The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-05-18
Can the South be Kept out3


" The intimate political. commercial, and
xocfairciations existing between the north.
crn and southern portions of this Union
render the continuance of any wide dffe-
renee in their relations to the Central Go
.vernment matter of impossibility. That
disiranchisement of the south which makes
the present great political distinction be
tween them, cannot be maintained any
length Of time without involving the north
likewise. Such dissimilarity of treatment
OF the two divisions by the General Go
vernmcnt mus, inevitably produce COLI
sions between the different departments of
the Government which must either ter
inmate in putting an end TO the inequality
or subvcrting the Government itself. The
dominant party in the Congress is fast
paving the way for the settlement of this
question, and for its settlement against
themselves and in favor of the equality of
rights and privileges under the Consti,u-
ton among all the States.
The holding of eight millions of citizens,
in free representative government, in a
state of mere vassalagc to the remainder
Of the Union--thc keeping Of these eight
millions merely for taxation, denying them
all participation in the Governments an
anomaly in pvofcSscdly Representative
Constitutional Republic without precedent
in history. No kind Of cXpcdient or party
machinery can perpctuate such mon
strosity. The evcr-recurring party strug
giles of country like ours will of them
selves compel the REIMBURSEMENT of so
large body of men. Its influence in
those struggles will not DC dispensed with.
For the restoration of their rights and
equality in public affairs war of the most
determined character must be wagcd III
the nortll--a war which would achieve its
object or subvert the Government. When
THAp. STEVENS and his followers are vent
ing malcdictionS upon "rebcls wishing
them DISTINGUISHED for eighteen thousand
and sixty years, and sending them to hell,
there to he hedged in with bayoncts-they
but prefigurc that political destiny reserved
for themselves.
That the restoration of the south to po-
litical equality with the north is indiSpen-
sable to the national peace, as well as
prosperity, is apparent to all dispassionate
and rejecting men. The paralysis of the
south can but cripple and impede the
north, the two sections being part of the
same Government. The vigorous body can-
not continue in health tied to the para
lytic. The Gripping of that south which
furnished two-thirds of the exports of the
United States before the war cannot but
impair the national wealth and seriously
diminish its resources. Injuries SO serious
can only he repaired by releasing the
southern States from the disabilities and
humiliations imposed upon them. In no
other way can the nation be restored to
its highest state of prosperity, and placed
in the best condition to bear up success
fully under the weight of the debt with
which it is now encountered.
Every day of postponemcnt of this wise
measure of the Federal Government is
accommodating, in geometrical ratio, the
damage to the national interests as well as
the perils to the liberties of the people of
the whole country. The ruling party i'll
Congress hopes to postpone it till after the
Presidential election, that they may be
enabled 10 elect their own man and get
complete possession of the immense pa
tronage of the Federal Government. This
expedient is fraught with trouble and diff
culties. They insure their own defeat,
and may involve the country in revolution.
The south cannot be excluded from par
ticipation in that election, and should any
nominee be elected with the southern
vote, he would be placed in the chair by
the northern party that supported him,
even nj the cost of blood.
The south cannot be kept out Of the
Union. They who labor to keep her out
NAV much easier rcvolutionizc the Govern
Notwithstanding upon its ruins dcspo-
tism. But they would make nothing by
that. 4 despotsm would be one for them
selves as well as for us. Itwould be only a
different mode of arriving at that equality
which must come, and that before long,
in one way or another.
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General Howard and His Bureau.