The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-01-11
Sorrows Of Radicalism,

win the applause Of negroes In the gale
ries Of Congress begin to run short. It'll
true, . rousing cheer was drawn out by tho
announcement Of the passage Of the Negro
Suffrage act for the District Of Columbis
over the Presidents veto. OK solid rount
of applause from the colored ladies anC
gentlemen greeted that performance, a
we are told by the newspaper CORES
pondcnts. That we'll over, the question
was, What nexts At this moment Mr.
AsHLsY's Impeachment res1i ons are tne
favorite representation upoNShose boa'as'
The Radicals, il is said, must stu DC oo'Hs''
something, and that something more ana
more violent every day, or the excitement
will subside, and the very galleries VIII
empty. Tho grand performance now ad.
vertised as the next to come off is, there
fore, the Impeachment Of the President by
Mr.. ASHLEY for various high crimes and
misdemeanors-the accuser being gentle,
man understood to hold, in most virtuous
adherence, all corruption, malfeasance,
and other mean actions. The President
appears to await with great calmness the
opening of this new entertainment.
So he we'll may. The indications at the
North are, that the people are in state OF
uneasiness and boding apprehension as to
any further movements in politics which
NAV trouble commerce and shake conf
dence in the future. Quiet, sensible, pu-
siness men, the farmers, the artisans, and
the poor, begin to think that they have had
"reconstruction enough, and would WISH
TO see Congress give some time and atten-
ton TO the material interests of the coun-
try-and instead Of inventing continual
new alarms Of political revolution, trying
to calm down and settle those which have
already been stirred up. Anxious letters
and kilograms from constituents are said to
be pouring in upon members of Congress,
entreating them to let the President alone
and let the country have rest. Radical
newspapers themselves appeal earnestly in
the same sense. The New York Times
says:
"For, apart from reconstruction there
are important subjects upon which the &C.
ton Of Congress is anxiously awaited.
Commerce and industry both require at
tention. Both are paraiyzed. Our currency
is iufated-our whole financial system
unsound. There is everywhere evidence
of the fear begotten of uncertainty. The
manufacturer has no positive knowledge of
the conditions under which his work must
be carried on; the merchant no means OF
Judging of the contingencies that may arise
TO mar his enterprise. Hence the uneaSi-
ness with which the doings at Washington
are watched. Men are unable to guess
what is coming. One day the impeach-
ment project startles by its boldness an
other day some other wild scheme comes
up to teach us how near We are to gene
raj looseness. There is want of conf
dence superadded to more than ordinary
dizziness; and this want of confidence pro-
cecds in no small degree from an impress
sion that Congress is more intent upon the
accomplishment of political results than
upon the furtherance of practical legisla-
tion."
One cannot be very sorry for those
northern people in their I" fear begotten OF
uncertainty" and their apprehension of a
general looseness." Why did they elect
the most ranting Radicals they could find
and send them to Washington to electrify
negroes in the gallery? The Herald, on
its part-a journal which is generally for
running every sensation as far as it will
so--thus sagely observes:
ave apprehend, however, that without
any compensating good results, the conse-
quences of this proceeding, if pushed to
trial before the Senate, will be mischle-
vous, if not disastrous, to Congress, the
Republican party, the treasury, and~the
financial and industrial interests of the
country, from the violent clashing and con-
fusion Of parties, factions and sections that
must inevitably attend the prosecution Of
this impeachment, and the attempt to sus-
pend the Executive in his functions, with
his arraignment as prisoner"
The strong and even violent language
held by speakers at the Connecticut De-
mocratic Convention, and elsewhere, must
tend to show also that the conservative ele-
ment of the country may soon be driven to
assert itself in manner which would
again threaten the peace and derange the
industry of the country. In short, the
Radical game has gone nearly as far as it
can 20. Its famous constitutional amend
ment" has run up against the quiet,
steady non poSSumuS Of tho South. Its
territorializing project comes plump against
the law and any serious effort to get rid
of the Judiciary and the Executive seems
certain to produce such commercial
panic over all the North as would make
radicalism and Radicals an abomination to
mankind forever. Even now people are
much more anxious about bankrupt law,
and the new tariff, than about the sublime
moral spectacle OF a President impeached'
and are thinking more of peaceable re-
sumption of lucrative trade with the South,
than of any precise terms of recohstruc-
ton or programme for Furnishing "rebels."
They are, moreover, growing sick, we
trust, of "great moral IDEAS" and the
ulife of the nation;' and learning that the
true life of nation is the law.
Let the Radicals attend to something
practical. There is at least one measure
they can carry through-and it will bring
them roaring cheers from the galleries
we mean an appropriation to pay for their
supper of welcome" a supper which was
triumphantiy eaten, but, We regret te
learn, not yet settled for. II the omnipo'