Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-09-11
nhSSEYS DEMOCRACY.

bT ace General Malone and effu.
siVely congratulate him on his res
ollte stand against the BOurbons
of the United States Senate; and
i'll his circular of January 81, 1882,
Mr.. Massey thus testified to his en-.
thusiastic endorsement of that
stand:
When General Malone refused
to submit to caucus dictation in
the United States Senate applaud
ed his independence. / believe
| wrote the first resolution and
made the first speech endorsing
him for it.
With his usual disregard for
truth, Mr.. Massey seeks to make it
appear that his applause and en-.
dOrsement were for General Ma
homes independence, and not for
the course which that indepen-
dence took but everybody knows
better. The first resolutions adopt.
ed by public meeting in Virginia,
approving General Mahone's vote
in the Senate on reorganization,
were passed in Petersburg, and it
is not improbable as he claims)
that Mr.. Massey was their author.
for he was present and made a
speech. The resolutions wire as
follows:
Resolved, LIST. That we heartily
endorse the course pursued by Gen
eral Malone in the Senate of the
United States, and hail it as the
inauguration of new era ofcordial
and fraternal relations between the
citizens of our common and reunit.
ed country.
Resolved, I'd. That we recog.
nize in General Malone a repre-
sentative of whose wisdom, pa.
triOtism, independence and ardent
devotion to her interests, Virginia
may be justly proud and we here
by pledge ourselves to fully sustain
him in his patriotic, wise and in
dependent course.
Resolved, Sd. That we regard
the attack made by Senator Hill,
of Georgia, upon Senator Malone,
as an insult to Virginia, and an
impertinent interference with mat.
tiers about which he showed him
self supremely ignorant, and that
General Malone entitled himself to
the commentator and gratitude of
every true Virginian by the able,
fearless and dignifed manner in
which he repealed it.
Resolved, 4th. That we pledge
ourselves to abide by and sustain
the broad and liberal principles of
the Readjuster party to do all in
our power to effect speedy and
final settlement of the public debt
on the basis of the Riddleberger
bill ; and above all, to battle against
the desperate effort now afoOt by
the Bourbon Democracy of this
State to array her people in race or
sectional strife.
There is no uncertain sound about
those resolutions and, after they
were unanimously adopted, Mr..
Massey spoke. We give the fol-
lowing significant extracts from his
remarks, as reported in the Peters
burg Index.Appeal of March 18th,
1881:
1T was very proper that the peO-
pie of Petersburg, who had given
to Virginia its new Senator, should
be the first to meet to endorse his
noble and independent course. He
regarded the course pursued by
General Malone as the harbinger
Of a better era-one that would re-
dound to the good not only of Vir-
gInia but of the whole country. 1t
was an act that would do away
with sectional strife, and those
narrow and contracted views that
had characterized so many of our
public men, General Malone has
hOnored himself and Virginia by
the course he has pursued. But
General Malone was so well known
that nothing need be said in his
praise here.
Mr.. Massey said that we are about
to enter upon campaign which
will require the wisest judgment.
We have an active enemy to meet.
There will be a stern effort made
to raise the colOr-line. But the
colOred people know as well as any.
body else where their interests lie,
and he advised the colored people |
to look well to this matter. He
appealed to the people of Virginia
to act the part of men who want
to see their State elevated to the |
proud rank she should hold, and to
seek only the welfare of the Com
monwealth and it's people. He
wanted to see everything encourag-
ed that will elevate the moral and
mental condition of our people.
Mr.. Massey said that every of.
fee, high and low, should be filed
by a Readiuster. When General
Malone, in reply to the unmanly
attack of Senator Hill, said Il am a
Readjuster,' he gave voice to
grand and noble expression, and
took grand aud noble stand. He
hoped the party, when the State
ticket IS put in the field, will stick
to it to a man.
Who has changed since the date
of that Petersburg speech and the
resolutions which it endorsed
Malone or Massey?
On the 2Sth of March, 1881, Mr..
attended a Readjuster meet.
ing at Fluvanna Courthouse, where
he spoke. The report of the meet.
ing and proceedings appeared in
the Wing of March 81, 1881, and
from it we make the following ex-
tract relating to what Mr.. Massey
said on the occasion
The sneaker then endorsed the