National Republican., 1882-12-26
Our Virginia Allies.

Our NirEinlb Allies.
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN desires to
have 1t understood that southern liberals and
southern republicans will find in it in the lu-
ture, as in the past, a stauncb friend and sup
porter. In states or districts where the republi-
can party has formed an alliance with indie
pendents we stand by the coalition. Republ-
cans who battlcd against their own party be-
cause it had allied itsefto the bold and progress
sive anti-bourbon element must look to the
bourbons, with whom they fraternizcd, for
sympathy, support, and confidence. They
proved their republicanism to be devotion
to name at the expense of all for
which republicans have been contending.
They enjoyed the smiles of those who scorn
the laws which seek to establish equality
among men. They were unwilling to allow
the negro to make new friends though he had
long since found them unable to make him
free in fact. They cannot disguise the fact
that they want the negroes to be under the
feet of bourbons whenever they caanot them
selves reap the benefits resulting from his ex-
ercise of political power They find their hold
upon the black race gone. The native white
southerncrs who shall dare to rebel against
bourbon domination will find the majority of
the negroes voting army at their backs.
In Virginia the coalition is permanent. 1t
forms party which cannot be torn down.
Mr.. BLAINE, Mr.. DEzENDoRF, Mr.. DAWSON,
Mr.. WoLfz, and all who in the late campaign
labored with them to destroy it, found that
they could no longer cOnjure in the name of
republicanism to induce negroes to give the
state over TO the bourbons. Any attempt to
drive Il wedge between the ex-confedcratcs in
Virginia who have redeemed that state
and their hearty and enthusiastic
black and white republican allies
will fail Any northern republicans who
counsel so heartless a course will meet with a
rebuke i'll their own neighborhoods. The
northern negroes will never consent to see
their southern brothers again butchered to
make republican holiday. A solid south,
deliberately labored for at the north in order
to make solid north possible, because indis-
pensable, cannot be counted on again.
The anathemas against Senator MAHoNE in
quasi republican papers at the north are well
understood as being intended to restore the
solid south which he and his followers have
broken. They will not influence the republi-
can party i'll congress or in the country at
large. The dishonest falsehoods with which
sham republican editors have fed the public
concerning the Virginia debt and the use of
federal patronage in Virginia are going to
react upon their authors. There is not sena-
tor with a clearer record than Gen. MALONE
as to the requests for official changes or the
solicitations of contributions from public off
GERS. As to the Virginia debt, its record in the
state auditors Office, from 1861 to 1889, is in
serted in the preamble of the only funding act
passed by the readjusters, and that act neither
rcpudiates, readjusts, eliminates, nor in any
manner reduces by SO much as one penny either
the principal or the simple interest remaining
unpaid, except as to the one-third of the debt,
assigned to West Virginia under the MCCUL-
LoCH bill, passed by the funders themselves.
The state government of Virginia challenges
any assault upon this statement, and
invites the bankers and expert accountants
of Europe and America to examine her state
records and compare them with the act under
/ "hiNii eib 10 llON Progressing. Nlr'
! ginia gives a three per cent. bond for two
thirds of ali that Virginia owes in principal
and interest. In the face of this we do not
intend to look on quietly and see bourbon
wolves in republican sleeps clothing break
down the free state of Virginia and remand
her to political slavery under the false pre-.
tense of believing her new liberal govern
ment to he guilty of reputation.
We especially desire to say that, as we un
derstand it, the funders did not consult tn,
creditors as to the MCCULLoCH bill, and tha
funder legislation has been arbitrary and fna
as to the one-third of the debt assigned t.
West Virginia, We understand that tn,
funder legislature of 1873 manufactured
spurious addition to the debt by adding com
pound interest and recompounding that.
The friends of political freedom and Law
and order will have no trouble in satisfyin,
themselves that the readjusters are the homes
debt payers. The traitors to the right VIII
dare not openly betray it will masquerad
under the cowardly pretense of opposing
reputation. The issue must be met.