National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-29

1t is palpable to all that there are in
| many of the Southern States tens Of
| thousands of men who have heretofore
acted with the Bourbons who have be-
come thoroughly disgusted at the results
| ofBourbon supremacy, and who are ready
to throw off their allegiance to that fac
ton and to unite with our friends in in
augurating a new, better, and more pre-
gressiYe condition of affairs. They see
other sections Of the country outstripping
them in the race for population and
prosperity. They see their States
passed by by emigrants and immigrants
alike, and setting in an over-swelling
tide for States where Bourbonish ideas
have no control and, reasoning from
cause to effect, they have concluded that
the bane Of material life is Bourbonism-
a spirit of opposition to modern ideas,
implements, and methods. They are
ripe for revolt against their present
anti-progressive leaders. To make that
revolt successful they know that they
must have the assistance Of the great ma
iority of the Republicans of the South,
and they are ready to pay the price de-
manded for that assistance, viz, the COM
plete enfranchisement of the colored Re-
publicans of the South, and the destruc-
ton of Ku-kluxism, false counts, tissue
ballots, and the other devilish appliances
by which the colored men have been
robbed of their rights, and by which
burning wrongs have been inflicted upon
Republicans of all classes in the loyal
States of the Union.
The question then is, How shall these
men be met? With what greeting shall
they be received when they come to US
with offers of cooperation that will
seal the doom of Bourbonism and destroy
forever the terrible menace of a Solid
South? Shall they be received with
cordiality and their offers of cooperation
frankly accepted, and the shado,c tempo
rarily held in abeyance while the sub
stance is Occurred forever 10 our children
and our country? Or shall they be re-
ceived in such a manner as will drive
these tens of thousands of incipient re-
cGlcitrants back into the Bourbon ranks.
TO contribute to the lasting domination
of those enemies of all righteous progress,
afd,ali this only to continue in leader
ship the few men whose aims never rise
above dollars and cents, and whose sole
object is their own selfish aggrandize-
ment?
The Republican State Committee of
Virginia has responded grandly to the
demand of the times. The assistant
Bourbon members have been sent to the
rear, and instead of a convention at
Staunton, on the line of Wickham's rail-
road, it will be at Lynchburg, an en-
tirely accessible place. Instead of close
communion test to limit the choice of del
egates to the few who opposed coalition,
a test is made including all Republi-
cans This will insure the defeat of the
handful of men who have paraded as the
spokesmen of the Republican party
while advocating policy opposed by
nineteen out of every twenty of the Re-
publicans of the State. There is no longer
any doubt of the hearty cooperation of
Republicans with the Readjusters of Vir-
ginia, and the brave and patriotic Ma
hone will lead all the anti-Bourbon hosts |
to victory. The Solid South is now sure
to be broken.
We hope the Republicans of the State
will send their best representative men
as delegates to Lynchburg, and that when
the State convention shall have made |
known the will of the party its COM
mands will be Loyalty needed By all who
may have hitherto favored separate party |
action.