The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-29
The war-Its Results-Judge Under

them look to Virginia and the others OF the
lately seeded States. The power OF the
Federal Government is now felt here IN oil
its force, and will eventually be felt in nj!
of the States of this once happy Union OF
sovereign States. That Government knows
;ts power, and will never willingly relin-
o,.;sh it. Power is ever stealing from the
many to the few" The many" in this
case are the several States !" the few the
Federal Government. The mailed hand of
that Government knows not the touch o:
flesh and blood. To its grasp Massachu-
sets will be as Virginia, and New York as
Texas. The military control US now. They
also control the States that are nominaly
reconstructed just as if they were still in
the condition in which Virginia, Missis-
sippi, and Texas are. They ,Diu coatrosthe
northern States one Of these days in the
same harsh and unfeeling manner. There
has been IAN entire change in the ma
ture Of our Government, and this re-
volusion is one of those which "never
20 backwards" The military are hence
forth to be the gcndarmrie OF the
Federal Government, and will be found
wherever within the broad limits of this
Union the central government may apprc-
bend disturbance of any kind. Well dld
MONTGOMERY BLAIR declare in his speech at
Alexandria that it yet remained to be
proved whether those who took part with
the Federal Government in its recent war
upon the South had not committed "oiun-
der.n That was good deal for him to say.
We of the South, and thousands OF
thoughtful men at the North, have no
doubts upon this point. We know that
they committed the greatest blunder OF
which any so intelligent people were
ever guilty for they have not only de-
stroyed our republican form of government
and substituted in its place grand central
despotism-not only annihilated all the
rights of the States of the South and OF oil
the States in the so-called Union,-but they
have placed the whole people Of the coun-
try, North and South, at the mercy OF the
Federal Government, and deprived them of
every right which that central, Irresistible
power may not choose to concede to them.
If the northern people have not yet expe-
rienced the change, it is because they have
not come in conflict with the central 60
vcrnment. They have conceded its power
over life, liberty, and property and the
concession can never be withdrawn. There
is not one of the three sefe from the long
arms Of Uncle Sam.
We know full well that Radical editors
and orators, and some Democratic ones,
indulge in scornful smile whenever they
read any sentence which implies doubt
that the late war for the Union wag a glo-
rious success, or that its instigators and
prosecutors vii be considered as benefactors
of their race by future generations. 1t
would be folly to deny that occ are COM
pletely subjugated- under the yoke
of a power we could not resistant made
the mere slaves of the Federal Govern
ment, or to assert that We can enforce our
claim to any rights which it may not of its
own motion accord to us. We are power
less. If it says that our negroes must vote,
they vote. If it says they must make
constitution for US, they make it. What
ever its will is, that is our law because its
soldiers are here to give effect to it's will.
We see, feel, and own the fact. And We
know that the northern people arc exactly
IS much at the mercy of the same powerful
Government as we ourselves are, and will
sooner or later realize the fact. The one
State will always be in the wrong the
thirty-fve always in the right.
We have been led into these reflections
by the course of that miserable hound
Judge UNDERWOOD in the Alexandria and
Washington railroad case. And we desire
to call the special attention of the Demo
Gratis of the North to the case. 1t indicates
Enthusiastically the tendency of Radical doc
trines, when carried into practice, to run
into despotism. In this railroad case (the
merits of which have no bearing upon what
we have to say and are, therefore, not al
luded toy the Supreme Court Of Appeals OF
Virginia rendered, upon an appeal from two
courts below, decision which UNDERWOOD,
who is, we wish it to be remembered, no.
thing but the judge of District Court OF
the United States, did not approve of, and
therefore he granted an injunction restrain
inp~the officers of the State from the execu-
ton of the process or orders of the Supreme
Court of Appeals of Virginia, thus setting
aside the decision of that high tribunal,
and assuming in and for himself all judi
oial power in this Commonwealth. We re-
peat 1.-THE effect of this usurpation of ju-
dicial power is that there is but one
judge in Virginia, and that one is not
only Federal judge, but a miserable
carpet-bagger, JOHN G. UNDERWOOD by
name. who is no more fitted for the
position of district judge than Ben
BUTLER is for that of Primate of all Eng
land. Yet one of the results of the war to
Virginia is that the meanest, lowest, most
despicable, and most ignorant of Federal
judges can concentrate in his petty court all
the Judicial powers Of the State. He can
review not only the decisions of the circuit
judges and Of the district courts, but those
of the Supreme Court of Appeals We are
powerless to resist this Unreasonable wrong.
Indeed, it is questionable whether General