National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-05-23
sOUruERN yApoRINCs,

lHe BOUlSNllle COWfu-JOWHUt Nus be-
come greatly excited because the naughty
Republicans do not manifest q high degree
of respect for two Of its most sacred political
idols, BECK and BLACKBURN. 1t loads its
blunderbuss with heavy charge of epithets,
such rs contrivauce,n machination,n
cool, deliberate rascality," gamblers" !"
scoundrelism," thieves" &C., and then
blazes away at the Republican party when
the breech is the most dangerous part of its
dirty weapon. 1t makes faces at the Offend
ing Republicans and shakes its clenched fist
i'll their faces in the following very uncivil
and passionate manner:
1t is we, WE the Democrats. who have caught
you, YOU the Republicans, in n trap. We
have you committed to GRANT, and Grant
ism, year before your time. We have you
committed to the rule of the bayonet. We
have you committed to jury test.oaths--by
which your own judges aud your own prose-
cutting attorneys cannot sit upon the iuries
they instruct and plead. We drop on you
there. We shall pass yonr beggarly appropri-
alton bills. We shall take you on your own
ISSUE and we shall see whether you can consoi-
idate the North upon the ruin of the South,
and ultimately the murder of men, women,
anu CulluIGu OF lne oOuIu, upon n SCnetne 10
make our Government a military despotsm.
This paroxysm was no doubt followed by
an appeal TO smelling-salts and Bourbon for
relief and comfort. Now, all that is asked
of the COuier-Jomnal is to go ahead aud
carry lis senseless threats into execution,
and the people will take care of General
GRANT and he will help take care of the
country the same as before" The Repub-
lican party has met the Democrats in Con-
gress on all the caucus measures they have
invented for revolutionary purposes, and, al
though beaten in the vote, the veto power
has saved the nation for the present from
impending peril. Now, all that the Repub-
licans ask of the Democrats is that they
father the threats of the COurier-JOuIndl
and appeal to the country on these issues
precisely as they have been presented in
Congress and combatted there by the Re-
publicans with all the power they could
bring to bear Yes, 90 to the people on
what you call ''bayonet rule" but which
the people understand 10 be moth
ing more or less than q preservation
VI pOWtt VI bllt uONtlulnCtI lO
its own laws and protect the rights of its
own citizens. The Republicans are ready
to meet you before the people and there
contend for all those principles which have
antagonized your revolutionary schemes il
Congress. We shrink from no issue you
have made, no responsibility we have as.
sumed in combating those issues, but stand
ready and anxious to go before the country
that we may there strip the robes of hypoc
risy from your bodies and so denude you
that the people can see and understand TIL,
enormity Of your purposes and the hollow
ness of your pretensions.
Now, all you have TO do is to pass til,
beggarly appropriation bills" as you ar,
pleased to term them, and the Republican
will then take care of the country and tn
execution of its laws and the maintenance
of its rights, so far as they have the power
The cry of military despotism and the ul
innate murder of men, women, and child
rem of the South is the vaporing an,
froth of disordered imagination, unles
the Democrats inaugurate another rebellio
and render such q contingency necessary t
sustain the national integrity and preserv
the Union from overthrow. The people of tn
South are as safe rs the people of the Nortl
so long as they respect the Constitution, til
laws, the Union, and the flag of the Repub
lie; but when they attempt revolution the,
must take the consequences in all their Sc
verify.