The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-04-07
The Military and the " Adventures.


The Military and the Adventures" "
T. has been noticeable fact that there
"a no affinity between the military men and
thost, mere adventurers who, under the dis
acknowledgements imposed upon the expert
onca and worth Of the South, are scram-
bling, like hyenas, over their prey: the
Offices Of the States. =
rr,e, us here again and again and again
dssne the difference between the Office
hunting adventurer and the honest and
worthy immigrant, whom all OF US are ready
atssll times to welcome. The former is
man who leaves his home because his ca
psc;ty or his merits have not opened the
way to sufficient success to detaln him In
his native land. He hastens to the South
TO seek the Offices which he hears are there
onen to those most successful in the arts
and trickery Of false pretences. And he
comes without other purpose than to NIL
soms one or two Of those Offices, and draw
his pay from the hard earnings OF o
PROSTATE people, whom it is part OF his
rsme to traduce with o view to continue
ticn OF their disfranchisement. Now, such
man is, and has ever been, despised by all
men. He is the opposite Of that honest
immigrant who comes here to better his
condition by the circumstances which must
better everybody else's condition. he de-
sires not to eat the bread Of the PROSTATE,
but to take part in the resuscitation OF q
fallen people, that he may derive that thrift
from his own industry which is impossible
for him to enjoy in community whose in
dustry is disorganized, whose enterprises
are checked, and whose hopes are nigh
blasted. Such man is a true and honest
gentleman, and will here receive the right
hand of fellowship. By the side OF the
mere seeker of plumber, he is Hyperion to
satyrl .
But, to return. The military officer who
belongs to the regular army is not polltl-
clan. He is unacquainted with the tricks
and schemes of partisans-especially the
carpes-baggers. His art teaches him to
preserve order and to protect life and pro-
perty. These are his first and his last les
sons, He does not understand how it is
that quiet community shall be necessa-
rily disturbed to carry out some new party
dodge for the benefit Of few hungry parti-
sans-how o row must be kicked up here
by an arbitrary change in the administra-
ton of justice-how negroes must be thrust
down peoples throats there by putting
them in the places of faithful white Off
cers-and especially how certain persons
shall have the right to dictate to them GER
tain names to fill certain Offices. He under
stands that the formation of "rings" has
become fashionable in the South-that the
running Of State governments and the ma
nipulation of State assets are "dodge" of
the day; but why he should lend himself to
the process of the accomplishment of this
"dodge," in violation Of the grand princi-
pie Of "ordsr," which is the very founda-
ton Of his vocation, is what he cannot I'M
derstand. He is "on duty" He cannot
be pro6ted by so fragrant dereliction of
duty as to facilitate the work Of plumber,
the submission of the resources of State
to the manipulations of light-fngered
band Of men. And if gain were compen-
sation for infdelity to high responsibility,
even that is wanting as reward for sub
hitting helpless people to the rapacity of
INSCRIPTIONS and greedy invaders.
Therefore the high-toned and disciplined
regular officers who have governed at the
South have been ever ct variance with
the "adventurers." These have given
them vast deal of trouble. Their de.
mands are Unsuitable. 1t is impossible to
crafty them if there was disposition to
do 80 and such is the nature of these de-
mands that no gentleman-no honest man
can feel such an inclination to yield to
them.
Naturally, We have seen these plunderers
ever running to Washington complaining
Of the military. Nor does it seem that their
complaints have been addressed to unwill-
ing eare. The partisans of the capital have
not been much taken with the order and
system Of military discipline, which is not
friendly to the disorder and anarchy which
grow out Of the policy of turning over the
Offices Of people to corrupt and vulgar in
competents. So military recommendations
and military testimony have been below par
at Washington.
1t would be very good policy for the
Government to stand by the military COM
manders Of districts in oil issues between
them and rapacious hunters for place and
emoluments wrung from the hard earnings
of the PROSTATE southern people. We have
now mixed government-part military,
part civil. The educated military officials
have their fixed compensation from the
army appropriation. They are removed
from temptation to neglect or to violate
duty. Therefore the military ruler has no
personal interest adverse to his being the
protector Of the people from the rapacity of
strangers end those untrustworthy men
who have deserted their own neighbors.
1t will be found in every issue between
them that the regular officer of the army of
, the United States is on the side of justice
and humanity, and those who oppose him
are for persecution and prolonging the pas
sions Of Yar that they may feast and fatten