The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-29

NOS W1SO VIC OSWOCbUStV YWsSS -
not lIngsf long enough With u e!sa 70 pc
tray II, bnt hand and gloye. win me PHI
soner at Fort Monroe and his coaoJuttos.
Yes, the perils through which the country
has found It's way hitherto unframed, tne
dangers from which the masses have saved
their own Government ffty years hence,
will, as believe, more fully than We az,
pect, the manner In which the weak and
wicked brain Of the Secretary Of STATE
planned TO remodel this Governments 10.
self. And to-day the South undertake the
leadership of Andy johnson By sucii means
Is every great minority always ADOPT un.
der similar circumstances. History docs
not show q single instance where large
minority ever surrender their purpose for
one unsuccessful effort. The South mas
| not intended to do It, She lept into the
saddle at the moment that Lee surrendered,
and. TO- day, encamped in the White House,
her object Is to take possession OF the Go-
yernment, and fight that same battle pc
tween oligarchy and freedom over again IN.
side the flag. [Cheers.l General Butler san
when this argument was iaid Ocloro MN,
" If she does, we will REBEL" but l uo
not rebel. The nation is mine. zap.
plause.l believe, then, that the freslaen1
of the United States, for the last tweNe
/ months, has been the conscious agent OF
the purpose of the leading rebels OF the
South to continue this war in new Phase
in the phase in which they originally meant
to initiate, as governmentitself, seated at
Washington, recognized by foreign nations,
the treasury and the army there, and the
North, if necessary, in the attitude of re-
bellion. Well, what have we to guard
against that craft? Can any one doubt
after the revelation which the President
has made within the last six months
What have we to guard against it Is the
Cabinet anything What are its materials
An Attorney General, selected because he
would be tool; because his long engage
ment in the dirty business of his profess
sion made him fitting tool for such an Elk
ecutiye, A Secretary of the Treasury,
too much one with his master, that If vii
lainy be contemplated he would more likely
to be the tempter than the tempted. A Sc
cretary of the Navy whose thorough incon
petency for his work is such that his eyol
; holding ofth office is farce, and his u"eI
corruption so notorious that any hone't as'
, in his administration must have been on
oversight and a mistake. Loud Iansn.e,
and applause.l A man who DeVl nau
, opinions, but wasalways ready to srrlenuel
, his professions at the nod of his naSel'
, Secretary of War, whose career isutterly
inexplicable. His next act may give us
that kew which will make it lntsliiglDle
: upon the theory of the hour, but ~ pre-
, sent it is in the clouds. A Secretary Oh
State. whose best friends deny hi"ickea-
ness upon the sole ground tina age has
damped the intellect Of his pune. Du.
t men say Congress and the Repusicah paaN
, are the bulwark. Well, the nepuS.ican
I party is mighty. Loud cheers me o.a: :..'
D that have spoken have spokei aimost VIII
voice of unanimous apprfai, ana inc
9 States that are to speak, il my opinlon'
5 will speak more unanimouy still. I'm
$ thusiastic applause.] So tr as the mere
0 voice of the masses go, so as 1ne enln9
: siasm of what is supposeSto oe inc spiri'
of Congress goes, we havstrenGth enough,
r and our only need is ! ask, what Is the
e meaning of the Repubran victories! How
n much and how great step in this kind OF
! reconstruction Will l have described
noss the sncresscyf the Republican party
= w ,mrah ouaranD to us? Millions upon
" ~ e. morntr votes. What real ma
y t;nnoI strergtb this struggle does the sue
;, .iona, ST. ns Look at it. Congress sepa-
y e IS iA, n;.h plan which it calls "the
), 49, to the Constitution" When
~ %nnnnnss 1parates it tells the world that
- ~; "? = T.. portion Of the installment Of
', L. reconstruction, that even if the
y ,v5 ff it is swallowed, it has no pledge
y .nGi0t to the traitors south Of the line that
: ~ 'shall be formed into States, and so
:. lifted to the Union. But no sooner
~ ~ Congress separated-no sooner have
: arties rallied and marshalled for the cam
ikvass, than the National Republican Com
| mittee-the great State committees of that
party, and the leading journals that under
take to speak for it occasionally, say to us,
if the South accepts those amendments
she may count upon an instant admission.
The Republican party's success in this can
vass means the fulflment of the pledge
upon which it has been conducted =; and
that pledge, officially judged by its leading
committees, or its great journals, is, that
that amendment ratified, the South takes
her place in the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives. Sothe Republican party offers,
York Herald, vigilant and astute journal,
| says W TIC Soull, aSSSPt, oSScPc ho"j
before the promise is withdrawn" The
Republican party's success therefore
means, if we can interpret it to-day, that
the South are safe in the first place; that
south of Mason and Dixon's line is South
Carolina. l deny it. The territory of
South Carolina is there. The territory of
Virginia is there, and certain person
stepping out of his official functions, and
usurping the congressional power, has I'M
dertaken to set up pasteboard Governor
to what he calls the State Of South Caro-
lima, but Radicalism in the North ignores it.
1t knows no such result Of Presidential
usurpation. Loud cheers.l The South
gains her point when the Republican COM
mittees and journals talk of the State OF
Virginia. There is none. In due time l
hope that Congress will see fit to initial
measures out of the territory of Virginia to
create State. CHEERS. But in the
mean time, south of the line exists only
mainland [cheersl, and some old names
floating in the atmosphere aboveit. But you
will say to me, that is not fair statement.
allow it needs addition, for the state Of
the political canvass is unprecedented.
Well, all that have said is true. Leading
journals and State committees hold this
language. Go into the caucus of General
Wilson,, of Kelly of Pennsylvania, of Gen
eral Banks of my own State, to any man
from Massachusetts, back TO St. Louis,
standing face to face with his constituents,
and what is his language 81 shall not
admit single southern State until the