The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-06-19
THE SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN,.


THE SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN,.
When the history Of the Republican party
is recalled, its origin, its career during the
war. its course during the times OF recon-
struction. its contemporary conduct; when
lis unyarying attitude towards the Southern
neople from the very beginning is remem-
bered. its embitiered luminosity, its ianatl-
cal hatred, its pitiless disregard OF every
tie of race and community Of country, when
all these things are brought to mind, 1t Is
inexplicable how any Southern man, win
one spark Of manhood, or love OF kindred OF
devotion 10 his native soil, can endure for
moment the thought Of being a Republican,
1t is easy enough to see why such loen as
Malone of Virginia, Chalmers of Mlssis-
sippi. WarmOth of Louisiana, are Rcpubli-
cans. They are Republicans on the same
principle that Judas was the betray-
or of Christ and benedict Arnold a
conspirator against his country. They
are apOstatcs for the price OF their
apostacy. The overwhelming majority OF
the white Republicans who follow at their
heels and initiate their example are iniiu-
enced by precisely the same motives. Frln-
ciple with them is nothing, the loayes and
fishes of Office everything. LO. they act
after their kind exactly as would have been
anticipated. But there are Southern Re
publicans of whom better impulses were to
be expected, and for whose conduct, the
only charitable explanation is that they are
inherently "cranks." This is an eXplana-
ton, but no justification, for at the best it is
tantamount to saying that they are deficient
i'm mental soundness not TO mention the
gross deficiency which it implies in the
point Of correct feeling.
Omit from consideration the course Of
the Republican party towards the South
prior 10 the present session the most cor
rupt the most nnprincipled, the most heart
less in the record Of modern history
all this from consideration, and regard only
its action since the induction of Reed into
the speakership of the National House Of
Representatives; recall the bitter sectional
feeling which has been displayed on every
occasion by the Republican majority in
both branches OF Congress, the yigilant, the
uncompromising determination of this ma
jority TO humliate and degrade the South
ern people by every method which malice
can suggest and INSCRIPTIONS power carry
out, this being the one object which is kept
uninterruptedly in view by the Republican
members weigh the significance of the
infamous election law which is now under
the adyisement of the Republican caucus
law which is practically directed at the
Southern people alone, a law which is in
tended TO create great disorder in the
Southern states, to be turned to the
advantage Of the Republican party
| by its leading politicians-consider and
weigh all these things carefully, and no con
clusion can be reached that will be favor
able TO the Southern man who pretends
that he is n Republican upon principle. II
he is Republican upon principle, he is an
enemy Of his own people upon principle.
He is in league with the bitterest and most
|unrelenting foes of his section. lie is
cheek by jowl with men who would, if they
could carry out their purpose, be the polti-
cal assassins of his own kindred and assO-
ciates. He is conscious and active par
ticipant in plot to precipitate political
ST. Bartholomew that would 90 far TO blight
the rising prospects Of the South.
From whatever standpoint regarded, the
Southern Republican has no claim what
ever upon the consideration of the Southern
people, especially at this time when his po-
litical allies at the North are seeking to
place the Southern whites absolutely in the
power of the most ignorant and vicious ele-
ment in our Southern communities. AT
this hour, when the Republican majority in
Congress are formulating the details of the
election law exclusively with view TO the
degradation of the Southern States, the South
ern people should be fully united in order TO
offer the firmest resistance to the threatened
aggression of the Republican party. ALI
traitors and rcnegades should be marked
and treated in accordance with their deserts.
Let all true Southerners stand together,
and the malicious and INSCRIPTIONS de-
signs Of the Republican party will yet come
TO nought, just as they have always done in
the past, where the Southern States were in
volved. 1t is too late to reduce the South
10 the condition of a dependency, or to force
our white population to submit to the black
wherever the latter exceeds the former in
number.