The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-04-26
It win Come.
We ,alI should put full faith In the futur'


and in day Of peace and prosperity In
the rssstablishment Of civil government
,lpona lse only true republican principle
qoa;ck. entr,lsts authority To. men selected oy
the peop,e-tle source of authority. we
NAV look forward to that event as one
which. could not be long postponed and,
no, Responding, prepare for it with as
much energy and ssgaoity as the oppression
and uncertainty Of the times will allow.
We believe now that this day is very
near. and tina. nothing can postpone 1t but
The greatest blunder ever made by COM
mnnity in this country. When it ar
rives. prosperity, abundance, and peace
must soon follow. All the oircun-
stances conspire to ensure it; all tue
dispositions Of the people are favorable,
and may we not hope that the national
community, tired Of strife and the pains
and penalties Of war, are eager for that re-
establishment Of quiet, order, and harmony
which is indispensable to the highest state
Of nationsl prosperity Most assursdly.
The nation cannot go en- with vigor ana
force upon the line Of its grand destiny
until that restoration is accomplished.
Now, then, what can stop the early COM
ing o. this condition precedent 1mprac-
ticability and discord amongst the white
citizens whose participation in the Govern
ment is indispensable to the coming oack
to us of confidence and trust at home and
assurance to all people Of that permanence
and reliability here necessary to invite I'M
migration and investment. Such imprac-
ticability and discord win only end in the
triumph Of WELLS and his party, with the
consequent continuation of the passions and
pains and penalties Of war, with their OPP
pressions and disquslifcations. These will
continue distrust and dependency and
general prostration. Indeed, We shall have
passed out Of the military government into
another intermediate stage between revolu-
ton and order, war and peace, which will
be worse than anything we have expert
enced. Who may survive that terrible
stagsf
To avoid this blacklist Of fates every man
in Virginia should exert every power Of
mind and body with which he is endowed.
And if on the one hand he is admonished
by terrors Of such fate thus to devote
himself to avoid them, on the other there
is prospect so bright-so full Of peace and
compensation for any struggle to reach it
that it would seem that no man, in view of
it, could be 80 recreant to himself and his
country as to allow apathy and Indifference
to steal upon him.
We will not believe that the people of
Virginia will bring upon themselves the
horrors Of the triumph Of WELLS and the
proscriptionists by want of harmony and
an indisposition to yield up prejudices and
opinions for the general good. There can
be no peace nor thrift in the State until we
have government selected by the people
who are governed. We all know this; and
the opportunity is offered for securing this
sort Of government. Once secured, Vir-
ginia will rise up from her PROSTATE con-
dition and become one of the most flourish
ing of the States in few years. In this
age of steam and railways and telegraph q
cycle which in ages past took hundred
years is now achieved in five. The space
of time that will be required to wipe out
thelast vestige of war and it's ruin will be
exceedingly brief, and We shall boast of q
commerce and growing power and wealth
equal to those of any Of the States.
Who will forfeit these blessings, so near
our grasp, and, by discord and obstinacy,
be accessory to bringing upon the State q
curse greater than has fallen to any civil
lied race on this continent