Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-09-24
self. HE that is slow 60 anger Is greater
than the mighty, and he that rulesh his
spirit than he that saketh a city,"
General Mahone's Speech.

| dOneral MdnOne Cl)etCn.
General MALONE made at Abingdon yes
terday the first speech Of his campaign.
We publish il this morning; and we think
we cannot be mistaken in predicting that
every intelligent Democrat Will rise from
/ its perusal with the conviction that there
is nothing in it dangerous TO Democracy,
and that MALONE is already beaten. II ia
rs stale q speech as we ever read. There Is
7 absolutely not new suggestion in it
/ not one novel argument. II will fall fiat
and Will prove Improbable. He begins
with professions, which are always cheap.
/ Satan roproves sin when MALONE de-
nounces ballot-box stufiing. He sinks
down to low level when no charges Nc
/ KINNEY with threatening the people with
Kuklux. and becomes puerile when he
quotes Mr.. Row. TO prove that the Demo-
cratic party makes promises TO the ne
groes. MAHoNE's remarks as to the black
counties and Democratic legislators is the
same old stuff contained in his circular Of
/ August 9Th signed " Vrginius."
General MALONE says nobody is afraid of
negro supremacy. In one sense this IL
true. II is the supremacy of bad white
men elected by negroes that is TO be feared.
Left TO himself, tho negro is harmless. 1t
is the unprinciplod traitors to their own
race TO be found amongst the white men
of whose Vaccinations the people are
afraid.
MALONE pretends to regard the negroes
as a valuable laboring class. We need not
discuss this point. Look ut California and
ask yourself if there is any reason except
I the presence Of negroes here why Cali
/ fornia is so much richer than Virginia. Viz
I gina ought to be ten times as rich. She
would have been but for a free-nogrO p0pu-
lation.
/ As 10 protection we may say that Gene
/ raj MALONE does not stick TO the truth
when he charges CLEVELAND and Phil. Nc
/ KINNEY with being Froe-Tradcrs. In
another article in to-day's Dispatch we have
entirely cleared McKNNEY Of this charge.
| Mr.. C1EyELAND's record acquits him. But
/ the facts acquit both CLEVELAND and Nc
| KINNEY A man who is a Free Trader I'M
der existing circumstances is certainly not
/ a wise man. The Government has to raiso
/ two hundred millions of dollars year
/ from customs-duties. Where is the fool
/ that would transfer this tax 10 property
/ General MALONE is not the equal OF either
I McKINSKY or CLEVELAND and has too much
sense TO call them fools.
! General MAHoNB goes out Of his way 10
| give the institution of avery blow. He
/ saws "a slaves food was one quart meal and
seven ounces bacon. He manIfest5 Won
dcrful ignorance in this part Of his speech
| a plentiful lack Of information. He argues
/ that because Of slavery and the low price
OF slave labor worknemens wages were
cut down in slavery times But the fact
is, as ANDREW JOHNSON proved in tho halls
Of Congress from indubitablc testimony,
mechanics wages were always higher in
the slave States and slave cities than in
the northern cities. Now il Is the other
way. The wages Of mechanics are lower
/ in the South than in the North and the
uesroes arc tie cause of it. Negro slaves
enrich a country. Rilc negroes impOyouSh
country.
General MAHoSEtellsus Of the prosperity
of Massachusetts,. The fact is that each
. 70 p
produce more wheat than the whole State
Of Massachusetts. The lazy negro Of tie
South Is better of than thousands Of ia
borcrs in Massachusetts,.
MAHoSE undertakes 20 tell rs how much
better off the country now is than II was IA
1860. and credits the increased prosperity
to protection. But alas for his figures,
flt.r, sff
1860, when she was SO rich that II her pro-
perty. real and personal. had been equally
divided amongst her citizens, each would
nave had more than thousand dollars
Now, if her property were thus divided
! each citizen would have abont two hun
dred dollars. IN 1860 Virginia was in wealth
ahead Of many States that arc now ahead
of her.
Neither MCKINNEY nor Colonel RUFTN
asks that every man DO made TO educate
his own children. as General MALONE inn
pledly charges. Tie charge is totally I'M
founded.
General MAHoNE's "me-toon slang on
/ the debt question ia not worthy Of notice.
| Virginians know how he wrecked the At
tic, Mississippi aud Ohio railroad. They
will never tEast him TO settle the State
debt.
General MABoNE's remarks about the
williamsburg and Stanton insane asylums
will disgrace nobody except himself.
| Where were his friends when he read his
| speech TO them that they did not tell him
not to abase himself by making such q re-
! ference as he did to those institutional