The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-03-28
The ReneRades.

The Rensgades.
Taking Mr.. DANNER 90 representative
man Of the little knot Of late Confede-
rates who have gone entirely over to the
negro party, 1t is opportune to give them a
word or two. That gentleman acknow-
lodges bis former relations to the Confede-
racy and his faith in the southern States
Rights doctrine !; but with much JUNCTION
he pronounces the war as settling :" the
issues which engendered it forever
Whether black or white should rule was
not one Of those issues, and it does not con-
follow that Mr.. DANNER or any
body else should become a black Radical,
and, joining the Hunnicutt party, seek to
disfranchise his white fellow citizens, and
place the ignorant blacks ever them
nor does it follow that q man, VINO
makes such q tremendous leap on
the negro side should deem it inevitable
that immediate promotion to office follows
as his due reward for turning his back
on his late partners in misfortune. Time
was when if the new recruit from the op-
posing party claimed Office Immediately ne
cot among his new associates his motive
in changing sides was Immediately sus-
pected. We suppose it is differently re-
garded by Radicals; for we observe that
all the new converts are moving heaven
and earth to get into Office. They would
hardly be guilty of this if it were consider
ed just ground to suspect their motives by
their new black brethren.
Mr.. DAENER's card has leak, through
| which we find that on his route to "pri-
soner's base !" he encounters Bosting !"
! ritch. Somebody from the hub Is not
apprec a.stiye sHass IS discern Mr.. DAM
sER's august merits, mental and acrobatic,
the latter of which are SO happily illus
trated in his grand double summersault
across from the white side of the immense
ring to that of the negroes, in the midst of
whom he has fallen, bold and perpendlcu-
lar, to the inexpressible admiration of
MoRR1ssEY, LINDSEY, and HuNNIcUTT. 1t
is not surprising, however, that Mr.. DAN
NER should feel indignation for men who
are so unimpressible, and that, foreigner
though he is, he should have Numbered in
his generous impulsiveness so far as to ap-
ply to them the term "exotic." He had
before him the example Of the irate spot "
which denounced the kettle for being
" black" a stigma which adhered alike to
itself; or, more to the point, he had an
other even more familiar to us all, of one
negro denouncing another as cd
black niger ~" Either ought to hive an
swered, to save him from this mistake in
the heat of passion.
It is plain from Mr.. banners card, as
we'll as from other signs, that there is an
awful Radical scramble for office, and that
the new recruits from the white side are
working like beavers to get the inside
track from the consistent Union men, and
thus promptly enter into the joys of the
expected reward for deserving their former
associates and enisting in the Radical
ranks. With these men, taking service
is tantamount to "taking Office" That
is, indeed, the only service they expect to
render. HUNNIcuTT, who is the great ex-
ample, the bright star ofrhis class OF rene
gades-who was friend of slavery and OF
secession when they prevailed, and most
conveniently against them when they
failed-who was the bitter reviler Of the
negroes when slaves, and their flatterer and
affectionate friend and brother when he
sought their votes-has been seeking
office and pap ever since the war.
His hat, moving around among the
negroes for contributions, has become in
separable from all recollection Of him, and
he has never ceased to canvass his own
claims, and to vent his bitterest maledic-
tons upon anybody who questioned or
opposed them. There are undoubtedly
"snakes" in the "black bags"; but the
new recruits to Radicalism from southern
men and secessionistS will hardly suffer
from bite of those snakes 1t might
kill the snakes