The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-03-14
New Eampshire-Ano Their Lesson.


The Republican party of the North is {
party of purposes-detestable, damnaole
purposes, it is true, but nevertheless, pur
poses. 1t may be fanatical, bigoted, pre-
indeed. full Of passion it may have only
a limited horizon ; it may be controlled by
ION of unbalanced minds, and used by de-
~;.n;nc knaves; yet it believes, as Kos
Srr, nsed to say, in "the solidarity of the
peoples" 1t holds that VIVA. are by by
courtesy termed States are nothing but
$500 oon,ties-not even, however, coun-
g .o,o,;ne. 1t believes in consolida-
..es n national progress-iu grand ma
.:on., scbemes-in uniformity of action
and thought throughout the country. AS
every wagon in the Federal army OF the
Potomac had o mark upon it to designate
the corps to which it belonged, and every
Damn utensil was made after a gwen
model, so would the Republican party
dwarf the States into mere automata, 10
he moved from Washington, and compel
every man in the country to think, speak,
and act, according to law to be made by
q Radical Congress. They have no con-
cention of what individual liberty is, nor
how it may be saved or lost. They be-
reve in preserving the life of the nation
not in securing the happiness of the peo-
nile of which it is composed. The units
ara nothing to them. The whole is all
.hev look at. It is to these purposes, or
PRINCIPLES, if principles they may be called,
that the Radicals owe their success. They
at least seem to have policy to carry,
ont.
But what as to the northern Democrats !?
What is their creed? Alas, they have lost
it. They apostatized from the true faith
in 1861, and have since been as destitute
ofa solid foundation for their organization
as the Radicals are Of consciences. These
northern Democrats do not believe that a
State has the right to Secede-not they ;
and if any man believes in such doctrine
he is rebel, in their estimation. There
fore, as we have repeatedly argued, they
do not believe a State has any rights
and if the States have none, their inhabi.
tants can have none and if the Democrats
concede all this, then they do not differ as
to this great principle from the
Radicals themselves. We defy the acutes'
intellect in the country to point out line
of demarkation between that consolidation
which is based upon denial of al r'ght
to the States and that consolidation "hic'
claims certain rights for the States pu
at the same time denies to the States al.
power to assert these rights by force .
to prevent national despotism. ines
northern Democrats talk about the rieh'
of the States, but they are IKE no'
who instructed his watch "to bid an ma
stand in the princes name" Du' II ~ !, W. ".
not stand, "why, then, take no no:eo e4 n
but let him co." They believe IN o, ,: ":
rights: but if anybody who doesn' I oeile ,.
in them is going to fight about ", IT,, WHY VII
then they will fight on the siae 81 VIZ '
whose creed they don't beheVe ~. how
Tho northern Democrats mus, nA,
no :n,ss NV which they are willing
I psnd Io the ~ bitter end If they hope eve
~ ssan auoo. sa' as party. We honor the
sor as mich principle as they NAMES
w W. q ,ard them for opposing Radlcallsn
w. W. thank l them for their sympathy for -
in our present trials and trioula'lons: ',
AZ oa. to aid them as far as we can in tt
.res; dental contest. Yet we must
pprcnsed for speaking plainly of the
short-c 60 mings, and trying to impress up'
them that they can never hope to establi
great and triumphant party upon such
foundation as they have been trying +
the last few years to occupy. 1t is an IL
possibility. They must either contend
consolidation or for States rights. II
Radicals are for the former. If they a.
not also for it, let them say so in the
platforms. If they are for it, let the
not attempt to induce anybody North
South to Believe that their principles a
better than those Of the Radicals.