National Republican., 1876-11-28
soUTHERN PHARIsEEs.

SOUTHERN PHARIsEEs.
a great deal has been said and written
in proof Of the ostracism TO which Republi-
cans are subject in the South, and it has
as often, aud with assumed indignation,
been denied by the Democratic prints Of
that section. When, however, the true
feelings of these rebel editors obtain sd-
vantage over their discretion they break
forth in strains that are the unmistakable
echoes OF the devilish spirit that possesses
them, Only day or two since we no.
ticed an editorial advertisements in States
vile IN. c. paper for Democratic o
barber. The editor acknowledged that the
village was in the enjoyment of an aSun-
dance Of the tonsorisl profession, but the
chivalry of that mountain city were loath
longer to have their birsute append ages
manipulated by the hands of Republic IN
members of the knights of the brush and
razor. The chances are that in the event
the unshsven Democracy of Satesville are
successful in their search for member Of
the shaving fraternity of the "unwashed"
Democratic persuasion that the Republican
tonsorisl artists now there will be the
gamers. in escaping deflement by reason
of the necessity that will be laid upon them
to baEdle less of that which defiles. The
purpose, however, of this article was more
especially to call attention TO the subjoined
naorceau. clipped from the editorial col
umns of the Lynchourg Tirgin5an Of the
24th:
''If It shall turn out that Judge Bond, who
went to South Carolina ten days before tie
opening Of his court, had anything to do-and
We fear, from his antecedents, which are bad,
that he had-With manipulating the Returning
Board at Columbia, we hope that every gentle
man in this city will give him the cold shoul-
der when he comes here. He ought to be
quartered, in that case, at negro hotel"
Judge Bond went to South Carolina in
pursuance of his duties as United States
circuit judge for that among other States,
and we know no good reason why he
might not have gone "ten" days or one
hundred days "before the opening of his
court" had it suited his convenience to do
so. Certainly he might have done so with as
much propriety and in far better taste than
was exhibited by the flock of Democratic
pilgrims who visited the State of South
Carolina without invitation or authority,
and for the sole purpose, if we may pre-
sume-as has the Thginian in the case of
Judge Bond-of engaging in all manner of
discreditsble devices to have the State
counted" for Ti1den, and thereby defeat
the expressed will of the people of State
in whose affairs non residents and unin-
vited visitors could have no legitimate con-
cern. On the other hand, it was eminently
proper in United States judge, knowing,
as he doubtless did, the character of the
Aforesaid pilgrims as well as the native
Bashi Bszouks with whom Ghey went to
associate, that their presence might give
rise to judicial complications in which his
presence would be necessity in the inter
est Of peace and justice, and that he should
he on hand to attend to the duties eni5ined
upon him by virtue of his Office. The same
Judge has been in that State before among
the 4. X. g, as the records of Aib,uy pen
itentiary abundantly testify. As to his
manipulating the Returning Board" that
is bosh Of the thinnest texture. The boIrd
seems. judging from the sequel, to have
been in possession of abundant ability TO
take care not only of itself but of the great
interests committed 10 it, and to thwartth
combination of pilgrims and Bashi Bizouks,
and that. too, without the interference ofthe
Judge or ANY other man." The truth is,
the TIginidR dislikes the aforesaid func-
tionaTy for more reasons than oqe, not
only because he is in politics an uncompro-
missing Republican, but for the additional
reason that he had few moaths since, in
the regular performance Of his legitimate
judicial functions, to turn over a Virginia
railroad, at the instance of creditors who
thought they were being deprived of their
just dues, to receivers. The VirgiHidn
had been making a good thing out of the
road IN question in the matter of printing,
&c, which was likely to be estopped, lence
'fhe CALLED jade winces." Unfortunately,
Judge Bond is "a Radical" If he had not
been, the possibility is that he would not
have deprived the Tirginian and Billy
Malone of their pickings. Consequently,
being "a Radical" as hereinbefore men
toned, who failed to see the propriety
either of permitting Democrats to absorb
railroad earnings that belonged to foreign
bondholders, or who. with equal regard
for fair dealing in political Counts"
placed himself in inconvenient proximity
to the concoctors Of Democratic villanies
in South Carolina, he must needs draw
from that mild-mannered @ exponent of
Virginia Democracy, the Lynchburg Vr-
ginian, the "hope that every geutleman(D
al in this city will give him the cold
shoulder when he comes here" He
even goes further than that, and seeks to
bring discredit on his bosom friends, dun
gees colored Conservative club, " of which
he was wont to be so laudstory prior to
the late election, by inserting that che
ought to be qusrtered at a negro hotel."
This is really the unkindest cut OF all, and
will doubtless be cause of affiiction to the
Tirginian's friend Duugee.
Bsdinage aside, there is serious aspect
TO this social and business ostracism that
is slowly, it may be, but quite as surely,
working the ruin of all the material pros
poets of the South. The papers of that
locality are constantly parading the advan.
tages of that section of the country, which
really might be great, before the people,
and urging emigrants to settle there. They
have formed innumerable emigration So
cieties, for the purpose of inducing
greatly needed addition to their population,
and yet, after all these efforts to replenish
their numbers, those who do 60 there, if
they are Republicans, in most cases meet
with the reception fjreshadowed in the ad-
vice rendered by the Tirginian to the
people Of the city in which it is published;
but if the correspondent of Northern
newspaper who possesses q wholesome re-
gard for the truth, in the course of his
peregrinations in the South, states the case
with the same frankness that the Virginian
has done, he is at once denounced as
'Iying Radical" who has abused their
hospitality by telling the truth. Good
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