National Republican., 1882-08-09
Organized Bourbon Democracy.


just as Tillman said, and Just as Pennsylvania is
The kuave Of the Pres would have African gov
ernments In the South and Caucasian govern
ments in the North. That is his programme, bu
II isn't ours 1t isn't South Carolina's. Niggci
governments have no place here. There is room
for them in Aricn-room for them IN the North
IL the Press desires II, but there isn't room fol
them here, and here they will not be tolerated.
What hrs the Constitution got to do about IL? Il
wasn't respectable enough 10 keep the editor o
tie PrCss ard The other robbers OF the North from
stealing the ntgrocs when they were property
| ana It's Suppos, d provisions will never tic dow
| tie white people Of the South to be robbed ant
oppressed by these stolen and liberated slaves
Macon (Ga.) Te'egraph
Now that sounds something like it
That is the regular thing. 1t is the old
kind, brass-mounted Democracy. What
has the Constitution got to do about it ? ,
If the organized Democracy do not fancy
the Constitution, why should they be
required to respect or obey it? The
proud Caucasian, if he is an "organized
Democrat" must have his own way
despite Constitution and laws A
government in which negroes vote,
even if they vote for Caucasians
is, in the estimation Of the Bour'
bons (organized), "nigger govern
ment." South Carolina is theoretically q
State of the Union, under a constitution
which forbids her to deny the right of
suffrage to the blacks. South Carolina
has no more right TO obstruct the exercise
of the right of negroes to vote at hel
elections than she has to coin money,
make treaties with foreign powers, or
divide herself into four separate States
without the consent of the United
States A State government created
i'll that State at an election from
which the blacks are excluded
has no more claim to have its authority
respected than would gang of counter
feiters. The State of South Carolina has
just Us much right to re-enslave the
blacks, or import slaves from the coast
of Africa, MS she has to disfranchise the
negroes within her borders or in any
manner abridgc their right to vote.
The editor of the Macon Telegraph has
no nonsense about him. He says just
what his political associates think, but
refrain from saying. He speaks for the
Bourbons of the whole South, and pre-.
sents the national issue, which must be
settled before any other question can be
decided. The ballot-box is the yard,
stick by which the popular will is to be
measured. With the black vote eX-
cluded the Democrats only have to de-
liver two feet to the yard, while the
Republicans have to deliver three feet
1t is simple case. Are two Bourbon
Democrats equal in political power to
three white Republicans? If only the
Bourbons are allowed to vote in the
South why should any but Republicans
be allowed to vote in the North
Another question arises. If the Macon
editor is only babbling, in his child.like
way, the real sentiments which his
more prudent neighbors conceal, then
the negroes are still slaves in law. be.
cause the thirteenth amendment is
only one of the "8upposed provisions" Of
the Federal Constitution. If the amend
ments are, in Bourbon estimation,
only supposed provisions by which the
white people of the South are not to be
tied down, then slavery is only suspended
temporarily and until the Bourbon res.
toration. The anti-Bourbons who are
leaving the DemocRcy in the Southern
States are doing so because of this blind
refusal of the incorrigibles to see that
slavery has been abolished, and that the
negro is a citizen by national decree.
This is not a white mans government,
nor is white mans government lawful
or legitimate in any State of the Union
That the white people will control the
National and State governments by the
free consent and suffrage of the blacks is
as certain as that civilized society will
eventually yield to barbarism in States
where the majority are ruled by the mi
nority without their consent, and through
the organized violation of law.
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