The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-08-17
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Grant AND SEW YORK.

hhANl AND NEW YORK.
We find it quite imposgibleto sympathize
with the deep and intense Indignation which
has been aroused in this city and in the
minds Of men Of all sorts aud shades of
political opinion by the rough and insolent
tone of the letter-the "missive royal"
we suppose we ought to call it-by which
President Grant has thought fit to encourage
one of his subordinate officials, the United
States Marshal Of this district, unnecessa-
rily to defy the constituted authorities of
the State OF New York.
1t is no doubt perfectly true, as our angry
fellowcitizens feel and say, that New York
is sovereign State of the Union; that she
is truly loyal State of the Union; that
her wealth, her resources, her intelligence,
her valor. and her character, we're the
grand main prop and fundamental support
OF the national cause in that gigantic con-
flict which found President Grant an insig-
nifcant, discredited hanger-on of an OBJ
scure shop in Illinois and left him General
of the armies of the Union. 1t is no doubt
perfectly true that New York to-day is an
orderly, powerful commonwealth that the
civil force within her border-in the hands,
at least, Of Democratic Governor-is
abundantly equal to preserve the supremacy
of the laws, State and Federal alike; that
all lawful processes of all lawful tribunals
can be safely and successfully executed
within her borders without the interven-
ton of the Federal army and the Federal
navy.
All this is perfectly true and, as all this
is perfectly true, it is no doubt equally true
that an Executive of the United States who
arrogantly and superhuously commands one
this or that thing in connection with q case
pending before the lawful tribunals in New
York cat any cost" offers an unprovokcd,
gratuitous insult not only to those lawful
tribunals and to the State of New York, but
to every respectable and law-abiding citizen
within the limits Of the State of New York.
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The very men who denounce to-day this
insolcnce Of Federal Office are the men who
for years past have been breeding it, nou-
rishing it, and bringing it to the birth. If
they ask to-day " upon what meat hath this
our Caesar fed that be hath grown so
great 2" the answer is ready. Upon your
own arrogance, your own lawlessness, 0 yc
who, in season and out of season, have
claimed for yourselves the exclusive pos
session of all rights, of all character, of all
authority, among your fellows For years
past the men who made General Grant Pre-
sident of the United States have bran
dished in the face alike of commonwealth
and of individuals this same Federal sword
Of power which to-day is flashed before
their own eyes. They have made, and they
have rejoiced to make, of none avail for
eleven sovereign States of the Union the
Constitution and all its guarantees ; Of none
avail for ten millions Of American citizens
the muniments Of liberty and of the per-
sonal rights Of man. They have surren-
dcrcd onc-half of the territory and one
third Of the inhabitants Of the republic to
the despotism Of the sword. What right,
then, have they now to cry out, now to in
woke justice and the Constitution and the
ancient civic sense and the limitations of
power when the engine they have been so
swift to set in motion against their broth
rem lifts itself to shake the foundations of
their own order, the walls Of their own pros
perity and peace?