National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-04-12
REVIVAL IN VIRGINIA.

The pious Bourbon who edits the War
renton VA Solid South seems to be exer-
cised in mind over the dead and deplorable
Virginia. With uplifted hands and the
heart bowed down he gushes with Iamenta-
lions akin to those of JEREMIAH, and re-
lieves himself of this Responding wail
As the situation of the party to-day presents
ITSELF it offers nothing to bind aud cheer its
supporters Its leaders seem to have left the
rank and file Of the party to grope in uncer-
tanty and to be only concerned about this and
that candidates claim before the Cincinnati
Convention. Above all the clouds aud storm
of these years of Republican rule, the sunlight
is resting upon the mountains, but no effort is
being made to let il burst upon the country in
its full intensity. This is the time for work
and not ignoble rest. up and at them"
should be the watchword on all our banners.
Let us go to work like men who know the
right and dare the right maintain. Let us
throttle this centralized despotisn that is
slowly encircling in its coils all that is dear to
the American lover of liberty. Never was
there such field for the arousing of public
opinion aud public indignation before.
Here is an appeal that may awaken
the slumbering ashes of the Father of his
Country, now sleeping so quietly in the
shades Of Mount Vernon, for they are no
more dead than the Bourbon party Of the
Old Dominion, under the centralized
despotism of the Readj listers that is en-
" circiing in its coils all that is dear to the "
Bourbon heart As the Solid South has it,
never was there such field for the
" arousing of public indignation before.
Never-or scarcely overland we may now
expect to hear the thunder of public indig-
nation rafting through the valleys and
over the mountain tops of our neighbOring
State-all for the reason that the Readiust-
ers have ruthlessly displaced a manned
Conred or two from Off cial position in the
State Capitol and put niggers in their
stead
Having thus pointed to the dead and
powerless condition of the Democratic
marty, having warned of the centralizing
despolism that General MALONE is in
ceniously throwing around its PROSTATE
form 10 keep it down, having challenged
public indignation, and having shaken the
dead anatomy of Bourbonsm, the SOLID
South then hurls its shattered lance at the
Republican party with great fierceness oil
purpose, but with harmless effect. Hear il
gurgle with wrath and lash itself into i'm
potcnt foam ms il gathers from its armOry
all the stale epithets that have been worn
out by use for more than twenty years to
hurl them at tho Republican party. II
says:
Wherever you touch the Republican party
you hit q spot of sedition aud treason. 1t Ia a
political aud social ulcer, which will cringe
and SILVER and ache at every blow laid on by
the hand of simple truth 1t has no delonse
but TO lie. No covert but deception. No
strength but in the irresolution or cowardice
of its opposers. Its crimes fairly held up 10
view will make mankind shudder The thun.
ders are all in our hands II we will but throw
| them. Bot we must throw thunder and not
doubtful echoes aud apologize whispers We
must call mon and their principles by their
right names. Let them BE- pointed at Let then
be Kissed at Create a public opinion that shall
etclaim whenever hey appear There goes an as
sdssR of liberty" 1t is the way to save fol
ourselves and our children the institutions Of
selfgoyornment and liberty. We have nearly
lost all by years Of temporizing folly. Let Vi
give this year TO God, our country and liberty
aud all will be we'll.
The pious ending of this philippe Is quit
pathetic. 1t reminds as of sailor whose
moral composition Was about equal parts o
cussedness and paroxysmal piety, and WHIT
: had his bad spells when he would ransaeI
tho vocabulary Of cusswords and use then