The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-09-22
SitbIn'on0 9ispatt9.
THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER %, 1854,

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The speech Of Raymond. published by us yester-
DAY, il quito remarkable peifofmince-escfy way
worthy OF the great strateqis who graduated IN the
art oil making ioable-quick time at soi'einno, ana
improved upon his own practice at tue wh'te
1teuse. "Ihe question now before ~, he tens ms
p,,airnce sis whether tbs majority CT lhe Ameil-
can ,s,,nl, .an or shall, cle,; their President, or
whether they shall b. subjected, nom time TO tne'
80 have tl.c,f deliberate decisions overrnied by
minority fyipg Ia s,ma." I'VE are nov called on
10 clctt President again, and sho knows # the
minority viii submit now" Now. every man who
has ever read the Constitution Of The United States
knows that the Paesiyn; is not elected by a ma
,asitv OF Tho people 0; the United States The ma
lsty al the elect oral votes determines the questicn
and tina; rnaje,itv may be determined by minority
81 the f,f,.,.sr vote Lincoln himself elected
iy minority Of the popular vote, and that too IN"
smallest comparative minority that ever ei'''edahy
p.csiaen; OF the Ursted States II ". are not Ia
los,Hg under a misapprehcnsion, the majority easy
.a;uzt him 4; the polls was very nearly two to one
ACCORDING then, to Ma, RAYMOND, mr- iahVotn Is
carving GA this I'Jojy war IN defence OF
"a rIinolIc which i unknown TO TIE constitution
undcr Which he was elected, ana which, IT II bad
lern put in practice AZ the time 81 MS eie'uo"'
vanld have a, iIlci han from The office which he
rovy holds We want no better evidence Than this
=, ,roye thA; what the Southern people have ii
WAYS stated Is the, viz ,at at The North, ioliti-
c,asis and people alike disregard the Constitution,
and ars in fact III the majority of INSTANCES, ac-
tually ignorant of its contents. Here Is man who
ha, been the editor O: a political paper for twenty
wears; who has several times been elected to Con
e,rcss: who was once the Observation-Disclosures O.
his state and who is all-powerfui with The Lincoln
Administration, roundly maintaining that Pfe5i-
dent is elected by majority OF the PeoP'e, ana
teaching the same doctrine TO his disciples, who
hang upon his words though they were the oiaoeS
.f ,us,,ii,,ion For them il is, doubtless, a very
comfortable doctrine. The inference from II makes
them al-powelful in the Union, and rendered 1t I'M
possible for the South 10 continue longer IN assoca
ton with them. The Constitution OF the United
States, by prescribing majority Of the cfefto'M
votes as necessary to eection designed to protect
the minority That protection is withdrawn as
som AS the election is made TO depend upon ma
lority OF the people.
This il seems in the opinion the little VII
lain" is not great war. 1t is merely an attempt
Of a minority, with in their hands, to prevent
the majority from electing and houTishing under
President of their own. 1t is, i'll his eyes, merely
AN affair OF the sections " outbreak of discon-
tent on the part Of a few over-heated ZealOts an
unlawful gathering such a. his friend Napoleon III.
would dispelse with grape-shot in very few min
utes. Perhaps this minority may Try 10 pre-
vent this same majority from recleeting their favor
lite Whether it is meant to class the friends OF
Mcclellan with the South in this sentence, can
not exactly see. But if it is, we can assure all
whom il may concern that the Confederates care
not one fig whom they may elect TO their Presi-
dency All they want is to be let alone, and that
they are determined to be, though 1t should cost a
century Of war.
After having laid down a principle utterly subver-
sive of the Constitution, the orator goes on to say
'the issue is whether will maintain the supTem-
acy of the Constitution - "the hight Of the ma
,ority to rule !" We have already seen what he
means by the majority. 1t Is not the majority OF
which the Constitution speaks 1t Is the majority
Of the pcople-ot The popular vote Ii 1t should 50
happen that Mcclellan received majority of the
eirct0,ai votes and Lincoln majority OF the popu-
lar votes, according 10 this doctrine Lincoln Will
lie the candidate elect, although the Constitution
ciyes the election to Mcclellan. And i'll that case
IincolI's friends Grant ana sherman, having first
- clushed tie rebellion" for the hundfedth time,
viii be ready to back his claims with then whole
force. 1t Is upon these powerful allies that he pro-
poses TO depend ioT reelection /, and We are told
that the rebellion is now certainty on its last
legs. As We have been told the same thing very
often before, We hope We may be excused for being
a little increduluts at this time. We have seen SO
many failures OH the part OF Yankee generals,
when they believed themselves certain of succes-
above all, We have seen such an egregious failure
on the part of Grant during this campaign-that
We have leaned to put very little faith III any
threats from that quarter. 1t Grant, with two hun
dred and fifty thousand men, $50 says the New
York U0JidJ converging upon Richmond from all
points OF the-compass could not take it last sum
lner, he will hardly take 1t now, that his force
duccd to one-third of that number Raymond is
welcome to eulogize Grant but he cannot hide, nor
can Grant lie away, his disastrous defeats his dis
graceful failures and the unparalleled slaughter to
which his troops have been subjected His very po-
sition where he is is confession of depforabe fail
urc, let him and his understrappers lie about it as
they may.