The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-03-07
The Question of the Day.

Mr. Sueakcr BALDWIN was NOT iaf o"s -
-, ha .,id that the vacant seats u
49, v,rn,n,. ae,eratfon spoke with uhah
!. swerable logic and moving ciod"e
:. nan.,f Of the cause OF CONSTITUTIONS nv
:. ,ri,y and representative repunhcan ~
a. r,vr The Representatives. themselves wv"
10, have spoken more eloquenuy 'hah '"ose
nnoccupied chairs. The battle tor "repte'
s"mtatire republican liberty is now being
urged with as much spirit and bravery as We
conh wish by those who see how closely and
inseparably united are the hoerties Oh 'he
Northern and the Southern States. 1t is not
improbable that they fight better unassisleo
by ms than were our Representatives standing
by their sides.
The Journal Of Commerce of New York charac-
terizes that extreme party opposing the fres''
dent with so much bitterness as "radicai ois-
"unionists" ct is no day" 1t says, : lof
men TO sustain mere political gamblers VINO
'have no interest in the greatqnestiohs % inc
day, except to preserve their own power anu
distribute the spoils of office.' Inc gam
blers are playing with the most sacred F'shS
and with the most vital interests OF the couh'
try. rs the gamester uses the dice and the
cards: with not one whit more OF concern as 10
the instruments employed. In every step they
take, in every proposition put forth, they
show this inextinguishable greed, this ever
growing passion for office. For what else Is
the keeping out of the Southern States IN
definitely supposed TO be intended until aitef
the Pres idential electon.) For what else the
negro suffrage? For what else the conditions
annexed TO the admission of Tennessee! VINO
are the present voters in Tennessee? Are they
not against the policy of the President? Are
they not followers of BRowNLow, warning
against the restoration of the Union in the
only way in which hearty and harmonious
union can be brought about? Under the plan
of admitting Tennessee, is it at all probable
President JOHNSON could get the vote of his
own Slater
What is a State but it's people? Without
the people, there is no State. When State Is
admitted, what is admitted but the people
What sort of monstrosity is that which admits
the land and but a part OF the people! One
would suppose that such an idea could enter
no mans brain but that Of Mr.. BorTss. But
the Reconstruction Committee has dis
covered as much ingenuity as that gentle
man. If the people are not 2dmitted, the State
is not the people, excluded under such incor-
poration, are slaves. Any such Union is not
equal, is not constitutional, and will inflict an
injury upon the body polite which must faint
the whole system and threaten the Liberties OF
all Rather than such a Union, let the mill
tary government prevail yet for a season.
1t gives at least order and security; and
by a change to such conditions as the iron
clad committee propose, we should certainly
not gain Liberty.
The question is truly that Of Representa-
tive Republican Liberty" The power and
the spoils of office is the reward of the "politi-
cal gamblers who are fighting on the adverse
side Honor to President JOHNSON and his
supporters at the North who are defending
really the great principles of the Constitution
with a boldness, firmness, and self-denlal
worthy of men enlisted in cause so noble.