The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-19
Time for Something New.


Time for Some thing New.
Southern newspaper readers begin to
lose their interest in the reports of the pro-
ceedIngs Of Congress, for lack of new and
startling Radical sensations, the only Tea
ture which has rendered those reports toie-
rably readable since the beginning of this
session. The majority Of senators and
members came to Washington charged
with the most violent, menacing, and vcnge-
full measures, all directed against the help
less South; !, and oil doubtless quite accept
able to the constituents Of those gep.'-
men, but all having this one sad deie.
they were impossible: eitherclear'y "sa'n'.
the law. or impracticable in tho nature o.
the case. And now they are ah h'oo o"'
and the report is over, aud the very smoke
or them almost blown away. lmpeach-
p,ent OF the President was splendid idea,
and made good enough farce up TO a GER
tain point; but just there men said TO
themselves, if this thing goes any further,
the Jest may turn into earnest; so the i'm
parchment is safely slowed away. Then
territorializipg Of the South: this sounded
well, and could not be impossible, they
thought, to such sweeping majorties; but
there stood, right in its way, the law, the
Constitution, and the Supreme Court. 1t
was felt that provision ought to have been
made for destroying all these first, and
then destroying the States afterwards.
Forcing constitutional amendments on
the country by q vote Of three-fourths OF
the represented States" was plan that
looked supcrbly formidable at first; but
labored under the same difiiculty-it can't
be done.
One thing which Congress could doin the
direction Of Revolutionary Anarchy, they
did. 1t was giving negro suffrage to the
District Of Columbia; and the inhabitants
Of that District, who are unhappy enough
to be governed by such Congress, are
now beginning to reap the fruits of that
measure-and the negroes too, poor fell
lows. Hereafter it may be better for Radi-
cal leaders to get up no new sensations
except such as they can never convert into
practical plaques. For new congressional
sensations must absolutely be had; it is
. the one necessity Of the hour; it is what
that Congress calls governing the country.
Legislators have scarcely time or attention
to bestow upon the common place subjects
of tariffs, finance, or bankrupt law. They
get done with these topics as quickly as
possible-for what have they to do with
the one grand, essential point-crushing
the South, and Furnishing the authors of a
wicked aud cauSeless rebellon?" SO
that these potent Radicals are now looking
round them on all sides for materials to
keep up their revolutionary excitement
the only object, they think, worthy of q
legislative body.
Even the Democrats in Congress are fail
ing to give occasion to furious debates, by
which the steam might be kept up. Dem
ocrats seem TO think they may as well hold
their tongues, and let the storm blow itself
out--thus the mighty majority is left i"
uQcato, to rant and geSticulate there till it
is tired. Senator MCDouGAL did let him.
self be provoked, on Wednesday last, to
make one natural complaint. lie said
"The majority had lost all regard and
all respect for the feelings and wishes OF
the minority. The opinion of every sena-
tor on this floor was formerly listened to,
l,,4 x,,,r 81 ,baaa dave Df caucuS9S they
had no rights whatever. 1t was only with
in the last eight years that such thing as
a caucus had been heard of in the Federal
Senate. Now, everything was determined
there. The tyranny OF majority was
worse than the tyranny of bowling mob"
The Senator added, that at this rate we
should soon be ripe for scenes like those of
the reign of terror in France. Many per-
sons, indeed, have been thinking SO for
some time, and without great repugnance.
That would be at least one way of issue
out Of the present impdsSe, or dead lock
a way, namely, through utter anarchy to
military despotism. Perhaps il was to pre-
pare the way for this Mr.. PAYNE, Of Wis
consin, proposes new organization of the
militia upon the plan of great congress
sional army-"a national guard of two
regiments in each congressional district"
to be Differed by governors, and SUBJ
iect to the laws of Congress; and "no
State shall be permitted to organize
any other tooops." This project has the
strong recommendation in Radical eyes
of being unconstitutional and illegal; in
conformity, therefore, with "great moral
ideas and the march of tho revolution.
1t has the further Recommendations
this is q real one-of being impossible
and perhaps it is we'll for its authors. They
forget that to make good laundering
reign of terror, like the French, they must
have something like the same elements to
compound it with; that is, hunger and
hardship, and leues en- n,aSse to repel foreign
invasion, and the frenzied expectation of
seeing every morning a bloody counter
revolution wrought by emissaries Of their
mortal enemies. The people of the North
are not hungry enough, nor naked enough
vet to make that necessary anarchy out of
which military monarchy springs forth all
armed-not yet-and If they ever do come
to that, 1t will fare i'll with those who
brought them to it. At present they want
TO attend to their business, just as we do;
they are no whit afraid of bands of assas-