The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-11-24

Carolina, and Northern money and infiu-
ence will be given to defeat the gallant
Democracy of that grand old State. Fore
seeing this union of disgruntled whites
and negroes against them, aided by an I'M
scrupulous President, the Democracy OF our
sister State should at once sound the alarm
and unite the better elements Of her people
against the vile combination to subordinate
intelligence and real worth to the base uses
of the stawart element of the Radical par
ty of the North. which, like John Sherman,
believes that anything is iustifiable, in law
and morals, that will defeat the Democratic
party
This is certainly very gloomy view OF
the matter, and its sincerity is evidenced
by the injured spirit in which it is ex-
pressed. 1t is treated as very serions bu-
siness and the gravity OF the interests in
volved is demonstrated by the deep concern
manifested. 1t is the beating of the waves
of the ground-swell which swept away the
party idols in Virginia. against the entrencb.
ments of BourbOnism in the Old North
State, and timely warning to the old
guard to prepare for the shock, which is
sure to come. OF course we could not ex-
pect our Norfolk contemporary to cOntem-
plate in calmness and charity the advancing
forces which are destined to sweep on to
the Gulf over the broken columns of the
solid Democratic South. and the recent ex-
perience in Virginia forbids that the subject
should be indifferently regarded. Before
the election it was the habit of the Ledger,
to grow merry over the easy victory they
expected and the disastrous defeat to the
opposing party they confidently predicted.
1t was impossible for them to tolerate the
such overwhelming force, they were so COM
pletely dumb-founded as to lose all hope
for the future.
1t is well enough to be candid about the
whole matter. 1t will be the policy of the
Republican administration and the Repub-
lican party to encourage any and every re-
volt in any and every Southern State against
the Bourbon Democracy and its despotic
and proscriptive rule. Whatever the name
it may assume, any organized opposition
to the vndictive and partizan methods Of
| the Democratic party, will be aided and
sustained by the Republicans in solid
force, caring neither for the name nor the
local excuse which may be offered in iusti-
fication. Republicans. and especially South.
ern Republicans, understand what it costs
to come out from the Democratic party and
unite with the Republican party. Although
the conviction may exist that the Demo
cratic party is positive harm to the South,
vet to leave iC and advance directly into the
Republican household. imposes such severe
penalties. that very few care to encounter
them. 1t is therefore not considered of vi.
tai Importance whether the REVOLT comes
under one name or excuse, or another. Sc
the object is the destruction of the strong.
holds of the Democratic party "a breach in the
solid partizan South, and the introduction oil
liberal ideas and policies into the Bourbon
ridden Southern States, it Is a matter OF
| supreme Indifference under what name
the movement is engineered and the end
accomplished.
We believe the result in Virginia is preg-
nant of great fatality to the Democratic party
in the South, and to the degree that it is so.
will the South be the gamer. II the courage
and spirit developed inVirginia exist in North
| Goro1ina nc MN tlinE fhou n he,
be national wrong not to stimulate and
| encourage them to an open and defiant re-
volt, and organized effort for the overthrow
Of the old Bourbon dynasty. All that ia
wanting is a few determined men to boldly
take the lead. The boilers from the Dem
ocratc camp will be sufficient, united with
the Republican strength. which will be
much more fully given in North Carolina.
after the Virginia experience, than it was
in this State, to achieve signal success
and range the Old North State. along side Of
Virginia, with the progressive and prosper
GUS Middle States. Republicans who sim
cerely believe in the enlightened and liberal
principles and policy and aims of their par
ty will not stand aloof from the contest fol
mere name. If the object is to break the
power of obstructive and proscrlptive Bour-
| bonism, and introduce and establish liberal
methods and views, and tolerance Of polit;-
cal differences, then the whole Republican
strength will come to the rescue and make
the victory complete.
The Bourbon element of the Democratic
party cannot in reason. and ought not to ex-
pect anything else. Its power has been
perpetuated by deception and falsehood, in
that it has instilled the belief into the pub
lie mind that the Republican party is the
enemy Of the South. There never was more
nv of any interest that looks to the devel-
ment and advancement of the South. 1t is
the enemy of the proscriptive and intoler-
ent enginery of the Democratic party. and
this it will be its duty to show, let the revolt
from the Democratic party come in what.
ever shape it may. The welfare of the
Southern States is involved in breaking the
solid front of Bourbonsm--sold only for par
tizan and selfish ends-for political power,
not for the development Of the material re-
sources of the Southern States, building up
industries and liberalizing public thought
but because it gives control of the machin-
cry of government hati it may be prosttuted
to partizan purposes, regardless of the in
terests of the people.
The experience of the past is the strong
est argument against the existence Of Bour-
bonism in the future. The young men OF
the South cannot but understand this, and
realize that they must either advance to the
front in revolt against fossilized preju-
dices and reactive inf uences, and join with
the progressive forces which are destined
to revolutionize the old order of things.
or deliberately step into their political
graves.
1t is the young blood that must assert it
self, and il the break is orce made the ex-
perience of Virginia will teach the Repub-
publieans to march to its support in solid
column. without any scrupies about the
precfse color ofor inscription upon the flags
under which they will have to range.