The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-06-24
r,,a,;tv and Destruction.

nh. last few years have been fruitful O
,,osc "bloody instructions" which, after
= time, return "to plague the inventors.
Son.,or WApE's speech, made while on
,ne late Pacific Railroad spree Of the sena'
tors Is attracting much attention s''o"e
roy,bern editors. The tclegraphic report
was not regarded as reliable, ana IL was
,.nrrht that he had merely said something
'nnr, ccnfisca,ing southern lands and d.
..;ainc nroperty equally among the whites
.na blacks. That was so small ana un'n-
,cres,ins matter that nobody seemed 10
care anything about it 1t passed with as
little concern as is occasioned by a boy
throwing at a frog-a sort of amusement
universally tolerated in spite OF hsofs
condemnation Of it
But Mr.. WADE meant moro thah 'ha.'
We scattered the seeds of his Ill "eeas
broadcast, property" said he, us mol
"eoual,y divided, and more equal DIS
",r;bution of capital must be wrought
ont" He added: "Congress, which has
uaonc 50 much for the slave, cannot quietly
..rcrard the terrible distinction between
.,,,o man that labors and him that does
aro,w Thus bringing his agrarian ideas
home TO his people in the North, and natu'
ra,,v VIC have some lively editorials from
the enlightened and humane northern edl
TORS in earnest depreciation OF such out
raoeous and destructive suggestions as
those of the Senator
The proposition to expand the agrarian
ism applied to the South was matter OF
coprse. and Mr.. WADE has only been
ahead Of some one else. 1t is his bid for
the presidency. But he unfortunately
omitted to add to his platform yet more
popular plank: that OF Reputation. "A
shrewd northern politician and Spectator,
Mr.. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN, who was one
of the happy company on the pAains' H.
stantly detected the omissions made by
the Ohio senator, and on the first opportu-
nity nut them in his own platform thus :
"Woman's suffrage, Reputation, and hell
fire." This gives TRAIN the advantage OF
WADE. Like a brave man, he takes all
the "advanced IDEAS" including the le-
climate end TO ,chich they lead, at dash.
In his bid for the presidency he not only
outbids WADE, but leaves nothing to ena-
bic WADE TO offer a second bid.
These agrarian and destructive ideas
rather confound the eminent Radical STE
VEINS, who has been persistently engaged
in mild measure of sectional confiScation
10 crafty his revenge for the burning o!
lis rolling mills by the Coniederates. The
more enlarged statesman from Ohio and the
notorious Captain TRAIN, or Train Cap
tain, Of the 9. faciliS descenS1tS auerni," have
brought his little scheme into utter con,
tempt.
The New York Hrald, however, very
appropriately suggets that the Government
Is in advance Of all these apostles Of agra
rianism, reputation, and confscation. The
Government is now engaged, that paper
saws, in a system of confscation which j.
absorbing the property of the countr!
rapidly. The entire property Of the nation
is valued at 81, 100000 600, which, at tn,
rate of s5G0,OOO,OOO per annum-the Go
vernment tax-will be swallowed up il
twcnty-:our years
After the long agony We have borne, W.
can look on almost any outrage, crime, OF
horror with something like composure. Sc
if it suits those controlling national affair:
to trust the destructiveS and acquiescc il
sheir "ideas,r let them. These things viii
have their retribution.