Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1881-12-23
MAHONIZING THE SOUTH.

MAHONIZING THE SOUTH.
The success which has followed the Co
alition movement in Virginia has inspired
the National Republican party to conf
IDENTIFY proclaim the early breakup OF
the solid South, Already the Republican
organs see with prophetic vision, Georgia
and South Carolina. and Mississippi and
Tennessee and Texas, emerging from the
blackness of Democracy and taking their
places in the columns of the Republican
party of goldliners and morality. The lit
tie would-be Mahones are popping up like
iacks-in-a-box in all of these common
wealths. The war is to be carried into AT
RIGA, and Africa into the war, all through
the Southern border The negro Repub-
lican vote is to be kept solid througd Ad-
ministration influence, and the broad
minded white gentlemen OF the South who
are tired of Bourbon rule. and want an Of
fee, are to .'coalesce" with the solid Afri-
can and save the country. The great and
good cause of liberalism is to be forward
ed. The political slavery of the freedman
is to be abolished. He is to hold his office
unscoffed alto cast his vote untrammel-
led-to be man and brother in all things.
all through this broad land. And he isn't
to pay any taxes for the privilege if he
don't want to; nor is he to be disfranchis-
ed il he should happen to steal and be
convicted.
And all along the line rise up the little
Moseses and the little Joshuas, who are to
lead the newly emancipated darkey into
the promised land flowing with a free bal
lot and fair count. Judge Mackey is to
be the Moses in South Carolina, and Mr..
Emory Speer is to be the Joshua IN Geor-
gia; and gentleman, with the historic
name of Jones is to release him from his
shackles in Texas and fetch him forth
from the tartarean shades of subsection to
red-shot ride-clubs into the pure and pei
luced atmosphere of free ballot. 1t is
all fixed up. The great day of reckoning
has arrived and the solid South has got to
pass in its checks. 1t is to be split from
turret to dome by the wedge Of the solid
negro.
It seems to take the Republican party of
the North a long time to see that it has
been and still is the solid negro that makes
the solid South. Or else the Republican
party is playing the hypocrite-a thing
which we are loath to believe of that great
and good party. So long as the negro
race votes in body so long will white
race in body oppose them. 1t lisa matter
of race preservation. This is true by the
authority ofIhistory. Sporadic exceptions
may occur: but they serve to prove the
rule. The defeat of the Virginia democ'
racy, in November, does not mean that
Virginia will cast Republican vote fol
the next Republican presidential nominee
For long time there had been no oppo
sition in Virginia to the Democracy. The
people had grown thoughtless or careless
and the lessons which were burned into
the souls of the Southern people in the
dark days following the surrender of Lee
were only known in half way fashion
here: Virginia alone of all the Southern
States had not tasted the bitter cup of Re
construction. Georgia and South Carolina
and Mississippi drank Of it to the dregs
and less. Those people know what it is to
have been subjected to the dominion o.
ignorance led on by recklessness. They
don't want to be liberalized any more
They have had liberalism OF that stripe IL
sufaciency: and they are more Bourbon
now than ever, if Bourbonism means op
position to ignorance and INSCRIPTIONS
ness in the administration of public affairs
We in Virginia are beginning to learn the
flavor of this dead-sea fruit by tasting it
and when we shall have tasted fully, WI
will spew it in haste out OF our mouth.
Those men in the far South who have
once had this gall and NORWOOD upon
their lips will have no more of it. The
solid negro will continue to keep them
part and parcel of an Intangible South
The solid negro will rebuild the small
piece broken off in Virginia. And the
little Joshuas and the little Moseses may
whine and CRY and suck their little thumbs
but the people will have none Of them
knowing them to be wandering stars t.
whom is received the blackness of dark
ness forever, raging waves of the sea thai
shall foam out their own shame"
There is already new South But it Is
not such one as Malone and those like
him would have. 1t is d South whose llo-
eralism of action and speech, whose growth
of education and knowledge, whose wealth
of capital and industry make it different
from any old South of the past. 1t il
ssabreast of the times.'' but it is none The
less conservative, careful and moderate.
Its people do not intend to make it prey
for harpers and plunderers, by taking unto
their bosoms this new tangled Republican
liberalism which repudiates debts anc
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