The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-06-12
ASHLAND
Hanover COUNTY, June 8, 1897

viii the editor of the Dispatch be pleased 10
give insertion to the following brief article in
and who is noti The Dispatch Of June 4th
contains General Schonelds order and the
rather glaring compliment of the editor OF Its
being "model paper" 1t Is as clear, says
the Dispatch, cas- Mr.. Stanbery's opinion was
muddy" Now, we have 10 say that to the
penetration and powers of analysis Of city
editor General Schofeld's order may seem
clear" but TO the great mass OF the White
people in the country 1t seems about ms trdns-
parent as the raging waters OF the yellow fa-
munkey assure you, unless II Is explained,
| IL will keep large number OF white men from
| registering.
Before I saw the Dispatch Of the 4th l was
informed of the order, and several persons
| labored under the impression that the order
excluded all soldiers from registering unless
| they had been forced into the army, &c, After
| reading the paper and studying Senerai Scho,
fields opinion rs hard rs mathematics
| problem, / think / have guessed at the true
| meaning bit the people hare not.
Observe, now, clause No. 3. ono one is dis
| franchised for participation in the rebellion
unless he previously held some one Oh .he
! apparently positive contradiction in the
| clause NO. 81: Gan persons who voluntarily
! joined the rebel army, and all persons In that
! army whether volunteers or conscrlpts, VINO
! committed voluntarily any hostile act, &c,
! thereby engaged in instruction or rebellion,
&c. This is q separate and distinct clause !;
as applying TO those "who previously held
some of the offices above named,' the people
are under different impression. Please make
the matter rs plain as a pipe-stem IN your
next issue. fAMVNhEi hi'hh'
Our correspondents construction OF General
ScHoFIELp's order is the correct one. We do
not know that we can use language palmer
than the Generals, which seems to us TO be
as easily understood as that the sum Of two and
two is four. That our explanation of the or
der is consistent with the construction put
upon il by General SCHoFIELD himself, we
have unques tionable authority for asserting
II we say that ten is more than five, and
our correspondent replies that nine is more
than five, his answer is no contradiction y OF
our assertion. And so when General ScHo-
FIELD asserts that no man is DISTINGUISHED I'M
less he held Office before the war and after
forwards engaged in rebellion, he does not
| con tradict himself because he says that every
man who voluntarily joined the army thereby
engaged in rebellion. The order first tells
what officers are DISTINGUISHED il they engaged
dftericdrdS III REBELLION: : and secondly, VINO are
DISTINGUISHED if before the 1cdr they hetd Office
If General SCHOFIELD had stopped when he had
said that certain officers We're DISTINGUISHED II
they engaged in rebellion after becoming OFF,
GERS our correspondent would have written n
letter calling upon him to state what he meant
by - engaging in rebellion And then ne
| would have had to make the very explanation
which he makes in his order-namely, that II
these officers did so and so they engaged in
rebellion" He sent the text and the COM
ments to the public together. The whole the
DRY of Acknowledgement is this Congress de-
termined that no man who had oacs been trust
ed as an ctgcer upon his oath TO support the Con-
stitution should ever be trusted again II he
had afterwards engaged in rebellion. And no
man is disfranchised who is not described III
this last sentence