The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-05-26
The Radical General.

The canoe-load of ultra Radicals who still
persist in claiming office here in Virginia
and who call us proscriptive because VIC
they are GRANT men-they are all for Gene
raj GRANT.
How far have they gone with General
GRANT in Virginia affairs? General GRANT
denounced the Constitution framed by the
Virginia Radicals in 81 as one not tit for
savages. Yet the Radicals who now pre-
tend to support General GRANT praised it
as the best Constitution ever made.
General GRANT said that the county Or
CARNATIONS clause in the Constitution
was abominable. He could not see how the
white people could live under it in districts
having colored majoritics. The Virginia
ultras approved it as the best in the Consti-
tuition, and through their agency and per-
sistent appeals to Congress and the Cabinet
the people of Virginia were denied the
privilege of voting upon the "county Or
CARNATIONS clause separately from the
Constitution.
General GRANT said the "tcSt oath" in
coneurred with General ScHorIELD i'll the
opinion that if it were imposed upon the
people of Virginia we could not find capi-
BILE men to administer the government.
But the ultra Radicals insisted upon it that
this clause should be retained in the COnsti-
tuition. BY the agency of General GRANT
the people of Virginia were permitted to
Ln {. iron .InIg t,ct n.,s1
clause separately from the Constitution, and
it was rejected.
Complying with the reconstruction laws,
and adopting the Constitution, General
GRANT thought and declared that the State
of Virginia ought to be admitted without
further conditions. The ultras, however,
declared that the Legislature and the pub
lie officers were required to take the IRON
clad oath. The law officer of the Cabinet
decided against them.
All the way through they were against
General GRANT on every point, even to the
attempt to delay the admission of Virginia
and to impose the most harsh terms upon
her in the form Of new conditions not EMU
mcrated in the reconstruction laws. And
yet they pretend to be fighting for GRANT !
The General they serve is General PLUM.
DER. They libel and Willy the people OF
Virginia, and endeavor by every artitice to
fasten themselves upon the State Treasury
and subsist upon the means of the people
whom they rcyile. So with their aflcctation
of love for General GRANT: it is all for the
Federal offices. These they love, not Gene
raj GRANT. 1t is all the time plumber. They
opposed General GRANT that they might
keep the people under military rule and
feed upon the fruits of their labor, and now
these plumber seekers worship General
GRANT that they may enjoy the rich patron.
age that he dispenses.
Ultra Radicals are controlled by no fealts
to any principle nor to any man. They are
only for themselves, and they will pursu,
any plan, support any policy, that will Sc
cure to them the public plumber. The,
have no ties that can bind them to anythin.
worthy Of attachment OF support. The,
insulted and outraged the people of Virgi
MIA when they thought them helpless-the,
have the impudence now to seek to live
upon them. They are the followers OIL
General PLUNDER-he is their commander
and they are his soldiers-hs devoted
slaves. For him they will do anything
counterfeit; bear false witness aganst..their
neighbor; disturb the public peace wrong
the helpless; expel the aged public SER
vants-men Of unblemished regulations
from the places wherein they faithfully
served and made their bread, to seek sub
sistence from the hand of charity array
race against race ; perpetuate war DESTROY
public confidence obstruct public pros
perity; and ruin the peace and harmony OF
the country. ALI Of these things these
plunderers have done.
Will the people Of Virginia allow any
such people to hold their Offices? Assn
rcdiy we can expel them from all places OF
trust and profit In this city, and we owe il
to the city, the State, and the nation, that
We should do 30 this day.