The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-18
Pa tching and Tinkering.

Patching and Tinkering.
.. The National Congress is engaged IN the
work Of SrsYpHus: fruitless work
work that costs great deal of time ano
money, and ever results in calling the
laborers back to the beginning to ply their
weary arms to the wearisome task that is
never ended. Congressman are inhicting
nnon the country measures, designed
merely for partisan objects, which are i'm
pairing national prosperity and national
credit By visiting upon half the surface
Of the republic prostration, starvation,
anarchy.
Yet they do not approach the seat Of the
national disease, the source Of all our
woes. They propose no remedy-no pal
liative, even-for the real malady Of the ma
ton; which is wasting its means, exhaust
ing It's strength, and hurrying it to ruin
and death with "galloping consump-
ton"
The tariff-the currency-the Federal
revenue-cotton. What is best to be done
with all these topics to quiet apprehension,
allay panic, diminish embarrassment, ele-
vate public credit, give occupation to idle
workmen. and restore the harmony Of the
nation ? And proposition after PROPOSE
ton, debate day by day, throw no light
upon their darkness, afford no relief to
the public distress and apprehension. An
excess of manufactures-what is to be
done with themS Necessaries Of life are
high, owing to the demand for export, and
people without work lat the North have
no money to buy. What's to be done
SUMNER wants to reduce the price of grain
howl SPRAGUE wants to take off the cot
ton tax and encourage its cultivation
how? The majority would give relief by
ending the process of curtailing the paper
circulation of the nation; while very many
would increase the paper medium. And
what effect will either expedient have
Can anything Congress may do on these
subjects remedy or even mitigate the great
national disease-that abomination O
desolation which the Devil himself
through the evil passions that prevail a
Washington, has established in the South
Restore the Union-restore the white
man to authority-order will ensue
systematized labor will be established
southern production will increase; plenty
and superabundance will substitute wan
and starvation southern staples viii
swell the foreign commerce of the coun
try and southern demand increase the
sale of northern manufactures. The cur
rency, which now is in excess at the North
will diffuse itself at the South, and even
larger aggregate Of circulation may find
profitable employment without impalring
national credit. Peace and harmony must
be consequences of such revolution as
this.
But with negro conventions assalllng
with brutal ferocity the very foundations
of society negro lecturers and orators
inhaming the minds of negroes with wrongs
they never suffered, with rights they are
now not fit to enjoy, and with immu'
mites and social equalities which only lead
to anarchy and death, who should won
der that there is no order, no successful
industry, no confidence, no peace? A
great nation stands upon the brink of de-
struction while her corrupt and beSotted
rulers plot and scheme to hold on to their
places, and fill their pockets by plumber
ing the hard earnings of complaining and
unhappy people
Grievances of such magnitude must
have their redress or punishment in retri-
button Of equal grade. And even now
there may be some vengeance in prepare
ton, "red with uncommon wrath" which
will make these evil-doers wish that they
never had been born.