National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-02-23

years, and although ever since this was
over, sullen discomfort, ripening into direst
disorders, and sometimes into open rebel
lion against law, has prevailed. we are
gladdened at least by the appearance ofthe
silver lining to the cloud. Fraternity has
broken out again. We are beloved. The
ke-yarpet- baggers are beloved. The mig
gers are beloved. The scalawags are be-
loved. Let us all rejoice. give L Amour
The generous Bourbons have given out
the word. The Ku-Klux Klans, the White
Leagues, the Pale Faces and other lamb
like white organizations in the South,
by whatever name they may be
known, have been instructed to resume
the fraternal business. Their representa-
tives find that the midnight burnings, kill
ings and whippings are firing the Northern
heart cold as they deemed that uDOOtrusive
organ to be, and a final effort nas been
made to quiet young men who cannot be
restrained" The workers of illegal
homicides, " the 'sindiscreet, - misguided"
men who go about the country at night
like avenging fiends, doing inofensive peo-
pie to death, and compelling women to flee
to the woods with their little children,
have been informed as tenderly and pater-
nally as possible that party exigency calls
upon them for sacrifices. They must sus-
pend their work lest the wicked Radicals
should make political capital by further
ungenerous illusions to it. These are sad
times when a constitutional Ku-Klux Dem
ocrat cannot even 'whoop niger, " who
was but recently slave, without endan-
gering Democratic party success. We hope
the advice will be needed. 1t is really
necessary that the young men aforesaid
should
g. instead OF mounting barbed steeds,
To fight the souls of fearful adversaries,
caper nimblY in my lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing Of Lutte"
until some of the new Pledged Conservatives
shall get a little more reconciled to the
harsher methods by which alone civil lib
erty is made possible for the Southern
Democracy. Let there be quiet for time.
The chivalry chiefs at Washington can see
more clearly than can their brothers at
home, that 'the lions skin is too short,"
and that they must therefore ''eke it out
with the fox's." The situation is truly en-
barrassing. 1t is necessary to keep up ap-
pearances of good will, and yet care must
be taken that the fires of hate be not
quenched or diminished. The 'impulsive
young men" will find it hard to obey, and
the mild-mannered gentlemen in Washing
ton will be puzzled when asked Shylock's
conundrum: "Hates any man the thing he
would not kill?" We shall perhaps see a
compromise between the two horns of this
new dilemma. The work will be less de-
monstrative. Art will come to the assist
ance of nature. The Outrage mills" will
be furnished with ''noiseless attachments"
so that the Northern ear shall not be vexed.
The thirty or forty volumes of sworn testi-
mony taken in the South during the last
seven years, showing the existence of a
large organized political party there, pur-
suing assassination as policy, are begin
ming to attract some little attention. More
of such literature might work mischief
The 'fndiscretions" must not go on stimuli
taneously with the fraternal business.
The delicacy of tone and phrase adopted
in this address to the people of the South
has never been excelled. The plea for
"dignifed moderation" in repelling insults;
the exhortation to let the negro ''vote as he
pleases at all elections" ''to continue to
deal with him honestly and fairly" and to
continue cordially to invite to our midst
those of any political party who seek to
find homes upon our sol" etc., are all
beautiful in their way. OF course, chose
of any political party" other than the Dem
ocratic party are ke-yarpet-b aggers-other-
where, in the same address, denominated
as Dad men with the assurance of Federal
support" The invitation for moro of them
to come calls to mind the pretty ditty we
learned in childhood:
"WflI you walk into my parlor,
Said the spider to the fy."
With solemnity the addressers assure their
people that "homicides" and ''street dis
turbances" are construed by the heart
less Radicals here into evidence of a spirit
of lawlessness and violence" &c. Sadly
they admonish their followers that efforts
are being made to pass laws through Con-
gress to 'frritate" them, to provoke them
70 violent outbreaks" and all for the pur-
pose Of checking them afterwards. 1t is
feared by some that this is put forth as an
explanation in advance in case the lambs
shall outbreak" unawares. "Oontinued
.forbearance" is finally invoked, and the
impulsive Ku.Klux is admonished 10 be
good If he possibly can. Josh Billings says
q mule has been known TO affect an unnat-
ural docility for three weeks, SO as to in
spire q man with confidence enough to
trust himself within kicking distance.
That this address" Is written with SINH.
lar view seems probable from the rancorous
hatred manifested in its illusions to politi-
cal opponents. The pretence that the
Southern Ku.Klux mule is to be aggravated
into kicking in order to justify the applica-
ton Of q black snake whip TO his already
much SCARED back is worthy of the wolf
that accused the lamb of muddying the
waters above him while quietly drinking
from the stream. Upon the whole, this
is our opinion: the address 10 the people
of the South would, under ordinary cir
cumstances, stir up civil war, for it states
grievances enough to justify revolution.
But this, we think, is more than balanced
by the assurance that outbreaks help the
Radicals. This was not always SO. The
world surely moves when the blood of
'ke-Yarpet-bag and "niggers" has to
be staunched through fear that its uninter-
rupted flow will lessen the number of
doughface recruits to the Democratic party.
The luxuries of slaughtering innocents and
of carrying elections must hereafter be en-
joyed separately.
PACIFIC NAIL IN THE SENATE.
Our Senate report shows that the rough