National Republican., 1882-09-18
The Main Question.


Northern Republicans who do not
glory in Mahone's war upon Bourbonism
are unable to realize the fact that he is
in struggle with that surviving remnant
of the slave-power which refuses to sur
render after defeat. The Northern Demo-
Gratis fight only for power and plumber,
but the Southern Bourbons are like the
faction in France-they do not
give up the hope of restoring The past.
Their merciless war upon the negro is
waged to keep him as nearly as possible
to what he was when slave. Northern
Republicans who sympathize with the
Bourbons in their death struggle with
Malone and his associates acting in
union with Republicans merely prove
that they are not in favor of redeeming
the South or of restoring the Union be-
tween the States.
The South has not seeded from the
Nation, but she has expelled the Nation
from The South! National authority can
get no foothold in that region. Laws
made pursuant to the Constitution are
there dead letter. The laws of England
or of France are not more foreign to the
Southern States, which are under Bour
bon rule, than are those laws of the
United States which look to the mainte-
nance of republican form of govern
ment through majority rule, and the free
exercise of the elective franchise through
the pro; ;ection of the voter.
This great Nation was ,chipped after the
surrender of Lee, and stays whipped to this
day. A large element in the North, call
ing itself Republican, loved money too
we'll to be bothered about such triaes rs
the enforcement of law and the protec-
ton of life in the ex-Confederate States
That was the bloody-shirt nonsense"
They preferred rest. 1t came. For six
years the House of Representatives was
controlled by men who considered them
selves foreigners to the new Nation. For
two years they had the Senate, and now
have it tied, and for four years they chic
reformed the White House, so that its oc-
cupant, during his whole term, gave but
two signs of political consciousness-the
one when his title to Office was openly at
tached and the other when the repeal of
the election laws was boldly demanded
by the Democracy as the Nations ran
som from its captivity, in the Appropria-
ton Committee rooms of Congress.
What the Nation has neglected to do,
fragment of the Democratic party, re-
voting against the Bourbon element of
that party, has commenced to do, viz: to
make the South part of the Nation, and
her people obedient to its laws. They
lead, and the Republicans, after years of
helplessness, follow. They lead, not to
exalt Fremont and Dayton, mot to prevent
the extension of slavery into the Terri
tories, not TO suppress war of rebellion,
not TO frame reconstruction laws or pro-
pose constitutional amendments, not to
arrange for n new distribution of govern
ment clerkships under a reform system
which will guarantee sineeures
TO the worthless sons of the
rich alleged to be educated, no, not
even to increase or diminish the weight
of n silver dollar, not for any Of these
objects are Malone and Riddleberger,
Governor Cameron and John Wise, lead
ing the liberal alliance in Virginia. But
they are leading an irresistible host to do
what the dainty and aristocratic, self
styled "better class of Republicans" at
the North had neither the honesty, the
patriotism, or the pride to perseyere in
doing after commencing, viz: to see to it
that "the government of the people, for
the people, and by the people should not
perish from the earth" They are making
the Nation q fact, which without their aid
would become fraud. They are doing a
work 10 interfere with which is treason
against all that was decided by the war.
Who SCOTS at them is the sympathizer
with Bourbon hate, and the enemy of the
Nations cause for which they contend.
If the Republican party Of the Nation