Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-02
ORGANS VIII be Organs.

Organs viii be Organs.
Dad counsels are guiding the Bour-
bon Democrats of Virginia One of
their favOrite campaign cries is athreat
that the defeat Of BOurbonism In VIZ
ginia will arouse the whole South TO the
widest scheme for repudiating the
whole national debt The Bourbons OF
the South can repudiste nothing out
side of their own States, and their own
neighbors are now in revolt against tnen
for the havoc they have wrought -
PHILADELPHIA Press.
II is evident that the time is far distant
when the Republican organs will cease to
misrepresent the people Of the South,
against whom they invoked all the appli-
ances that tyranny could devise. Now
that the national feeling that of old
swayed the republic is fast returning,
prudence, if not justice, should counsel
these Northern editors to at least affect
sympathy with the common wishes of
the people They have served too long
at their trade, however, TO forget any OF
the cunning that long practice has
brought them, and it is doubtful if they
could succeed, did they attempt to deal
in a manly spirit with the needs and
hopes of the people.
Our Philadelphia contemporary, a
specimen of whose adroitness in false
statement we present above, is an illus
tration of the hoplessness Of the efforts
Radical organs may make at fairness or
manliness. In its treatment Of matters
at home, it is dignifed, able and honest.
But, when it touches upon any subject
Of q political character affecting
the South it descends to the level of the
weakest party organ and grovels in the
mire of SANDER. In the paragraph above
quoted it shuts its eyes to a fact which
cannot be denied or disguised. If the
warning it alludes to so airily is a threat,
it did not proceed from Virginia 1t
came from another quarter, and if the
Democrats of Virginia have grasped its
significance. it shows that they know
the negro better than the Northern edi-
tors, who counsel him to dishonesty and
the surrender Of whatever conception Of
principle he has been able to form
There is needed no better evidence OF
the truth of the warning than the whole
sale surrender Of the negroes Of Virginia
to the aims of Malone. If the alliance
prospers in Virginia it will beget others
elsewhere. The negro is everywhere
the same. He is ready to do the bidding
of any demagogue that may delude him
with false promises. Convinced that
State reputation is a good thing, it
would not be hard to persuade him that
national dishonesty would be better.
The plan now resorted to in Virginia
was not tried before because it suited
the Republican party to set up
as the particular champion Of
honesty. The party is losing
ground year by year at the North,
and its leaders hope to galvanize the
dead organizations in the South so that
when the trial comes they may have sup
port here, or, possibly, be able to repeat
the game Of 1876.
But their organs may well inquire
whether they can afford to foster the spirit
they have evoked. True, the wealthy
and well TODD might be relied upon to
maintain public credit, but these are but
a small part of our fifty millions. Let
clouds of disaster hide the sun
of prosperity in which we have
of late been basking, and how
many would rally to the cry Of re-
pudiation, when the nucleus of party
committed to dishonesty was at hand?
Should that time come, the honest men
Of the South would be found with those
of the North, shoulder to shoulder, in
defense of the republics good faith.
But the negro, wherever found, and the
disconnected of all sections, where would
they standl The "Bourbons" of the
South do not seek to repudiate dollar
of lawful debt, but the security of pub
lie credit is menaced by any organized
movement against the fufillment of the
pledges of any commonwealth.
AS to 1.-THE havoc the Bourbons have
wrought, by this, we are to infer, is
meant pretty much the payment of
poll tax as a prerequisite to the exercise
of suffrage. Here, too, the organs are
blind In enlightened Massachusetts
citizen cannot vote unless he can read
and write and pays taxes. In the great
Keystone State the tax certificate is
as all important as the ballot, and
yet the organs are Mortified to
find that a poll tax is required in Vir-
ginia 1t is a hopeless case with the
Radical organs Their chief reliance is
falsehoOd, their wonted garb hypocrisy,
and with them principle is a passport to
responsibility, which they show when it
is demanded, but never exhibit when
they seek to deceive the credulous or
delude the ignorant