The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-07-23
VOL. XXXIII.

Cavalier and Purita. civil strife. But there
was enough OF resemble nee both In the fight
ing and in the manner in which ii was brought
on to show our relationship TO them, and to
make the history OF that period instructive as
TO the course of events here
In the first place, 1t may be observed that
there was no permanent alienation between
the combatants and their descendants. Even
in irginia, the Ga Waller Colony, ! will ven-
ture TO assert that there are few families in
which the cavalier and covenanter are not
blended; and war did not stop the process
among us 1t is my good fortune to be de.
scended from the ancient Commonwealth OF
Virginia, and In my veins runs the blood OF
cavalier and covenanter. We hear cons tan tly
OF Confederate soldiers marrying Yankee
girls, and southern beauty subjects our Union
soldiers where southern valor failed The
part of nature in the drama of Romeo and
Juliet shows how the heart deals with such
cases. Juliet's kinsman. Tybalt, had been
slain by Romeo, but she argues:
Would net Tybalt have slain my Romeo!"
She was not disloyal to her people her love
was not unnatural. Romeo was her fellow
citizen. II was the feud of the Montagues
and the Capulets that was unnatural. 1t is
here the feud of petty editors and politicians
which would not bury aate in such sweet re-.
pose.
However deplorable such civil wars as ours
are, il WAS not the first in history, or even
with the race from which we sprung. Every
century OF English history except the presen t
has had its civil war.
The common mind, therefore, distinguishes
between the violence of such struggles and
that of individuals, and they are commonly
marked with more cruelty than wars between
foreign nations. But it is not the part Of pa
triotism, when The conflict is over, TO eXagge-
rate such cruelty or seek to perpetuate the
memory Of them. / was not patriotism there
fore, which sought, not merely TO punish the
actual perpetrators of the cruelties of Ander-
sonrille, but employed 4 drag-net process 10
procure testimony, and held ont every induce
ment to the witnesses to magnify their suffer
inSs and TO connect General Lee and the Con-
federate Government and the whole southern
people with the enormities imputed TO WirZ.
OF the same character, and with the same OBJ
lect, the proceedings were taken to connect the
Confederate authorities and people with the
assassination OF Lincoln. And they hanged
Mrs. Surratt, now admitted 10 be an innocent
woman, because her acquittal was incoEsst
ent with their theory duplicating the Con-
federate authorities. There was no patriot
ism in any of these things, but only partisan
ship of the meanest kind. 1t was not the part
of patriotism to connect the South with the
murder OF Lincoln, but the infamous work of
studied malice seeking power al the expense
of the national harmony and the National
Union. In this way the Radicals keep alive
the hatred upon which their party depends
for its existence. This is its whole stock in
trade. No other party ever existed in this
country that did not at least profess to act in
cal party alone, of all the parties here
tofore existing in this country, dscards
all constitutional theories, and legislates with
no other restraint than eXpediency, and with
no other object than TO maintain itself in
mower. The calumnieS against the people in
the South, propagated by the agencies of mill
tary commissions, congressional committees,
and the innumerable costly agencies set up TO
maintain The military governments over the
South. whose bread depends upon the comtinu-
nF lunf l-H
in this way to misrepresent everything here.
All this is done from sheer party necessity.
But the truth will vindicate itself and put
down these nefarious scaTcngers of falsehood.
: The mercpuaTicS vino Use the power of the
Government 10 enrich themselves in that law
Sh and corrupt expenditure Of money which
keeps the rate Of expenditure up 10 Il war stand
ard whilst levyng for themselves enormous
bounties upon The abor of the whole country in
the shape of tariffs and irredeemabIe paper
money, can only sustain themselves whilst
subrerting the form and substance of the q o.
rcrnment BY making that Government obi
ous Hence, also, their vindictive persacu ton
OF every one who dares to sustain the Consl-
tuition. Ii matters not what services he may
have rendered or what dangers he may have
encountered in the contest against the dangers
Of secession. Indeed, the statesman or soldier
who has rendered most service is only more
odious 10 them if he opposes their present
usurpations, because his character renders him
q formidable opponent. The case OF Presl-
His decisive action against the rebellion,
in connection with his southern position and
an ntecedentS, and the antagonlSm which TINS
course, internally excited, created between
him and his own people, made him favori te al
the North, and led TO his elevation 10 the ice
Presidency. Believing him TO be q renegade
southerner, whose heart was steeled against
his people by their injustice TO him personally,
the Radicals scarcely concealed their JOY at
Lincoln's death. Their pulpit orators ltniver
IN II bn nf PrDSi1pnpp
ing the way TO the elevation OF one who had
more iron in his nature than the lamented
Lincoln, who they said had too much Of the
milk of hunan kindness in his heart to deal
with subiugated rebels. johnson, who had
been driven from hiss home-the taitor,-de-
Spised by the southern aristocrats, was, they
supposed, prepared, by his southern education
and this history, TO do the work OF Ven
geance-the persecution, the conhscaton, ana
the hanging-to which he was now called on
by Providence. But when the event proved
that johnson was not the foul, yindictive
wretch they had thanked God for sending
them, and would not disregard his oath in
order TO crafty his personal resentment, nor
consent to the subversion of the whole spirit
of democratic iuStitu tions even where more
than regal power over the lives and property
of his fellow citizens was offered for his con.
sent, their rage knew no bounds. They ri
once set to work 10 prepare the public mind
for his election from office; and TO max him
odous imputed 10 him every private vice and
public crime and with press subsidized by
the lavish patronage of the Government Itself,
they have poured out upon him such torrents
OF ioathsome obloquy that they have brought
4 large portion Of the people TO believe thul he
is 4 monster Of vice and crime, an associate OF
Booth in his murder OF Lincoln, ana naoltual
the least of his private vices.
Under cover of these passionate appeals
they have proceeded to 6epose the President
from office-or rather they have substantially
n abolished the office of President-and if they
leave him the name and the salary, II is only
because he is really powerlesS; or, as Mr.. Pike
of Maine expresses it, being dead i'll fact as
President, 1t is not decent to a,aitate the corpse
Twas everywhere met by the inquiry during
nv canyaSSing tours at the Ncrth last year
and the year before, why the President gave
the aid Of his Executive power to this decapi-
tation of himself? 1t wasa as manifest then as
now that the pabulum of the corruptionlsts
by which the Radical organization was erect
ed and maintained, came from the EXECUTIVE
Department, and that his Cabinet In TACT TOOK
the lead in organizing Congress against MN !;
that he was surrounded by traitors and spies,
who. as the success of their treachery was de-
yeloped, would make q merit OF having be-
trayed him.
had TO confess there, rs do here, my ina
bility to account for the Presidents iatal LOT
bearal1cr. His generous nature was pIoo!olS
practiced upon by their dupllcity :
Rut. whatever the cause, it is undenlao!e that
the defeat of the opposition to kadlcalism Is
mainly due to the disorganiZation ana Demo
ralization caused by the war upon the masses
of the e'party, by the Administration when they
The Democracy of the North; in
their vote for Douglas in 1850, showed tna' Ina
thew had no sympathy with secession. Muill-
tudps of their men fought through the war,
and et the money they furnished shows that the
war increased rather than diminished their
antipatly to it, They furnished more than! than
their full share of the men and at least lne.r +
ouota of the money. And yet, wnen the w"t
Iyas over. and they sought TO sustain tha i're-
sdent 81 de in securing for the southern States their
rights as States in that Union,
thsy were not permitted to do so-the whole
weight of the Administration, from tne fre.
mier down. was thrown in The scale against