The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-23
Among the Books
I,rrhe BETRAYAL.

r. The authors and the collaborators of
"The Betrayal" have themselves writ
lten the best thing that can be said
1 about IT when they affirm: I'VE have
q 4 tried to tell in 1t the story of Nir-
iginia--hcr birth, her youth. her matur-
lity. her betrayal by her own people
y 4 and her death at their hands. Here,
the story of betrayal that should
l1nake the blood OF every Virginian boil;
there, the story of an outrage that
should arouse every person desiring
1.-THE perpetuation of Anglo-SaXon civil
iization. Many of yirginia's betrayers
larc mentioned by name. Democrats
and Republicans are alike involved"
The book is SO sweeping in its de
nunciation so fierce in It's attacks that
Spersonality thnly yelled or personality
broadly and markedly unveiled is at
once perceived to be it's dominant note,
The absolute right TO trenchant criti-
cism is assumed and maintained
Throughout Short shrift is shown po-
litical leaders who figure in The Be
ftrayal' as the "betrayers of Virginia"
lGeneral Malone is called General TIM
othy Murphy" and Is described as be-
ing made up of two elements hatred
sand ambition-hatred directed prnci-
lpally against the aristocracy. although
1.-THE yeomanry and the peasantry had a
large share, and ambition which was
flOr nl1nSell lHe StdSe "oulh VIC
a large one no matter how short the
performance, and the puppet should BIO
Sthe king of puppets
General s'Tim Murphy"
Referring to the Readjuster period or
1870 and the years following. 1t is fur
sther asserted of him that he well UNI
tderstood 1.-The yeomanry and peasantry,
.fretful. trained by carpet basgers for
fourteen wears. were ready to rise
lsr, No viz how
money. They wished to be gentlemen.
He would found for them an aristoc-
racy OF their own. He would amaga-
mate the Republican and the ReadJus-
ter parties composed of yeomen, peas
ants and negroes, into a single politi-
cal party. Among General Murphy's
many plans was one by which he could
purchase for himself large part OF
the bonds that represented the State
Aebt of SAL, 900 600 at one-tenth of their
face value. later forcing those bonds
to par, all under the mantle of perfect
legality He would reserve for him.
self an ample fortune. Then he would
provide limitless sinews of war for his
party His hatred of the aristocraey
was tempered by his admiration of the
individuals that composed that class
as we'll as OF the aristocracy as a whole
He was Jealous of the gentry. He knew
that he would have loved the chief
object of his hatred had he been ad-
united the sacred hearth-had he
the gift a. -ove. which he doubted He
even admitted to himself that he was
not fit to enter the society that he COW
5eted; that a gentleman could not be
anade in one generation He even went
so far as to ask himself the question:
;swere 1 to enter the aristocracy would
i not be merely an ass masqueradinS
an lions skim
Parson Massey.
A companion portrait to that drawn
OF General Malone is one of the Rev,
John e. Massey, only he is called
John Henry Jones In The Betrayal.
and spoken of as part saint, part
sinner, but always Farson, now eight
ing with God as his ally, now with the
devil His soft blue eyes gazing
through great gold-ri,nmed spectacles
were the eyes of friend. the ewes of
man who could turn from skilful
fencing in debate to mingle his tears
with those of some heart-broken
mother at the bedside of her dying
child: vet they were not weak eyes
nor was the parson weak when he
shed tears as he recited the trials of
his Saviour in Gethsemane Yet he had
no sense of the difference that is be-
tween right and wrong. He was
known as the Father of Readjust-
ment' In Virginia His oratory was
new to the State-the oratory Of fig
ures that were not figures of speech.
The Bible was his arithmetic; the
plain people his slate; the public debt
his problem"
The convention OF 1879, held In the
old Richmond Theatre. on Broad
Street, is described with much acu-
tnen. With reference TO ii a picture is
IF he JrjS nj hS
Murphy wish an India rubber baby
tbouncng Jn His Norfolk knee and an
tother bouncing on his Valley knee"
To Temple, one defeated candidate for
Governor, supposed to impersonate tho
son of Governor of Virginia, who
now lives in New York City, Murphy
Is represented as saving, by way
advocate your election to the Sen
ate, and even your nomination
at the next National Democratic
Convention In politics man
reaches success through defeat-whcn
his defeat is due TO his steadfastness
TO principle" And TO Parson Massey,
1.-THE hope of Virginia Is in the cleo
ton of q Legislature with a majority
of each House bound to the leader by
ties that are unbreakable--a majority
large enough TO pass laws over the
Governors vetoes. To-day you are the
most popular man in Virginia
Negroes In Legislature.
After the convention came the Leg
islature of lS79-1SSo and it's annals
are written in lines of fire, some of
which run as follows:
Soon after the Legislature conven-
led coalition between the negro and
the white Repudator members there
of was effected. Immediately those
nlembers, acting a s a BODY as we'll as
individually, thrust their knives into
fNirginia's bleeding side Mutilated
Confederate soldiers that were in Of
t.fice were removed and Regulators,
black as we'll as white, were elected in
Etheir stead. miscegenation bill
was introduced, Every man that was
Repudiator was told that he might
do as he pleased. Everywhere was
heard the cry: Down with the rich
man, up with the poor man None
was to render an accounting 10 God.
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