National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-01-13

sided game OF being Republican in Ma
tional politics and Democratic in State
politics will no longer be successfully
played, 1t is at State elections that
United States Senators are made. Not
only so, but through State power the
Bourbon officers of election are created,
who think IL virtue to cheat at the bal
lot-box. BY the State power courts are
organized and jurics packed to acquit
Bourbon offenders. In short, whoever
acquiesces in Bourbon State supremacy
is a Bourbon, and all the meaner one if
he halls as a Republican, claiming office
therefor, and voting a Republican
ticket at national elections, after having
first aided to put the ballot-box into hands
that will not count his vote. Thisswindlc
must stop. And that is the issue.
The juggling between Northern Repub-
lican leaders and Southern Bourbon
leaders must be exposed. The Half
Breed Priests and Levites who pretend
not to see the beaten and wounded vic
Tins of the ruflians in our political Jeri-
cho at the South, and who pass by on
the other side, must be held up to public
scorn and indignation. And they will
be. Jericho itself is rising up against its
own thieves. The abuse of "rebels"
for few days before each election
by sham Republicans will not condone
the sneaking partnership with the unre-
constructed portion of them during the
remainder of the time. The war is over
Nobody cares which side of it any man
was on who nolU believes in the Nation
and who upholds the laws. No old record
of hunkerism, or confederation, or Cop
perheadism, or Bourbonism can be in
any mans way who has made up his
mind to join the Union procession, under
the banner of "Union and liberty, one
and inseparable." No record of sacri-
fees, aboitionism, Unionism, military
service, or radicalism can excuse any man
for aiding to keep alive the Democratic
organization.
. The Bourbon Democratic party as now
organized represents all who hate the
word " Nation," who believe in the right
of secession and regret that it is too weak
to assert itself; who think that truth was
crushed TO the earth when the confed-
eracy fell who hate the negro and do
not intend that enough of his votes shall
be counted to defeat their party; who defy
all laws not made by Democratic Con-
gress who falsely pretend acquiescence
in the constitutional amendments for the
express purpose of retaining the power to
nullify them, as they have done ever
since they were adopted who hate free
ideas, free education, and free expression
of opinion, and who especially hate
Federal authority, no matter how scrupu.
lously it confines itself within constitu'
tional limits.
Opposed to this carcase of a dead past
is the great living, breathing Union
party, embracing all rho are opposed L
the restoration Of the Bourbon partyto po,rer
In that great National party, now in proc
ess of formation, is the whole Republi
can party-by which is meant all Repub
licdns uto are not in league wih the Bour
JonS. The latter will go sooner or later
and to fill their places in the Liberia
party will come-nay, are already arrived
great throngs from the best manhood
of the South. The brave native Southern
Unionists find themselves touching el
bows with brave ex-confederates
Northern-born Republicans living Soutl
are choosing between affiliation will
the new Liberal party or goinl
into the outer darkness of Bourbon
companionship. The Bourbon sepulchrt
can no longer hold the South. The mel
there who lead the Democratic party
have not the numbers, and they mus
yield the power which they now hold by
an organized policy of crime. In the
peaceful revolution going on Southern
confederates are the leaders, and they
have with them the Republicans at home
and in the North. The Administration
avows itself the friend and supporter o.
the new movement, and if any have
hitherto been engaged in swapping ma
tional delegates for Federal offices they
will find their occupation gone. ThC
Administration will lend its influence t.
defeating the Bourbon reactionists in tn,
struggle for electoral Cotes in 1884, instea'
of using its power to secure delegates to
national convention. Have we, then, III
issues?