The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-15
The Radical Game.

munity and they confess it in all their
schemes to continue their authorlty-'he'r
possession of the control of the Offices ana
treasury Of the Government. In all 'heir
movements, measures, and arguments, win
this object, they endearor TO keep awe
sectional hate, to fan the dying emoers Oh
strife. and to excite the northern puonc
mind with distrust of the South, and with
ill-feeling to the people Of the South, on
the ground that they are still plotting the
downfall of the Government.
The most calm and plausible of Radical
presses (such as the New York Tines are
daily charging upon the Democratic party
the intention Of reviving secession " and
replacing the " Southern Oligarchy" IA
senseless term they are pleased frequently
TO employ and thus 10 throw away all that
was won by the war. From this sort OF
press to Mr.. JONI MINOR Boris, on the OPP
positc extreme to moderation and reflection,
NE have the same song. Half-dressed III
the Turkish bath, in Brooklyn, few days
since, he very obligiugly responded to the
interrogatories of one Of those newspaper
pumpers" attached to most northern
nopers, Mr.. BoTTs said that with GRANT
elected by an imposing voice VIC shall nave
,eaca. q but If SEYMOUR should come so near
"to il ms to give encouragement 10 their alh-
{. b;,ious hopes of ultimate success, we snail
have in the South what will be far worse
ethan open war, which can be put down at
"once and forever. We shall probably
"have great disturbance Of the public
"peace, public prosperity greatly retarded
"and good fellowship between the dll-
"ferent sections and among ourselves
indefinitely postponed" This is rich
idea. The whole country must vote lor
GRANT. or the obdurate southern people will
not fraternize with scalnwags, carpet-bag-
gers. and negroes, in "good fellowship :"
Therefore here is Mr.. BoTTs's idea Of
"rarty necesgity''-a necessity under the
lead of a military chieitain, easily fused
into "military necessity" Mr.. BoTTS Is
a.o3trats enough to say that he does not be
Geve there will be bloodshed, but social DIS
cord. which he thinks far worse That we
have now, and who are the authors Of it ?
Is that discord and the ruin it engenders,
summed mp by Mr.. Bolts, TO be soothed and
subducl by continuing in power these " au-
thors Of it ull Onthe contrary, these con-
ditions of social hate and ruin are the very
life Of the authors-these Radical destruc-
tiyes. If there were not this social ill-will,
strife, and ruin, there would be no plea for
the necessity Of the despotic and iron hand
Of military authority to preserve order.
Nup0'S 'feeHy-with its wide circula-
ton and its interruptions rascality and de-
pravity-proclaims
Every day makes it palmer that the
policy which the Democratic party has cho-
sen to submit to the public judgment in this
campaign is not one OF administration
merely, but of absolute and iorc!ble reyolu
ton"
And the Radical successors to the cor
rupt and shameless HOLDEN declare in their
Stand0rd that the bare asscmblage ola Dem
ocratic Convention III Raleigh "means
blood ," Both these prophets of evil but
forecast the purposes Of the reckless and
ruthless parry they represent.
These imputations upon the democrats
are backed by the great lying Radical
agency which il established through the Blu
reau-that mere party machine. Through
this agency, helped by the carpet-bag and
scalawag State officials, are steadily manu-
featured lies with circumstances, and lies
without them, representing the southern
whites as cruel, murdcrous, and eds.
loyal; and the cry is set up by the real
"thieyes" that unless they are protected
by the military arm of the Government,
the men from whom they are stealing, and
whose prosperity they are destroying, will
beat, bruise, kill, and possibly eat them
There could be nothing more natural than
that q party created as this was, and COR
rupted as it is, should do all this-should
do all this feigning and all this lying. 1t
is the only way possible for them to hold
on to power; and they have not the slightest
Scruple of honor or conscience agains,
resorting to it.
They are aware of the danger Of this
prolonged use Of the same machinery and
the same tricks. They know that the ma
chinery will wear out and the tricks be-
come hackneyed and contemplate. They
know that finally the public mind will be-
come indignant at the insult conveyed by
the presumption that it is ever to be de-
ceived by such shallow devices Of set OF
thievish purtisans and incompetent and de-
PRAYED treasury leeches. And yet they
only continue to ply their old tricks and
work their old machinery. They have none
other, and they will take their chances,
facilitating themselves with each success, as
does burglar after successful robbery,
upon his escape
The public Indignation is closer upon
these people than they think. 1t will over
take them soon, and rolling them under its
great wave, will sink them to the under
tow, which will take them out to the great
sea OF lost and rejected and repudiated
things, from which there will be for them
no resurrection.
SrrFF-Theidea that a Legislature, where
the State Constitution does not provide other