The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-11-10
p;spos;ng of the Plantations.

done. ready to his hand. This must be
consolatory to GREELEY, who considered
him altogether unfit for the Office of Presi-
dent. There is an amount Of talent amongst
Radical editors that will supply any de-
fciency in the mental powers Of the Gene
raj. When he gets into the White House
the number of plans prepared by these
editors to make government plain and easy
viii, be laid before him like willows before
the basket-maker. All the General will
have to do will be to work them up! We
suspect. however, that he will order the
whole pile to be swept out as SO much trash.
The arrogance and supercilious effrontery
of the most Of these voluntary plans Of
government is refreshingly cool. Dis
persed through Hottentot, the atmosphere
of that burning region would become bland,
balmy, and invigorating. The southern
people and the southern plantations are
disposed of as so much land and 80 many
cattle, all their own. Reconstruction is
complete, say the most moderate Of these
self-suficient and important persons, in the
States which are admitted, and those that
arc not can take their time, and remain un-
der military government, or come in as
these considerate beings think it proper
that they should come in Even the States
that are admitted, according to the Cincin-
natl Commercial, one Of the falrest
and most moderate of the Radical press-are
to be held we'll in hand on the subject OF
the negro. Congress for that purpose PRO
"vidinc against special legislation by the
estates against them (the negroes) as
a. c1sss.n Yet the Commercial! is the lead
ing paper Of a State which gave majority
of 5000 against negro suffrage J that,
taking these blind guides of public sent'-
ment which has been already so long de-
luded, the southern States are only TO- be
permitted to control their own affairs so long
rs they control them in manner to suit
Congress. And how is this power to be ex-
ercised over admitted southern States with
out involving all the States in like subordI-
nation to Congress in all their domestic Of
fairs? To this complexion, as we have said
time and again, it will come at last unless
the Government RECEIVERS itself, abandons
its reckless and outrageous policy, and
takes the Constitution for its guide.
The same moderate authority which thus
prescribes mild treatment speaks of
"svstem of terrorism,' prosecutions for
opinions sake" and downright murder y
in the southern States, not only as facts, but
things which demand the interpretation OF
CongresS. We are told that We must live
in "peace with our neighbors," or Con-
cress will punish Us with more Of the same
sort.
First-Then, whatever of disorder and
strife there may be at the South is the
work Of Radical reconstruction and Radical
emissaries.
Secondly-Thc bulk Of the stories spread
broadcast over the North about southern
eutrages during the recent campaign were
lies made out of whole cloth, and another
class were gross exaggera,ions out Of incon-
siderable events.
Thrdly-If they had al been true; yet
by comparison il will be seen that there
are more crimes, more murders. in the North
than there are in the South. Pertinent to
this point, recent number Of the New
York Herald makes this contrast. 1t says
that there are now awaiting trial in one
county of New Hampshire "no less
than FIVE murderers," and that New Eng
-" land furnishes, according to the record,
nearly as many murders in proportion to
population as the southern States" The
Herald thus concludes:
"The moral of all this is, that while
Radical reconstruction cannot check the
progress Of crime in the southern States,
but rather fosters It, so New England Flu
ritanism cannot elevate the moral condition
OF its people above the use Of the knife, the
pistol, and the poison-cup. The cause Of
the increase of murder in the South is 10 be
traced TO the war of races-the inevitable
result of Radical policy. In New England
it belongs to the war Of bad passions, to IT.
religion and iutemperance. No pies of po-
litical evaporation CAN be put in there, for
everything is serene and pleasant in New
England /; no military governors no often
sive negro supremacy, for New England
takes care that the negro is kept in his pro-
per place no disfranahisehent Of white
citizens exists there, 10 provoke conflict anu
keep mems temper up, like qullis upon
the fretful porcrpine !; and yet, WIN al
the hideous reports of murder ana Vlolence
in the southern States, sad as they are, l.
would appear from recent Statements tha'
we are not much better oil at the North
than our ne;ghbors IN that wretchedly mis-
governed portion of the country.
FouSthly-These disturbances in the
South are properly matters for the juris-
diction Of the civil authorities Of the States.
Restore those States, call off your military
and your corrupt Bureau, and the people
of the South will have order. Your wretch
ed emissaries and characterless adventu-
rers who come down only to hunt Office and
eat up the substance of the people We can
soon get rid of by failing TO elect them to
Office. That will wind them up! And was
there ever before such horde Of incompe-
tent knayes vomited upon an intelligent
people?
Ffthly-The arrogance Of the assump-
ton of proneness to disorder and injustice
of the southern people is not more offensive
than its ignorance. The southern people