Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-10-02
THE EASTERN SHORE
GRAND DEMOCRATIC RALLY.

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without Gloves.
lCorrespondencs ofshe Richmond Dispatch'l
OSAScocR. September 20. 1885.
The Democrats Of the Eastern Shore
had another iield-day yesterday at Ac-
comack Courthouse, where Hon. james
! N. Dunlop, the eloquent young orator
Of Richmond, delivered grand speech
for the Democracy. The court being IN
session, Mr.. Dunlop spoke in the open
air from large platform in the south
ern end of the spacious court green
the same from which General Fitz-
hugh Lee spoke just one month
ego. The crowd, though not so
large as when General Lee spoke
here. was still a good one for Sep
tember court, when our people are
busily engaged in saving their crops.
Mr.. Dunlop was introduced by Hon.
George T. Garrison, ex-congressman
from this district and the efficient chair
man of the Accomack Democrats, and
proceeded to address the crowd, num-
beripg about five hundred people.
While successfully refuting all of Ma
homes charges and ISLANDERS against
the Democratic party, Mr.. Dunlop's
speech was vigorously aggressive. Tie
wildly portrayed the carnival Of mis-
rule and revenge that characterized
Mahone's short ascendency in this
State, and painted in strong colors
the oppression to which the south
ern people were subjected during
the dark days Of reconstruction
and Republican domination. He
showed that the Republican party
was the enemy Of popular liberty and
good government. The Republicans
had dispersed southern Legislatures,
blotted out State lines, and overturned
State governments.
Mr.. Dunlop's denunciation of the
electoral conspiracy of 1876 was terri
BILE. He excoriated John Sherman, the
bloody-shirt demon, for the disgraceful
part he played in helping to steal the
vote of Louisiana for Hayes, and thus
striking deadly blow at the Constitu-
ton and the purity Of elections.
The history of the Republican party
had revived the darkest days Of the de-
cline and fall Of the Roman empire.
That empire had once been put up and
sold to the highest bidder. The Re-
publicans had not sold, but had
stolen the presidency. Like Ca
ligula, they seemed to wish that all
the people had but one head, that
they might be dispatched at single
blow. The pirate gang had managed
the ship of State as though they want
ed to strand her in the breakers and
pocket the plumber; but the American
people, with Grover Cleveland at their
head, had taken the old ship from the
pirates, and now she again rides
the water like thing of life.
John Sherman and other Republicans,
all friends Of and sympathizers with
Malone, had attempted to pass the
force bill and suspend the writ Of Ia
beas corpus in the South, and John S.
Wise in the last Congress made an eff
fort to have the Thurman jury bill re-
pealed---a bill that comPels the Repub-
lican Federal judges to put Democrats
as well as Republicans on their jurics.
Mr.. Dunlop paid an eloquent tribute to
Senator Thurman, son OF Virginia.
and drew a contrast between him and
John Sherman. who, instead Of pro-
tecting the South, as Thurman had
done, threatens, if the Republicans ever
get control Of the Government again,
to deprive the southern States of nearly
one half their representation in Con-
gress and one half Of their vote in the
Electoral College.
Thurman, he said, gas the Demo-
cratic Moses pleading for his people in
the court of the Radical Pharaohs, and
by his signs and wonders putting to
confusion the base sorcerers Of the Re-
publican faith.
The hard times were shown to be
due to Republican misrule, to the fos-
teriDg of monopolies, and the oppres-
sion Of the laboring, and especially the
agricultural classes. The Democrats
have had no opportunity to pass laws
since Cleveland was elected. They are
managing the Government as best they
can under laws passed by the Republi-
cans, and it was not fair to expect
| that the Democrats could in six
months remove all the burdens and
correct all the mistakes which
the Republicans had made in
the twenty-five years during which
they have had control of the Federal
Government. Better times were COM
ing--were almost in sight. The mid
day heat was almost past, and the eve
ming breezes would soon bring the re-
freshing that has been promised. Mr..
Dunlop said that in certain sense our
contest was national. Malone wanted
to return to the Senate, and he was
bending all his energies to succeed. Vir-
ginia, a Democratic State, ought to have
some one in the Senate to speak for heI
and defend her people against the SLAM
ders Of such men as Sherman. Malone
supplied these men with material tC
SANDER and traduce Virginia. Malone
got into the Senate by pretending to be
an Independent Democrat, and yet h'
always voted with the Republicans
He voted for the vindictive iloar agains
Salisbury, the warm friend OF th'
South; for the infamous carpet-bagge
Kellogg against Lamar, the peerless
son of the South.
MIR. Dunlop closed with an eloquen
appeal to the people to elect Lee, Mas
. sey. and Ayers, and to hurl Mahon
from the Senate, where he has betraye
Virginia into the hands Of her tradition
al enemies.
This does not pretend to be a synop
1 sis or even an outline Of the magnif
5 cent speech with which Mr.. Dunlop d.
. lighted his large and appreciative aud
| cnce for one hour and half. Rarel
: have our people heard so chaste an
h eloquent speech, or one that struc
: heavier blows against the foes of Vii
=. ginia. 1t is needless to say that Nj
Dunlop created fine impression, an
i that the Democrats Of the Eastern Shor
:, will always be glad to see aud hear hin