Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-19

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campaign in Virginia, says the success
of Malone would imperil ''Bourbonism
all over the South. By "Bourbonism" the
Journal means Democracy. or those
principles in support of which the mass
of the Southern people are arrayed from
choice or necessity.
While the great majority Of the peo-
ple of the South are devoted to Democ-
racv. there are numbers who follow the
lead of disappointed place hunters and
set 10 as Independents. T" These men
are warming for a revolution in the be
lief that it would give them the promi-
nence they cannot now obtain.
To them the triumph of Malone
would be an omen of hope and spur to
the execution of their plans.
Among them there are a few men of
talent and passing solidity, but the mass
of voters, to which they would look for
support, have already played their part
in the control of affairs. Led by men
far more talented, and, perhaps, equally
as honest as the would be bosses that
would control them now, they outraged
Justice, violated law, ignored every prin'
ciple of political economy, and struck
blow after blow at freedom, until the
wonder is that it survived.
What else than repetition Of the hor-
rors of carpetbagism do these Jewellers
and disorganizers hope to achieve? What
is your Independent Usually a sorehead
Democrat, who brooks i'll the elevation
Of others. Too cowardly to svOw him
self a Republican he is perennial Goa
litionist ready to fall in with any move
ment that will help him to his ends. A
stranger to principle, he scIs ever and
solely for self.
While the triumph of Malone would
spur the disorganizers of other States to
work upon the proletsriat that is at hand
in all Of them, and beget turmoil and
agitation, the day is far distant when the
iufamies of the past will be repeated.
The people have learned too well the
value of order, honest government and
progress TO consent that demagogues
shall have license to undo the good work
of the past five years. The enlightened
organs of New England may hound on
the revOlutionists of Virginia and invite
social wreck IN the South, but they will
call for a long time ere the answer comes
they wish for.
II does not strike them, though, that
their sympathy for Malone may be a
plant of dragons teeth that the North
may yet reap. The stirring events of
the summer of 1877 showed that the
masses were not overstocked with re-
gard for the interests of corporate power
Already throughout the North OIganizs-
tions are forming to check its supposed
aud real exactiOns. The lesven is work
ing, and, if leader arises at the proper
moment, the North, so used to
order, self government and security.
may find herself face to face with an
order of things Of which the South has
had such lasting taste. The gospel of
dishonesty, too, though it may be pre-
sented in chapters on ga free ballot and
a far count. is one that will appeal as
strongly to one section as another. HUI
man nature is everywhere much the same.
Revolutions are everywhere possible.
4 revolution that should overthrow the
"BOurbOns"-the men of positiel aud of
property in the South, and who give tone
to its society-we know what that would
mean, for we have seen it all but accom-
plished. But movement such as our
Boston contemporary and other support
ers of Malone invite for the overthrow
of society at the North would embrace
the republic. Such movement to the
thoughtful mind is not impossible
in the nature of things Those
who champion dishonesty in Virgins
would stop at nothing that would serve
their ends, and he who encourages them
whoever and wherever he may be, is g
blatant charlstan or a deliberate foe to
society. But in the contest for survival
the South need have no fears. She can
deal and has dealt with her tiger
But when the North-and it may be
ere she dreams of it-shall be confronted
with the aroused spirit Of disorder allied
with the genius of reputation. those
Who encouraged both in the South viii
learn, too late, their folly. The organ:
may sneer at the possibility of danger
but let the negro once Sec dishonesty tri
umph in Virginia, and he will be stand
ing ally of it everywhere, and he would
need but slight persuasion to range him
self under the banner of national repu
diation. How many of the DISCONTINUED
al the North and elsewhere would jOiI
| him, the loud mOuthed champions Of
Malone, if they do not know, would dc
well to calculate. The republic can live,
but it, and every part of it, depends fol
life upon the measure of control,
enjoyed BY its best citizens, and the re-
gard they pay to the mandates of princi
pie. honesty and law.