The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-02-22

The conclusive and unanswerabie msssas
OF President JOHNSON cannot TAU " .s,.
poverful influence over the Nortnern poo 49,.
They may well wonder how the Co"ss0
avar hro,,uht 10 vote away rwkSrt o
ar poLLARs for feeding,
- .aucsting blacks, and providing
-ss.s,s Oar the administration Of justice lot
- ,rn,ch were altogether unnecessary, the
go. already having. their courts TOT the
$50. and inst disposition Of complaints OF ali
,,so,,,s b,ack and white. They may well won
~ NV 40 vast sum-more than equal 70
tho ntire expenditures Of the Federal Govern
went forty wears since--should be thus thrown
.way. Al 1t were, when they are bnrthened
with an enormous debt the largest owed by
any nation In the world save England. They
NAV well wonder how such sum should De
appropriated for q people merely because they
are black, when no such appropriation OUT Of
the Treasury had ever been made Tor whites.
They may well wonder how such sum shouio
he thus iisbursed without any earthiy neces-
sity-eyery dollar of which might be appro
nriated to the payment Of the debt, without
injury to the nation, and without detriment
to the black. These reflections will present
themselves to every man north OF Mason ano
Dixon upon reading the Message.
Not only Is all this shown in the message,
but Ii Is further shown that the Bureau, with
the enlarged powers given to 1t by the oiii'
would produce incalculable evils in disturbing
the order and the labor Of the country, and
diminishing the results Of agriculture. ihal
excellent document shows how much oe'ter on
the negro will be If left to take care OF himself,
ss white folks are how much better OF IL left
TO the ordinary tribunals of justice through
ont the country. He shows how the present
Bureau is quite sufficient for the protection OF
the negro until the machinery of justice is
fairly adapted TO his status throughout the
South.
Some speculations are INDUCED rs to General
GRAMS opinions.on the subject, and the party
opposed to Mr.. JOHNSON are endeayoring to
make something out of the General. We sus-
pect they will find themselves mistaken. Gene
raj GRANT, in his memorable letter on the
state of the South, spoke little freely about
the Freedmen's Bureau as it now exists, and
evidently had no little aversion for it. He said
that trouble had come of some of the agents
Of that Bureau imbuing the minds of the ne
groes with ideas utterly Incompatible with
their situation and with the rights OF the peo-
pie Of the South-among other errors taught
was that the lands Of the whites were to be
taken away and given to them And further
more General GRANT suggested that the ma
chiuery was awkward, and annoying TO the
military power, and he recommended that II
be placed under military direction, as better
and cheaper plan.
We have no doubt that General GRANT still
entertains these opinions. He is firm and
steady man, and does not change opinions,
deliberately formed, under temporary excite
ments With the knowledge of his character
his public career has afforded, and with his
own expressions on this subject, we venture
TO say that, even with the Bureau organized
as a military establishment, he would not
desire it's intervention in the domestic affairs
of the Southern States one moment after the
fair and complete organization Of the police
and courts with reference to the blacks as well
as all other people. Such Intervention after
that event would be only hurtful to the peace
and prosperity of the South, and, through her,
of the whole country. The President is OF this
opinion, and the good sense and freedom from
mere sectional prejudice Of General GRANT
satisfies us that he will not take a different
position.