The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-06
Alarming Consequences and Cost OF
@. .Radicalism. : ~.
Had tho settlement agreed upon J

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.Radica1ism.
Had the settlement agreed upon by
: Generals SHERMAN and JOHNSTON been
approved by the National Governments inc
populations of the southern States would
/ have promptly renewed their industry
under q system of labor continued some
what in the manner that prevailed before
the war, Notwithstanding that it was free.
There would have been quiet and order
, resembling that which prevailed in the
South before the war, and the results Of
industry would have rapidly restored
abundance and something like thrift, =
That basis Of settlement was rejected,
and soon there commenced the war be-
tween Congress and the Executive over
their two plans. That of Congress -univer-
sally known and even acknowledged By the
Radical party to have been intended to
Radicalize the southern States by the only
] possible mode-that Of Africanizing them
triumphed. What has been the conSe-
quences ~
General pToStration, PERJURY, ana, IN
the Gulf States, STARVATION
!, Official reports from Generals ORD, Gill
LEM, HANCOCK, CANDY, SCOTT, and other
officers, show an alarming amount OF des-
titution and suffering in their districts.
The cry from Louisiana, Mississippi, ana
South Carolina is so loud, and occasioneo
By such imminent necessity, that it is OH
cially stated that unless there is Immediate
aid furnished to the people anarchy "us0
follow
This is tho condition of that fair ana
blooming land whose rich products con-
stituted in other days the chief source OF
prosperity of northern commercial ana
manufacturing communities Behold
what Radicalism has done! (Thank God
while we mourn the fates of our noble
southern brethren, Virginia is safe. She
will triumph. She will be herself again.
Radicalism assails her in vain, as little
time will showJ
Now. let us see the quack devices of
these heartless political doctors who have,
through fanaticism, imbecility, and de-
nrayity. reduced the southern States to
the lowest condition Of languishing politi-
cal existence.
It is proposed to establish fund, on
which employers might draw on paying
reasonable interest also to issue food
through such fund, taking liens on lands
and crops for security. 1t is also recon-
mended that loan of thirty millions be
made to States in extreme need, to be
secured by bonds and mortgages on real
estate.
All this is but quackery-mere charla-
tanism. It is worse than worthless. 1t is
a delusion. 1t is water thrown into the
sea, that cannot change the height of the
tide or alter the appearance Of the sur
face or, like ploughing the sea, leaves no
trace behind!
The bonds will not be paid, and the
lands will be forfeited; and then what will
the lands be worth that lie in community
utterly despairing, and whose labor is en-
tirely disorganizcd The Government
will find that it has wasted money IN
futile effort to mend the desperate condl-
tion wrought by its own measures, and
which can only be mended by the repeal
of those measures. II they continue, the
famed land of rich products, of refinement
and hospitality, must be abandoned to bar
barism, and no resource, no revenue, to
prosperity of the nation and the treasury
of the Government will ever flow thence.
The proposed millions, if loaned, will be |
only so much paid to promote tho power
of the Republican party-so much to Radi- |
calize the South through Authorization
which will destroy the greatest source OF
prosperity heretofore known to the Amerl-
can people. This is what the nation. VIII
pay to continue the blessing of Radical
rule!
What crime is this! Has it ever had
its equal? The interests of the whole ma
ton are thus to be crushed to give. strength
to party by clothing with the entire prl-
yileres Of citizens an ignorant multitude
lust emerged from slavery, VINO shoulo
never be permitted to enjoy those priVi-
leres until, after proper probation, they
nroyed their title to them by all the te eS'
of intelligence and good citizenship.
For the continued ascendancy OF Kadl-
calisrn all this is done, and the very instru-
ments by which it sought to achieve thus
result-itself a curse-are plunged into
misery and destitution SO great as to swell
the gale as it flies northward with cries for
bread that at this moment are appalling to
.ba-nation. Millions upon millions are
wasted. as though heaved into the ocean,
10 maintain bureaus and military garrisons
required in the fatal Radical reconstruc-
tion. and all that it purchases is the placing
the governments of the South in the hands
of the inferior race, and the reduction of
the fairest land on earth to starvation and
anarchy!
This is the great theme for present re-
Election Of the northern mind! What
conclusion will it adoptS Will it try more
charlatanry9 This will only make things
worse and bring people taxed to the last
degree of their ability to pay-if not al
ready beyond that-to that state of en-
barrassment and oppression which cannot
be endured, and which will be pregnant