The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-12-01
The Last Radical Deviltry.


Tho Rcnublican press of the North teens
with the sharpest censurcs OF the do'hss u
The ultra Radicals last week III this cit:.
"Gcneral cussedneSS" never had 4 nole
scathing rebuke than it receives IN TINS III
stance from those to whom II looheu io'
countenance and support. The Ne" lo.N
Times is now perhaps unsurpassed lor i.s
tenacious adherence to modern Repubi'-
canism, yet it cannot refrain from cApiesS'
ing its adherence Of the deyi!try OF th'
ultras under the lead Of PORTER. III oe-
clarcs that ga more impracticahle ana pre-
poSterous set of ideas cannot wen pc eo''-
" cciycd than those which the Coh'cHtlo..
"(of extremists in this city, has put 1orlh'
The Times proceeds TO say F.:
"Thc whole theory Of the Convention i
based on the assumption that tlc E'te eic',
ton was a Confederate triumph, aciiicscu
Nv intimidation and fraud, The seccaihS
Convention declared that the decEl''lo.'>
Of The address to Congress on the DANGER 10
EoDuhIican, in the state were untrue; ana
the speakers All suggested that the real
trouble WAS a desire to 90 beyond bounds
in prescription and dcnunciation. Can II
he for moment supposed that, Win such
testimony, Congress will listen TO lhe a.
surd PROPOSALS of those who would undo
what has been so happily done!
..Thc address declares the present Legs
1ature to be .disloyal and Illegal which Is
Il mere reckless reflection on Congress; me
President, the military authorizes, ana thc
Legislature and people OF Nirsinia. III ashs
a new election, which is ridiculous anu I
demands a military force sufficient 10 pro-
tcct Republicans in their rights, which Is
more prcpostcrous yet. This body seems,
rs we said Yesterday, to regard Congress as
q kind Of panacea or nostrum, to he used
for all political ills and failures, and to be
had at need by all would-be oifice-hoiders'
The Times concludes its comments upon
these extremists and their declarations with
the following pregnant paragraph
"hsto Congress. we hope it will promptly
declare "a plague o both your houses lhat
il will pay no attention whatever 10 elmer
address: or if it does pay attention, mat II
will do so solely for the purpose oil rculkih"
such applications, and thereby warming
the applicants that Congress lSnot the place
for settling local disputes between partlsiiliS
in States which have Governments OF lhcir
own. The men who now IiIokc cnnsit>
sionaI interference in behalf OF intolerance
and DISCRIMINATION are, for the most part,
mere demaoogueS, who care more for their
own sinister objects than for the pacitica-
ton of the state or the welfare of the
country"
1t is really gratifying to see leading Re-
publican paper uttering such doctrines as
these. The practice of Congress for tour
years past has justified the demand of the
extremists for protection from that body.
1t is time that this practice were repudiated.
Congress. indeed, is "not the place for SET
ting local disputes between partlSanS III
Estates which have local governments.
The acknowIcdg mcnt of this fact will place
rs one remove further from war, and that
much nearer peace. The Times deserves
credit for the frank and forcihle manner III
which it has presented II.