Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-12-02
BOURBONISH.

H"WllHNN" Hl'kAVHN' HF PAS
grSsA," ~ sustained and carried
ont ~ these wuuld-bc c~H'todiaNS {"
the coward march" oi events, il
/. rather questionable in its Tendencies
and may lead 10 n RrpublicAni'm
which will end in AaSrOhy AMI ruin
The Democratic journals which &c
gliblv deridC 'o'no Of their Notcm'
~porarira an BourbonS, arc simply
political time-ServerS drifting int,
Radical 80, OF 70 nc local compe'i
ton has caused them to differ iron,
the standard set up BY rival. This
should not 10. lf the principles
enunciAted By tho old platform Of
Democracy, are worth anything
now, If the Amendments to the
pon.tiiution are the RESULT Of iraud
and in oppoSition to the sentiment
If our people, why give in n feeble
ScQuirsccse TO the outrage, and
plead "cxpedicncy az an excuse
tpr the rcluctSnt endorse nSnt of
what we all know we would do
away with il We eOnld. The more
sc sec otthe working Of RadicaIiSrn
and the drifting Of our "o1pedicn-
."v" jpurn sis, the mors NO are
satisfied that We should have an an.
divided frILt Sg~in.t the democrat
King i.iHcnces Of giving aid and
comfort TO the eaeny. If thin be
B~ourboniSn, we are B%ourbons; We
anHot endorse a wrong, because it
. clSinod 10 DO favorable TO "prO-
rresS; 4" We doubt thAt cxpsdiOncy
~hich AGordS temporary relief, and
afterwards permanent damnRtiOn.
Ne do no: wiAh to rise With the
times, and be led TO a prtcipicS.
Better " Houfbonism" than y swift
progrcNa toward . down grade.
This SXcrihce to sxp"diency >
il the frat stcP to = greater sNrren'
lar ihAn thN' Of Lee vt Appomat-
.o1-thrrc, i VAS \ necessity, here
it is a policy. 1t iS trne We might
.uffer for II time, but that suffering
would bring US strength, If we
would suffer unitcdIy, Snd it is
really these very time-ServcrS, those
"eSpedieney" men and journals,
who are p o'rActing and ~f'st"ning
lpon Ms all the evils We now en-
Ia q.
VIZ say that WHIST ia now called
Conservatism is simply al apology
for RadWHliEm it gives it strength,
it gives it liccnsc to gradually fast
en- upon w the ShSckleS that are
rendering w inert ~ n people, and
utterly powerless in the defense OF
the principles Of the purOr days OF
the republic. Our worst foes are in
our OWN household. Those who 50
readily accepted all hat RAdicalism
could require or expect of mon,
whose instincts Succumbed TO =
scl6HhncAs, which thcy termed poll
~, have done much, almost every
Hing to diSorganiEe even the Nor
bern element that seemed disposed
TO act with justice toward u PEG,
pie at the close of the war, when
We had given evory evidence of a
disposition to resume our, former
relations with the government.
The terms OF the final surrender of
our armies were hailed with no
hypocritieal satisfaction by sll our
people; had these terms been ad-
hercd to, there would have been no
necessity for either the Constitu.
tional nmSndme ,ta, Ku-Klux bills
orr excessive sectional taxation.
Emigration Southwark, instead of
being pslSied, would have flowed
steadily and uninterruptsdly, not
Of men who came for tho express
purpose Of "ruliug the roast and
PROSECUTING ignorant voters, but
such as would add to the material
prosperity of our country, withou.
attempting to control its political
machinery; it is not pleasant to
think OF what might have been, but
it is despair almost to think Of what
will 10.
Is it too late to retrieve the lap.
ses Of the Past!
WO have some heroic journals yet
who battle we'll and nObly for what
might have been, against \ brute
force directed BY shrewd adventu-
'rers, who, in turn, are controlled BY
central deSpotiam. Why then
this division into /" B0urbons and
"ProgresSistS!" 1t ia unmeaniug
only NJ it gives strength to the
enemy, but will finally end by the
drifting Of timO-sorvers into the em.
brace Of R~Sdisalism, and the return
Of those who were honest in their
I" Conservatism back to "Bour.
bOnism."
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