The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-08

" To the UfSpdtch: so,,a
greeting TO the Old Dominion, and congratu-
late her upon her success in the recent e,ec-
ZION VIRGINIA"
Ths Result Moral Sc General
Grant.
It is glorious termination of very pecu-
liar and very bitter campaign that we nave
inst reached. It was campaign with
new element in it--one calculated to pro-
duce complication and irritation, ana
which, under the influence OF clrcum-
stances and the schemes of strangers VINO
desired to use it, was filled with rancorous
partisan feelings and aversion towards. the
former masters and best friends OF
the element. Then there was dls-
tinction of color which contributed Its
share to the social alienation and politl-
cal animosities. One color the black),
by being enlisted in the ranks of the pro-
scriptive psrty-that party which sought
office through DISTINGUISHING and disquaA-
fyinp those more competent than them
relyes-became so far the enemy of the
white man as to sustain with great zeal the
provisions in the UNDERWOOD constitution,
which placed the whites under the ban OF
Acknowledgement and Punishment from the
service of the Government in any way but
to pay taxes.
When it is considered that all this aiicna-
ton and hostility of race-this unnatur;
disposition to rob others Of liberty-Was To-
mented amongst those who had so recently
acquired their own, we may have some
faint idea of the provocation to bitterness
and rage of which the campaign has been so
rife.
Under all these things-these irritations-
and thousand others, including the insult
terable impudence of strangers who wanted
to thrust us aside from our own tables, and
to burden us and spend our hard earnings,
and ride us, booted and spurred, by the
grace of COP, the perfect order, the entire
freedom from violence which have marked
the exciting progress Of the elections, are
amarpel of these days.
What does all this show but people bent
on order, decorum, peace? 1t shows, be-
sides, that they deserve the consideration
and confidence Of the Government.
The people of Virginia have been engaged
in campaign, the earnestness and zeal OF
which are without parallel in the State.
They have been sustaining, with unflagging
resolution, the policy projected by General
GRANT. They have been opposed with UNI
surpassed illiberality, bitterness, and bru.
tality. The leader of the proscriptive party
thus arrayed against the peace policy Of the
President, affected himself to sustain that
h,,t no tod 10 nSrpr
in any earnest effort to control his followers
and urge them to adopt the opinions he
fypocriticaliy avowed. His followers, with
astonishing unanimity, uoted against those
opinions. The returns show-what we had
long predicted-that they voted to fasten
upon the white people Of Virginia all the
execrable denominations which President
GRANT had spoken Of with such indigna-
ton
Now, this is case Of fragrant treachery
OH the part Of body of men affecting to
sustain the Administration, and the leader
of which claimed that he enjoyed the I'M
reserved confidence of the chief executive
officer of the national Government. We
have never known such an instance OF open
contempt for the opinions and earnest
wishes of President on the part Of those
claiming to be his warm supporters; and
claiming, further, that such was his warm
regard for them that if the party opposed to
them gained the majority at the elections
the whole matter would be ignored, and the
State would be RENTED indefinitely to the
intolerable intermediate condition in Which
she had SO long suffered.
The case Is without precedent the incon-
slstency shameless; tho claims put forth
brazen-faced; and the implied imputation
cast upon General GRANT insulting and de-
famatory in the last degree-as il General
GRANT could be brought, merely to keep the
power in their hands, to set aside the laws,
and make clean breach Of every pledge,
direct and implied, in permitting the people
Of Virginia to have an election-to vote
upon the constitution-upon those eXecra-
BILE clauses which General GRANT said they
ought to have the opportunity Of voting
out, and no people ought to be required to
live under-and also for State executive
officers, members of Congress, and men,
beers of the Legislature. That the Federal
Government, after permitting the people to
do ali this, should, because the public voice
had decided against the party that inpetu-
ously and sayagely opposed General GRANTS
policy, abrogate those elections, deprive the
people of Ill advantage of the act they had
been not only permitted to perform, but the
manner Of performing which had been pro-
,ided for them, was the most monstrous
proposition we had ever heard.
Nobody believed that these persons spoke
on the authority Of General GRANT. They
only manifested their own propensity to
!, wrong and outrage, their own proneness to
Z oppression and brutality.
81 Through all these trials the people of yir-
ginia have come. They have borne them
selves with sort Of stoical heroism-they
have passed through the most disgusting
and dirty war that ever people was forced
TO wage, they come forth with unstained
garments, and heads erect, and present
themselves before the Federal Executive as
the victorious supporters of his peace policy,
who had fought through the fight with faith
inhim-utteriy scorning the vile impeach-
ments of his integrity by those treacherous.
persons who protested to be his friends.
Such has been the contest--such the mo-
lives that have guided the triumphant party.
Never was party by its conduct and mo-
tiYes more commended to the favor Of the