National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-02-17
VIRGINIA.
The True Republican Policy as Viewed By
Southern Members Of the Party.

Inc 4Tue hopuOLlCdu EOnCy hs NleWea d
Southern Members Of the Party.
RICHMOND, VA, Feb. Is, 1875.
To the Editor Of the National Republican.
SIR: As Southern Republican Ihave watched
the course Of THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, this
winter with intense anxiety. heartily indorss
its views as expressed in its able, and ct times
powerful editorials; and If we are saved as party
in the South to your efforts more than those Of all
the Republican journals combined will our saliva
ton be due. Rest assured that you Will receive
the gratitude of US all, and If We whip the fight
Of 10 your paper will become, as IL should be, the
favorite Of those who will be benefited by its
manly and independent course.
Yours seems to be one Of the few journals oil
the North whose representatives and managers
have not been bought up or won over by South.
ern Democratic influences.
The powerful and hitherto influential Rspubli.
can press Of New Y ork seems to have tamely sub
mitted to ImpOsitions which have made fools Of
them, or else they have knayishly bsrtered their
principles for the prospect OF being with the De-
mocracy at the time when they imagine they are
We would be at loss to understand this revo.
luton did We net know the manner In which
people Of the North are
HOODWINKED AND DECEIVED,
when they come among Southern people, as to
their sentiments. Knowing this, We can readily
understand it. see Gen. Gordon believes Wen.
dell Phillips is an honest man, [do you reckon he
TO come South and see and learn for himselfthe
feelings OF the people. Nothing would give the
Republicans Of the South more real pleasure than
TO have Mr.. Phillips come and see for himself
but We submit that were he to come as the guest
Of Gen. Gordon he would return IS badly gulled
as Congressional committees generally are. Blu;
IL mr.. Phillips wants to see and learn let him
visit any State in the South just before election,
and keep the people in ignorance as to who he d
and his object, and then he will be ID
ABLE TO UNFOLD TALE -.
which now even he would be Ioath to believe
Southern people would be on their best behavior
their faces would be clean, their shirts white and
their hands washed Of the blOod-stains Of theiI
Northern sentiment should be nodded by such de-
ceptien, and tell you that, unless those Of n
who live here, and see, feel and know that the
liberties Of the people are in jeopardy, are lis
tened TO and needed, the revolution which failed
in 81 will triumph in 70. To TIE NATIONAL
REPuBLIoGN we give the credit in this State Of
being the only Republican paper Of the North
whose correspondents and representatives have
been among us and returned free from influences
which prevented their speaking the truth. Those
able gentlemen from the First and Third dis
trfets-Messrs. Sener and Smith-owe you ouI
them. You have done your duty, now let the
Administration do likewise. Let each Depart
ment ascertain who are put there by these gen
temen, and
REMOVE THEM AT ONCE.
It viii not do TO say that such q course would be
unjust. Their friends were employed by the Gov
eminent because Sener and Smith were supposed
to be Republicans. They have proved they are
not, and they should be repudisted in every con
oeiVable manner. If these gentlemen choose Il
boast that your attacks upon them make them
hosts Of friends among the Opposition, they might
depend upon the Opposition for support for them
selves and their friends. Do not stop here, but
let the Departments be cleared Of the many Dem
ocrats who are employed by them, to the exclu
sion Of Republicans, who are denied employment
in the South because of their politics, and you
will soon hnd better condition Of affairs here
than at present exists.
Clear the deck for action in 1876. Let us pool
fellows down South know that If We are denied
social recognition and q chance 70 mako living
here we still have friends In the North, who VIII
stand by us, and we promise you that South Caro-
lima and Mississippi will not be alone next veal
in keeping step TO the music Of the Union.
Out Of the heads of your Mosbys, Seners
Smiths, and such like fix, as are ready to swal-
low yankee" every morning before breakfast
when asking for influence and patronage, but whC
court the ''respectsbles" at home more lovingly
than the youth Of eighteen does his sweetheart
and in their stead stand by the Radicals" anc
after we help you win the great battle Of 70 thu
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, will be to us Of the
South what alas! the Tribune Of fifteen year
ago was to the loyal millions Of the North.
RADICAL.