Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-10-30
A LAST WORD.

DUTY OF FIRGINIANs-H0W MALONE DE-
LUDEs THE Observation-Disclosures RE-
PUBLICAN1sM WITH DELIRIUM TREMENs."
This will be the last issue of our paper
before the fateful day which will determine
the veal or woe of this good Old Common
wealth. Before another issue, the battle
will be fought, and, we hope, triumphantly
won by the friends of liberty. If to be
s'forewarned, is to be forearmed," then
every true friend of Virginia should be
armed cap-a.pie for the conflict; for the
sentinels on the watch.towers have faith
fully sounded the alarm into their ears
If they are not prepared to do their duty,
they have none but themselves to blame,
and their remissness may cost them many
an hour Of sad self-reproach.
The enemy is strong, not only in num-
bers, but in craft and rascality, and it be-
hooves the friends of Virginia's honor and
interests to be vigilant and active. They
should be inspired with Spartan courage,
and should be rallied with the compactness
OF Macedonian phalanx. They should
have the touch of elbow and meet the
charge of the foe with undaunted spirit,
standing Ike "a stonewall' and fighting with
the ardor and courage of heroic freemen
''who know their rights and dare maintain
them.'
They should slay, politically, Malone
and his African cohorts as he claims to have
slaiu, physically, the negroes at the Crater
near Petersburg during the war between
the States-giving them no quarter In
one breath he boasts that he slew these
negroes without mercy, and in another
asks the negroes to rally with unanimity 20
his support at the election, and it seems
that they will do so, with a few honorable
exceptions. He cow claims, hypooritically,
to be their friend, and they are so credu-
lous as to believe him, and they present the
pitiable spectacle Of trying to put in power
the man who, of all others in this State, is
their worst enemy. He is the friend of no
map, white or colored, but himself, and has
no other use for them than to make them
the slaves of his will to snbserve his own
ambitious and selfish purposes. He is es-
sentially tyrannical autocrat who would
bend the neck of every one else to bear his
yoke of oppression. The fact that Malone
has succeeded in deluding and massipg the
negroes with such unanimity in his sup
port, furnishes potential reason why the
whites should use the greater exerticn TO
defeat him. He is not only using the
negroes of this State, but is importing them
from the District of Columbia, and North
Carolina, and perhaps other places, to vote
fraudulently with the view Of cheating his
opponents il this election. By this means,
supplemented by the use Of tissue ballots,
he hopes to succeed. He first used tissue
ballots to defraud the negroes, and lie now
uses them to defraud the WITHSTAND yet
he, with unblushlDg effrontery, claims to
desire ga free ballot and fair count" As
it is impossible to foresee to what extent
the result may be affected by these means,
together with bribery by money aud
promises of office, and other rascally de-
vices, it is impossible to calculate with
certainty how the election may result, and
it becomes the duty of every man-Demo-
crat or Republican-whoi is opposed to have
the destinies of the State ruled by Malone,
to do all that is within his power, from this
time till the close of the polls, to defeat
him.
We believe that he will be defeated, and
by decided majority, because we believe
the people will not fail to do their whole
duty; but as there is possibility Of his
SUCCESS, it becomes the imperative duty of
every man opposed to him to do all he can
to defeat him. To do this, he must be
suro to vote, and to see that every Demo
GRAFT and Anti-Mahone Republican in his
neighborhood or precinct does so likewise.
Nothing should be allowed to prevent any
one belonging to either of the classes
named from going to the polls. Don't al
low the weather, however unfavorable-
even if it should rain pitchforks-or any
other consideration to prevent you from
going to the polls and casting your vote in
behalf of the liberties and interests OF the
people of both races and OF the honor and
salvation of the State.
AS the result mag depend upon the vote
of this county-yea, of single precinct
and as the other portions of the State are
looking with hope and confidence to
Augusta TO do her daty manfully, we
would appeal to every auti-Mahone man,
and especially and particularly to every
Democrat to relax no eXertion, but to use
his best efforts to make the majority
against Malone in this county as largo as
possible. Let the anti-Mahone rain of |
votes be, not simply rain of ordinary |
character, but perfect ''gully- washer"--a
torrent, yea, flood that will overWheln |
Malone and his cohorts as effectually as
Pharaoh and his men were overwhelmed in |
the Red Sea. The Quaker poet, Whittier, |
says that ballots fall as gently as snow
fakes, vet they do the "will of freemen as
lightning that of God" Let them on next
Tuesday do the will of .treemen and not
that of subservient slaves to the will of a
would-be tyrant and autocrat. He is the
of Mahoneism, which is the
expression of all that is base and inimical
70 Virginia-her honor, her fame, her
peace, her rights, her political and material
Interests. The New York Herald well and
iruthfully and foTcibly says that "Mshone-
ism in Virginia just now is simply Republi-
ranism with delirium tiemeDs." Is that
he kind of "Republica nisn" that should
rple the destinies of Virginia? no, a
Ihousard times no! Every true son OF !
Virginia should be at the polls early on
Tuesday rext to vote to save her from the
r 'reful fate with which she is now threat
ned Do this duty, the greatest now de-
vo ed on yen, with the prayer-"God save
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