National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-02-19
Malone and the Bourbons.

nasty who refuse to realize that change
has occurred are Bourbons. The Bour-
bons of France were said to be incapable
either of learning or forgetting. An
enemy of progress is Bourbon. There
are Southern Bourbons who fancy that
the Nation may be made weary of efforts
to enforce its own laws if those efforts are
persistently resisted. They hope to worry
the people into peaceable and pusillanl-
NOUS submission to minority rule. They
have decided that negro suffrage was a
mistake, and that the Nation has not the
courage nor the honesty to maintain its au-
thority and protect the negro in the ex-
ercise of his constitutional right to
vote. A Bourbon feels bound by no laws
his party did not enact. He raves at
the unconstitutionality of laws passed In
pursuance of sections of the Constitution
not approved by him, and SCOTS tthe de-
clsions of the Supreme Court OF the
United States declaring them valid. The
Dred Scott decision is, in his opinion, the
last one rendered by that august tribunal
which has any binding authority. Here
| CARDS the last twenty years as an inter-
regnum in the Government, and looks
forward to day of triumph when all that
has happened since the first Inauguration
of Lincoln shall be treated as null and
void. The Bourbon is perfect gentle
man." and looks with scorn upon any
who differ with him. He will tolerate a
Northern immigrant to the South if he is
"a gentleman"-that is, if he will pretend
to agree that all opposition to Bourbonism
is unwise and impracticable. There are
| two kinds of Bourbons. There is your
| clustering, vehement, frank, and out
spoken one, who tells you to your face
that the idea of sharing political power
with the blacks is not going to be allowed
to prevail. Then there is your stealthy,
purring, cat-like one, who assures you that
his people see that they have been mis-
taken, and that, as a matter of course, all
the amendments to the Constitution, and
the laws to enforce them, must be obeyed.
If you follow this one up and hear him
when he is not on exhibition he will in
his more natural mood argue testify with
you against the injustice and cruelty of
the laws to which he publicly affects SUBJ
mission, and exhibit all the fierce hostility
to established things that is shown by the
NihiliSts of Russia.
To overcome these implacable elements
what wisdom and generosity are re-
qlired. How Indifferent to names and
!, r., c1,
There are tests by which the true can be
distinguished from the false. The actual
protection of all men in their rights, an
open fight with the regular Democratic
party, and the trustful cooperation of
the colored people-these are among the
signs by which the friends of law and
order may be known and trusted. The
Readiusters of Virginia have filed these
conditions. Their leader, General
Malone, is an enlightened and
brave man. He will take his seat
in the Senate on the 4th of March as the
pioneer Of the great movement which is
to break the power of Bourbonism. He
will find his independence respected in
the Senate by the friends of an admins
tration the highest aim of which will be
to deserve the support of men Of his
stamp at the South. With them he will
find his only natural affiliations, for the
rest are Bourbons of the Bourbons. The
Republican party has no other cause for
quarrel with the Bourbons than has
General Malone. He and they alike
fight that faction because it is obstructive
and unpatriotic, unfaithful to the laws,
unfriendly to the idea of Nation, and a
hindrance to freedom and progress. He
will find that the administration Senators,
among whom he has selected his seat,
have no policy except the enforcement of
the laws and an honest, liberal, and pru-
dent administration of the Government
His past record is proof enough that he
will not hesitate to act in the Senate with
those whose purposes have been and are
like his own.
The leaders of the Republican party
have great faith in and admiration for
General Malone, and, although they are
aware that he will submit to no caucus
dictation or control from any quarter, they
will meet him with that cordiality which
they naturally feel for one who can at all
times be relied on to aid in resisting Bour-
bon schemes and crushing out the Bour-
bon organization. As to the organization
of the Senate, it is not the Generals habit.
as he puts it, to vote until election day
but it is to be presumed that he will not
on any election day vote Bourbon ticket. |
OF that no better proof is needed than
his contests in Virginia. This will, of
course, suit the opposition, for the Demo-
cratic National Committee, W. H. Barnum
chairman, long since decided that it was
not Democratic for Democrats to vote |
with General Malone.
American or Foreign Ships.
In reply tothe arguments made recently
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