Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-06-27
General MahOne's Speech.

tuo htpuUilCdu par VI OhO ~N"eIOH
upon the action of our convention
at Chicago.
make no venture when IaSSure
you that every Republican heart OF
the old Mother of Commonwealth,
the home of Jefferson, beats warm
ly in unison with the sentiment
which so heartily inspired that vast
assembly.
Decided as was the preference,
great and tender as was and is the
devotion of that people for the dis
tinguished American whose adj
ministratiOn of the highest confer
able trust has been broad as the
Union, and in spirit unsectiOnal
and benign, the Republican party
ofVirginia know no higher duty
than to sustain with earnest heart
aud resolution the nominees of the
party.
1t has been under such auspices
as his administration has furnished
that Virginia and the South had
come to realize that National Gov
eminent was no longer one of eX-
actions merely as to that State and
section, but now the common heri-
tage of Nation of equal rights:
immunities, and burdens.
1t will be the high ambition OF
the party in Virginia, by honest
and heroic effort to swell the cleo
toral majority by which the states
men who compose our ticket are as
sured of election.
In the hearts of the American
people the judgment to be render
ed in November next is already re-
corded.
1t has been by Greek and Roman
that the voice of the people was
the voice of Jupiter. True or false
as this may be, certain it is reason
argues that the judgment of a peo-
pie is the authoritative standard
among men.
Popular opinion, like the senSi-
tive needle Of the compass, when
undisturbed by the presence of i'm
pure influences faithfully deter
mines the right, it marks with ac-
curacy the boundaries of nations
and enables the mariner to traverse
with safety the wilderness Of wa
tiers. Your convention at Chicago,
with the unerring fidelity Of the
magnetic needle, but recorded the
popular will.
In the splendid record for distin-
guished services, eminent abilities
experienced craftsmanship, and
unwavering devotion to every
American interest, we have in that
which the Hon. James G. Blaine
and General John A. Logan have
given the country guarantee for
the energetic maintenance of Re
publican principles which fills the
measure of scrupulOus and exacting
confidence and invOkes Jealous sup
port.
Mr.. President and fellow citizens,
the liberty glowing people of Vir-
ginia are as honest in their allie
glance to the flag of the Nation as
were her great men devoted to the
Union, and while they are now en-
gagged in no unequal struggle
against the prejudices Of the past
(which unhapily have retarded so
long the general welfare and revers-
ed the engine of progress there), by
the help of God the struggle goes
on. Her ruins must be completely
remantled, though we gather into
our bosom the spears of Bourbon
ism as we press on for the liberties
and fortunes of her people.
The enlightened sentiment of adj
vaneing civilization will never rest
until the right to enjoy life, liberty
and the pursuit of hanniness is Sc
cured to every American citizen.
Public Indignation tires at the
vicious methods and crimes against
humanity which Bourbon DemOc-
racy employs in certain States OF
the Union to cOnstrain false re-
turns and fool results in that be-
half.
The Constitution and laws Of the
country fail of their function, and
the Republican party Of full dis
charge of duty, until systematic
fraud in our elections, and Orga-
nized murder, as by the sans culOtteS
at Danville, shall be no more
Bsrad oR0E0GESeed n massacre sSsl lat Dan.
ville) of unarmed fleeing cOlOred
men was but the eliminating fea-
ture Of an organized plan of BOur-
bon leadership, laid and diligently
prosecuted, to force the result of
the election, then about to occur,
in it's favor. Great God And who
condemns such brutal outrages
The Democrat who does has yet to
speak.
1t is by such means and methods
fraud and the shOt.gun-that the
South is to be kept solid and the
very safety of Republican Govern
ment is menaced, for no man can
contemplate, without fearful con-
Gem for the future of his country,
the possible advent to power of
party 40 guided and destitute of
respect for the laws of God and
man.
1t cannot be that patriotic peO.
pie by any default in their political
conduct will ever allow such calam-
ity to Overtake the administration
of their affairs.
1t cannot be by the consent or
any lack of duty on the part of the |
intrepid leaders who bear our
standard.
1t cannot be by lack of duty on
the part Of the Republican party
of Virginia. The twelve electoral
votes Of that State, by the right of