The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-07-24
Mr.. Wilson Old. and New Parties.

Senator WILSON, OF Massachuse''s' iei"a'N
to Virginia politics. tits a singular MARIA
tive. out Of which we can obtain very little
instruction further than that MIR. WILSON
thinks the Republicans have lost more than
one opportunity to get the complete eontroi
OF this State.
We recollect somewhat of those circum-
stances recited by the senator, and we are
of opinion that the legitimate results fol-
lowed the vain proceedings Of the leaders
Of the Republican party. Mr.. WILSON,
indeed, spoke of extending equality to ali
men; but the main idea was that every
BODY in Virginia must be converted by some
sort of magic into the war party, then alb
solutcly full of rcvengefulness towards the
very people who were expected to join 1t
The courtship was as abrupt and unfcellns
as RICHARD THE THIRDS courtship OF LADY
ANN; but Virginia was no LADY Ann
Mr.. WILSON was not free from the folly
Of this offensive courtship, notwithstanding
TINT he was more liberal than others. lie
made speeches to the negroes, and was as
cxactinr in his demand that all should turn
Republican as any of the lesser lights OF
his persuasion.
Talk of "Bourbons," We know no
party which has had moro of them than the
Republican party SO called. That party
built up in the war, and whose breath was
the fame of war, could not open its eyes to
the changes that followed the end OF
war. They were ms arbitrary and rs re-
lcntless as if war was still filing the plains
and villages with its thunders. 1t was not
in the nature of man to keep up war
when the real war had ended, and hence
naturally, after maintaining the war feel
ing for many months by false reports and
infsmmatory appeals against the South,
We saw that there sprang up liberal party,
and the overwhelming power erected during
The war began to lose strength by DIVISION.
This wasting of the power of Republican
authority was checked by the Bourbonlsm
Of the Democracy principle quite indom-
table and defiant. It's bold array and ac-
tive agitation healed breaches in the party
of the war, and prolonged its power, which;
according to all precedent, should have been
broken up after the war ceased. Democ-
racy had lost its platform by reason OF the
war, and there was really 10 solid basis
upon which il could rest. Had it given up
the field and combined with the liberal Re-
publicanB in 'GG, they would have insured
the triumph Of liberalism.
But VIC shall see that all the combinations
prior to and contemporary with the war,
must be disrupted and be succeeded by new
formations. The old political hacks, with
their prciudiccs and impacticable conceits,
must stand aside to make room for the new
mcn who, being free from the ingraincd fol-
lies and prciudices of the decaying parti-
sans. are fitted for the New Jerusalem Of
the political world built up by the war.
The playcd-out partisans, grown grey in the
tricks and vices OF partisan services under
banners and on platforms supplanted BY
the consequences of the war, are themselves
nuisanccs. They appear upon the stage as
,Antuotud ana diseased deLauchccs, whose
countcnances bear the marks Of their trans
srcesions, and like those dcbauchees, the
old political hacks should leave the stage
and, retiring to the alum springs, seek to
palli3tc pains that are incurahlc, and to
rrolong an existence which is least offensive
when most secluded.
There is now new political testament.
and there must be new teachers, new
preachers, and new men at the head Of
affairs generally. Virginia sees this, and
in her recent election she brought out new
men. She has. moreover, detached herself
from all old parties, and addressed herself
altogether TO the practical work of recon
struction-of ro&stablishing her government
as indispensable to the restoration of her
industry and her domestic prosperity.
When that is done she will look into ma
tional politics, and take such part in them
US abe may conceive best calculated to pro-
mote the wisdom and glory of the national
Government.
Mr.. Wilson, dealing in generalities, is
kind in his expressions to Virginia and her
bright future. We wish he had been more
definite, and told us what he thought of the
iron clad, that last bitter dose which it is
proposed to administer to this long suffering
people; but which, we trust, wise physi
ciaps, who have say at the bedside of our
afflicted mother, may decide to be alto
gcther unnecessary. How delightful de-
cision like that is to the weary invalid who
has dreaded the nauseating drug which has
been prepared for him.
That oath may have its effect on the po-
litical complexion of this State, now so ready
10 be moulded at the discretion Of our rulers
at Washington.
But the course Of Virginia, whatever it
be, can only be cumulative in the develop
ment of the events which must present to
the people of this nation new parties, borg
of new issues, at the head of which will
figure new men, adapted to the new order
Of things Of the real young America
At what time these new parties will take
form and shape cannot lie foreseen of
course; probably not until near the next
Presidential election. In the mean time
General GRANT is master of the situation,
and by o wise policy he may firmly esta-
blish GRANT or Administration party,
which may be called that or anything else,
Yet which will be able to exert just so much
power over the next Presidency as the pru-
dence and sagacity with which the country