The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-02-05

A~.certsin man In WG1hinSv@S(s so VIC
learn by our correspondence teteer pub
l,bcd Yesterday, was lady hsszd to- TO-
mark "tbat IL would MT DO loas before
there would be important Development.
Such a very significant declaration CONNIE
c,om that certain man, naturally agi'a.ea
thu popular mind; especially -
same morning We were presented py 'no
p.o,,;rer with . document said 70 nave
S" ,.n.rsd by "csrtain gentlemen from
enc sputb.n and purporting to be q "nev
n,.r Of Adjustment" that Is, Of recon-
s,ruction, which we are all invited seri-
ou.lv to consider. We know not whether
the talented correspondent Of the Dis
pitch or the able writer in the Enquirer
has contributed most to produce that
breathless eagerness and anxiety into
which the community has been plunged
by such laundering pieces of intelligence.
Good Heavens! There are going to be
important developments certain man
was heard to say SO! And certain gentle
men from the South have actually drawn
up a proposal for adjustment!
Now we, for our part, invite our readers
not to consider, o pay the smallest at
tention to any of these startling develop
ments. There is nothing in them. Per
haps most of the rational and moderate
people at the South, on reading the project
drawn up by these anonymous gentlemen
might be inclined to say there's nothing
absolutely intolerable in the state Of thing,
which this project would operate amongs'
us if realized. We have read it; and Ger
tainly would not say that it ought not to
be we'll considered, if 1t were before us
but it is not before us. The person who
wrote it, or any other man, may amuse
himself with sketching programmes of re.
construction, setting forth the maximum o.
sacrifice which he thinks the South ought
to submit to as a compromise. But 1t ]:
not what he thinks, it is not even what the
whole South thinks, that is the important
point in this business. If any of all these
plans should be thought tolerable by us
precisely for that very reason it would be
intolerable to Congress. The more sacri
fees we should declare ourselves prepared
to make, the more they would impose
upon us. The more anxiety we should
show to set thcmright about our sentiments
the higher their demands would rise: and
there is nothing they could relish SO much
as having round them in their lobbies 9
beyy of the best citizens of Virginia, tt
whom they could whisper from time tc
time "Get your people at home to yield
" this point, and back out of that position
sand them promise nothing-but we shall
" see what we shall see." This will not do
Such offers of compliance would not con
ciliate them, and could only degrade us
Even if we had been base enough to &C,
cept their Constitutional Amendment, thai
would not have reconstructed us, as we
are now plainly told. In short, there are
no terms of admission into the Union
offered to us at all. There is nothing be-
fore us.
AS for trying reason or persuasion with
those people, you might as well persuade
and reason with a team Of runaway
horses. These Radicals have got the bit
between their teeth, and they will GER
tainly tear along till they either run up
against some wall or shoot over a preci-
nice