Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-06-19
Our Duty.

Our Duty.
To the Editor Of The State:-
In an article published in the National
Republican and reproduced in the Richmond
Whig underline caption, ''Mr. Blaine's Ma
tional Democratic Alliance" the following
significant extracts appear: ''The Coali-
ton committees in Virginia are really but
one in thought and purpose" "The sole
question is, whether the Democratic party
shall or shall not have the twelve electoral
votes in Virginia in 1884, Referring to
Blaine, it says: "He falsely designates the
Readjusters as wing of the Democratic
party" Again it says: cit would be cred
liable to Mr.. Blaine if his relations with the
Democratic party were known to be as per-
manently unfriendly as Gen. Mahone's."
No truth is better known than that the
Republican is the national mouthpiece of
Gen. Malone. George G. Gorham and he
are bosom friends. He (Mahone) and SEN
ator Riddleberger, the acknowledged lead
ers of the Readjuster party, publicly, over
their own signatures, recommended the Ma
tional Republican to the confidence and sup
port of the people of Virginia. Yes, this
vile sheet, which attempted to defame the
memory and character of Albert Sidney
Johnston, and through him every Southern
man who honestly and periodically bore
arms in defence of the Confederate cause,
is constantly engaged in an endeavor to
bolster up the waning fortunes of Malone,
by its frantic appeals to the Guiteau Ad-
ministration to bestow upon him its patron
age in Virginia. Yes, this enemy of its
country peace and fraternity, and support
er of Malone and his policy, and one of the
most rabid organs of the Stalwart Admin
istration in the United States, contains the
extracts which | have above quoted, and
the Richmond Wing, as before stated, re-
produces the article.
What is the clear, pronounced, unmis-
taxable meaning conveyed in these extracts?
They mean that Gen. Malone, who, only a
few years ago, was one of the most active
leaders of the Democratic party, as well as
one of the bitterest and most effective op-
ponents of negro and scalawag rule in Vir-
ginia, has abandoned forever the Demo-
cratic party and enlisted under the banner
borne by Arthur, Cameron, Grant, and Re-
publican Stalwartism. Having before us
these undisguised declarations, these indu-
bitable proofs, taken from the National Re
publican relative to Malone S future nation
al and State policy, can any white man in
Virginia claiming to be ReadjusterD Dem
ocrat, continue longer to serve under his
dark banner? The State debt, every man
one degree removed from idiocy knows, is
| forever settled, and therefore can no longer
be made an issue. Verdant, indeed must
| be the man who can be made to believe
| otherwise.
| What does the success of Mahoneism in
| Virginia mean? 1t means the domination
of the negro race over the white race; it
means mixed schools; it means negro police
in every city of the State; it means negro
officials in every county polzing their noses
into the private residences and business af-
fairs of every respectable white man; it
means the most provoking and uncomfortable
negro truculency, insolence, and espionage;
it means the humiliation and degradation OF
the white man and the destruction of all the
best interests of the State; it means social
and political pandemonium, which will
force every white Virginian who has any
respect and regard for himself and family
to turn his back mournfully upon his once
proud old mother and, seek an asylum
among strangers who shall retain some
sense of the great gulf that divides the two
races, and who have pride and pluck enough
never 10 consent to the unnatural, insolent,
and diabolical rule of the negro. Aye, it
would require pen of fire TO convey even
q faint idea of the Pandora's box Of horri-
BILE evils that would be let loose upon the
white people of old Virginia if Mahoueism
should succeed in carrying the State n t
fall
In addition to the local evils here hastily
glanced at, Virginia would then be Stall
wart Republican State. and would give, as
foreshadowed by the National Republican,
its twelve electoral votes for that party in
1884, and thus most probably be the means
of defeating the Democratic candidate for
the presidency. And every man Of ordina-
ry intelligence and information knows that
the continuance in power Of Republican
Radicalism means the consolidation of all
the powers of the States worth preserving
in the hands Of military despotism at
Washington. 1t means the carrying into
practical operation the direst enmity and
injury to the South; it means the grinding
down of the working and poorer classes Of
the whole country beneath the iron heel OF
the gigantic corporations and monopolistS
of the North; it means the sounding of the
death-knell to all our aspirations and hopes
of the maintenance and perpetuity of true
republican institutions in this country aud
the consequent absorption and subversior
Of the liberties of the people. No one who
remembers the desperate efforts of the Stall
wart wing of the Republican party few
years ago to force Gen. Grant upon the
country for q third term can for moment
believe that have drawn the picture toe
strongly, for it means, as every one knows
nothing less than an imperialistic govern
ment. The effort failed of success, it i;
true, bit the serpent was only ''scotched'
then, not killed. The same fell spirit still
burns in the bosom Of the party, and only
awaits fit opportunity to bury its poison
Gus fangs in the hearts blood of the Repub
lie.
White Readjuster- Democrats, white mel
of Virginia, the eyes of Virginia's sons il
every State of the Union, the eyes of thai
grand old Democratic party which has al
ways stood like stonewall in defence oil
our rights against the virulent assaults Of
our enemies, are all anxiously and hopeful
ly turned upon you. Will you not then by
your united efforts and votes vindicate you
claim as Virginians to their confidence, sig
nalize your patriotic devotion to right and
duty, and cause their hearts to throb witt
pride and delight at the redemption of you
State from the rule Of besotted ignorance
brutality, and corruption? We doubt il
not Let our slogan be ''The white race
shall rule Virginia" =
MALONE CRITIcIsED.-The Mt. Crawford
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