National Republican., 1883-11-06
BURNING wonps AND TRUE.
Stirring Appeal oStho virginia Member o
the HepubIlcan HntIonai Committee.

BURNING WORDS AND TRUE.
Stirring Appeal OF tho Virginia Member OF
THE HepubIlcan Entionoi Committee.
The following is from the Valley Vrginian,
edited by Samuel ID. Nosi the member of the
national republican committee for the state of
Virginia:
The bourbons are driven to such straits in
this canvass that they have abandoned all the
practical questions relating 10 legislation and the
Interests of the state Their past record they can
not defend, no more than they can assail that OF
the readiusters.
In spite of the opposition of every bourbon
speaker and writer an equitable basis for the set
uement Of the debt question was adopted, ana
would forever dispose of that issue, were II not Tor
feat It.
The schools have been rescued from ruin, and
made prosperous and permanent, and VIII SO re-
main, so long rs the friends who have saved them
are invested with legislative power.
The ballot has been made free
Taxes have been reduced
The treasury replenished.
State credit restored.
The iails empted Of the insane,
Tho charitable and educational institutions re-
llevod OF large floating debt accumulated un-
dor bourbon administration, and ample provision
made for their successful operation hereafter
The penitcntary instead Of cost TO the peope
of 100000 annually, under bourbon rule is made
to pay a revenue Of $4,000 under rcadluster ad
miniStrution.
All the interests Of tho commonwealth have
been wisely and economically administered since
the bourbons were driven from power by the peo-
pc ana the readjusters invited TO take their
place.
Capital and enterprise have come in, large in;
yestments In mineral lands have been made
furnaces established values created, and taxable
resources multiplied, so that the next legislature.
ifreadjuster may, with safety, order still greater
reduction of taxes,
These are some of the results which have been
assured to the people by the readju justers, in def
unce of bourbon opposition.
They propose, IL the people shall again entrust
them with authority, to so legslate as to make Sc
cure the debt settlement against the insidious as
saults of bourbonism.
To protect the people against the unjust dlscrim-
nations of railway corporations and ennct such
laws as Will recognize the property rights Of the
citizen and compel the corporations TO respect
them.
10 legislate so as to compel the banks to respect
the law Of their creation and desist from usurous
charges, or suffer heavy penalty
To modify the chancery laws so ns to reduce the
costs of proceedings in chanccry causes enforce
speedy settlements of estates, and secure to the
creditors aud debtors that which properly belongs
TO them.
These and other reforms will command the at.
tention of the next legislature, and laws be passed
to give them practical effect If the readuster shall
have working majority in both houses.
Here issomethlng tnngibe and practical for the
people TO think about. both MS to what has been
done and what is yet to be done. The readiusterB
| are committed to these things, and will MS GER
tainy leglsate to give them effect as they are en-
trusted with power to do 50.
The bourbons can offer nothing satisfactory on
any single proposition enumerated. Their record
In tho past Is against all the good that has been
accomplished aud 1t will be against all the good
/ that Is promised.
To offset tho beneHccnt legislation and admin.
islr9tion which have distinguished the readjuslers
nnd that which they yet propose, the bourbons
| have but one plca-a false. wicked, and cowardly
pleaIthat Of the negro-negro trustees. and
| i.ixed schools, They know that AL their
clamor about the negro is the veriest de-
cepion. They know that the schools urc
not a. near being mixed now as they
i Wutas 1nl as
/ le.,s ifs were In the charge OF cOlored schools.
| they Know that there is no white person and 10
co'orcd person in Virginia who would not deplore
| any uoh policy, ana that 1t is condition that
viii never be brought about by any action of the
readJusters They know this, and yet, to deceive
and mislcad the Ignorant aud prejudiocd, tney
| teachers, mixed trustees mixed schools, and even
20 so far as TO insult every white lady in the state
| When party leaders are driven to such desperH-
| tion--such wicked and malicious eXtreme,--is II
not time for the voters of the state to visit them
| with the severest condemnation, and give them
| 10 understand that the low devices and slam
| derous appeals of which they are guilty vii
| invoke upon them the Indignation of an in
suited and outraged people? If The spirl
manifested by the bourbons in this canvass wer,
t9 be crystalized into laws, II would stamy
the people OF Virginia as worse than Savnges
would build build a Chinese wall around the stat'
that would forbid the entrance of every en
lighSen,ehd citizen OF the county II would ernsl
erous advance and throw buck the commonwealth III
| twenty years in the march of civilization, No In
terest could thrive and prosper under such malgi
influence. We would stand out as tho incarnation
of all that Is malignant and wicked In human ma
ure. 1t would throw dark shadow over the iu
tnre of the state that would array against us tn
| whole civilized world, and invite to us the rebuk
and condemnation of the intelligence and en-
lightenment of the age.
The people should calmly and deliberately thin
over these matters and consider whether they mr.
ready to place themselves in q position hostil
to all their best interests in order to advance Il
| power political faction that has been false +
every trust in the past and promises for the futur
| nothing but race hatred and the rule of malignant
| passion. HaA1