The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-22
The g Settlement"

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The Settlement p
HORACE GREELEY continues his earnest
y support Of the movement of the Virginia
az az committee. In his paper of the 10Th he
prints strong appeal in favor Of imme-
II diate settlement. He says: at is now
"within the power of the Republicans. in
"Congress to give secure and lasting peace
"to the country by joining hands With the
. .sformer of these parties THAT engaged in
"the new movement) on the simple, lucid,
comprehensive platform of universal
e9 amnesty and impartial suffrage" He
concludes as follows: 80. e is
. General sIcKLEs is pretty good Radi-
seal, yet he reported three years sgo that
"he could not govern South Carolina salts
" frctorily because many of her best citi-
zens were excluded for rebellion from the
4" posts in which he badly needed their ser
q j" vices. [see Generals ScHoFIELD and
/" SToNEMAN on the same point.l Our coun-
try needs the best use Of all her sons,
whether gentle or humble, and has no
"moral right to bandage her eyes and tie
60 her hands behind her back. Above all,
o. 'sthe champions of impartial freedom have
emo right TO squander the opportunity now
presented for placing the rights of the
blacks under the mgis Of guaranty
(which virtually insures them against Sc
'srious question in the future. We plead
&c fo, II 10 tho
"Virginia overture
.s- Here Mr.. GREELEY has brought before
his readers exactly the point which has
been kept out of view in The North in the
strife of the past. "Our country needs
the best use of all her sons whether gen
I" tie or humble" There could be no truer
remark. And yet since the surrender o.
LEE the very "best" and most Trustworthy
of the sons Of Virginia have been excluded
from the public service BY test as unjust
rs it was uncalled for. And the whole trou-
BILE now is that certain persons who can
come up to this test desire the continuance
Of thai test in order that they NAV be the
exclusive occupants of public Office, for
which they are not only incompetent, but
to which the people who pay their salaries
would never elect them. But for this there
would not be an hours hesitation of Wash-
ington about the immediate adoption of
MIR. GREELEY's platform. Under this test.
strangers are put into office who are not only
not competent, but altogether obnoxious to
the people, whom they do not hesitate to de-
nounoe as "disloyal - although there has
not been man in the State resisting the
Government since LEES surrender. OF
course nobody will pretend to say that this
is republica1ism. It is almost anything
else you please to call it.
GREELEY, however, has struck the key
note. "Our country needs the best use of
all her sons" This is essential to her pro-
'sperity and safety. Pertinent to this par
ticular point may be mentioned briefly the
purport of recent conversation between a
gentleman Of this city and a distinguished
member of Congress on the Republican
side. The member asked, in case Of war
with Great Britain, which he added was
altogether possible, what would be the dis
position of Virginians- would they sympa-
thizs with Great Britainf He was an
swered thus: There would be no sympa-
thy in Virginia with Great Britain. She
had played u double part in the late war,
and provoked the general contempt of Vir-
ginians; 30 that, whatever might be their
feelings towards the United States, they
would not have the slightest sympathy for
Great Britain. But, continued therespond-
emit, the feelings of Virginians towards
their oaon Government, it must be confessed
on all hands, must depend much upon the
treatment melted out to them by their Go
vernment. This is natural and inevitable.
Therefore, in the event of war with any
foreign Power, the Government would be
all the more certain of the cordial and
hearty support of the chivalric sons Of Vir-
ginia by according to them equal rights and
such other evidences of fairness and equali-
ty as would prove that the Government
trusted them and relied upon them in the
hour of danger. How would they feel
proud, gallant, and sensitive, as they are
standing by the side of the "citizen SOL
dier" of Pennsylvania, recognized by the
Government at home as a full citizen, with
all his rights, eligible to all the trusts and
honors Of the Government, while they we're
not trusted, not eligible to Office, and were
by Law disfrsnchised and distrusted peo-
pie 81, "a
e 0f course this belongs to the elass Of I'M
answerable arguments, and the interroga-
tor asseuted toit. 1t is precisely illustra-
tive Of GREELEY's maxim-a maxim that
is likely now to make an impression.-pro-
baby the more deep, as We have just
passed through period il which Reason
was driven away to the desert, and had no
part in the actions Of men. A returning
sense of justice is perhaps all the more
lively from the long suppression of the SEN
sibilities indispensable to calm and reason
able Judgments.
SEses-s -
SENATOR HENDRICKs.-The correspond
elce which we published the other day