The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-02-12


the whole South so unsafe for UNION
mon y that they are absolutely obliged &c
Az for refuge north of MASON and DixoN's
line. and appeal for protection to the arms
Of the Republic. One Of those "Union
men, living quietly at home In Vir-
u;n;a-unconscious Of the horrors OF TINS
war-cessant which is desolating the coun-
try-was greatly surprised at learning by
wav Of Washington, that he, Mr.. SrEARNs, IS
80 p~ersccuted, endangered, worried,
chased. ,anked, cut off, and ridden down
n, the course of this war-cessant) that
unless the President is impeached forth
with. "he will not be able to live In
his W home" Mr.. SrEARSs goes to the
window Of his house, he rubs his eyes,
looks to the right hand and to the left
hand for the rebels who ought by this time
to be advancing with fire and sword to
slaughter him and raze his dwelling-sees
only q little cart going with vegetables to
market; q woman with a basket on her
arm who has already been at market; one
or two friends (ex-rebels) who nod as they
pass, and say, good morrow STEARNs! lie
rather thinks nobody wishes to hurt him
and concludes that if there be indeed q
war cessant, so long as it continues to oe so
csssant as this he will not care a button Tor
il. So he sits down and writes TO the
newspapers " that he has no apprehension
Of any danger to his person or property
from the people of Virginia, whatever the
action of Congress may be that, in fact,
he has lived thirty years here, and as ne
sees no immediate occasion to save him.
self by fight he counts upon spending the
rest of his laws at home. This will never
do. Testimony of this kind will never sus-
tain the war-cesSante theory, nor make a
case for ruling us by general orders. An
enlightened Congress will get no good out
of Mr.. STEARNs in its efforts to reconstruct
a loyal basis.
One thing, to be sure, can be done: his
letter can be carefully suppressed in the
North. Neither the Tribune nor EUensng
Post, nor any Of the other Radical organs
which are now collecting or inventing out
RACES and s%laughters at the South will
nr;nt that letter. They will take good
care not TO see it. Nevertheless, we in
v;te their attention to it; and they will
find it in the Dispatch of yesterday.
In one way, too, the letter of our worthy
fellow.citizen will be quite acceptable to
the Radicals he is in favor Of impeaching
the President. Indeed, all Democratic
Presidents ought to be impeached, in his
opinion the proper use and function OF a
Democratic President is to be impeached,
and Mr.. STEARNs, for his part, sees no other
use for that class of officials but to hang
them. Yet still, strongly as he feels this
truth. deeply as this good old Wing princi-
ole has penetrated into his bosom, growing
With his wears and strengthening with his
strength, yet he really cannot altogether
perceive that if Mr.. JOHNSON should not be
mpeached, he (Mr. SrEARNs) will nave to
" the country. He has seen several
Democratic Presidents go unimpeached to
heir graves, and he has survived it.. The
hing was hard to bear; but with the
blessing of COP and a stout heart he has
.ome through those trials; and ever
low, with all that has come and gone, he
irmly trusts that whatever the action OF
congress may be-" his neighbors will not
Use upon him and run him off, nor yet burn
lis house over his head. We are distinctly
# that same opinion; for the war which we
re now carrying on is really one of the most
essnnt wars. we ever remember to have
cad of.