Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-13
The True InWardness Of Indepen-
denfism.

with the loss of the control of the next
Congress, and the other that the one
great end and object of Congress and the
administration is to perpetuate Republi-
can power. The Republican House of
Representatives have already begun their
work of unseating Democratic members,
so as to enable them the more readily to
enact partisan measures for the purpose
of strengthening themselves for the next
campaign, while it is Enthusiastically evi
dent that Mr.. Arthur is devoting much
more time and care to building up. land
fostering the waning fortunes of Radi-
calism, than to guarding the interests of
the country over which he presides.
In this struggle for the maintenance
of Radical supremacy, the Southern
States are being looked to with anxious
eyes. Losses in the North in the next
Congress are conceded, but it is hoped
that they may possibly be more than off
set by gains in the South. To accom-
plsh this the administration is bending
IFS every energy. Political prosecutions
on trumped up charges, incapable of
being substantiated, have been inau-
gurated in our sister State of South
Carolina for the sole purpose of exciting
sectional hostility in the North and race
hostility in the South; no effort to create
local dissensions, and to fan the flame of
every petty difference of opinion into a
blaze, is spared, while Mr.. Arthur has,
by word and deed both, declared his
readiness to assist, with the whole force
of the administration and Federal patron
age, any malcontent movement in the
South, inaugurated by men whose
desire for Office far Outweighs
their loss of principle. 1t is need
less to say that to these tactics OF the
administration will be added the weight,
influence and millions of the money
power, the wealthy monopOlists and
corrupt ringsters of the country, who
Justly fear that should the reins of
government be taken from the hands of
the Republicans. their crooked ways and
devious schemes will be fully exposed,
and who know that, even if they are not
made to disgorge their i'll gotten wealth,
and perhaps themselves suffer merited
punishment, at least their chances for
future rapid accumulations of vast
wealth at the expense Of the people, and
through the medium of corrupt rings |
and cliques, VIII be lost forever.
1t is to these desperate endeavors of |
the administration to demoralize and
capture the South that the growth of the |
spirit of malcontentism in this section
IS to be attributed, and they serve to |
fully expose the true inwardness of so
called Independentism. To encourage |
his spirit, emissaries, purchased with the
promise or hope of Federal reward, are
already at work in our midst striving to |
deceive the people as to the real issues
before them. magnifying petty local dis
sensiOns, and endeavOring to disurite
ard demoralize the Democracy by using
specious arguments to make it appear
hat Independentism is "Jeffersonian
DemOcracy"-thus literally stealing the
livery of Heaven in which to serve the
devil.
We will not do the voters of Georgia
'be injustice to imagine that they can be
deceived by such flimsy pretences. If it
were not patent that Independentism is
the very essence of Radicslism, and the
favorite device for alluring the thought
less and unwary into Radical ranks,
practical evidence of this fact is con
stantly being given to the coun-
Try. Malone, Virginia" for instance.
is the latest burning and shining
exemplifcation of this truth. He too, it
viii be remembered, asserted, with en-
phasis before his election, that he was
a Democrat, yet since his entrance into
the United States Senate he has never
ceased to cast his lot with the Republi-
cans. even going so far as, but few
days since, to vote with the stalwarts to
keep under political disabilities every
man in the South who fought with him
in the Confederate army, and to perpet-
uate. as Senator Edmunds expressed it,
"a monument" to the enormity of the
crime of rebellion" With Malone
before their eyes, and in the full
knowledge that the so-called hide
pendent movement in Georgia is
engineered by such men as
Atkins-a dyed in-the-wool Radical
and Longstreet-an ex-Confederate Gen.
eral, who cast his fortunes with such
men as Kellogg in Louisiana and cor
daily upheld Grants efforts to pin the
people of that State to the earth on the
points of United States bayOnets-
the people of this or of any other
Southern State have no excuse for being
deceived by the specious cries of "Bour-
bonism," or 'Jeffersonian Democracy"
Let the people but bear the above well
known facts in mind, and we are salts
fed they will consign to oblivion any
reckless or rash adventurer, whether a
young aspirant for place or one old
in political honors, who may
essay to lead them, by the devious
paths of Independentism. into Radical
ranks. "Independentism" and ''Ma-
honeism" are synonymous terms, and
we do not believe that any man in Geor-
gia is sufficiently strong to Mahoneize
this prosperous and ever progressing
Empire State of the South. There can
be but two parties in this country, the
Republican and the Democratic, and
when this simple, plain truth is once well
understood, then the fate of Radcalism
in Georgia, no matter what disguise it
may assume, or whether led by DR.. Fell
ton or any one else, can no longer be
questioned.
SmalI-POX In Atlanta