The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-09-14

can understand how it might follow an at
tempt on the part of the Radicals to seize
the Presidency, and thus defeat the will OF
the people. But it matters little how the
even. that is thus foretold by high Radical
authority is to take place. Everybody
knows that if the Radical party have de-
termined that war must follow the election
of SEYMOUR by the people, they will have
it. 1t is not difficult for them to fulfil
prophecy aohich merelyrelates to their o,on
purposes. How easy will it be for them,
assuming that war will follow the election
of SEYMOUR, to assume further that it can
only be prevented by putting GRANT in the
Presidential chair!
While exactly what they propose to do
can be known only to themselves when they
predict war from the election of SEYMOUR,
the inference is irresistible that they mean
to make war themselves, or to make the anti
cipation of war the "public necessity
that demands the placing of their candi-
date in the Presidency! The life of the
nation '-notwithstanding they have nearly
extinguished its last spark-has served
them good turn, and may be again used
to advantage in the happening Of the event
foretold.
There can no war result from the election
of SEYMOUR, SO far as he and his party are
concerned. They will not desire it, and
cannot be benefited by it; nor con they
trump up any pretext for it. Their triumph
will be one under the forms of the Consti-
tuition and laws-they will 60 into power
under this high sanction, and will have no
motive TO violate it in any manner. So
far from being inclined to infringe it IN
the slightest degree, they will need it's full
force for their own protection against the
giant of military power grown SO great IN
our country. They are the party OF c'uu
authority against that of the arbitrary 'oM
Of military chieftains and they will have
no other protection but the Constitution and
laws and the voice of the people.
Such predictions as Senator SHERMAN's
IRE part of the game of Radicalism. They
must irritate and alarm the people. They
must fan the expiring embers of the pas
sions of the war, and they must also tone
the public mind to continued subsection to
Radical authority by prophecies of evil and
threatenings of war in the event of the
overthrow of their power.
Senator SHERMAN is one Of the most
ldroit, stealthy, and INSCRIPTIONS OF the
Radical puritanical senators. He is equally
responsible with Mr.. SEWARD for the war,
and was about the most prominent of the
signers of the recommendation of the
HELPER pamphlet in 1859, which proposed
q servile war in the South as means of
abolshing slavery. He was the general of
those signers in the game of cunning and
malignity played in the House Of Repre-
sentatives during the winter of 1890
that so incensed and enraged the feelings
of the southern congressman and the whole
South. Like SEWARD, he then preserved
an air of smooth-faced Indifference and
taciturnity, only occasionally deignlng
smile of contempt or g word of taunt, which
but increased the irritation of their gene
rous and outraged adversaries. SHERMAN
has been ever ready to engage in the meaner
class of measures for the humiliation and
oppression of the southern people, and is
now fulfilling his true character in the
bloody prophecy he has made-a prophecy
of the blood he and those who act with him
are ready, in true Puritan spirit, to see shed
rather than that they shall lose the offices
and emoluments of government, and the
power to crafty that Unsuitable malice
which ever abides in their hearts with a
bitterness unadulterated by a single drop
Of mercy.