The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-09-08
A aREyoLUIIoN oFTHoUGHT
AND ACTION.

Ii Is curious and significant fact
that in the south the existing party
division turns out upon analysts 70
be nothing more than revolt OF
the young, ardent, and progressive
elements of the white population
against the tyranny and the arti-
trary methods of the Bourbons.
In these, AS in all other southern
and in many northern states, there
has been for at least a quarter OF
century an arrogant oligarchy, in-
tolerant OF opposition, impervious |
to enlightenment, and, accordingly, |
unfit for domination. Against this
naughty and oppressive rule the
| ferment of rebellion has long been
actively at work. Confinement has
only intensified it. Defeat has but
served to give it AIDED strength and
energy. The southernsrs have, in
fact, reproduced the conditions
which have loosened in their set.
tugs those jewels of the republican
diadem, Wise onsin, Minnesota,
Iowa and Nebraska, and have done
what American freemen may be
relied upon to do eyerywhere-re-
belled against the brutal despotism
of infatuated leaders.
In the southern states as in the
northern states the revolt is against
the perpetual political boss and
manager. 1t has been little slow
er coming in the South than it was
!. in the northwest, but in each case
the cause of the revolt can be traced
: to the same source. Barnacal lead
ership in the northwestern states
. in which republican majorities were
q formerly as great as in some of th'
southern states, is the Legitimate
: cause of the reduced majoritles II
., the former states, and hideboun'
, Bourbonism is as justly responsible
o for the feeling of unrest and the out
- break of open rebellion in the latter
g In both cases it is an uprising OF tn
u Young and progressive element l
" each party against Bourbon leader
and Bourbon management.
The Post has been the avant cou
or ier of this new political dispensatio
81 at the South. Away back in N
~ vember and December of 1881 "
"a pointed out the presence of ne
10 and vigorous leven in the Southel
Mho nv situation. We sought to show tn
n nho the material development In SUI
~ States as Alabama must necessarl
,.s bring in it's train a diversification
,h T interest and pursuit, and, therefor
in Of party prediction. 1t was n
ns. then, as it is now, our duty or Q
,mt wish to sugar-coat the facts, to II
nd the leaders of either party with
inn rene but delusive songs. And the
"a az now, both our statements and
1iJ differences gave offense. They we
oro received with OstentatiOus derlSit
id though with secret alarm, and !
'ar Post was pilloried as an impudt
,on impostor. But events in Alaba
can have made it impossible to sw
md away the gravity OF that situate
ise: Fully 80 per cent. OF the White
rit. ters of the State have, by the
off mission of leading Democratic
ltad pers in Alabama, aligned themsel
with the revolution. In defiance
tho the fircest denunciation, and In
the tempt of a rancorous persecut
ia without parallel in American p
ave tics, a majority Of its quodam
low e.s have broken away from
Democratic organization and raj
the standard of free thought,
~ speech and free political action.
Who so reads with intelligent
liberation the Posl's special cor
pondence from Alabama and N
Carolina published this morning
o"io reach an understanding OF the
- dition under which the revolt
= +be been brought to its present deve
!. "a . ao ment. They will realize that
otion ~ t not the idle and fantastic caprit
tt,o tho;r thoughtless and shapeless raj
onn1a % but the serious, coherent gravs
,niar of a powerful and inteliget o
- NJ The regime of the oligarchy q
q 10 TO close. Emancipation day
.,t;nn @ the Southern whites is dawnil
MIL Washington Post, August l4th
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