National Republican., 1882-10-09
The New Bourbon Dcviitryin Alabama.


Among the many wicked devices by
which some of The worst of the Bourbon
managers in Alabama have sought to
discourage independent action by Demo-
Gratis, and the cooperation of negroes
with Independent movements, none has
been more hideous than the new one of
manufacturing rumors of impending
negro instructions. On this subject a
most earnest Alabama Republican now
in Washington writes us as follows:
4 sec from the papers aud from letters from
that state that the Bourbons are trying to get up
the NEGRO instruction" excitement, as they
did in 1890 1fthcy are successful in getting the
public mind nfamcd, then there will DO no
| chance Of defeating the Bourbon nominees any
where in the State, except possibly in loves dis
trict If something cannot BIO done TO direct at.
tcnton TO the purpose of the Bourbon leaders in
getting up this excitement greatly f ar that In
dependent and Republican voters will have 10 one
to represent them in the next Congress from Ala.
bamn. The RukluX excitement is nothing 10 the
passions iniamed by pretended "iicgro insurrec-
ton" lcalled to nsk -, If il would not be well
for you to write "a. article showing how the people
IN the South were being "dupcd" by designing
men by trumping up charges of insurrection, and
in that way put honest people on their guard
against lending mid in the circulation Of these In
ianmatory sores. PC
The diabolical murder of Turner at
Choctaw was not so much the act of the
mob there assembled as of the men who
melted them either by manufacturing the
papers which were found or by attaching
to them an Importance which it was
plain they did not possess.
The colored zany who was afterward
decked out in Haunting colors and started
on stumping tour in open advocacy of
the slaughter Of the whites was of course
put up to it by Democrats. This is APP
parent by the kindness shown him by
them when they saw fit to arrest him and
advertise the cause. No attention was
paid to his harangues, for they were not
worth any. Nobody was alarmed, and
no terrifying dispatches were sent out
When the Bourbon stage-managers were
ready they raised the curtain, turned
on the gas, and presented the black
vagrant they had employed to the people
of Alabama as an emissary from all the
Republican leaders in the State. Then
they began to deprecate his being hung
by Il mob, bad as he was, and claimed
great credit for their forbearance. Such
antics as these are INDUCED in by Ala
bama Bourbons to counteract the ten
dency of Independent men to leave them
and think and act for themselves 1t
should be remarked that the danger of
massacre of the whites is never felt in
the counties where the negroes are
largely in the majority. The tales of in
surrections are only manufactured for
counties in which the races are nearly
equal in numbers, and where the whites
are in no more danger than cats are from
an equal number of mice. This state of
things will compel the Nations attention
in time. The residents of the North will
by-and-by perceive that the South is a
portion of the National hotel and that
one end of house cannot be allowed to
burn with safety to the inmates at the
other end.