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

the whole weight and influence or that Ad-
ministration Is actively exerted TO destroy it.
| Nothing but this unnatural antagonism
! could have prevented the triumph Of the Con- :
| servative party. The 500, 900 Democrats who
voted for Mcclellan, headed by the Admins
| tration, must have triumphed. Hoffman
ceived McClellan's vote. He was defeated
| simply by the decentralization have sketched,
and the least consideration will enable you to
understand how all-sufilcient that was for the
purpose.
| It was the cause of Constitutional Liberty
for which the fight was made, and the De-
mocracy was conjured to come mp to the polls
for that cause, and the great body of them re-
sponded. But even those who came did not
respond as they would have done had their
hearts welled up towards their leaders.
| Thousands turned with disgust from those
who were allowed to hold high positions,
who We're to be sustained in them by their
| votes, remembering that it was not six months
| since the Premier had handled them publicly
rs disloyal party; and l have never found n
| speaker or laborer in the canse who was not
| chilled by this thought, and who did not feel
| when the people asked him why the Presi-
| dent whom they honored turned over the
| Government to our enemies and his own,
| that his labor was in vain.
| If General Grant had been put in charge
| of the War Department, and thus associated
with the Administration and admitted to its
| councils, Radicalism would have perished, and
refrigeration would have been long since ac
| complshed. His magaanimous course at the
surrender of Lee; his report 10 the President
| in 1866 on the condition Of the South his
avowed opposition to negro suffrage and the
military bill his good sense, good heart, and
| high courage; give the best assurance that he
| would have given the President the best ad-
vice, and his popularity would have given
| strength to the Administration. His liberality,
| too. towards Mcclellan, having expressed his
| Willingness 10 res tore him to command, would
have warmed up every friend of Mcclellan to-
wards the Administration of which he formed
part. For nearly TWO years Senator Doo-
little and other friends of the President have
pressed this upon him; but the Premier set
| by his ear, busy with his satellites, making
mischief between the President and the one
man upon whom it is visible to all eyes he can
and ought TO rely in this emergency.
Grant, soon after closing the war, took
the liberty in the little speech he made in
| New York (his only speech) to order Louis
Napoleon out of Mexico, where Mr.. Seward
had helped him to go, if he had not invited
him, and was certainly willing that he should
remain. This was notice to Mr.. Seward that
Grant would not support him for the Presi-
dency.
| still have hopes the President will take the
counsel of his real friends and obey the voice
| of the nation, by putting General Grant in
charge of the work of refrigeration. The
| Radicals, comprehending the intrigues at
which have glanced, have sought by their
reconstruction measures TO antagoniZe him 10
| the President, giving him the power over the
military commanders in the South which be-
longs by the Constitution, to the President.
He would flank them completely If he would
| dismiss the intriguers by whom he is sur
rounded and give Grant, as Secretary, the au-
thority by law which they seek to give him in
defiance of law. He could then defy the i'm.
peachers, turn the popularity OF Grant
/ (which the Radicals are seeking TO use 10 sus-
tain them in overthrowing the Governmenp
| 10 its support, undo in one hour the Radical
| labor Of years 10 sow diStrust OF him III the
minds of honest people, which has no other
Just foundation than the fact that he has re-
tanned men in power whose III patriotism no
one of amy party confides
| The programme Of the Radicals Is plain ::
| They mean 10 command the Government by
| military power and corruption. They Will set
mp Brownlow and Fletcher governments in
the ten States row excluded from Congress.
| These, with the Brownow and Fletcher votes,
will give them twelve States IN the electoral
college, in virtue OF their military power.
| They count upon the tari!r and use of the
public money ana party machinery TO secure q
sufficient number of the northern States,
| which added 10 the votes cast by Brownlow,
| Fletcher, SiGileS, Pope, sheridan, and other
| military satraps, wilt give Them the control Of
| the Government. The nimSy veil OF negro
| suffrage, pretended as 4 protection of the
| ballot from "chief traitors" under which is
| concealed She naked sword with which the
| twolve Starns ara 10 ba ruled, 10 too tIdusp1-
rent 10 require TO be stripped off Old Thad
| Stevens, the real master spirit OF Radical
long ago declared lnll mean NulcS Souiu
be got at the South 10 organize and lead the
negroes in the interest of those controlling
the Government for the sake of the patronage
and the pccunary advantages they would re-
ceive. For controlling the negroes they look
TO the antagonisIn Of race-the Freedmen
Bureau-promise of confisca1ed lands. There
is not feature in the whole Radical system to
redeem it from abhorrence. 1t is system
of the foulest corruption: relying alto
getEer on the basest and most mercenary
| trn q
few sentimentalists who urge negro suf-
frage from better motives-who are anX-
ious TO have their votes counted, In the
idea that in that way only they can be elevated
in the scale of humanity and escape slavery
who construe the Declaration Of independence,
not rs Jefferson, its author, and those who
adopted il construed il, to mean that men OF
the same nation were of right equals among
themselves and in their own nation, but rs
aboiishing and confounding nationalitles, and
establishing UNIVERSAL citizenship; so that
HottentolS, Cannibals, Coolies, Indians, Afrl'
cans, if born in our midst, are born 10 the
same rights of citizenship with those OF Us
whose fathers acquired the country aud gave
it its government and laws, although 1hose
persons so born in our midst are the descend
ants of those brought here rs slaves, ana are
by their nature utterly incapable OF discnarg-
ing the duties or bearing the burdens lncloent
10 full citizenship of such Stale The
fact that 10 such citizenship is acknoW-
ledged fer the negro In any Sta,e Oh Tue
Union out Of New England, and there only
because they are TOO few in number 10 exert
particle of influence, proves that it is not
upon any such principle OF national justice
that it is proposed 10 count the votes OF the
negroes of the South. Mr.. Sumner, VINO
seems 10 me TO be by far the most honest OF
,nv of their public men, has contended for
the establishment Of this principle, ana mas
again offered at this session the bill when ne
| had repeatedly presented before 10 give tne
negro that right of suffrage universally, put
| -. witt
Congress- not because Congress has no power
TO legislate with respect 10 suffrage III thr
Slates-for neither he nor his associates regard
that rs an ohlection-but simply because lhey
dare not attempt TO impose negro suffrage
upon the northern States. This they know
| can only be done by military power, ana the
| time has not yet come 10 exert military power
at the North. AS it is only when they exert
that mower that the negro vote is counted, IL
is after all but the exertion OF the military
| power and the suffrage is sham suffrage anu
il is an election in no better sense than II they
| counted the cattle in the fields in support OF
| radicalism. And the negroes themselves, II
| they could be made to understand that therc
| is no negro suffrage where any real sulraee Is
tolera ted would become sensible that they are
| but the tools in the hands OF new masters,
directing them for their own seliish ends anu
objects with not thought or wish Tor their
| welfore They are but the machinery or
| agency adopted by the military, when con-
trolls it and supports IL TO carry lts VIII lhlo
effect. 1t is simply a military government ana
the Radicals, us have shown, resort 70 the de-
| yica of counting the negroes as part OF the
| nonchinery, taking care 10 dock the white vote
sufficiently to bring about the result prescribed
beforehand. 1t was TO secure the proper
docking of the white vote that the present
session of Congress was heid ING SUPP =
! men tary act passed follows the Bro"nloW ana
FIatcher models closely. By this the registers
of voters appointed by the military are
clothed with unlimited power. on that neau )
and as the white men among them are gene.
~aliv 7 presume, of the class denominated by
nId Th,f AS the "mean whites those en-.
tirely subservient to the Radicals-they VII
| cmt s,d carve to suit the exigency. Besides