Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-08-29
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. %, 1885.
&" Bourbon Buster"


of dollars and cents and become one o
State sovereignty" and the declaration
Of this journal in favor Of causing tho
Supreme Court to respect the eleventh
amendment to the Federal Constitution
were attempts to revive "the exploded
doctrine of State sovereignty.
He knew he was disappearing both
MS and the Democratic party Of Viz
pinia, for we had explained over and
over sg.in, and on many different occa-
sions, that all the Democrats proposed
or intended TO do was TO be done under
the Constitution. Mr.. YOsT needed,
however, no such explanations. He
knew that the reference to State
sovereignty in the Democratic plat
form was only to tho exemption from
suits conferred upon each State by the
Constitution Of the United States. He
knew that the argumentatiye assertion
that the next rebellion would be in the
North. and Virginia would aid in put
ting it down, was but another way Of
affirming that there would never be
another rebellion in the South; because
we so explained it three weeks ago.
He knew that the declaration in favor
of compelling the Supreme Court Of the
United States to respect the ConStitu-
ton was but another way Of saying that
a Democratic President would when
ever opportunity offered appoint Demo-
Gratis to sit upon the bench OF that court,
and that these Democrats would respect
the eleventh amendment, as we'll as the
rest Of the Constitution. And
yet Mr.. YosT did not hesitate to pre-
tend TO believe that the members Of the
Democratic State Convention Of Viz
ginia and the editors Of this journal
were so unpatriotic as to desire to re-
yive sectional controversy
But Mr.. YOsT, who thus prosecuteS
innocent Yireinians, has never a word
Of condemnation for Mr.. SHERMAN
and the Ohio Republicans, whose at
temptS "to revive sectional contrO-
yersy " and whose shameful attacks
upon the southern people are disgrace
TO the Republican party. Mr. YOsT
will have no words of censure
for the Iowa Republicans, whose
false and unfOundcd charges against
the southern people, or "rcbels," as
Mr.. YosT's allies prefer TO call them,
ought to excite the ire OF every true
southron. He makes haste to peryert
the words Of Virginia Democrats, and
give those words meaning which no
Democrat ever intended them to bear,
but he will allow to pass unnoticed the
rawlings Of his Republican allies in
Iowa. War upon the South is the bur
den Of every Republican platform
adopted this year in State Conyen-
ton in a northern State. General
GRANTS dying expressions have had
no effect upon the Republican
place-hunters, but will, we predict,
have due influence upon many Of the
voters, and especially upon his old
soldiers. Like GRANT, these favor
peace and good will. This war upon
the South Mr.. YOsT encourages by
making false charges against the people
Of his own State.
Do You doubt that il is war upon
the South: Read the following e1-
tract from the platform of the Iowa
Republicans
First. The issues growing out Of
the war for the Union can never DO
called settled until they are settled
right. by usurping and absorbing the
rights OF the DISTINGUISHED colored men
the white men ofthe southern States are
exerting double the political power Of
the white men in the northern States.
The rebel soldier in the South is thus
enabled TO WELD twice the influence in
the nation that the Union soldier in the
North can WELD. We protest against
the Union soldier having one vote and
the rebel soldier having two"
The charge is against 1.-THE white
men Of the southern States" THE
rebel soldier " is the criminal. lie is
charged with having two votes whilst
the Union soldier has only one. And
these hbels are allowed to pass uncon-
tradieted by the MALONE organs.
Here is another plank of the Iowa
Republican platform;
" Second. The menace of this crime
against the ballot in the South is also a
menace to free labor in the North.
With the black man robbed Of the
elective franchise, their power to pro-
tect themselves is gone, and the south
ern white men can degrade them at
will in the form Of cheap labor. Labor
in the South cannot be psuperized
without the wages Of labor in the North
being necessarily affected. 1t is al
ready drawing southern blacks to the
North TO find both liberty and en-
ployment, and Iowa has received thou
sands Of ssch men who here have
sought and found . chance to live as
free men and TO work at good wages.
The Republican party declares, in the |
interest Of honest and safe government, |
that there cannot be a political inc
quality maintained among the citizens
ola free republic, and that there cannot
be 8 minority Of white men in the