The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-07
The Designs o. The RaAieals -speeeh
or wenAell PhiIlfp~.


Radical party, but has more brains than
all the rest of its leaders, and that what he
advocates to-day his party will advocate
within twelve months. He ut any rate
candid, outspoken fanatic, and never leaves
his hearers in doubt as to his principles or
purposes. On the 4th of July he made one
Of his characteristic speeches in Boston,
following two negro orators. He CON-
menced thus:
"This is the 4th day of July, the day
which for ninety years the nation has de-
voted to the sublime idea that oil men are
created equal; but we all know that these
words have been for nearly ninety years a
elittering generality and cruel lie-empty
and idle words, coming from hypocritical
lips"
Then followed this dogmatic assertion:
ono man was ever born so weak that he
did not know better how to protect his own
interests than another could protect them
for him.
This would be Il fine world if this latter
statement were true. We know not only
many negroes but few whites who would
be better off if they had some one to "pro-
tcct their interests" But this by the way.
Let us come to his political outgivings.
And, first, here is his present platform
and the prospective platform of the Radi-
Gals:
admit no State for the present hold
il under the sword till its highways are safe
to northern travellers and its marts of bust
ness safe for northern capital. Admit no
rebel State, even then, till the land, edu-
cation, and the ballot, under the sanctity
of the Federal authority, are the secure
inheritance of every man born on Its SOIL"
(Applause.l
He advocates this platform because, so
he saws, the land and the ballot-box con-
troll every country, especially the land,
which also controls the ballot-boy. Hear
him:
"Men and influences pass away but
there are certain things and certain great
elements whose influences you can calcu-
late as the astronomer calculates the mo-
ton of q star. Land, capital, and the ballot
are things as durable as the north star, and
their influences arc just as calculablc as
the moon. My advice, therefore, is, trust
men no longer; trust capital, trust the bal
lot, trust land, trust knowledge, but never
trust men. Tell me not what Aleck Ste
phens, tell me not what Roger Pryor
believe tell me not what Governor Aiken
has been whipped into. do not care a
iot for it. want the land of South Caro-
lima upon my side want the ballot box
of South Carolina upon my side, and its
capital on my side: want the same ele-
mcnts of trust and confidence to make the
South the same image we have made the
West.
81 am apprchcnsivc not of the absolute
future, for l believe in God and justice !;
but my apprehension covers the next
dozen or sixteen years, that cover an epoch
in which the still powerful white race of
the South will strive to regain possession of
the State Government machinery, and to
WELD it against the possibility of national
peace. Ny apprehension is with regard to
State sovereignty, still strong enough to
commit treason. / would cut down State
sovereignty, by congressional act or consti-
tutiOnal amendment, SO much as to allow
the Federal Government to ARA ngc political
rights and to protect the civil privileges of
! its citizens within the several States. My
apprehension extends to that race to whom
we are bound by such ties of gratitude,
and who are left to be ground up by the
terrible hatred of their former masters.
How do we stand to-day? The South
rallies her broken lines, marshals her scat
tered forces, and her policy is to restore as
closely as possible, and as exactly as pos
sible, the Union as it was-yes, and if pos
sible, the Constitution as it was; not one
word, not one clause altered, not one
clause added since 1860. | say the South
to-day INDUCES the hope that in the con-
tingencies and chances of politics she may
yet be able to carry that point. Who leads
herr The President, who is her general
! in-chief. He is cncamped in the White
House, and he pledges the policy of the
United States to second the plot of South
ern politicians to roll back the revolution.
Well, the President is great force. 1t is
idle to ignore the fact that the tenant OF
the White House, with the patronage OF
the Government behind him, can almost
guarantee success to whatever party he
lends his weight. Congress has surrender
ed the point in issue-surrendered the cX-
act question on which depends the cha
racter of the future. Look at it. A bar
4 barous and a civilized community can
never be united under one government on
equal terms. The result must be conflict.
! In order that barbarism and civilization
should be united under one government,
one or the other must be able to control
its rival for the time being. If you
! xh,. in Tho fpty tho Nnrth
must have a right to carry its civiliza-
tion into the barbarous South. The
civilized North must have right within
/ the national girdlc to control the barbarisnl
of its neighbor. Now, what controls the
! Government Two clcments-land and
the ballot-boX. Land owns the Govern
ment. That class which owns land will be
able to mould the Government. 1t always
has been so, and always will be. What
made the democratic revolution possible
in France in 1889! Because its mobiles had
parted with their lands, and because the
French peasants got possession of them.
What then made, and still makes, demo.
cratic revolution impossible in England
Because then and now the ruling class OF
England held the land in its own hands
The South knows this, and pledges herself
to keep the lands Of the South out of the
hands of the negroes. On this she plants
the cornerstone of her policy in the firm.
est possible manner. On the other hand i.
the ballot, the only possible thing that car
control the normal rule of all governments
Land is the balot-box. In cur reconstruc.
ton scheme these two items are tho
primary ones. The ballot.box is indispen.
sable. With it, all the others range them.
selves in proportion; without it, there is