The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-08-10
Little Light.

We have some light from the Northwest,
thrown upon the acts Of the recent rcvo-
lutionary Congress, that attracts attention.
That body pursued exactly that course of
violence which of necessity involved them
in outragcs of law and Constitution, and
invaSions of the rights Of people and
States. Their proceedings were an out
rage upon the character and purposes of
dcliberative bodies, and a disgrace to the
nation. Patient and rejecting people
could see that they were only pcrpetrating
wrongs that would have to be rcdrcsscd,
anG hcaping up wrath against the day of
wrath for themselves. Daily in the COM
mission of wrong, and defying alike law
and Constitution, it was plain that their
day of punishment must come. They
could do nothing to prevent it. They
could close up and complete nothing. They
but opened questions for future settle
mcnt-cases for adjudication by not only
the people, but the tribunals of justice for
the Interpretation of the laws and the pro-
ItttlDu bI t!t lIphlS t't i"a wa
outraged.
These views have been freely expressed
by statesmen and ~iuriStS and by the press.
But we are especially pleased 10 see that
a very prominent and able statesman OF
the most powerful State Of the Northwest
has expressed himself most decidedly i'll
this vein. The Hon. Thomas EWING, Of
Ohio, has Just written u letter, in which
he holds that "the acts recently passed
over the Presidents veto, as well as
the constitutional amendment, are null
and void that not having the sanction OF
the Executive, they are subject to judicial
investigation, and must be held invalid,
because nearly onc-tl,ird of the States
were prevented from participating in their
enactment. Had they received Executive
approval, they mast have been recognized
hy the courts without inluiring into the
REGULAR constitution of each of the powers
cnacting Them" The letter, it is said, is
an exceedingly able production, and will
attract considerable attention.
Without understanding how even the
Presidents signature should screen a law
passed in defiance Of the Constitution
from investigation, it is quite sufficient for
the present that the laws i'll question have
not even that signature.
This view of the condition OF the acts of
tl.c Radicals, coming from 4 man of Mr..
EwING's high standing and legal know
ledge, is important, and wiltcommand the
respect 10 which il is entitled.
We do not despair OF seeing all the ont
RACES OF the Radicals rcdrcsscd the evil
they have done rcmcdicd as far as possible,
and the good which they left undonc ac-
compli>hcd after a time.
Using the black man as Il mere in
strum,n mt to crafty their ambition for
Office and power, and to appeasc their
malignity toward, the Southern people,
they inauguratcd a policy which deprived
the southern States Of all rights, and
threatened to originate Il war of races in
the South of the most dcplorable charac-
ter. III the progress of these measures the
South, with every claim to equality of re-
presentation with the other States in Con
grcss, was not heard in her W defence e;
but was judged and condemned unrcprc-
scented. That such an outrage should pass
down to futurity %unpunishcd and unre-
dressed is impossible.
Ii is impracticable, in the first place, that
the southern States can long be kept out
of their right of representation. Leave
out of view any reflection upon the i'm
possibility Of keeping them rs conquered
provinces in Il Republic, il cannot he that
so large a population can be excluded from
participation in the general government for
all the States. They must be awarded
their rights, or there must be %sanguinary
strifc-striic not inauguratcd by them,
but by the opposing parties inthose States
which are in possession OF their rights.
The party of Justice and law and the ConSti-
tuition, who, seeing that that despotism
which is long continued at the South must
resist it even TO revolution. But it will
not be necessary to go to that extremity.
The people in their majesty will overcome
the tyrants who have ~disregardcd all law,
and secure to the southern States their
rights of equality. The same power of
Justice in the hands of the Government
and people will annul the unconstitutional
enactments of the unconstitutional Con-
gress, and thus not only protect the South
from their evil effects, but vindicatc the
Constitution and the laws of both the
Federal Government and the States, which
the revolutionists have treated with con-
tempt.
LORD RUssELL.-Pcrhaps no man living
was less friendly to the South than Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, and there could not be a
praat.r Slapl.r than tIaf IF Tho Yy.y)