National Republican., 1882-11-29
Certain Forces i'm Politics.

There are in the North $4,000 negro
voters in Virginia, 10000; in the other
ex-slave States, 1,16O,500 The negroes
are allowed to vote in the North because
the Democrats dare not resist it. In
Virginia they have the same free ballot
because the Readjusters, formerly Con-
federates and Democrats, act as their
guard at the polls, and will not allow
their votes to be refused or counted out
In the other Southern States the 10000
legal voters are either preyented from
voting or only so many of their votes are
counted as will leave the Bourbons an
apparent majority. This wholesale dis
franchisement, through q party policy
of crime-open in some localities, secret
in others, and proven in all-is winked
at, and has been for years, by some
treacherous Northern Republicans, who
have been hankering for an alliance
with the Bourbons. They have leaders
and presses. They so debauched public
sentiment from 1872 to 1874 that South
ern murders excited Northern derision,
and efforts to enforce the laws were de-
nounced in Fanueil Hall, Boston, and
Cooper Institute, New York, by Republi-
can apologists of Bourbon law-breakers.
The Republican party has been treated
as public enemy for ten years by men
who every four years mount it, booted
aud spurred, and howl for three weeks
against the Bourbons whose offcnses
they have in the interim alternately de-
MED and defended, and with whom, after
Republican success, they again fraternize.
This game has now come to an end. The
Republican party organization became
so permeated with this treason to princi-
pie, and so blasted with the dry rot of
Indifference, if not hostility, to the rights
of men, which is the breath of its life,
that its columns were shattered and
routed at the late election. The great
body of the privates in its ranks cared
nothing for the miserable questions
that were pushed forward. They heard
mainly of the distribution of clerk
ships, and the walls of beaten fac
tions in party conventions. Some
of the noisiest and least deserving of
the party demanded vengeance when
their coarse appetites were not ap-
peased. They had good lungs, brazen
faces, and false tongues, and, like all
imposters, they were, of course, be-
lieved by many. They are the dregs of
the party, and they live on their
threats to go over to the enemy. They
are already with the enemy. They hiss
at all true efforts to see justice and
equality established in the South. They
clamor for the release of the Barrabas of
Bourbonism, and the crucifXion of the
very Cause to which Garfield gave words
of sympathy and support.
No man is worthy of political conf
dence or association who tratlics with the
despotic power which holds the South in
its grip like wise and restrains it from
moving along in the NATIONAL pathway.
Traitors to the cause Of Republican gov
ernment are all Northerners, who direct
ly or indirectly seek to solidify the South
and place the Bourbon despot within
forty-nine electoral votes of what would
be to him a throne. Enemies of the
black race are all Northerners who would
limit its friends in the South to the few
incompetents who would re-ensave it
tomorrow if they could thereby insure
to themselves the crumbs from the Fed
eral official table.