National Republican., 1882-08-19

GENTLEMEN! Your sample copies Of THE Ma
TioNAL REPUBLICAN duly received. 1t Is hand
some we'll printed paper and is well worth the
subscription price. Ift was neutral politcallywo
would heartily aid in extending its circulation,
but we do not like its politics. The negro is suf
Ncently Troublesome without exciting his imagina-
tion by such decidedly partisan editorials as ap-
pear In your columns The negro properly be-
longs to the South Is of the South, and should be
allowed to harmonic with the Southern people,
with whom fate has cast their lot. To inilarnc
them In anyway against the Southern people is q
wrong which the Northern press should carefully
guard against inGicting.
Respectfully yours,
HENDRY, FLA. P. NJ.
1t will be observed that this unobtru-
sive p. NJ. omits his name. He is re-
spectfully ours "P NJ" which, as Petro-
leum V. Nasby has remarked, is Post
master. We alluded few days ago to
the fact that the post-oflices in the South
are chiefly Bourbon club-houses, and the
great majority of the postmasters either
violent Bourbons or their docile friends
and apologists. We do not know the name
of the p. NJ at Hendry, Fla, but we
doubt not his whole nature breathes
through the letter he has sent us. 1t is
a polite letter, and we intend to make
only polite reply. Our manager
blushed to the tips of his ears
when he read the obvious truth
that THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN ais
handsome, well-printed paper" and
when he read further on the words: "and
is well worth the subscription price," he
carefully examined the envelope, expect
ing to find a money order. The next
sentence explained why none was found.
Our paper is not "neutral politically"
Well, we should rise to observe. The
P. NJ. of Hendry, Fla, here becomes a
plural and says: "We would heartily
aid" &c, but 1--WE do not like its poll
tics" He must have consulted with
somebody and given us the result. Kings
and editors may say eve" each for him
self, but p. NJ. never The coterie
around the Hendry (Fla.) post-ofIice then,
speaking through their faithful repre-
sentative, the postmaster, condemn The
REPUBLICAN, for its partisan editorials" !"
They excite the negro's Imagination.
"The negro properly belongs to the South"
We are admonished not to "inhame HIM
in any way against the Southern people,"
Now, to this we say the negro belongs
to himself, and to the country. The Ma
TToNAL REPUBLICAN, so far from inham-
ing him against the Southern people, is
constantly exhorting him to harmonize
with all the Southern people, except those
implacable enemies of his whose only
political occupation is to infame the
Southern people against him. The Bour-
bons are not the Southern people," and
Bourbonism is not the South" The
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN has no desire to
inhame any of its readers; but it does
strive to arouse the sense of justice
among the Southern people, and to move
them to repudiate the small but des-
perate faction which prctends to
speak for them. and which is
allowed undue political control. The
neutrality of the P. NJ. of Hendry
is to our mind the most intense par
tisanship 1t seems like Bourbonism
struggling for utterance amid difficult
surroundings 1t is the hand of Esau,
but the voice which asks the blessing of
Uncle Sam, by whom all postmasters are
made, is the voice of Jacob. The negro
has no difference with his friends. Is it
only his enemies who are recognized as
Southern people" by this alleged neu-
ter postmaster? The negro must be
ALLOWED to harmonize with them. 1t
would appear that the negro is not now
allowed so to harmonize. Those of the
Southern people who concede the ne
gro's rights as free citizen, and who do
not lend aid or countenance to the Bour-
bon party-the sole idea of which is to
degrade and disfranchise him-are in
perfect harmony with the negro. The
negro who would harmonic with party
which holds this to be a government
for white men only deserves to be slave.
We desire the negro to harmonize with
Malone, Riddleberger, Governor Came
ron, John Wise, Longstreet, Withers,
Leach, Chalmers, and all Southern peo-
pie like them. THE REPUBLICAN has
battled against all Republicans who
stand in the way of harmony between
liberal X-confederates and negroes 1t
also opposes all Bourbons and all alleged
Republicans and neutrals who work in
harmony with them. Personally we wish
the P. NJ. at Hendry, Fla, all the success
and happiness in the world. Politically
we hope the Post-Office Department will
lose no time in substituting for him a
man who does not regard it duty to
reconcile the negro to the hostility of
his Bourbon enemies. The post-office
is very little one, but it ought to be
filled by somebody who will labor to
harmonize the Bourbons with those
Southern people who have outgrown the
prejudices of slavery days. To borrow
the phraseology of our p NJ, it may
be said The Bourbon properly belongs
to the South, is of the South, and should
| be allowed to harmonic with the Liberal
and Republican Southern people with
whom fate has cast his lot. To infame
him i'll anyway against the Southern
people is wrong which the Southern
postmasters holding under Republican
administration should carefully guard
against intiicting
A BEAsTLY attack is made on Roscoe
Conkling in the Albany Etenmg Journal,
charging him with an attempt to bribe
Governor Cornell to approve certain bills
passed by the legislature. Mr.. Conkling