National Republican., 1881-11-18
A PnrnIIcI.

place OF the party which had elected MIR.
Lincoln. The mighty DOUGLAS rallied
of thousands of his followers
TO the support of the administration, by
whose head he had been defeated for
the Presidency. Breckenridge men, like |
Butler, Dickinson, and Holt, with thou
sands of their followers, also took the |
same course. Had the support of the |
Government been confined to the men
who voted for Lincoln there would have
been war and anarchy in the North as
well rs in the South.
The union of all Union men in those |
days was accomplished in the face of pre-
cisely the same kind of difficulties which |
attended the situation in Virginia prior |
TO the accomplishment of the coalition
of anti-Bourbon forces there. There were
Union men in 1861 who would not
be called Republicans. But as the
Republican party had no policy but the
preservation Of the Union il easily rallied
all Union .men to its aid. In 1881 in
Virginia there were many thousands Of
law-and-ordcr Democrats in organized
revolt against the stupid Bourbon policy,
which consisted in staying mad because
the rebellion was defeated aud the blacks
emancipated and cnfranchiscd. These
men were unwilling to be called Republi-
cans; but. as the Republican party had
no policy but the maintenance of the Con-
stitution and the laws it sacrificed no
principle in going over to the Liberal
Democrats, who had dropped their party
name, and were dealing stalwart blows at
the old Bourbon Democratic party. AS
in lS6l-'62 there were Republicans who
were unwilling to see. the Union cause
recruited by any who would not train
in the regulation party uniform,
so in 1881 there was straightout" fac
ton in Virginia which looked with dis
trust and jealousy upon men who would
do battle for the national cause if only
they could be known as Liberals and not
as partisan Republicans. As in 1861 the
great tide of patriotism rose high above
the length of the rope by which many
small political skifs were made fast to
the wharf of party, so in 1881, in Virginia,
the flood of patriotism, common sense,
and popular enthusiasm inundated the
small-beer Republican politicians who
thought to stay it with mop and pail.
The uprising of n great people in 1861
for the maintenance Of the Union, and,
us Douglas said, to prevent the United
States from being blotted out of the map
of the world, bore but small relation TO
the sole issue upon which, five months
before, the Republican party had
triumphed, viz, the non-extension Of
slavery into the Territories.
The uprising Of the people which can
alone prevent the restoration Of the Bour-
bon Democracy topower in 1884 will bear
equally small relation TO the lines which
have divided Union men from confeder-
ates. The man would have been laughed
at who would have talked about slavery
in the Territories amid the roar and din
of the battlc-summer of 1861. The man
who shall hereafter seek to feed the peo-
pie on the questions Of twenty years ago
will be left far behind in the march of
events.
The enemy we have to contend with is
Bourbonism. 1t is the spirit of resist
ancc to the new order of things. 1t is q
sullen and rebellious spirit against the
new Nation born out of the civil war. 1t
is rage at accomplished facts, and hatred
of the white opponents political free
dom as ofthc negro's personal freedom.
1t is hostility to majority rule wherever
itself is in the minority, and bold and un'
hesitating political conquest wherever
lawless force can seize and fraud main
tain its sway. 1t is an irreconcilable fac
ton, thirsting for reprisal and revenge
Its purpose, if it could attain power
, would be TO treat the period which ha
, intervened since the first inauguration o
Lincoln MS an iriterregnum. 1t divided
. the North and made the South solid, cap
tured the two Houses of Congress, an,
: was only kept out of the White Hous
! thisyear by slight maiorities in the State
4 of Indiana and New York.
= 1t controls swarms of insects in the Re
! publican party in the North, which
i employs to sting and distract that organ
o ization. 1t has whispereis who pou
iattery intothe ears ofthe ambitious, an
many neat and trimly-dressed theoris
! "perfumed like millner," who, whe
', campaigns are ended, engages in exai
u perating drivel about the bad inAuenc
y of party organization, or, as he lispingl
!, | calls it, "the machine"
y q 1t offers its services to Envy when tn
u latter would strike at Merit, and recruit
sneakery whenever this rebels againI
II. manliness. Such is Bourbonism i
= America 1t is near the crisis of its fat
1t has shared power with its foe of lat
years, and is filed with wrath at the di
, continuance Of favors. 1t has lost vi
:, ginia, which was the backbone of I'll
II confederacy, and finds its opponents le
by old comrades who refuse to be bure
alive in the tomb of the last generatio
= 1t will use its almost equal power
i Senate and House to foil and battle IL
q Administration. Will the friends
II Liberty, Progress, and Nationality be lie
e determined and united?
n We shall not overcome the subtlet
is and strength of our formidable enemy
al 1884 except by UNION OF ALL WHO ARE o
POSED TO THE RESTORATION OF THE BoU
BoNs TO POWER. This should be realize
IN n0W, before we have been further to-
., by senseless divisions concerning me
IS, or turned aside to consider the NIGH
IA problem of distributing clerships by ruI
c, IN its blooming youth and rigoro
H. manhood the Democratic party co
or tended valiantly against the capitati,
he tax, or selling the right to vote. Hatr