National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-12
THE BOURBON CRUST.
Malone and Garfield Will Bring VIrginIa
All Right.

To The Edtore Of The Republican:
Living in Virginia, as I do, and pub
fishing the only Republican daily paper in that
State the Norfolk Day B0ok) that could sustain it.
selfu to January 1884, for the last twelve years,
in advocating readjustment of the political lines
of the State, assert, unequivooally, that there has
been no election in that State since the Greeley
campaign when a cheerful and Jealous backing
up of the liberal white element that has so long
desired to break through the Bourbon crust
on the part of the so-called grip saekers,"
could not have carried the State for the Repub-
lican cause. These ultra Republicans" as our
excellent President calls them, have seemed in
clined all along to fight down the building up OF
the Republican party there rather than to fight 1t
up. L will not say what this was for, but many do
not hesitate to charge that it was for the purpose
of holding on to the Government Offices. Let this
be as it may. however. the fact, far it affects
the Republican cause-which 1 have looked upon
as the cause of loyalty and fidelity to
the country as evinced in the South-has
been delayed and hindered by their action.
As native white Republican, am gratified that
we have at last leader with sagacity enough to
see through this little game and courage enough
to oppose it, did President Garfield in his reply
to the address of the colored delegation from Vir-
ginia yesterday. The logic and all that is implied
by the language he used on that occasion is that
these men have been unfaithful and are still un-
faithful, and that the colOred people should make
their votes tell against them and their more out
spoken opponents, the Bourbons or obstruc-
tonSts and help the liberal lsentimentin the State
In Virginia, and the South, too, the Republican
party, mostly composed of eolored people, has had
no leader but the administration, stretching out
its hand through the Government offices and
when those who fill those offices prove unfaithful
to their trust and barter SELL connive that
the Obstructionists shall rule the local or State
elections, they thereby prove more powerful enc
mics to the advancement of Republican ideas and
all therein implied than those who through
illegal means seek to perpetuate minority
rule" at the Southern ballot-bOX and in the
Senate of the United States The Bible
teaches what to do with unfaithful servants,
and the excellent Christian leader whom Proyi-
dence has placed over the destineS of this Nation
will not be much troubled to dispose of them ac-
cording to the Divine teachings. There are some
men at the South-though am happy to believe
that AppomattOx was but truce or temporary
cessation OF hOstilities to give them opportunity
to recuperate and again renew the fight should
the Nation be involved in trouble. They
may be but a small leaven, but it took
but small leayen to answer their purpose
before when secession deSolated our land.
The revolution in Southern sentiment has found
its leader in Senator Malone and its chief in the
person of President Garfield, who has advanced
the banner of truth to the fore front and hence
forth the youth of the South will be taught by
teachers who teach them the doctrine that they
have a home and a Countrywide grandest in the
world-on which TO lavish their patriotic afec
tions. Respectfully,
JOHN R. HATHAWAY,
Republican ReadjuSter