National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-02-08
10 Republicans.


Beware the leaven of the Pharisees.
Your party cannot live without growth.
DO not fear to fellowship with your
enemy's foes. DO not fail to rcbuke any
who narrowly repel recruits The Bour-
bon Democracy never forgives anybody
for dcscrtion. When you find q rebel
against Bourbon authority you have found
an ally in the cause of law and order.
You cannot control this Nation with the
votes of those only who were opposed TO
the extension of slavery in 1856 or $500.
You cannot have u majority in either
House of Congress by the votes Of those
only who were on the Union side during
the rebellion. The Southern States have
been discordant and alien since the war,
except when for brief time they were
controlled by external power. The faint
hearted portion ofthe Republican party in
the North long ago gave up efforts at pre-
serving order and protecting rights in
the South, and that region became n
Bourbon absOutism. The Southern Re-
pubicans were abandoned, and they
ceased struggling for party success. They
are now divided into two classes-the
one allying itself with the crusade
against Bourbon rule and the other hold
ing back, and thus indirectly aiding the
BOurbons, in order to keep the party
small the one struggling to make friends
for the Nation and its laws among those
who were not 50 before, while the other
encourages continuation of the sulen
policy the one aims at dRti-BOubon con-
troll IN he states as we'll as in the Nation,
and realizes that Bourbon States lrW hare
Bourbon representatives. at Washington the
other strives only to make delegates and
committees and to demand the Federal
Offices in consideration of their use. To
the liberal class the blacks naturally
belong, as shown in Virginia.
Republicans Of the North will do
well to lok at the situation. If they are
willing to affiliate with all who are OPP
posed 10 the restoration Of he Bourbon De-
mocrdcy 10 po~cr they can secure for that
purpose the next House of Representa-
tives and half of the electoral votes oi
the South in 1884 If they adhere to q
narrow, close-communion policy the next
House Of Representatives is already lost
and as such policy would be with,
drawal from the Virginia Liberals il
would make a Republican Senate impos
sible in 1883 The NATIONAL REpUBLICAN
is for no compromise with the enemy
and for no lowering of the party flag. Ii
advocates afiliation with Southern Lib
erals MS against Southern Bourbons, ant
it will oppose so-called Republicans who
are on the other side of this proposition
There is treason in our party, and il is
not hard to trace. The very highest in
rank in the Bourbon empire are now in
treaty with Republicans who hate oul
party and seek its overthrow. These
traitors are among the greatest stickerl
for the integrity of the Republican party
wherever they believe such q
course is surest to defeat Re
publicunism. They are going to dc
all the harm they can as Republicans
before they declare war, and then they
will be found lending themselves as the
figure-heads of a sham Liberal movement
in the South TO be controlled by the Bour
bons and Pharaohs of that unhappy re-
gion. The,Republican party can ward of
all danger by keeping within call of the
anH-Bourbon element of the South. Soor
enough their aid will be needed to helI
us fight the alliance between Bourbonl
and false Republicans,