The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-11-09
mat .lxerwhelm.ngr victory.

ture OF Virginia. He IL already calling upon
The scattered forces Of Forcible ReSdjust-
meut to rally to the standard which he pro-
poses to carry az their head. 10 order to
convince the people that he was not irs'-
tor tn the Democratic party OF Virginia Ia
allowing his name TO remain upon a ticket
opposed TO the regular Democratic ticket,
ne endeayors TO show them that "Bourbon-
ISM Is defeated all over the Union.
The word which the boilers and NAL.
contents have heretofore applied to the
Democrats OF Virginia only, RrDDLEBERGER
uow applies TO the true men OF the whole
South; and, like the wolf in the fable, he
charges upon the South the crime OF the
bigored North. He accuses the South OF
having muddied the stream upon whose
hanks she stands so much lower down than
doe. the North. We quote bis own Ian
guage:
.In this we see clearly the folly OF Bour-
bopism. In 1876 the Democrats carried
New York, Indiana. New Jersey, and Con-
necttcut--iu all sixty-five electoral votes
for weaker man than Hancock. This time
even the large majority Of $4,000 which we
got In New York Is reversed. Bour6onlsm
did IL al, by the silly cry OF 'solId South
That was n banter which the North accept.
ed, and answers back a solid North
When did /" Bourbonism raise tho cry
of "solid soutbos Never. 1t Is a
phrase originated by the malignant enemies
OF the southern people, and accepted by
them In the same spirit in which the Yves.
leyans Of England accepted the opprobrious
term Methodist as a suitable name for
themselves, and In which the "Chrls-
tians" at Antioch accepted this as their
distinctive title. There never was any such
"banter" made upon the part OF the south.
ern people. II was such banter as no MI
nority was ever known to make, and which
no true soutbron would have presumed
TO raise as a battlc-cry. 1t was banter
which none but the msjority.section could
afford to raise, and which was started by
the demagogues OF the North, and started
because they knew that their section bad
231 electoral voter to pit against our 1873.
But was Bour bonism overwhelmed in
the late election, admitting that the Demo
CfAlfC party IL thC Va DONa-
bonism? By no means. The Duke OF
Wellington once said there was only one
thing worse than "great victory" and
this one thing was "great defeat $50
disastrous 10 an army Is even "great VIC
tory" seeing that these words imply pro-
trac ed contest, some desertcrs. thousands
OF deaths, mlny thousands Of wounded
men, and general decentralization. The Re-
publcans carried the presidential election
OF last week. IL Is true; but only
as by the skin OF their teeth. A change OF
twelve thousand votes from GARFIELD to
HANCOCK in New York city would have
elected the latter--in New York city, re-
member, where not a vote was lost 10 the
ticket on account OF our candidates posi-
ton on the tariff question. Now what are
twelve thousand votes out OF nine millions
the number cast in the United States? 1t
is not quite one vote IN 800. What sort OF
an overwhelming victory do You call
that? Why, it Is utter nonsense to in-
dulge in such talk. Borrowing the Duke
OF Welipgton's idea, we can truly say that
excepting the Republican party there is
nothing 10 this country so great as The
Democratic parry.
And pray, II the grand Democratic party,
with its four and a half million OF voters,
has been overwhelmed" what words can
be found adequate to describe tue condition
Of the MALONE party pa party which is
not known outside OF Virginia, and which,
instead OF having been defeated by major
ity representing only vote in 800, is in a
"ridculous minority, casting only some
80, 600 votes out OF total OF over 100000.
The Democratic party Of the United
States is party that deserves all praise. It's
members might long ago have made terms
with the Republicans, and divided the fat
offices OF the Government with them, ii
they had not been actuated by principle.
We complain OF earpet-baggers, and Fede-
raj supervisors, and Federal spies, and
Federal taxes, and Federal marshals. and
Federal prosecutions in court; but these,
as they exist, and as we have felt them, are
nothing to what they would have been but
for the restraining power Of the Democrats
OF the North. Let no true soutbron un-
derrate the unsellsh patriotism Of the
THURMANs. SEVx0CRs, FILLMoRfs, WIN
THROPs, MCDONALSs. EAT0Ns, &c, &C., OF
the North. They have sacrificed themselves
In trying 10 protect us OF the South fro0
cruel oppression aud wicked measures
which their cOnscienoes would not allow
them to approve. They have perished at
the post Of duty.
Let us suppose, hswerer, that the regular |
Democrats OF Virginie should cut loose
from the National Democratic party: what
would result? Ask yourselves what would
have resulted II they had done so last
springY The answer to the latter question |
10, that the Maboneites would have sent
delegates to Cincinnsti, aud would have
been recognized as the regular Democratic |
party OF Virginia. But the Mahoneites |
and the regular Democrats were both TO cut |
loose from the National Democratic party, a |
new party, composed possibly of the worst |
elements OF both. would forthwith be Or
xanized in Virginia, and would at once |
take position as the "isEMrl allies"
OF the National Democracy. Parties grow
thfy are the result OF a SGocess of
eysindon. Inevitably, therefore, a new
parry nnst result from the abandon
ment by the present regular Democrats
Of Vkeiais 81 their place in the ranks OF
the Natioad Democratic party. Whoever