The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-21
RirI,n,olrd 1ispattlr.
n,-renAy JANUARY FL, 1858.
/" PROGRESS


n,;s &c a word for which we have con-
ce;ved a great dctestation-in the ny
nocri.ical, slang-whanging spirit in wnlch
:, Is psed at the North-since in that hght
q l. INIT another name for the rapid jour
nov TO social and political perdition. The
,rue radical idea of its meaning is con-
stan.ly developed in the inroads made upon
national and social honor and integrity,
and in the disturbance and destruction Of
the conservative balances and checks
which our ancestors incorporated into our
"frame of government for the preserva-
ton Of its harmony and the protection Of
civil liberty.
We behold the numerical force Of the
congressional majority progressing" from
stage to sSage in this war upon the most
sacred political safeguards devised for the
country ID its fathers. Led by an ad-
vanced Af,iy of enthusiasts, as was the
French r&volusionists, they find themselves
to-day doing that which twelve months ago
they dared not do. The madmen that go
ahead last year demanded the abolition Of
the Supreme Court-they were. treated
with silence.
In the "progrcss Of wrong and out
rage, which, once begun, must be sustained
throughout by treachery, dishonesty, and
crime, the last years advice of the mad.
men is deemed wise, and to follow it be-
comes a necessity. So with the destruc-
ton of the power and prerogatives OF the
Executive Department. The vindictive
and bloody minded ultras called last year
upon Congress to strike down the Presi.
dent. The demand was complied with
partially; but now it becomes another ne
cessity in the progress of outrage and
Destruction" and the Destructives indi-
cate by their threats that they are ready
to make their work thorough, and thus
complete the revolution of the Constitu.
tionaI Government Of the United States,
and establish the destructive principle
that the party Of numbers, for the time, is
the Government of the land-with power
to build up and to destroy-to imprison and
to enlarge-to hang or to acquit!
Look at the South. Who on earth
prior to the late war, ever advocated the
clothing of the negro with all the immuni-
ties of the citizen Immediately after his
liberation from slavery2 Not one, that we
ever heard of. The most fanatical aboli-
ZIONIST deemed it proper to place him for a
time under pupilage, in order that ne
might be fitted for the responsible duties
of the governing class before he should be
allowed to exercise them. To the latest
day of his existence Mr.. LINCOLN repudi-
ated all idea of placing him in the commu-
nifty equal in all relations to the white man.
The Radicals, INSCRIPTIONS as they
were, could not venture upon such ha'
zardous expedient before little schooling
of their own minds to the pitch OF SO
monstrous an outrage upon mankind.
They had even to get up the figment OF an
accusation against the southern people
after the manner of the grievance suffered
by the wolf from the mdddying of the
water by the drinking below him of the
lamb. We did not choose to exercise the
privilege granted to us Of saying yea OF
nay by disfranchisng our neighbors and Jl
lon. citizens. We did not choose to adopt
the =" constitutional amendment" This
act, which excited the appreciation OF
generous minds, was made the hypocriti-
cal excuse for visiting upon us harshel
terms-for establishing that universe
negro suffrage which had been determined
on previously as necessary to secure tc
the party of numerical force the power
and plumber it already enjoyed. In other
words, the wolf intended to eat the lamt
whether he had muddied the stream OF
not, But, even as ruthless and ferocious
as he was, he bad to trump up pretext
Thus have the Destructives, following
the lead of the demons, one by one com
piled with their monstrous proposals. L
is steady march along the highway Il
ruin and anarchy, begun in crime, con
tinued in lawlessness and outrage, ant
must, if not early checked, end in thu
complete revolution of the Government
The next step will be the Imperial Govern
ment, with the Emperor. The tyranny o
the multitude Of tyrants hos ever beer
brief. 1t has always been disorderly ant
terrible but has invariably found solu
ton in the concentration of authority il
the hands of one man, who has been ever
hailed by misruled and distressed people
as a deiiverer sent by Heaven to their re-
lief COB speed "progreSS !"