The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-08

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9 The Union-Sha it be Redeemed Z 3 3
The fate Of this. Union has been for
months poised in the balance, The Empe-
ror has been in one scale the people in the
Other. Never ala the balance represent. J
more doubtful question OF superior weight
Were the people possessed Of force and In
dependence, intelligence and virtue, suffi-
esent to press down their scals, and settle
the question in their favor, or was the Enn-
peror, BY reason Of their hghtness and In
capacity to govern themselves, to weigh
them down, and take possession Of the Go
vernments II was matter of grave doubt
IN the minds Of all rejecting men. Yes
there has recently. appeared some cheer
ing light in the horizon, suggesting . hope
that Che days Of this republic are not yes
numbered. !ts,Rt y7,t
Could the revolutionary party In posses
sion Of the Government at the end Of the
war have accepted the truth that was apr-
parent to al honest men, that the whole
South, after it's defeat, was IS loyal TO the
Government and the Constitution as any
people, in the broad limits Of the Union
and at once admitted them back within the
pale of the National Confederation, the
evils Of tho war would soon have been
wiped out, and we should to-day have been
rs prosperous as we were, before the war.
The prosperity of the country would nave
been such that the public debt would not
now be regarded serious burthen. I,
But it was deemed necessary to their in
seresss by the predominant party that the
southern States should be admitted only as
Radical States-as States in favor of con-
tinuing the offices and emoluments Of the
Government in their hands. Taking the
census-table for their guide, they saw by
shaving down a portion Of the white people
by acknowledgements, and comforting the
elective franchise upon the negroes, they
could probably carry the whole southern
States. in their favor. They had no conf
dence in the whites but they knew they
could, with the help Of the Freedmen's
Bureau, carry all the blacks on their side.
This is the essence of the present plan OF
reconstruction, which, after three years,
finds the South more oppressed, PROSTATE,
and respondent than ever, and the national
interests suffering from q general want OF
confidence, universal complaint Of the bur-
thens of taxation, and a serious decline OF
the national wealth by the disorganization
of the industry in that part of the Union
which before the war furnished two-thirds
of the staple exports of the nation.
How could it be possible that such a
state of things should not make deep I'M
preston on the public mind and arouse q
widespread dissatisfaction with the adj
ADMINISTRATION Of the government? p The
South could have been reconstructed IN any
ten hours of the last three years. Her peo-
pie were loyal. Her systems of economy
were c0mplete-her people were law-loV-
and aw-abiding-her laboring class was
quiet, well provided, and contented-and
the period of return to order and submis7
sion to the authority of the National TO
vernment might have been as smooth as
summers sea, and full of the sunshine OF
peace, and thrift. But partisanry, which
is ever usurping for its low and contemptl-
BILE advantages that which belongs to man
kind, prevented this harmonious process,
which would SO soon have restored kind
feelings and peace to the whole nation.
Three years have we passed in the sad
condition wrought by greedy. and unscru-
pulous party-a party of traitors to the
Constitution and the national welfare.
They have been quite enough to open the
eyes of any people of ordinary intelligence
to the evils flowing from the misrule of this
selfish party; and we believe their legiti-
mate effect upon an independent and saga
cious people have begun to operate, and are
daily extending their influence. sst
We have seen no better sign Of the refu-
ent tide Of popular sentiment the awaken
ing of the people to the faithlessness Of.
their public servants at Neutrality-suspicious.
the letter of General GRANT and the expo
sition of the opinions of Judge CHASE.
Now, neither Of these publications could
have been given to the world had their au :,
thors not felt that they were in consonance
with public opinion, or rather the tendency
of that rapidly changing public opinion
which will ultimately entirely repudiate
the revolutionary party and condemn all
its excuses as inhuman and hostile to the
national welfare. 5t a,ls Z e .:..tlsg :
General GRANT tells the NEST bitter, ruth
less, and relentless party the world has ever
seen, which had nominated him, that neso
issues are constantly arising, and that pub
lie opinion. IS constantly changing 10Th re-
ference to those issues aohich are aaoa0 erist-
ing and therefore it is impossible to make
pledges as to the course Of his admins
tration should he be elected What is this
but confession that the public opinion is
about to condemn the measures and opin-
ions Of thel very party which nominated
him, and that therefore he cannot promise
to carry out their views or their measures
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