The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-17
Fate of the Radicals.

The York Herald Of Friday has another
cannot be thwartcd by its occasional in
coherent Vaccinations.
In this article the UerNld takes Ken
lucky as an example of a popular move
mrnt that amounts to stampede, the solu-
ton of which, it assumes, is NEGRO suf-
frage' and Radical misrule. 1t will do
the same elsewhere" says the Herdht-
banding the southern whites i'll body
against Radicalism, it will give to the
southern white leaders every southern
State save South Carolina. Its PROPOSE
ton is based upon the following grounds :
Human nature can never be reduced to
mathematics exactly; but if there is point
in its history very nearly capable OF posi-
tive demonstration it is the force with which
the various otherwise hostile elements of u
people combine in presence of Il common
danger. There is no point Of difference
between the people that will not dwindle
to insigniiicance by comparison with the
difference between black and white"
Very well stated and very true. When
the question wac liberating the slave it
was one appealing strongly to natural SYM
pathy but when it is changed to that OF
making him every way equal with the
white man, that is quite different affair,
and presents exactly the common dan
ger" the Herald speaks of. 1t will be
strange if the consequences anticipated by
the Herald are not exhibited in the Presi-
Dental election.
The Herald thus sums up the aspect of
the Radical situation D:
''In the North the vote against the Re-
publicans will be very heavy. Men know
how far Democratic misrule would go, and
what direction it would take, and they do
not know the limit of Radical madness.
Judging it by the past, they find it difficult
10 conceive that the Republican fury has
any definite limit. Hitherto it has hest
lated at nothing, has pushed reckleSsly on
wherever bounded by ambitious leaders,
and rather than be dragged where such
party would 60, the people will take the
chance OF revolution with the Democrats.
Rcpublcanism, in fact, is driven to a
point n which it is desperate. For
TWO years 1t has stood upon the degen-
Five before the people. Had the popular
jealousy OF its tendencies been less clearly
shown, II would have pushed on to the ex-
tremity Of confscation and prescriptions :;
for its leaders felt that these were necessary
parts Of its policy, that these alone could
give it safe possession Of what it had al
ready won. Without confscation the re-
suI;s Of negro suffrage viii slip through its
fingers. Without prescription the Southern
States cannot be kept from the natural
leaders Of the Southern people. The re-
publican party of the future, therefore,
viii be ready for any desperation, con-
WINGED from its past that the greatest dan
ger is in standing still.
"There il, then, greater reason than ever
why it should be kept from power, and this
the people evidently feel. Last year the
gains against the Republican party on con-
gressional votes had wiped out its former
majori.ies and established an equality, and,
constantly increasing, the gains will now
make the balance on the other side. Such
a change as We have seen in Oregon, and
half such majorities as Kentucky has given,
will present total TO astonish and con-
lound political philosophers"