National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-18
Choose We Whom Ye win Serve

publican principles are. The Republican
party originated in a contest against
slavery extension, and has no excuse
for being alive if its first aim now
is not the enforcement of the civil
and political rights which are guar
anteed by the Fourteenth and Fif-
teenth Amendments to the Constitution
of the United States. There is no room
to doubt that straight Republican ticket
in Virginia this year will insure Bourbon
Democratic success. The only compensa-
| ton Republicans can derive from this
will be that if they do not act with the
Readjusters they Will be likely to enjoy
all the Federal Offices In the State. These
favors will of course be confined to those
of the white Republicans who will have
stood by the principles of the party
in a manner which assured their
defeat. The negroes will have
no benefits. They will continue to be
| the bone over which the Northern and
| Southern dog fight each other, as they
were before the war. The pretense of
devotion to their political rights will be
proven to be sham and a fraud. They
will see themselves betrayed by Republi-
cans into the hands of Bourbon enemies
They will be silly if, under such circum-
stances, they allow sham Republicanism
to harness them into the Bourbon cart.
If any white Republicans wink and
nod to Bourbons and divide the anti
Bourbon vote for any reason whatever
the negroes will know that they are enc
mics. If any white Republicans follow
the lead of such, not knowing the game
they are lending themselves to, they must
be regarded as ignorantly serving the
Bourbon cause.
If the Administration fails to give it's
hearty and open approval and support to
the Liberals led by Malone and Cam
eron, it will be periling the cause of
law and order, upon which mainly it
came into power. If the solid South is
not broken next year, it will be because
Virginia is remanded this year to the
political rule of the Pharaohs. Not
often is any man so weighted with
great responsibility as is the Presi-
dent in this Virginia business. "He
stands like the Hebrew prophet, between
the living and the dead" He can beckon to
Liberty, and she will come to save. lie
can daily with the hateful hag of Slavery,
and from her lair she will come to curse
allthe land. This the President knows. If
he takes the wrong path it will be from
choice! He has nothing to tempt him to
betray the great cause which has been
confded to his charge. Mere questions of
Offices to a few party organizers and
of delegates to national convention in
1884 are not worthy of the great occasion.
If he helps to redeem Virginia he will
have the gratitude and affection of all
the victors over Bourbonism. If he keeps
the South solid, he will deliver the Ma
ton over to Bourbon succession in 1885.
The Republican members of the United
States Senate unanimously support Ma
hone. The press of the party is substan-
TALLY a unit. Republicans throughout
the land will rejoice to hear an early and
positive expression by the President in
favor of Cameron and Lewis, who repre-
sent the cause of free ballot in Virginia.
To JUDGE by the arguments employed in further
ance of this project, an unsophisticated reader
would infer that in neither of these States is
there free ballot or free school, excepting as
these blessings have been wrenched by force from
under the heel of the Democratic party flashing
ton Post.
Meaning thereby the Southern States.
1t is not question of argument, it is a
question of fact. The Democracy do all
they can to nullify the Fifteenth Amend
ment and have the negro vote excluded
either from the ballot-box or the returns.
How foolish to deny it, No sane person
believes that Democrats anywhere allow
negro votes to be counted against them
if they can prevent it where there are
enough of them to affect the result.
GoD forbid that should say one word
or cast one shadow upon any name on the
roll of our heroes. The coming fight is
our Thermopyle. We are standing upon
a narrow isthmus. If our Spartan hosts
are united we can withstand all the Per-
slams that the Nerxes of Democracy can
bring against us. Let US hold our ground
this one year, and then the stars in
their courses will fight for u.s." The CEN
sus will bring reinforcements and con-
tinued power. But in order to win vic
tory now we want the vote of every Re-
publican-of every Grant Republican and
every anti-Grant Republican in America.
james a. Garfield, at Chicago.