The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-24
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INT. ,,,,t,e and decettiul Iapesi nee o =.
A', n,,r readers. II SOUNDS as tiousn
seen " r ~" n body Of very profound, shs'
IL oaa ana oven pious people-as though no
cele' :, the convention that adopted II ever
ll."n =, 10 d.franchise anybody, or TO ihl'
Pr s,s rights, or hurt him in any way. a
,,orc a,niable and fair-spoken set OF sehoe-
mon have rarely assembled together 10 take
,o,,nsel about the state Of the country. bu'
how strangely discordant with these smooth
resolutions was the jargon OF the coiorea
orators in the Convention. :
Tho reaft,rmation Of the gereraiities oil
,on,,h,;canism, rs indeed they are OF all
nsr,ies. was to be expected. So we looked
for the great credit claimed by the resoiu-
.;n,s sor the present Administration ioF
diminishing the public debt, the efedlt ,or
rh;ch Is due 10 the people for the hea'y
taras they nav, and especially the people OF
chic STATE. ground down by partiai taAa-
49, ,,non their chief staple, at once most
operous and odious.
4 nromiuent piece of impudence in TINS
Radical platform is the accusations against
Tho Legislature sbont their alleged neglect
~ the common school system. The whole
Radical party will not have to bear nine
tieth part of the bur,hen of public schools.
Those who will have to support them VIII
have likewise mainly to pay the pubic
debt. The Legislature, representing this
solid and reliable part of the community,
proceeded with all practicable expedition
in the necessary steps to establish the sys-
tenn. They could so no faster. The taxes
had to be levied and collected. Yet, the
proper officers are getting everything ready
to put the system into operation as early as
practicable. A system of common schools IS
a great undertaking, and not set on
foot with as much facility as Judge
I,rvEs can prepare one of his cable" aC'
dresses, or rs easily Us may be gotten up Il
negro excursion to Hungary station. Yet
these conventionists affect q rare indigna-
ton about it, and make q great pother in
order to excite the poor blacks to very
high recruitment on account of not getting
their share Of reading, writing, and
arithmetic before New Year. The de-
ceitful whites who thus endeavor to inn
peach their own race and increase the hos
tllity Of the blacks towards them are max
ing record for themselves which they will
not like to look at some of these days.
A striking feature of the platform is an
attempt to flatter the Democrats. Dis
coursing to them III language very similar
to that sometimes indu lged by a democratic
co-laborer against republicanism, they ap-
peal to the Dem ocrats to join them in shell
ing the Conservatives out Of the half
way house." in which these honest people
say the Conservatives have taken refuge.
This effrontery will do good. 1t is pregnant
with useful suggestion.
Affecting to be overlooking with Repuhli
can enthusiasm, these office-scekers, backed
BY their colored hordes whomthey are seek
ing to marshal in their war for the pap and
prog of Government, SIMULTANEOUSLY re-
turn thanks to God for the spread of rerub-
licanism in Europe. and they expressly de-
clare their sympathy with the present strug-
gle for republican government in France.
This does not "gee" so we'll with the re-
publican trick Of sympathy forthe Germans.
1t will establish corn on the republican
foot and cause limping and hating in the
Radical foreign sympathies.
Finally the pure, amiable Rads declare
themselves to be for justice to everybody
and to. all colors always excepting, OF
course, &c Indians not taxed y, and "chal-
lenge the honorable rivalries Of all men and
all parties"
Honorable rivalries !" How like pack
of wolves, licking their chaps just from the
sheep-fold, exclaiming, " Gentlemen, let's
be honest, let's not rob or kill anybody"