National Republican., 1883-03-29
Mr.. Blaine and the Virginia Bourbons

/ lUlnlllNS OF tne STATE many lncTC WOulu DC
| TO frown upon such un-Amcrican antics. 1t
+ is unnecessary here to go into any descrip-
! tion Of the caste which prevailed in the slave
states in former times, and which now seeks to
| pcrpctuato itself since the ebony idol of its
worship has been cast into the muck heap of
| tho past. 1t is enough to say that its deadly
/ spirit is as hostile to republican institutions
as Slavery was to Freedom. 1t fought for ox.
elusive political powers. 1t was against any
! political party IL could not control. 1t was TO
/ the democratic party what the Jesuit
order is to tho Catholic church-its eye,
eur, mind, hand, and heart. 1t struck
down the democratic party in 1850
| for daring to question the wisdom
of It's new demands on northern patience as
/ rcmorsclcssly as it would have disbandcd an
abolition convention. 1t was this spirit of
caste which forced the south TO an unequal
aud Quixotic contest for the privilege Of
taking negro slaves to the snow banks Of
Washington territory, where they could not
have lived and which roared about the right
to the return of slaves who had never run
away. 1t was caste that refused to treat the
war as having settled anything and it is caste,
and only that, which now constitutes the
bourbon democratic party Of the SOUTH
| Blndly and stupidity asserting its pedigree
and family prctentions as establishing II
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suited the people of Virginia until
! they rallied under the banner of revolt raised
! by brave and knightly hands and plucked it
from the throne IL had so long usurped. But
| tic snake was scotched, not killed, It's partic.
ular oh'ense against which the people rebelled
was the fathless conduct Of the state finances,
and the harboring of plunderers from outside
of the state who came to rcadjust the debt by
adding TO its volume without consideration.
Tho old state staggered like starved and over
laden horse and groancd as the funder buzz
yards planted their foul bcaks in her sides
The read busters with clubs drove away these
tormentors who, with hunger unsatisied and
screaming about the violated honor of the
state.
The bourbons of Virginia are inviting back
| the buz2ards The impending contest in that
state will long be remembered. Bourbon
mutineers are sending up signals TO fundcr
| pirates, and every eXerton is to be made to
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minion. The supreme court of the United
States thas decided that Virginia can make
and interpret her own laws concerning her
own business transactions. The bourbons say
to the northern sharpers who have engineered
all the plundering funding schemes of the
past; Come with your money and your infu-
ence and help bOurbonism again into power,
and the laws Of Virginia, which the supreme
court says it cannot touch, shall bo repealed
by bourbon legislature and again you shall
run riot in the state"
The settlement of the debt as made by the
Rddlebcrger law in obedience to the peoples
will expressed in every election for four
|
of the readiusters and their republican allies
in the choice of u new legislature, or that
law will be repealed and fraudulently man
ufactured Indebtedness will be saddcd upon
a people unable to bear it, Arrayed upon tho
side Of the existing law are Malone and his
sixty thousand liberal ex-confederate support.
/ Ia nc Al,
orcd voters, who recognize him as their friend
and leader. Upon the side of the bourbons
are all who fear their anathcmas and all who
banker after the money which they fondly
hope to sec used to carry through their
schemes, Not only these-other forces there
are. All the power of the northern democ-
racy will be with the bourbons, and against
that will be arrayed all the, northern republi-
cans who arc not lending aid and comfort to
the enemy.
The people of Virginia in their great trial
broke down color lines and party lines. The
democratic party Of the north did their best
to deliver her over bound hand and foot to
her enemies, Republicans aided in her res
cue. In 1881 the republican party of the state
voted to make common c,use with the liberals
and have done so ever sine
II is an unfortunate lIu,n which must bC
stated that for reasons best known to him.
self, James G. Blaine has been in full sym
pathy with the Virginia bourbons, and hai
lent his influence publicly to their cause
This was done last fall in conspicuou,
manner, as it had before been done les
openly. The republican party of tho north
has as a body rcjoiced in the emancipation o
Virginia from bourbon thraldom. The ad.
ministraton OF President Arthur has treated
Gen. Malone as one Of its truest politica
friends and supporters, and such he has Al
all times proven himself TO be. On the
other hand, wherever Mr.. Blaine could make
! himself felt he has exhibited rancorous hos,
tility to the republican party of Virginia ant
the coalition in which it is despite Mr.
Blaine's protest Il potent and an enthusiast,
factor. The scolding newspapers which seen
to be the special champions of Mr.. Blaine
; and which fought the republican party S,
: bitterly all along the lines last summer an,
f fall, have snarled at and insulted Mahou