The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-23

they snsesghed Ia spirit o. loil
ton ,azainst the monstrouss outrage. They
were treated with contempt The Black
sRepablican party, conscious Of the brute
power Of numbers, sneered ut the inyective
of the generous southern men. No sense
.of national obligation, no aualms Of CO.'S
science, Nc, feeling Of humanity, aroused
them 70 . sense Of their treachery, md, be-
ing unable to defend it, they shut their.
mouths. This but increased southern reT
sentiment. The sceneswe most exciting.
Blocdshed was daily anticipated on the
doors Of Congress. The people were agi-.
sated as they never ha,as been and i was
then that the breach between the sections
swas made 50 wids that the recession Of the ne
South was o mere formal recog ignition OF IT.
Ii was in these scenes that Mr.. GoIFAx
Gained his first national reputation. The
now Senator SHERMAN was, perhaps. the.
leader Of the, Black Republican side of the
House, ut was he that pchalked out the
policy Of silence and contempt towards the
representatives Of the South. That policy;
waseminsntly characteristic Of his stealthy,
cunning, and disingenuous partisan strategy.
CoLFAx Was one Of the most prominent Of
his auxiliaries in this, one Of the most dis
graceful occurrences, as il turned out in its
consequences to be the most destructive, in
The history of this nation.
Mr.. CoLYax is q fair representative of
| the brood Of politicians which We have
above alluded to- They signalized the PEE
Rod when it was boldly assumed that the
public will was supreme over constitution
and law, and therefore that the party for
the time representing it was free to do
whatever it desired TODD. Naturally, de-
bate became ferocious, partisanry violent,
the decorum which once marked the de-
liberations of Congress disappeared, and
mutual personal elimination and 1recrimi-
nation soon became d common occurrence,
while, the natural impulse Of q brave and
generous mind to resent insult was re-
strained by expulsion. Such is now the
Congress of the United States, over one
branch9of which Mr.. CoLFAx presides.
4 Mr.. CoLFAx is said to be privately Q
man Of good humor, kind heart, generous
hospitality, and in his domestic relations
and habits altogether unimpeachable. How
such man can be in public q bitter and
ferocious partisan, ruthless and relentless,
seems strange. But northern education
and society are strange:and unaccountable.
He is not scholar nor gentleman in the
proper sense. Like his compeers of his
party, he is not restrained by Q delicate
sense ofpropriety nor by a decent regard for
the opinions of those who have that sense.
Recently he has been blatant and clamor-
GUS for the conviction Of President JOHN
SON, although he was in the line of sue
cession and would be only one remove
from the Presidency after Mr.. JoHNsoN's
conviction. He is, in short, o man who will
permit no sense of delicacy and no re-
straints of constitution or law to interfere
with the most subservient compliance with
the behests Of his party party of VIC
lence whose mandates no conscientious or
humane gentleman can thoroughly and inn
picitly obey. e
Mr.. CoLFAx is not SO vulgar man as
WADE. As q party man, he is just as
ultra, and would probably have voted, as
WADE did, against Mr.. JOHNSON, although
his vote might have made him President.
We have devoted morespace to this subject
than in a mere personal sense it merits .ts.
We desired to. present the leading tea
lures of the ruling party of the times
whose existence is due to revolutionary
,furore, and which must die as soon as peace
is in reality restored t.. the country. Reyo-
lutionary parties never survive the reFolu-
tions that. produce them. s
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