The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-06

c,ra al Il natient hearing. We only resist
80. =. $50 have 80 often ineisted already,
a.. 80, .be hearers Of an olive branch Are
sS-.vs 20 Bel received with courtesy snd
100 With an earnest desire" to find their
nronosais admissible. Somuch Is. but the
simplest dictate Of. that faith which blesses
r,eacs-makers and afirms the essential bro
therhood of the human race. So much, We
cannot doubt, will be freely accorded.
But our wishes and hopes take WIDER
range. We ardentiy desire TO see the whoie
American people once more united In aspi-
raA;on and affection. We have had q tre-
men}ous. bloody, aeeolating civil war. Ii
has oavsred tbs whole land with victims
and rnourpers. Vie wcaid p.ost gladly have
averted that war ct any sscrifce but that OF
human liberty. Bnt slavery said, /" Divide
With me the Federal Territories, or will
divide the country against you" The re-
nublic nobly answered, 81 will not divide
with Won the Territories, and you shall not
divide the country" On the issue thus
made mn. slavery made war, which the re-
public accepted, and fought it ont TO the
end. as 1t was in duty bound to do.r -
Slavery and rebellion are dead. Inc IN
tegrity and paramount authority OF the
Union are established beyond cavh. Ihe
7ery last throe of the rebel spirit was the
effort to consizn the blacks to perpetual
yassalage as legally PoWeriess
race. This we have resisted and defeated.
The present seton of the Virginia Oonven.
ton is o natural consequence OF General
Grants election. 71.e~ .rstss
Il will be said that the enfranchisement
NJ the blacks is secured (no thanks to the
Conservatives), and that they propose 70
make terms when they have no course le1t
omen save submission. But that is false
conclusion, founded onas superficial view
Of the case. 1t is probably true that we
can carry suffrage for the blacks Of Vlrgi-.
mia over the heads Of the Conservatives.
Bnt what is won by a party victory may
subsequently, be lost by Q party defeat !;
whereas impartial suffrage, once established
hv aoreament between parties hitherto at
variance, is placed under the moral qua
rantv of their mutual good faith. Suppose
the Embarrassment of the blacks or VIZ
ginia carried through the disfranchlsement
Of portion Of the leading conservatives
Every year will see portion Of those Con
servatives pass off the stage, while their
sons rise up TO take their plsces-sons fully
imbued with their passions, embittered by
years Of prescription, yet not themselves
subject to that prescription. Who can laii
to see that our defeat and prostration is
merely quesl.on Of time, and not OF long
time eitherf 80. 49,,
OF those who took part in the rebe lion,
a very large share "went with their State "
because they deemed it chivalrous and fra
ternal to do so, without at all concurring in
the necessity or the wisdom Of secession.
They went into the war as they would have
espoused brothers. quarrel, without con-
sideriug the justice Of his cause so long as
his life was in danger. Nearly all these,
with thousands of original and repentant
now echo General Grants
aspiration, isLet us have peace" They
have had strife and destruction to their
hearts, content. They want to stop fruit
less wrangling with. their neighbors and
caviling at the acts Of their Government,
and return to building, planting, clearing
lands, and starting mills and factories
They see as clearly as we do that antagonlsm
between the white and black races IN their
States is ruin to both, and they mean TO
have an end Of it forthwith. 1t will be Q
blunder as we'll as crime on our part If
their new access Of sanity is 7ot generously
to.
We hope to see co. -.dflonal amend
ment framed and adopted which will couple
universal amnesty with impartial suffrage,
and make them part Of our fundamental
law. Of course the Republicans of West
Virginia, Missouri, and Tennessee will not
like to be voted down in their respective
States, or in portions thereof, by the now
disfranchised rebels but no more Will the
now dominant rebels of Maryland, Ken
lucky, and Delaware relish the enfranchlse-
ment of their black neighbors. NO com
prehensive settlement Of great controversy
ever did or ever can help exciting some
local grievances, real or imaginary, as IN
this case. Statesmen will disregard selfish
and short-sighted clamor in the contempla-
ton of general, enduring results.
"Agree with thine adversary quickly,
while thou art in the way with him." is
most wise injunction. Where no vital prin-
chile. no dictate of honor or duty is in
yolyed, he who comedies most to secure an
will do better than though he
higgled and stickled for the utmost that
could possibly be exacted. Friends in au-
thority at Washington if it be safely pos
sible, /" Let US have peace 20
Good Advice.
The fredericksburg Herald makes the
following iudicious remarks, which We COM