New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-04
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
RFpIHJCAN BoURB0NlSM.

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=. sorruvp> WV or POLITICAL AFFMRs-THE IN
pAru,TIoS OF cIINGrNG TO THE REPUBLICAN
p.prv AFTER IT HAS PARTED COMPANY WITH
VIRTUE AND HONESTY.
,gsth..Edtfor Of The Tr'o"he'
GID Of Intelligent SOutherners there may
,a said IN he three classes at this time who have views
Iconcaroing N,toua politics. those who think IN the i've
,est manner but open not their ps those VINO DO not
nint much AND who not distinguished for the quail
NJ of their thinking and third the active, progressive
SOC who think great deal about the situation in the
o,ntry and think correctly, who have sympathcs with
sbe present without dspeasure disgust with the past
abose who hope by using large discretion and putting
forth the strongest effort TO create future that snail
nake all Americans OF State audevery section hap
NV prosperous proud These latter comprise the bulk
of the rejecting population, educated and uneducated
srhey are the men out politics in those States whose
old-school politicians still hold sway, aud the
men IN and out OF politics in such States
as Virginia. These people read Thu TRIBUNE
end their liberal and progressive
Journals. OF which there not few in the South.
But their OF selfpreservation, their
convictions that change has and must be recog
SZedthe the beer-lead them to reject old ogy
counsel and leadership ana embrace the more rational
lively and catholic principles OF Liberalism III Is saIe
there is little danger In this quarter from bour
bonism The danger most 20 be apprehended is from
The BourbODsm that clDgs 10 Republican party long
and after its mission and its history made The
principles of repuhlicanism, whatever OF error they
appear contain in the southern opinion have been
established fast AMI firm That the world cannot over
ARROW them or modify them IN any particular. whole
emancipation We have; free suffrage we nave; Oces
open all without respect 20 color or previous con-
CitiOn the land open TO ALL opinions are free What
dhe Republican party done accepted by the South
with unfeigned Aerauess because the South wants no
guerilla cOmbats; 10 more after the Fourteenth and
" fifteenth Amendments tnan after AppomattOX.
When speak tdus pOsltivelytOr the South speak for
The who nave the future OF the section under their
power the larger and constantly growing class of prac
tCal thinkers ana liberal politicians and sensible pari-
otto Cltlzeus. IGe comprised under the nrst two
beads OF our elias calOn-the Old intelligent politicians
and citizens ceased to interest themselves in
affairs because affairs longer under their control
and the BOurDOus with less mental force and more
setassertlOn, and perhaps more nervous force-n0
longer have absolute dOminaOn they certainly cannot
seriously affect the destlues OF the Southern States
speak Just "a BOurbOnisn at the North 10 be
RppTehende why do tne Intelligent members OF the
7srpubican party, their hearts despse the base
snsrumenalies Uy which the leaders eudeavor TO re
Saln power, remain like lambs III fold guarded by
The party belongs 10 Cameron and Butler who
have bought 1t and paid for Do the men who fought
under Lincoln Chase ana Greeley, the comrades OF
John A Andrew, of Palmer aud Curtin, feel no shame
hen they follow such leaders Ben. Butler Simon
Cameron aud Oliver r. Morton Let them come away.
Every they ackn iwledge such leadership intcts
graduation vita hot iron, the souls OF
who would keep the truth. There is an infection
greater foolish, more destructive than that OF the
Southern BUurOOu> G.
Wilmington, n O., March 81, 1874.