The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-13
The Fight over the Spells.

We do not know the wheels within the
wheels of the Radical ring Of this city, and
cannot understand from outward signs oil
that is going on. When we beheld In the
Ne,o Nation Of Friday some four columns
of those bankrupt notices-those signs OF
TINT financial dissolution Of southern men
which is pouring wealth into the pockets OF
Radical officials-we supposed HUNNIcUTT
had gained victory, and that peace had
come to the GROWERS over the spoils. But
Saturdays Neso Nation undeceives US.
HuNN1CuTT is still short Of his rations, and
he seizes the opportunity of the announce
ment of the elections to press upon those
who are Withholding his pap the Importance
of a truce between him and them, and
plainly intimates to them that this truce
must rest upon the basis Of complete
restoration to him Of all the pap diverted
from him, and the acknowledgment Of all
his claimsl
HUNNIcUTT says that he and others who
| have "borne the heat and burden Of the
"day, and received all the odium Of the
Conservative press" are to give their
money and labor "to hoist men into office,
"by whom they will be ground to dust, and
"crushed and starved out as soon as cleo
." ton day is over, is q degradation to which
$40 gentleman ,oiU submit"
Of course such "gentleman as the
Rev. Mr.. HUNNIcUTT will do no such thing.
He declares that "neither good nor bad
| angels" would submit. The bad angels are,
we suppose, the habitues of Hunnicutt Hall,
and if they resist, Governor WELLS goes
up at once. HUNNIcUTT knows where the
strength of Radicalism is, and this allusion
to the "bsd angels is stroke Of policy
that will tell.
The reverend gentleman is defiant, and
threatens like one who has power. There'll
be caving in, we apprehend, unless Go
vernon WELLS is anxious to defeat the Con-
stitution, that he may remain the longer
where he is HUNNIcuTT says "no six
men shall control Virginia." He hints at
"wire-working and trickery," and the
"ruling and starving" CHATS point with
the negroes) of the great majority Of the
Republicans "by few so"called Republi-
cans" Better, he says, that the whole
party 20 to wreck and ruin"
The Hero rises as he proceeds with his
philippe. He "will speak; and more, be
heard" He has "temporized twelve
months too long" And
"Shall we stand in awful silence and see
them This black regimentsl handed over to
men who have no claims on the State, but
men who have held the Offices and have
grown rich and impudent, and now pre-
sumo to dictate to the whole party; and
those whom they cannot drive they try to
starye' Can We stand still, in holy horror,
and witness all this, and become parti-
cops criminiS-a guilty partaker in the ter
rible crimeY"
Ancient PISTOL must finish this para
graph:
Rather damn them with King cerberus, and
let the welkin roar ~
Now, what is all this aboutf Why,
plainly, the division Of the spoils. HUNNI-
CUT commands the black hosts Of Radical
ism, and will not bring In his forces until
he has his claims acknowledged And it
is proper. Shall there not be honor amongst
thieyes2 Is HCNNlCUTT to do everything
and get nothing. The erich % and "inde-
pendent" fellows must disgorge.