National Republican., 1882-12-09
rhc southe,n situation.

counted, number 1l7,912. How many of
the bourbon $1,000 were really cast, and
how many were the result of fraud
ulent counting is of no consequence,
since, as tho Tribune truly says "rule by tho
majority is dead in the state. A minority,
composing only third of the voters, rules by
cheating, and there is no such thing as politi-
cal morality known to it," The new regis
tration law, dishonesty administered stood
in the negro's way everywhere, but that only
accounts for less than half of the non-voters.
OF the 100000 registered votes 62,000 were not
cast and counted.
This state of affairs is as complete an oblit-
Grafton of republican government in South
Carolina as can be made Of dry stubble by fire.
The constitution and laws of the United States
concerning suffrage are us imperative in that
so-called state of tho union as they are in the
desolate wilds of Patagonia. What lDiH the
Nep York Tribune aud those II speaks for agree
to do about itf What have they done? What
are they doing? Some of them, led by the
Tribune, denounced all southern republicans
as corrupt, rs far back as 1871. On the
platform of hostility to southern republicans
and their northern friends they went in
to the campaign of 1872 with the democracy.
Defeated, they returned to the old party they
had denounced, to demoralize and debauch it.
They made recruits high and low, and turned
the party away from its legitimate work, to
try JAMES A. GARFIELD and others for al
legged otienses, upon the motion of JAMES G..
BLAINE. Credit mobilier, Pacific mail, back
pay, District of Columbia, and other outcries
made tho people angry and distrustful, and
in 1874 they gave the democrats u majority of
sixty in the lower house. This was never re-
covered until 1881, when a slender majority
came in with Gen. GARFIELD, one Of the very
men who had been so denounced in 1S72-'3
The last weeks of the republican congress in
1875 were devoted to u controversy over the
question as to whether or not there should be
the south in practical way. JAMES G.
BLAINE, JAMES A. GARFIELD and
about score of other republican members
said no to the ponding measure. The house
passed it over their votes, but only after n
tilibustering campaign which defeated tho bill
for want of time in the senate. We do not
here discuss the measure thus condemned
But We state its history. The Tribune was
most vehement against it. So it was against
the aid afforded the majority in the assembly
of Louisiana in 1875 by United States au-
thority against the violence of n turbulent
and rebellious minority, urged on by the
populncc, to usurp the powers of that body.
We saw Louisiana and South Carolina go to
the defeated party after their electoral votes
had been wrung from the victory so discarded.
There has not since been n sensible man in
America who dreamed ofany su ccessful attempt
by the United States to use force in the south
ern states. The only hope of freemen there
has since been in what could be accomplished
by internal forces, and the slow operation. of
disintcgration of party absolute in power,
when no longer antagonized from without.
This was the negro's only chance to exercise
the citizens rights so ostentatiously conferred
upon him, and SO scorned and contemned by
the bourbons.
The struggles between presidential candi-
dates and between presidents and portions of
the party have since driven from mems minds
| luB ucSItIdtc COnulllOL vi III IlS oOuIh
Can they now be considered? VIII the
Tribune return to the path its founder trod
before he had eaten Of the insane root, and
will it encourage the disintegration of the
minority faction in the south, which, with
force Of arms only, retains power, refusing tc
allow votes to be cast, or if cast, to be
counted? Has the Tribune any other remedy
a L.,
fesses to abhor? If force is not to be used
and we are glad it has been abandoned, ther
why should men be whipped with the scor
p ion lash of the Tribune, as they are, for leav
ing the tyra nnical Bourbon faction2
The democratic party in the south has beer
kept alive for years by the knowledge thai
it could always have the aid of the Tribune
school of politiciansat the north to SANDER ant
denounce every attempt to break it down. Mr.
BLAINE, the 1iibume'S exemplar, had no word o
comfort for any after the 10th of ofSeptembcr las
except the bourbons of old Virginia, who ha(
been thrice beaten by union of white ex-eon
federate independents and negroes, with few
white republicans. 1t will not do to talk
refuge under the false cry of "repudiation.
Every confederate state except Virginia ha
scaled down her debt. Virginia has not. Sh
has only demanded that West Virginia pa,
her third, This tho United States suprem
court declares to be in accordance with publ
law. And yet in this, the only state wher
bourbonism Il ovcrthrown, the Tribune
leader did pil he could to rebuild its fortunes
How car south Carolina be redeemed if bray
men who pioneer rle way elsewhere amid oil
| loquy and bitter, vengeful hostility find tn
J Tribune and Mr.. BLAINE on the side of thei
bourbon enemies?
Let us hope for union Of northern rcput
! licans upon the policy of uniting all ant
r bourbons in the south. The wrathful impr,
cations of bourbon leaders and papers upo
} TIE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN for its steadfl'
: advocacy Of this policy ought to satisfy ever
/ republican that it Is what they most fear, 7
this work we will welcome the Tribune, and
the leader it so much admires will lead h
forces in the right direction, he can do niue
to unite the republican party and much to az
I vance the welfare of his country and mankin,
G The PrImacy OF All England.
D The death of the archbishop Of CanterbuI
f awakens in England not only depth of so
l row, but subsequent stirring of the polite