Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-11-23
A CRIMINAL BLCNDER.

cratic Readjusters elected on 'ha Coali-
,ion ticket to the legisla IRE will now hest.
tate about which political caucus to join
when they arrive IN Richmond. The ad-
dress just issued by Malone as Chairman
of the "Readjuster" State Committee
will convince his best friends that as a
leader he has lost his head and is no longer
aafe to follow. NJ addened by defeat. his
usual self possession bias deserted him and
be raves about the causes that brought it
about, with the diseased Imagination and
ferocious fancies of a mailman. The citi-
zen Of a State who, at this day, puts for
ward a political document like this, with
tie hope of arousing party feeling at the
North, at the expense of the Common
, wealth, shows that he has lost his way
and wandered too far from the tr ,ck of
public events TO be again relied upon in
public affairs. The pictures he draws of
Virginia are those of a mailman. AS az
example, it will be remembered that there
we're three negroes killed in the Danville
riot; that the city is under Coalition gov
eminent, and that if there had been more
the authorities would gladly have estab-
lished that fact, but Gen. Malone has this
| faneiful estimate:
s'How many were killed no one knows,
and no one will probably learn the truth,
| for the condition of things still in Dan
| vile j. such that the Truth cannot be
| learned. That they were shot in the backs
| like dogs while running 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 vic
| TINS were found dead in alleys, in ware
| houses, and uruer houses, like poisoned
| rats that had crawled away to die; that
| the negroes fled to the woods, to the State
| of North Carollua, to the four WINS IF
| heaven. These are a few of the facts OF
| this bloody. wholesale murder, which was
| telegraphed far and near by BoGrbops as
an ipsolent uprising of the blacks against
| the whites"
| 1t reads like dime novelist or one Of
the old N. Y. Tribune army correspon-
dents from the South during RECONSTRUCT
| tion days eighteen years ago. The General,
| notwithstanding the incendiary appeals OF
| his orators to the Negroes through the
State land SINS speech the night before in
particular. charges the Democrats Of the
State with having ''preconcerted" out
RACES for election day. A coherent pur-
pose as to the future, however, is not
absent fir ON the shattered mind Of this
once formidable political org anizer. and,
speaking of the future status of the wreck
| of his late party he says:
IL believe the Readjuster party will
when it next meets IN council unite cor
daily and thoroughly with our friends,
cause with them against the Bourbons.
| their aiders, counselors and abettors, State
and national | repeat. therefore, that the
struggle against Bourbonism is to be re-
newed forthwith, and to the death, and as
yonr chairman call upon every loyal Re-
adjuster in Virginia to rally to the stand
ard to fight new battle against their old
| Bourbon foe in the national campaign of
| 1S84.''
AS the remnant of the party will now
be almost wholly composed of blacks, the
General throws out the following allusion
to that cherished reliance of the negro,
"troops:"
"Bearing in mind the old watchword of
a free ballot and fair count, we have a
the State, and, if need be, from the federal
government il behalf of the rights of man,
guaranteed by both governments. and put
at stake to procure the ascendancY OF an
interruptions party that sticks at nothing
to acquire power"
AS We have said, the insane ISLANDERS of
Gen. Malone will have but one effect in
Virginia, and that will be to give the
Democrats two-thirds vote to start the
legislature of December with. They will
have no effect outside of Virginia. The
General is too we'll known to, and despised
by, the people of the Northern States, to
permit of much weight being attached to
his rawlings except by few Stalwart Re-
publcans. One of the most prominent
Republicans in Virginia, Gen. Wickham,
is on. in a letter expressing his opinion of
the Way Mahone's canvass was conducted
in his own senatorial district, by one of
Mahone's lieutenants. He says:
ITO the great crime against humanity
itsslf-in which he has b9en engaged dur
ing his whole canvass against me of en-
1eayorlng to incite to pitcA of frenzy
the feelings and prajudices of the coored
PEOPLE OF this district against the white
people amongst whom they live, who are
their best and truest friends, and between
whom and themselves it is absolutely es-
sential to the interest of both that there
should be kind and neighb'rly feelings
and respect and esteenl-he is now adding
the crime against tie nation of eudeav0r
ing to ncite hostility en- the part f the
Nor thern people against the people of Vr-
ginia by falsely charging upon them init
,l.,ti inn - fEro ho doc YrnI
to vote for him. in which charge he knows
that there is no truth whatever, and that
in fact the only intimidation OF colOred
voters ip this district at the late election
was exercised by their own race upon
those who wanted to vote for me from
tneir friendly feelings fer me, or because
they knew me to pe Il Republican.
Another prominent Republican If Vir-
gnia, and the Chairman of the Republican
s ATE Contra, Committee. Hou. John F.
Dezendorf, writes this uf Malone:
He would have the country believe
that the shotgun policy has been inaugu-
rated In Virginia; that the d .nvillp riot.
so called, was the canse Of his defeat; that
the white people Of Virginia had inaugu
rated a feast of blood, and that the cOlured
race were the victims of thi ir hood thirs' y
hate. No baser Islander ever Was uttered
against any people. There never was
more peaceable or quiet electio :. III any
State than was held in Virginia on the
sixth day OF the present month. The col
ored vote itself is the best refuta'Ion of
this baseiess SANDER.
s''rhe .DanviIe riot was the legitimate
outgrowth of Mahnnr's methods and this
natural result If the inf immatory speech
made by his man Sims the night before the
disturbance"
The generals suggestion about force
hereafter used by The Federal Government
il the merest raving. This country doesn't
use force now; the time has passed for it.
No Administration can live for day that