The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-30

mocratic meeting in Baltimore, was not re-
ceiyed until some days after the meeting.
1t will repay on attentive perusal:
MIDDLEBURG, July %, 1868.
Dear Sir,--I only reached home this
morning to find your letter inviting me to
attend your mass meeting Of ratification in
the Monumental City. 1t is source Of
great regret to me that I cannot make my
arrangements to be present.
The country seems to ratify with enthu-
siasm the platform and nominees of the
great Democratic Convention. 1t is need
less for me to cay that its action gives the
first distinct CLEAN Of the dawn Of better
day for troubled country; and though
without personal acquaintance with either
nominee, can cordially support them, with
entire satisfaction that they will be true to
the Constitution of the Union. -
Whether Virginia, the oldest Common
wealth on the continent, will cease TO be
military district, and be admitted to vote
in the election, must be left to con lecture,
and whether, through the narrow gate of
the late resolution preparing the way for
fraudulent decision of the result Of the
election, she can enter and give her vote,
must remain for the decision of an oil
carchy which, in Liberty's name, has at
tempted the murder of ten Common
wealths-to rule six millions Of white men
without representation, and tax them with
out their consent-to depose civilized
race from power, which for two hundred
and fifty years has made the name of
America glory among the nations-and
to enthrone race Of semi-barbarians in
absolute dominion over the descendants of
the fathers of republican government on
the continent. = t.@t- - ~.
It is fortunate that the issues of this can
vass are so sharply defined as,to defy eva
sion. . - "a. .. r.....
Shall the white race continue to rule-or
shall the negro assume the sceptre 1t is
true, this, in peculiar sense, is the great
question for the South, but, in q real sense,
is for the North as for the South. For If
the oligarchy of Radicalism be reduced to
minority in the North, and by the rotten
borough system, applied through negro sui
frage at the South, can still maintain its
ascendancy, is not the negro casting Uote
the determining power in the country In
the Federal counsels, whether in respect OF
foreign or domestic policy, the negro, who
votes here, is as potent, nay, is more potent,
than if he voted at the North and thus a
mongrel policy will result from the mon
grel power which will direct the destiny OF
the Union. .-l'.s. 49,. ......
The South has about seventy electoral
votes. Let them be elected by the negro
vote, and the negro will in q large majority
of cases elect the President; and the ba-
lance of power held by the negro will give
to him the potential influence IN selecting
and designating the man to be nominated,
az we'll as to control the election Of the cam
didate. 's*
On the other hand, place these electoral
votes in the hands of the white race, and
the fate of the oligarchy will be sealed, and
the South will once again rally to the side
of the Conservative Democracy of the North.
Cons ervative, Isay, because the Democracy
in power will be the conservator OF the SUI
premacy of the white race in Federal and
State affairs, and the conservator of the
Constitution against the assaults Of that
party whose action only claims our yindica-
ton upon the ground that it is outside of
and regulated by law higher than the
Constitution.
When we hear Mr.. Sumner announcing
that until negro senators take their seats
the revolution will not be complete, it is not
to be doubted that unless overthrow Radi-
calism will open the Presidency to the ne
gro, fill the halls of Congress with negroes,
conduct your foreign diplomacy through
African plenipotentiaries, govern the army
and navy by generals and admirals of the
same race, commingle the races on the
bench of the Supreme Court, and make the
So hove |, Of
Republic, or rather of mongrel military
| despotism.
This done, it will be idle to deny social
equality and the marriage relation to those
who fill the posts of political honor in the
land. Social degradation of the white man,
the miscegenation of the RACES, must result
from this political miscegenation and thus
the race to which we belong will lose its
purity in the inevitable results of a policy
as unprecedented in history as it is in an
tagonism to the laws Of nature.
But grayer question than even negro
supremacy in the southern States, and
through them in the Federal Government,
is presented by the daring policy of the
Radical party. ...,.~- .... 49,.
Shall there be any States at all? Why
not consolidate power in the Federal Go
vernment? Why not, within that Govern
ment, concentrate all power in Congress,
robbing the executive and judicial depart
| ments of their functions, to make the
liberty of the citizen less dangerous to ty-
rants, and the despotism of the oligarchy
more dangerous to the people? Why not,
within Congress, give all power to the few
by allowing full force to the opportunity
they had of unseating those who would
make majority against them, and thus
making the minority of the whole become
the majority of the Rump Congress .
These are tho steps which within three
| years have been taken by this party to erect
an oligarchy on the ruins Of the Constltu=
ton, and to perpetuate it's dynasty by
usprpation and the terror of military rule.
No man can deny that Congress has no
power to un-State State; none to call o
convention of it's people to frame Q Consti-
tuition none to decidewho shall speak for
it's people by regulating it's suffrage, against
the mandate of its Constitution none to
suspend its own Legislature. none to de-
pose its Governor; none to appoint Its Go
vernon, Judges, and other officers none to
take it's money from its treasury and spend
it for purposes not authorised by Its laws ;
none to subject its people to the absolute DO
minion Of military satrap; none to de-
clare by law that war exists when perfect
peace reigns, in order, by this false pretext,
| to annul the hdbeas corpus; none to try
civilian by court-martial none to violate
the freedom Of speech or OF the press; none
to force an adoption of an amendment to
the Federal Constitution by 9 State by de-