The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-11
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The Democratic majority IS Kentucky
cont;npes to swell, until to-day it is stated
Al at 600. It may 90 up TO 100000. Ken
,ncky everybody knew would throw ma
;or;sv on the Democratic side; but nobody
: dreamed that it would be so uncommonly
,arpe. What does this immense weight OF
Tho popular voice against Radicaiism an
that State meanl 1t shows rapidly an
crcasipr storm Of the public wrath against
the measures Of the Radical party. And
the voice Of Kentucky is not only indicative
of the popular feeling in that State. Pubic
opinion in the United States isgeneraily re-
Elected by its expression in single States.
Ills like water, which always seeks and finds
its level. 1t has been steadily spreading
and diminishing in inequalities in its sur
face over the whole land. Kentucky is under
the influence Of the rising tide, and though
the waves were elevated by the immediate
agitation Of the election there, they we're
not at ali fictitious, but genuine, solid waves,
that will react upon the general food and
help to raise the tide all over the Onion
the tide which is destined to submerge and
drown Radicalism.
There is no mistaking this Kentucky
vote. 1t comes of thorough disgust of
Radicalism and horror of the reconstruc-
ton measures which have subordinated the
intelligent and property-owning white peo-
pie of the land to the negro population
utterly ignorant and incompetent as it ID to
take part in the political affairs Of the coun-
try. A deep sympathy with the white man
thus subordinated is taking hold OF the
northern mind and that sentiment is one
that will continue to grow both day and
night until it becomes 80 powerful and i'm
patient that nothing can control it. 1t will
burst cut in storm that will probably
sweep the Radical party from the face Of
the earth. If there is anything in the past,
ANYTHING in human nature as displayed by
history, to guide us, then such must be the
history repeated in this country. Not only
NAV we assume that this revolution will
take place on this ground, but the people OF
the United States have other and powerful
reasons for an utter loathing of Radical
rule and a determination no longer to sub
nit to it. They are burdened to death with
taxcs-taxes in great part levied to pay
the cost of the partisan schemes coneocted
to keep the Radicals in power; and they
zee that, besides this intolerable burthen,
the resources of the country are curtailed,
and the general prosperity SO seriously al
fected that a general wreck is threatened
Taken together, no people ever had so great
cause to hurl their rulers Indignantly from
their places and hand them down to ever
lasting infamy.
The New York Iiefald, though sustain
ing GRANT, is obliged to acknowledge the
force Of the terrible provocations of the
wrath of the people. 1t says:
''We find that the national debt has been
" increased to the tune of three thousand
millions more. And this when the coun-
try is at peace and the people had right
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" national obligation as the fruit of victory
''won, God knows with what terrible sacri-
"fces to every home and hearth in the
I" country. But instead of the load being
frightened, we are called on to bear fur
" Their exactons, to submit TO increased ex-
Expenditures. In order to keep portion
% of the country in subsection more troops
care called for. Men foisted into Congress
{" from the southern States, and Governors
"who really represent little more than a
"mock constituency, demand from the
" Government an expensive army to assist
"them in carrying out schemes and an
" EDITIONS which are purely partisan, and
care positively destructive of the peace
"and good of the country. 1t is facts like
"these which meet intelligent men of oil
s'parties when they come to cast their votes,
and we cannot be surprised that MAORI
g ties are found to protest emphatically
against continuance of this kind Of
government"