The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-04-20
south Carolina ROurbOns Disturbed.

The South Carolina BourbOns are dis !
turbed in spirit. They always are when
the sacred right to keep the black man
down is assailed. And they have had a
mastering too they always have
whenevera spirit Of excessive folly takes
hold Of them. This time il was the
Bourbon Democratic Executive Com
mittee who met. And the occasion of
the meeting was a letter from Attorney
General Brewster. Brewster believes
the right of fair count ought not to be
assailed. He believes that maiOrities
are something, and that fraud should
not prevail against them. Such, how
ever, is not the prevailing idea of Pal
mettodom. There fraud is everything;
maiOrities nothing. Brewster would
have this ended He would have the
ballot-box purified and fraud punished.
Hitherto the crackers and sand hillers,
the instruments, have occasionally sut-
fered, and the prominent ones escaped.
Now the Attorney-General insists that
the important persons concerned in
these frauds on liberty shall be vigor-
ously prosecuted. There is where the
shoe pinches. The South Carolina
BourbOns say "that means all of us. "
which is another way of saying two
/ things; /, that only "important' per-
| sons have anything to do with Bourbon
! politics in South Carolina. The sand
| hillers count for no more than they did
| in the high links of the old planters;
and 3 all of these important ones are
more or less guilty of election frauds.
| 1t is an Indictment of the Dem
ocratic party. So say the Bourbon
Executive Committee How is it in
dictedP Brewster said nothing about
Democrats. He referred only to cleo
tion frauds and the parties who are
guilty of the crime. ALI! But that
means all of "we unsn That is the
meaning of the Bourbon utterance.
They ought to know themselves. And
if they say it means them the rest of the
country will be likely to accept them at
their word. Hitherto it has been sup
| posed they were not all guilty, but the
Bourbon Committee have brushed aside
that cherished delusion. 1t means all
of us-the whole Democratic party of
South Carolina. Unless they mean that,
their tribulatory exclamation, 1t is an
indictment of the Democratic party, -
is senseless. Thus these Bourbons say
of themselves much worse things than
dLll OlAD CloE HIS otllAl VI llAtlAs L llN
guilty cap was thrown at a few-they
all grab for it and put it on their heads.
So let them wear it.
Frauds have been committed in South
Carolina. No one denies that. Mr..
Brewster says: Punish the guilty
ones" The Bourbon Committee an
swer that means "tO punish the whole
Democratic party of South Carolina. ~
] .
Certainly not! Mr.. Brewster only refers
to the guilty. The reason must there
fore be that all are guilty, and that the
Bourbon State Executive Committee adj
init they are guilty.
If this is done, that is, if the guilty
are punished, it will ''make adherence
to the principles of the Democratic par
ty impossible in the future So say
the Bourbon Committee. 1t has been
known that fraud was one of the Demo
cratic cherished practices, but now the
BOurbons claim it as a principle. Mr..
Brewster says "stOp fraud That is
all he requires to be stopped. OF course
if fraud is terminated it can no longer
be adhered to. And they reason that
if they cannot adhere to fraud they will
be prevented from fuare practice OF
one of the principles Of the Democratic
party.
And now these Bourbons in solemn
convention, with many twistings o.
, mustaches and loud vOciferations, insist
"that it is time for the people to rise
, in their might and protest against thi,
3 unwarrantable invasion Of their rights.
Let us see again what it is that the At
r tornsy-General directs-this, that par
ties guilty of election frauds shall bC
vigorously prosecuted. Is fraud one o.
, the South Carolina rights? Is it an in
| vasion of rights to punish people whC
T outcOunt the cOlored votes and commit di
vers and sundry perjuries to fortify theil
, fraudsP If these are rights and punish
7 ment is an invasion Of them, they Ough
to tS invaded. But their clamOr means
this and nothing else.
{ If they fail now 't the foe and strange
f will againg rule in South Carolina.
This also is q part of the Bourbon Com
2 mittee's wall. BY foe and stranger the,
of course mean the cOlored man and emi
grant. But these can not rule if thu
elections are fair unless they, 1.-the TO,
and stranger are the majority. vii
the BOurbOns openly say that the
/ majority ought not to prevail? PeThap
? they may. Whether they do or not thi
= Is clearly deducible from their state
D ment. If fraud is punished the Bour
l bons can not rule the State In fac
. that is precisely what they say
2 we fail nOw'-sO they say. Fail il
E what? Why, in preventsng the Court
fl Iom Furnishing persons guilty Of election
Y frsuds-that is the only matter in issu
e and if they fail in preventing tina
punishment-then the foe ant
e stranger will rule, because the foe an,
1 stranger are the most numerous bod
70 of voters, and because the foe AM
p stranger can only DC defeated by fraud
b Mr. Brewster Indictment, as indictmen
e they call it, is very tame compared wit
= the Indictment which the BO'TbOl
q Committee make against themselve
i and their party, Verify whenever thes
s BouEbons open their mouth they pu
bothfeet in it.-DetrOH Post and Tribune
IS The Use Of Democracy.
800. 1900. - ..--.1l -. -.. q.