The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-20
Unwilling the Revolu tionists.

We published yesterday morning the
revelations Of Mr.. RAYMOND, Of the New
York Tines, who 10 chairman Of the Ma
tional Executive Committee Of the Repub-
lican party. These unveil the purposes OF
the party to which he has belonged, and
whose movements and motives he has the
best opportunity of knowing.
Mr.. RAYMOND charges upon the Radicals
the design, in certain contingency OF III
augurating civil war. For this they nave
endeavored to prepare by passing through
the House, under the gag OF the previous
question. O resolution calling upon inc
States 10 organize, discipline, and equip
their militia, and directing that two-thlrds
Of the arms, ordnance, and ammunition no"
under custody of the General Government
D, distributed among the States-the distri-
button among the loyal States to take place
Immediately, and that among the States
lately in rebellion to be postponed until
further orders, Mr.. RAYMOND declares the
object to be to organize civil war, if that
be necessary, to maintain Radical pre-
dominance in Congress.
The Radicals in their caucus charged
that President JOHNSON would recognize
the Northern Conservatives elected at the
fall elections and the Southern members,
provided they constituted majority OF
Congress. They, the Radicals, on the other
hand, will claim that the Radical members
from the States now represented in Con-
gress, provided they arc majority Of the
members from those States, are the real Con.
gress. 1t is to meet this contingency that
they are for arming the Northern people
and Supplying them uih ammunition Mr..
RAYMOND, one Of their leaders, charges it.
1t is true that that gentleman excerpts a
considerable body of the Republican party
itself from being concerned in this revo-
lutiopary and bloody purpose; but the
manner in which the resolution was forced
through the House exhibits the strength OF
the party sustaining 1t.
The Radicals had failed in their other plans
Of crippling the President and contracting
his powers, and this preparation for civil
strife is their last card. They are willing to
delugc the land in another civil war for the
Offices and cmolumentS Of the Government.
A war more horrible than one Of sections
for, as Mr.. RAYMOND says, it would be a war
Of neighborhoods," spreading in every
State, city, and county, and drenching all
In blood. 1t is true the South would he
relieved from this; the Radicals have taken
care to disable it by depriving it OF
the means to take part. In such con-
Act, should the cruel and relentless party
which inaugurates it triumph, then indeed
would the South suffer the accumulated
horrors of the most brutal tyranny. But
We have little fear that they will ever be
able to put their execrable plans of bloody
resistance into execution. The people OF
the North cannot, we believe, be led to
sustain such revolutionary purposes. They
ore not willing to light the flames of civil
war and the exposure Of the Radical de-
signs will be the signal for their defeat.
We look upon the mad rawlings Of the
Radicals and their desperate plots as the
unmistakable signs Of their dissolution.
There is no safety but in their defeat, and
VIC believe President JOHNSON, with the
aid of the conservatism and patriotism OF
the country, will utterly annihilate them.