National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-02-04
THE NEW SOUTH.
PRACTICAL VIEWS OF INTEREST.
Rebellion Of the People Against the Teachers Of
Rtbclllon-Tho South Conscious Of lis
Own Interests and Determined
to Assert Them,

the Washington correspondent Of the Pioneer
Pres Of ST. Paul, on the future of the South His
views arc worthy Of place In every newspapcri In
the land lie said What mischief lay In the
old Bourbon tradition that the sky was a close
iitting lid upon State, the soOnt drip over whose
rim was the sole measure Of fcalty to the Nation
What witches cauldrons the rebcllious States
proved, and for twelve years aftcr 1865 Congress
thrust forth its committee fingers 10 find hot water
in them still. The local Bourbon leaders rakod up
the debris Of the war and kept continuous nrc
under the he'll broth until at last their spent
constituencies began not only 10 complain Of the
temperature and throw wide their windows but
10 debate the policy Of mmblng the stokers across
the threshold or into the broth. To-day there Is
new Southern rebellion, and II Is against those
who taught rebellion; tho individual Democrat
discovers authority and incentive paramount TO
the authority Of the Bourbon directory. Whothas
wrought this change
FIRsT-TmE BOURBON RETALIATION
OF power The Republican administrations ut the
South were something like n Minnesota boys
snow man, whose head and arms arc held TO its
trunk by sticks-bayouets were their bones. The
angry Bourbon managers pushed these ehiges
over and set up business for themselves ut the old
stands on an du'e bcLlvm plan They re.cslab-
lished 1861 by statute, a year beyond which even
the meanest poor white or conhcld darkey'
had already made q manifest advance, for the
moral atmosphere Of new ycars gets into lungs,
tissue, and marrow of men. The stir and tngle OF
new health finds sure If tGrdy expression. The
Bourbon leader is now in the prediGament Of an
engineer who forbids an escape of steam In order
that he may drag his tain up an ascent, and thus
suddenly 10 lii the top of his old boiler Into
mid air, distribute himself in fragments by the cx
plosion, and send the train dayhing down hill He
has none too much steam for his load and alto
gethor too much for his boiler He aroused com.
bativc forces in his followers which he cannot
quiet
REPUBLICAN PUBLIC SERVANTS
no longer challenge Democratic criticism they
were often unfit men, but their posts are now oc-
Cupied by Bourbons whose methods are no better.
and IN many instances much worse. The average
Democrat reSents the dircotory's mandate upon
him that q mischievOus method-inhcrited, if yOu
please, from Radical is exemplary when put
in practice by a Bourbon, that new label rcscues
thing from discredit, and that he must not play
censorupon men in his own party lie finds rings,
Ciquos and what not that issue their edicts, die
tate nominations State or county, with one hand
and improvise returns with the other, and appor.
ton districts, large small to compliant favor.
ties to requte themselves by pillage under s,atu.
tory license.
TUE BouRBoN NASAGERs
are no less intOlerant Of opposition within their
ranks than from the negro party and conceive
that they may continue TO thrust their pOcketiuls
OF ballots into election boxes and keep their hand,
warm in the tNN. payers pockets, from which III
several States they have practically legisloted of
the button. As complaints arise nom this yicnagC
and that attempts to discipline the complainant
first cnsue, and then come cudS, sharp criticisms
and fatal rupturcs. The culorcd voter has calmeC
down from the first eHharatOn of his new ciLi
genship, aud is no longer reaching out a black
strenuous arm to uphold local Republican
administration his politics are peace, the hoe, th'
acre to be earned, and the school house. He Il
,,,to .txy tn tI.n Tln lfptv
stronger than the old Bourbon managers, VIII,
will, however, issue bulls against II from Conven
lions, aud thus challenge II tO bolder defiance
Efforts at party discipline will less often tame hes
.rcstive Democrats into submission than act like
pair Of outgroWn trousers into which n lad work
himself only to find that he must stand on tip. toe
and has thus a higher point Of view. Th
managers
sowED THE WIND
that swept and scattered Republican ballots lik
fallen leaves, and will reap whirlwnd; the!
secure only while they wero not in posses
sion Of official power 10 enforce their wills Nnt
wreak thcir splccrs The moment Republican
could no longer dispute with hem insubordina
zion IN the Democracy became certain Bourbon
administrations have ever since been overloaded
and perilous guns. They have unwitingly serycC
10 emanoipat0 white men, who are quickcneC
with new motives and reaching out for dreenback
Conservative, and other brooms,.to sweep dowr
CODWcbsi Iull Oi hungry sIlucls, W WHICH ever
public interest is a juicy fy TO be enmeshed ant
sucked dry,
sBCOND-THE UNFRUITFuL ALLIANCE
with the Northern Democracy. This element ha
been q spcndhrn in walls for Southern martyr
Of radicHlism and niggsrd in matters OF prac
tical service. 1t extends Il fraternRl hand onl!
when the profIer costs nothing. 1t drafts nationa
platforms that are death warrants to Southern
growth, and dictates candidates to execute them
Southern Democrats sit in national conventions
are covered with quadrennial creed, twisted to
Ounce cap, and then 60 home TO eNtort an electoIa
vote which alone nourishcs and enboldens tn
Northern Democracy from one presidentiGlterm +
The next 1t has been all surrender from III
Southern, all clear gain TO the Northern The con
ViClion has at last dawned upon thousands Q
Southern Democrats that the first and best Stat
right is that Of development: that n nationa
Democratic convention which discOuntenances
IS MORE ISTs1CAL
than swarm Of carpet baggeR! that publ
moneys are no whit more national than publ
waterways that improvements to a river work
commercial suction from both ends; that an
party that ordains blight by It's tariff plank is
party to be combatted and that the sole Gontribu
tion by the Northern Democracy has been gratui
tous Grape 10 the door Of the old South upon tn
inward knob OF which new South lays stOu
band to open It, The only way that DelnOcrac
can beiricnd this new South, that would spin an
weave at home, import skilled labor rather tina
foreign manufacturers, and have her stream
largely responsive to her own aud national need
is the way in which It's traditions forbid succo
Why, then, should not Southern men husban
their electoral vote as weapon Of self protection
Lively evidences Of this determination and thl
much of the South is leaning no longer npOn Til
den or Hancock cruches will appear before III
campaign Of 1884.
THIKD--THE NEED or SUCH PEACE
Iafv ha a
the North, II has been discovered at length tina
to lash one arm behind the back and task tn
other makes stronger neither q man nor a Com
mouwealth The negroes were constrained TO iHl
back from tho polls 10 the Federal and stat
courts, in whose jury -bOxeG they TOO ofen ioWn,
themselves AankCd by detail nom the same VIC
lent element against which they invoked the law
and Gnolly they saw President hand over /
barter two States, on whose picRei.lines they ha
desperately earned his title. As Republican mi
iOrites could not impair q Bourbon claim
power the blacks went back 10 their fields Th
tallowy President by his assent TO violent eleCto
methods, melted their continuance and secured
law. breakers In the states mentioned guaranL,
Of non.interfercnce upon hi part and OF courts
Rbselye aud Governors Ia pardon them,
sliALI. EsplSs w ARMED NEE
OF ike temper with those that swarmed at c.
lumhia S. C., aud New Orleans Ia, in 1877, bega
70 dictate anew the politics Of the plantation
The south was again solid, and nothing so Nd
punCtuated as did az occasional bulletthe BOurbC
demand upon the black never again to yeplu
10 be politically white or mathemsueally perver
about Il count These pestilent champions
white supremacy we're usually men who had new
owned a negro or Il bRlf-acre aud resented q
prosperity Of black man A. insOlence, But Pres
dent Hayes annually assured the CouHtry in me
low terms that peace reiFned at the South and
did-in the awed cabin, in new mounds and