The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-02
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The Radicals General Grant
Nation.
The Federal Congress reassembles on
Tuesday next to resume the consideration
Of national affairs. The circumstances
bearing upon Its action and its motives are
nuck that It's policy will be quite bsset
with difficulties. It Is not Of time Of
great excitement, amidst the strife Of party
contest, that the greatest embarrassment is
encountered by party in power. Its
columne ere then compact and disciplined,
and viii rally as one man upon all issueN
presented to them. Like aoldiers, they
fight for promotion and for the spoils OF
victory, and nothing is needed to stimu-
late their courage or insure their hdelity'
But when the battle is won, and the legions
are enjoying its fruits, then comes the
danger. That is the time for riyalries and
conspiracies, discipline is relaxed, the alb
ssnce Of ell fear Of the enemy begets dis
cord within the ranks, and the acquisition
Of plunder but whets the appetite Of greed
and enrsges the strife over the gains Of
victory.
These, and more than these causes OF
trouble must be the lot of the Republican
party. It was born in tho war, and, like
all war parties, must die as soon as the
passions of civil discord subside. These
passions have been prolonged by the Be-
-publcans by the most ingenious articles,
under the full conviction that they were
Indispensable to the existence Of their
party. Outside Of these passions there is
no promethean FIRE to sustain its life. Re-
publiosnism had really but one principle,
and that was the negro, and the several va
ristions upon him. These variations are
nearly all played out. The last measure.
the suffrage (which is the last of them
al-is now quavering its screeching notes
upon the instruments of the wearied must:
clans, long since Disguised with their own
music. A party without principle is only
united by the rotten cords Of public plum
der. These cannot hold the OUTS" who
will grow tired of struggle for prizes in
which they have no share. What new
views and plans these may form, time will
disclose.
Again: The Republican party finds at its
head General-the hero Of the Federal
army in the late war-elected President in
obedience to the universal sentiment Of
popular admiration for heroes, and in no
senseIon account Of any political opinion
or theory of statesmsnship ever entertain
cd or espoused by him. He is remarkable
for being plain, blunt soldier, uninform-
ed about partisan trickery, and having
neither inclination nor skill to practice it.
Indeed, there is every reason to believe
that he abhors it. From such q man lit
tie can be expected in the way Of aid to
mere partisan schemes or connivance at
frauds designed to fiji the pockets Of
unprincipled public officers. His path
will be too bold, his steps too steady, for
their tortuous and covert marches. Their
attempts to follow his lead will be quite
perplexed, while it will be altogether i'm
possible for him to degrade himself to their
disreputable measures. He will, we be-
lieve, have something Of q laudable ambi-
ton to restore the prosperity and diminish
the burthens Of the country. They will
oppose the curtailment Of expenditure and
the diminution Of Offices. He will desire
to restore "peace" and harmony to his
country, while discord and sectional Bit
terness will best promote the prospects
Of too many Of the leaders who helped to
elect him. he would restore to all southern
men their political rights, while great
army Of of6ce-seekers see that their only
chance for Office and emolument is the re-
straining Of the white man and the enlarge
ment Of negroes. He, having reached the
highest honors Of the nation, will, in all
likelihood, be ambitious of building an en-
during monument to his own fame by pro-
noting the real grandeur and happiness Of
that political union he was chiefly instru
mental in saving from destruction. They
have no ambition beyond the present, for
which they live and delve through oil the
crooked ways of partisanry.
These being the prominent features Of
the present party and political situation at
I Washington, we need not be surprised at
Developments that may appear during this
winters session. It is already manifest
that General GRANT in no wise sympathizes
with the extremists, and they have shown
their conviction Of this truth by PROPOSE
tions looking to the disqualification of mill
tsry men for civil Offices. There is q jeal
ousy Of military men and Of that military
power which these ultra politicians had
discovered to be essential to protect them
in their usurpations. Many tyrants have
always in timss past leaned upon the mill
tary arm that finally struck them down,
and it is not improbable that history in
this respect is to be repeated in our own
Government.
Since, then, the party of war, which has
lived on strife, must die with war and
strife, all must see that the Republican
party is in artic,tlo morris. The man at the
head Of the Government is perhaps the
most fitting to rule at the critical period of
tho passage Of the State from ort the era of
revolution and discord to that of peace and
,prosperity-to take it out Of the hands Of
the violent men ,oho had learned to con-
slider taeir party The nation, and the ina
ginary necessity" of the day the law for
their government, and bring it under the
protection Of law guided by wisdom and