Volume 18 , Issue 31

Virginia Bourbonism Audacity of 1884

In an Angola, Indiana newspaper, Steuben Republican, dated 13 February 1884, Wednesday, page 3, we discovered this about the Virginia Bourbons as they were called.

For brazen assurance and infamous bulldozing, the Virginia Bourbons were not content with defrauding negroes of their political rights, they had tried the same game upon white voters, and when a United States Senator exposed their villainies and denounced their usurpations. They turned upon him, and, by the same bulldozing practices, though not carried to the same extent of violence, sought to compel him to resign.

The alleged members of the Virginia Bourbons gained their seats by suppressing the rights of the majority of the people. They were elected by the shotgun policy, by intimidation, by frauds upon the ballot box.

The Virginia Bourbons battled against the Mahoneites for power back in 1884 in Virginia.
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