The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-06-08
The Onward Course.

Inc Curreut VI human HuuirS ho"s
ONT nd, whatever be the disturbances and
tempors,ry impediments in its course. Men
ret a,armeI' occasionally, and fear that "
is to be turne. away from its channel, ana
that it will uproo. and destroy everything
IN It's vay. Rut 10 a little while their
fears are nr;eted bccsu,e their apprehen-
sions are not realized, and 'eey nna 'na' II
things ar. not as they wish them 70 Dc
,bev arc certainly not as bad As they
might be.
Most events Of these days are OF the
cha racter Of Temporary disturbances which
will have little effect on the future of this
country. The one great event OF the
abolition of slavery will be enduring in
its consequences; but all the partisan
movements and the excitements OF the
day will in a short time cease to have any
influence and be forgotten. Abolition Will
have no permanent bad effect upon Vir-
ginia and the adjoining States, and may
not have such an effect upon the Gull
States. Indeed, it will prove beneficial
to Virginia, and help to increase her ma
terial resources, and increase her popuia-
ton and political power. But all the class
of movements and disturbances growing
out of party ambition and greed for office
and emolument-all the tricks for the gra-
tiication of these, which are now alien
at;np the two races in the South and pro-
ducinp anxiety in the public mind, will
after a time be frustrated and brought to
an end, leaving us not much the worst
for their achievements. The current VIII
continue to flow on and present so smooth
a surface as to bear no sign that it had ever
been disturbed.
We must have peace. A party sus-
tanned by hostility and hatred cannot exist
in peace. The public mind under con-
dition of peace cannot be agitated to the
height of passion and malignity. The
office-hunters and place-holders cannot
work up the public feeling to that point
when all is quiet and order, under re-
stored equality among the States. Every
body does not want Office, and cannot get
it. So whole community is not going to
lash itself into rage because one man
wants an office. The furious office-hunters
trading upon sectional luminosity, will find
their capital gone, and their manufactured
stories about southern disorders, cruelties,
and brutalities, of no avail when the South
is able to deny and disprOve them-when,
indeed, she will have power that will CON-
mand respect; and it will be neither poll
tic nor safe to undertake to malign her.
Thus the war for Office and power by
warning on communities will break down,
and white and black in the South will be
left. as they ought now to be, to manage
their own affairs without the intervention
of outsiders. They will divide without
distinction, and express their preferences
without respect to the prejudices and pas
sions engendered now under the delusive
pupilage of selfish and Inscriptions i'm
ported partisans.
In this way we shall pass through
period of annoyance and trouble and reach
smooth water in short time. All that Is
necessary is calmness and fortitude. A
straightforward, dignifed policy, while
trusting in the justice of an overruling
Providence, will insure triumph. Viz
ginia has the men and the material
advantages to insure also prosperity
and growth in physical power that will
place her among the first Of States in that
as she has been in moral grandeur. This
is certainty; yet there is that in her
latitude, atmosphere, and topography,
which protects her from that other Ger
tainty anticipated by the Charlottesville
Clronicle-viz., the being overrun by north
ern sentiment and morality. The spirit
and genius of the people will be Virginan
as long as she remains State. There is
every reason against dependency. No
man should think that the world was Gre
ated at his birth, and will end at his death.
Our brief experiences are nothing. The
river of events will flow on, and all traces
of the things we deem so momentous in
onr dow will no washed aWay.