Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-03-22
The Bourbon Yoke Broken.

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Virginia full fifteen years. With one
bold stroke he broke tie policy Of OBJ
struction and met liberal north on half
way grouhd. II took bold man to do
it. ltrequired n brave man to conceive
1t, but while such patriots as Ben Hill
were sleeping in the Confederate Sen
ate Malone had met the armed North on
the edge of buttc, and he was not afraid
Of the whole Bourbon army that had for
u decade and a half kept Virginia Ian
gushing in tic shadow of slavery. A
new order OF liberty which their men
seem Incapable Of understanding is now
about TO dawn. For years they have
kept Virginia bound to the dead body of
slavery. They have antagonized and
bounded down every man who dared nc
knowledge that the decree Of the war
had az we'll be executed peaceably.
They have tried to limit suffrage and
10 resist free education. In divers ways
they have tried to establish dangerous
imitations..of the old oligarchlcs that
were overthrown, dreaming, as Jonah
never dared to dream, that what goes
overheard must somehow be swallowed
and spcwcd up and come back again.
They have organized public opinion Of
the fiery order, and I'm chained 1t on ey-
cry free thinker. They have denounced
and mathematical progress us treason to
all that il venerable in the past. BY
their Free trade heresy they have sworn
that steam shall not invade the South as
the substitute for the slave. BY their
stupidity at Cincinnati they decreed that
the wages Of American miners and Man.
ufacturers should cease and be trans
ferred to England, and then here in Viz
ginia, fearing the laborer might rebel in
this they have put pccuniary condition
to his suffrage 80 that they could control
1t. Dccming themselves booted and
Bpurred by Providence at birth, as the
riders of the majority of Virginians they
have denounced the Liberal Rcadusters,
under the leadership of Malone, as
thieves, solutions and communists. In
the sardonlc poetry Of their logic they
now denounce Malone and the Read
juSters as traitors to them. With IL brey-
ity of memory that Is audaoious, they
ignore their own autocratic net when IN
May 1870 they read Malone and his
friends out Of their party, aud now de-
nounco them as traitors because they
don't chose TO return. Fellow citizens
of Virginia, this is Bourbonsm. Last
Monday was u week thIs order of things
was rcbclled against IN the L $, Senate,
SenatorIlill who Il perhaps Of all men
on the stage. as good type Of thc turn
coat, as can be, was put in command OF
the 81 Bourbons and ordered to crack
the old caucus .whip over the liberal
Senator sentup from Virginia. Nlthonc
was ordered to step into Withors' old
slippers and TO play Senator Withers, by
turning over his scnatorslip to the
Bourbon caucus. Now the mcts are that
things have not gone beautifully, nor
well under the Bourbon leadership
Under It things this way were going
down hill. The North was not quite
willing to be driven, but Il claimed tc
be willing to "totc'prctty ntir' with
the new RcadjuNcrs Mr.. Garfield had
been honestly elected. No fraud about
II thin time, lie said lac thought the
war had ~ well stop The New Orleans
boys and the New YORK boys had en-.
brSccd ut Mardgras, Gen. Hancock
with the tariff dagger Of the soulhcr
Brutus silll sticking In his back, had de.
fled the Bourbon order aud was present
20 add to the honor Of Gar1eld's lnnu.
guratlon. The Inaugural was pcaccil
aud respectful to the South, Fair prom
lses were made by the new President, T.
lie asked merely fair chance. lie had
the White House, the Court aud III,
House OF Representatives. Should N,
Senate be snatchcd by the Dourhons, foi
the nero pleasure Of allowing them {,
waive IN II the bloody shirt ut Mr.. Gar
ncldY Should II he used by them TO fc
elst the Inauguration ofrcfOrm aud pence
All this was ihoughlfully weighed by III,
Little Rcadluslcr, and with one bount
he seized and hroke the driving
whip OF Mr.. I'M aud stamped nm.
der his foot the lmpudent ukasc o
the Bourbon caucus. In the twink,
ling Of nm eye Virginia had n Scualol
aud the world ut once passed him VI
among the statesmen who have glycr
the old Commonwealth her lusirc. Mr.
Garfield now has a fair chance with hii
administration aud Virginia Readlusleu
mean TO see see That while he dota wei
Nv shall keep IT,,
The Bowbons had we'll move mp
They have been moving decade brhlnt
until they consider progress II fable
They need concern themselves very lltl,
us to Who will have the hntdhoud to fol-
low Malone, The Readjuslers wcr
splcndldly Represented boy HIN when b,
snapped defiance In Ben llll's face ant
branded him NJ false and uumnnly
The bourbon power IL broken In the Olt
dominion. aud the Rcadiusicrs IN gct
iinr un lhpIl pct h,c nll'p geo Wlol'