The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-11-05
violence Doing its Work.

violence Doing its Work.
This is tho day Of violence and outrage.
The spirit Of violence is everywhere and
in everything at the North. Maryland is
the frontier, aud while we write may be
rapidly becoming the scene of the FIRST
collision growing out Of lawlessncss ana
outrage now, a. Il was the scene OF the
first shedding Of blood In the war which
was . consequence of northern encroach.
ments upon the Constitution and laws and
northern outrages upon the political and
private rights Of the southern people. 1t Is
impossible that the bitterness and rancor
which prevail At the North between politi-
cal parties--it Is impossible that the de-
liberate disregard Of the laws Of the land
and gross outrages upon personal liberty
there pcrpctrated, can long be continued
without revolution. The Radical party of
Maryland, pursuing the policy Of that reck-
less, greedy, and brutalixed party every
where, have deliberately disfranchised
more than half Of tho lawful voters Of the
State, and in the city of Baltimore they
coolly excluded men from the right to vote
simply because they proposed to vote in q
manner not approved by themselves. This
being clearly established by the testimony
Of credible witnesses, the Governor re-
moves the commissioners under whose de-
cision this wrong was done, and appoints
others in their places. The reader is fully
informed Of this whole subject, and how
the Radical commissioners, who have been
removed by the Governor in the exercise
Of his lawful authority, propose to dispute
the possession Of the offices with those APP
pointed to succeed them, and now in this
manner, at the time we write, q serious
collision Of force is anticipated. The Radi-
cal leaders, whose vicious propensities have
never been surpassed by those Of any party
that ever existed, appear to have generally
advised this course, and in doing so but dis
play their ordinary contempt for law and
usage, and that determination, which is re-
fected in all their acts, to set up their own
opinions and judgments in lieu of the laws
Of the country, utterly regardless of the
consequences.
In looking at the present condition OF
the country, the violent exhibitions OF
party rage, and the tyranny Of the domi-
nant party at the North, the rejecting
mind must become impressed with sense
of the instability Of the public institutions
and the muttering storm Of coming revolu-
tions. 1t is impossible that stability can
exist where there is no peace, and where
passion and violence prevail. Whatever
be the forms Of the new events and new
organizations which may flow from this
condition, it requires not the gift Of pro-
phecy to foretell that the present institu-
tons cannot survive the raging storm that
everywhere threatens them. The South
essayed in vain to hold the Government to
its simplicity and purity according to the
designs of its trainers. Failing in that,
they endeavored to separate from those
whose persistent effort was to pervert it
altogether and to build up in its place a
splendid fabric of consolidated power, alb
sorbng all the power of the States and con-
trolling the liberties of the citizen. The
South knew that with that consolidation
the confederation passed away, and the
Empire, which she feared, succeeded. In
her attempt to avoid this she also failed,
and failing submitted in manner hOnOra-
bic TO herself, and acknowledged ale
glance to the Federal Government.
II was q submission to force: but sub
mission in good faith. Then was it in the
power of the North to have established
immediate peace by the entire restoration
of the Union. Their refusal to do this was
the beginning of the war which now
agi,ates the North, and produces there
commotion so deep and strong that our
condition. compared with it, is one ofpeace.
The North, having. thus committed great
crime against the whole nation, is forced
10 back up its outrage by further outrages.
Passion, that indispensable agent in sus-
tanning the perpetrators Of crime in their
atrocities, comes to their aid, and since
the close of the war in the bloody field the
national councils have been the scenes of
strife and bitter animosities disgraceful to
humanity. The venom and madness Of the
struggle increase and grow as it continues
and triumphs to that party whose mea-
sures are filling the land with trouble
and paralyzing the prosperity of the nation,
accelerates the spread of violence and out
rage. ..
The affair in Baltimore is only feeble
rush-ligbt kindlcd by the brand Of anarchy
and misrule compared to the midday sun
of that confagration which must reduce to
ruin our present institutions unless, We
may say, by some providential interposi-
ton, the downward course Of the nation is
checked, and wisdom and humanity take
the place of ignorance, fanaticism, and
brutality. 1t is for every man to say how
much hope he has; but none can deny
that there is before the nation dark wall
beyond which no eye but the All-seeing
can penetrate, aud which may well Ill the
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