon 'll
negroes here"
In regard to the objects of his orsI
hization Senator Malone says: The
scope OF the Readjuster party has Ell
larged with IT'S age aud growth.
originated in al issue local and solnt
what unpopular. With time, and IN
changing issues which time brings, !
has widentd y sphere and, while it
original object has become less proml
hent, issues of nationalism, of huma
rights, of liberty, of peace, Of mar
hood, Of republican government, hav
been forced upon it by the fierce OF
slaught of Bourbonism, until thes
issues are broad enough to be nationa
aud 1t has the sympathy of ev"ry ma
In this nation who loves liberty an
ahhors the prescription and bgotry,
caste, class and race, prejudice which
the life of Boul bonism."
AS to the future the Senator says
We know that with BourbOnism b
lnrn Il l,rxr to Gul.