The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-19
8Nllllml1d Dispatfl,
tuesday,. JANUARY 10, 1869
They Begin to be Appreciated.

They Begin to be Appreciated
For q long time it was not altogether
consistent with party interests that the
movements Of the self.styled "loyalists .
whose headquarters are 10 this city should
be scrutinized very closely by the party in
power. But that time being over-tha.
time Of high party irritation and strife-the
! business and the eeelfare of the nation are
up for consideration, and these "loyalists"
7 claiming to direct 80 much Of that bust
ness and 80 much Of those interests as lie
s In Virginia, a little attention has been given
y to their fitness for that sort Of undertaking.
This has been quite sufficient to secure q
better appreciation Of them, and has pro-
n voked considerable invective, accompanies
with some profanity, in high party circles
Of the federal city. The result has been
falling off in the prospects Of these "loy-
alists."' The golden "ripgs," the prefgura-
ton of which, in all their brilliancy, had
already charmed the loyalest Of eyes, have
been gradually fading away, and appre-
hension and distrust have taken the place
Of complacency and confidence. The ma
nipulation Of the States securities, the di-
rection Of the States disbursements, the
controlling of the administration Of the
public effects, which these people had i'm
agined to be within their very grasp, have
become to them matters extremely doubtful.
Fortunes assured have begun to dissolve
like dreams, and power grasped turns out
to be an optical delusion as intangible as
the air-drawn dagger of MACBETH.
As q sample of the estimation in which
these people are held by the leading party
OF the North we make the following extract
from An able editorial in the New York
Times on the purposes and action Of the
committee of "nine" Viginians now in
Washington. The Times WAS the most early
and the most earnest supporter of General
GRANT in New York, and may now be con-
sidered MS rejecting with as mnch accuracy
IS any newspaper the views and disposition
Of the incoming Administration. after
a|luding to the opposition met by the COM
mittee from the "extremes - in Virginia,
the Times says:
"The Radical extremists, represented hv
UNDERWOOD and WELLS, desire the ratif-
=" cation Of the pending constitution with
call its odious and irritating features
-" They mnde it proscriptive for n purpose,
sand in the proposal TO eliminate the pro-
'acriptive provisions thew see the defeat of
"their designs. They framed the consti-
"tution with special referenceto the reten-
{" tion of the governing power in their own
"hands. With this view they devised
"system Of wholesale Acknowledgement,
"imposed disabilities which would exclude
"the intelligence and character Of the
estate from the public service, and actin
"allv attempted to take from Congress the
"power Of affording relief by ENGRAVING
"the iron-clad oath upon the local organic
~" law. These objects are apparent in the
" constitution which Congress is asked 10
"revse or reject. When, therefore, the
committee Of mine appeal to the good
"sense and generous feeling of the nations
representatives to interfere in support Of
ia more moderate yet not the less patriotic
"polioy, they naturally excite the animosity
" of the violent clique whose scheming they
propose to circumvent.
The Times, at the close of its article,
Epeaks thus more positively of the abomi-
nable constitution now pending here in
Virginia:
awe have in these columns more than
"once exposed proscriptive provisions of
".the constitution, and their patibility
with the spirit of the congressional policy
''and the peace and prosperity of the State.
"The infamous nature Of these provisions
sis not more evident than their inexpedi-
"ency. They exclude from the admins
" tration of local affairs the citizens best
qualified to fill positions of trust and USE
"fulness, and at the same time keep alive
"passions which no sensible friend of good
government would willingly perpetuate.
General SCHoFIELD, who had ample op-
"portunities of studying the working of
"the Richmond convention, and of ia
miliarizipg himself with the needs of the
State, is known to condemn these fea-
"tures of the constitution, and to be the
"advocate of the general policy supported
"by the committee. No man in the coun-
"try is better qualified than he to judge Of
,"the fitness Of prescription, and his aver
"sion to it affords prima .facie justifca-
tion Of the effort in which the committee
"are engaged"
.rg Gould we offer better testimony as to the
motives Of the "loyalists,' and of the pro
scriptive nature Of that constitution which
they have framed, to keep the Offices of the
State all In their own hands by disfran'
chisipg nearly every honest white man il
the Commonwealth
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