The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-14

RADICAL GRoANs.-Forney thus sounds
the alarm, under the head Of Z" Found
Wanting Again z
Monday night, when the bone and sinew
of the country lay unconscious in honest
sleep, the midnight wires flashed over the
land the disastrous intelligence that in all
probability the Republic had beenrbetrayed
in the house of its friends. In spite of the
appeals of the loyal millions of the North
deaf to the cries of the suffering martyrs
of the South-in fat contempt of the posi-
tive instructions of the anxious people, the
ultimate sovereignty of our land, conyeyed
in every possible manner and form-the
leaders have failed, and it verges on GER
tainty that the hope of the nation is not in
its Senate. The sickening conviction forces
itself that the fears and suspicious, the op-
pressive presentiments of the past six
weeks, have not been groundless.
g The worst feature of this startling de-
fection-if detection there isis revealed
in, the fact that those senators who now IN
dicate their; intentions toyote for the ac-
,allittal of the great patricide, as If CON
scious of guilt or dishonor, have steadily
kept their counsel from their best friends,
refusing to confer with the members from
their own States, and utterly declining to
heed the voice of their constituents. Those
to whom Was committed this momentous in
Quest of. Office have failed or feared to listen
to the demands of the betrayed sufferers
seIt isidle .st this hurried honryto specu-
late on the motives which have induced .
this deserfion Of the flag and cause in its
hour Of supreme peril. Tt will not o'to
lay it to the: legal quibbles, and seek shell
ter in the conscience of the attorney. The
defaulting depositaries of the peoples con-
fidence cannot sink their responsib bilitles as
statesmen in their doubts as undecided
LAWYERS. Certain it is that if the reports
are at all true, some at least of those who
on the night of the 21st of February re-
solved that the attempted removal OF Mf.
Stanton was unconstitutional, and passed
on the fact in the preamble, IS we'll as on I,
the law in the resolution, have now proved
false to their record, made on that historic
occasion, when pure and nnsuliied patriot
ism and love for an endangered country
alone prompted to action.
q Still We do not despair of the REPUBLIC.
/ II is hard to think that at the very Crisis
those should prove WettAesI NHoliun Nlu ssss VIZ S
trsy had crowned with its highest honors. IT
is hard to believe that for the paltry prize
Of the Vice-P Presidency the very existence
! of She nation should be trified with
PLAYED with as o card. If it has--if the
trust Of the people has been sold for per- y.
sonal ends their vengeance will be swift it
and grand. Andrew Johnson g own fate sls
an example. IT has not benefited him 70
hold eyensthe Presidency itself without
honor, without respect, without friends
That the ablest senator's OF the RepuDu-
can part those Of them who may be re-
earded as sfatesme arc likely to modify
or give back In their onscientious conyic-
tioras on sesount Of such rawlings as the
above, is, Of course, not to be presumed
The Washington Erp,sss of Tuesday
~ n 81 ali sle votes of al the HoEaras,, ls,
with the prssii lent that WAS 70 be 70 baes
then, can oyerc come tho able iaHysr and
sagacioas statesmen, yi syaeld g
naffy clamor and poll itieal pressure her
sworn ss s to dc their duty accog ling to the shN
ana tie svid idenee. rnent means
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