The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-04-26


twelve Senators who were elected rs
Democrats, and ten Of them came from
the South. With them was Mr.. Voor-
hees, whose speech recognizing the
movement of public opinion toward the
protective system was generally ac-
cepted as evidence of Democratic dis
integration.s In due time there viii be
votes on measures of internal improve
ment. Il Is probable that these win
make manifest the radical disagree
ment of Democrats ON this question
also. Does anybody want proof that
there is no Democratic partyP II 40.
this Congress win furnish it.-E Z.
Ifi6tl1e. 4sF nsD4s : 3iisf 80
The Change In Southern Politics.
The principal argument which the
Bourbons of the Southern States ad-
vance in favor of their continued rule Is
that their overthrow viii result in the
renewal of that condition OF affairs
which prevailed in the years that fol-
lowed Immediately upon reconstruction.
They, point to the abuse of power Of
such men as Moses, of South Carolina,
the squandering of public funds, and
the general mal-administration which II
must be admitted existed in some States,
as the situation that anti-Bourbon sue
cess will revive. There were two class
es of men that went to the South from
the North after the war. One of them
went for the epurpose of honestly further
ing their fortunes The other put ON
the garb of Republicanism and entered
politics from motives that were unmis-
takably, evil. They found at their hand
large class of newly enfranehised citi-
zens, necessarily ignorant and incapa-
bic of intelligently taking part in public
affairs. Notwithstanding the. disad-
vantages that every intelligent man SC
knowledged to-be involved In the en-
franchisement of the blacks, there were
seen to be still greater objections to
leaving them without the protection OF
the ballot A transition state had to be
passed through. however great the trials
and tribulations temporarily incurred.
Whatever these might be, they were in
cluded in the retribution that followed
upon slavery and secession. They were
the inevitable sequence of cause and eff
feet.
With the aid of the inexperienced
and ignorant votes men foisted them
selves into official position, who should
never have been there. 1t took time to
find them out. They did what they
could to disgrace the Republican party
in the South, and lost the moral sup
port of good citizens all through the
| country. There even arose among
many Republicans q sympathy for the
| movements that put an end to their
career. But it soon became known that
this so-called reform involved practices
that could not be upheld The Bour-
bons once installed began TO legislate
and to act generally in the direction Of
multiplying the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments. The methods adopted
that were at first justified by .respecta-
BILE citizens began to grow distasteful to
them, and politics passed into the
hands of rings of more or less un-
scrupulous men who were suffered to
control things through the fear that ex-
isted of return to carpet-bag rule
This prospect has enabled them to
secure the tacit consent of otherwise
good citizens to intimidation and fraud,
and they have been, working this
species of political capital for all that it
is worth. Meanwhile they have con-
stituted monopoly of the Offices and
have praoticed many abuses
The situation is not what it was ten
years ago. Those wolves in sleeps
clothing that called themselves Repub-
hcans to secure q chance for plumber
have passed from the scene. Ex-Goy-
ernor Moses, who has, recently been
arrested in New York for theft and
forgery, stands as an exaggerated type
of their after experiences. The anti
Bourbon party of to-day is composed Of
reputable white men who have grown
tired of ring monopoly, who reject the
class prescription and who are alive to
the real interests of the South. Here
and there a demagogue is mixed in
among them, but that is the case IN all
political movements. The colored vo-
ters have also learned much in ten
years. They have, q great deal to &C
euire yet before they win become INTEL
hgent wieiders of the franchise, but
they are far from being the raw material
they were. AT present they are not
made use of by political adyenturers from
the North. but they are politically allied
with Southern men who were formerly
Bourbon supporters, and who think that
the time has come when o change of rul-
ers will be blessing. i i
The personal character OF Senator
Malone is quite up TO that of the aver
age Virginian, and DIR. FELTON,, of Geor-
gia, will compare very faYorably in that
respect with Ben HILL The names up
on the lately defeated Independent tick
ct in Mississippi were rather moro re-
spectacle, if anything, than those on the
other. A South Carolina gentleman ex-
pressed himself recently to newspaper
man to this effect: - .se.- -.
Well s haze sefstsss1 .tst ssat {! lo11 w
h.a A .say al hs he ssR sna sssa ma
Eaa
tocsstfo GoVernmens es1s com possa 81 N my N e~1 @
native people, who delight IN dePriying me q
ancestors before me, have enjoyed IN an uuin-
terrupted manner from time immemorisl ~
The grounds Of complaint in this case
were the Stock law that discriminates
against the negroes and poorer classes
generally. and the Registration law.
which is nicely framed to limit negro
suffrage, The present political situa'
ton in. the South 10 that of division
among born and bred Southerners them
solves, and the effort of the Bourbons tc
make it appear that it is q set of unprin'
cipled schemers and plunderers that are
endeavoring to get in power, is MOI
based on anything like facts. 1t IS se
fagrantiy untrue that it win not avail
long. T u .ea.-f T.e -
What was hopefully predicted soms
time ago with respect to the Solid Soutt
has come TO pass The Bourbon solidi
ty was SO great that it had to crack. ant
healthy disintegration has set in. L
may be some time before the direction
of the political contests take defnit.
shape, but out of elements that are nov
working we may be led to believe that I
normal state of society ip the Southern
States is in the way of being established
and that the possession, of the ballot b,
the negro is beginning TO have the de
sired quality of protecting his rights
81. Louis Globe Democrat.
MIR, o. Sullivan, NJ P.,. has intro
duced bill into Parliament, by tn