The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-07-21
An Inevitable Fate.


ture internal commissions and civil wars
II this revolution is successful. Z" 1t is AZ
appeal to the fears of the masses, as
we'll as to all the interests involved III
law and order, and has no doubt exerted
great influence in keeping the whole
North resolute aud porsevering at Its
work.
But there never was more Swallow
fallacy. War is the inevitable lot OF hu-
manity-civil as well as foreign war
Both have been the fate of every coun'
try of the world, and of democracies
more than by other forms OF govern
lnent. Probably Prussia enjoys more
internal stability than any other nation ;
because Prussia possesses the remarka-
BILE combustion of dcspotism controlled
by public opinion, which public opinion
is sustained by a citizen soldiery, who,
in organization and military efficiency,
are fully equal TO her regular army, and
vastly superior to it in numbers. Ii the
North can adopt such government, it
may enjoy its immunities from civil con
WILSON'S but, to do this, it must wade,
for this generation, through sea Of
blood which We hardly expect such a
selfindulgent generation to encounter for
the benefit of posterity. A wild de-
mocracy cannot be converted into des-
potism, and the State Rights popularity
of the United States Constitution ex-
changed for formal consolidation, with
ont scenes Of strife and carnage, oom-
pared with which the horrors of this
contest are mere childs play.
The Constitution oil the old United |
States, which theoretically was the es-
sence of human wisdom, has proved
practically the climax of human absurd |
ity. Never before was there Constitu-
ton which left the citizens in doubt to
whom supreme allegiance was DUE
This Constitution calls upon its people |
to serve two masters, the General Gov
eminent and the States, and to serve
two masters is as impossible for ma
ton as an individual. In addition to /
this seed of civil commissions, sown in
the very heart Of the organic law, the
democratic institutions OF every State |
contain in themselves the prolific germs
OF everlasting faction and blood. The
Of universal history is uni
form to that effect. No Democracy was
ever permanent, and the United States,
as it has fully proved during this war,
are no wiser and no better than those
who have before tried the same expert
ment 4
There are other facts which go to rem
der civil commotions inevitable, whatever
the event Of the present contest The .
influence of slavery can no
longer pour oil upon the troubled waters | T
The want Of all homogeneousness in the I
population of the United States renders n
Inevitable future disintegration. That )
country is now heterogeneous COM l
bound of all nations and of all races !
None Of the vast multitude whom emf :
,ratlon has cast upon its shores have G.
'een trained IN the school Of republican,
liberty. A large proportion Of them are t
Red Republicans, Agrarians, and Social r. =
SITS, to whom the only idea of freedom d
an equal division Of property. TO /:
lake confusion worse COMPOUNDED, the 81
olitical and social equality of Africans .
nth the white races has been received d
octrine with the dominant party in the h
government If this doctrine is loathed =
nd detested by we.ful minority, it
My adds another to the innmerable
nots Of CONTROVERSY which the North
nil have to sunder by the sword To
II these must be added the direct and
reconcilable antagonism of interests
etween the Northwestern States and !
lew England
We should like to know in what way
ne success Of Lincoln's scheme for the =
Ibjugation of the Southern Confederacy <
ill prevent the internal commissions and
TRIES which all these causes must ineyi-
Ibly engender. To a plain comprehen-
on it is evident that when the North
ltroduced the sword to arbitrate this
,ntest, it inaugurated that identi- :!
ii mode Of arbtrating all future con-
sts which it seems so much to dread
hey that draw the sword shall perish
Y the sword. The Lincoln Government
IS Withdrawn its population from the =
d vantage ground Of reason, and mu- l
al Cancellation and compromise, which -,
as the only reliable basis of the old
mon, and adopted brute violence as the i
ode Of deciding political questions in :!
nerica. 1t has familiarized the minds T
It's people to scenes of blood and s ~;
rnage, and thus rendered easy a future OF
ansltion to the wager OF battle, The ..p
st step, always the most decisive in i
e career OF crime, has been taken. the n