The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-09-27
MI. ro,,rement of vice-rresident CoLrAS :

NC h;s w;thdrawal from renomha'iop
VI 80 v-,cs. Presidency, to go into tfa'h''s
ION ' .h. presidency, introduces new aSr'-
,.rts for the former Once Auohs '"e
n,,,,hcr named is Attorncy-GeneFai AhkS
~ He Is a gentleman who never WIS
,-earI If in this part Of the world until ne
~. nominated for the office he now holds
sr General GRANT. When so nominated
80 d;snos;tior was to be very kind towards
h;n, Nothing bad was known OF him, ana
generous public sentiment preferred 10
hone that man who had not made h'i"Set
infamous at period when tnsrepu'e III
home was the sarnss way to promotion
and the shortest cut to THRIFT D!
rr,ad and br,bery-witness the cadetsh'ps
and the stealings out Of the treasures OF
Who Southern States-waS at least tolerabIe
c,ntleman-a man having some scrupies
against trickery and deception, But Mr..
AxEsMAs had hardly got into his office be-
fore ne began, Iii utter disregard Of the pro-
,rietics that should govern him as ma
,ional officer, TO take part in tho partisan
schcming and trickery intended to control
the Southern States. So we concluded nj
once that he was little better than the race
Of carpet-bagsers whose whole study is
60 hold office in defiance Of the will of the
intelligent and substantial natives of the
South, and leather their nests out Of the
hard earnings of an oppressed and outraged
people.
Certainly it can be taken as no COM
pliment to the South to put Attorney-Gene-
al AKssMAH on the national ticket. lie is
not man to be honored by the South, and
his selection would be mockery of the
southern people. Harmony between the
sections can but be poorly restored by such
devices as this. When men ask for bread,
Ii does not relieve their wants to give them
q stene-nor is n serpent good substitute
for fish. When harmony is restored be-
tween the sections it must be through
mutual confidence and trust. Natives Of
the South must be considered trustworthy,
and rs common proprietors and participants
with the northern people in the national
property of all sorts. including the power
and perquiSites of the Government. Up to
the present time the positions of trust and
honor in the Federal Government dispensed
in the South have been SO confined to car
ret-baggers and cadetship traders that even
the Radical organ of this city felt called
upon not long since TO enter its solemn pro-
test against the rule that ignored the natives
Of the South. 1t had every reason in JUS
tice and fairness 10 sustain its indignant
remon>trance.
We are not of the class of irreconcilable
and unqualified partisans of anything save
the country. We know no party that we
are willing to bind ourselves to or to die
for +; but for our country we are willing to
sacrifice all. Therefore we might he recon-
ciled to men with whom we did not agree.
We concede the honesty and purity Of some
public men with whom we differ, and will
ALWAYS feel consolation in defeat when such
men are elected. But we have had no such
consolation here at the South. The men
here preferred by national power are gene
orally Of the most offensive order-men dis
tinguished for their illiberalty and bigotry.
and, with few exceptions, immigrants and
otficious intruderS who were not entitled
by Intelligence or good standing TO the re-
spect of the communities in whose bosom
they foated like serpents or any other re-
pulsive objects, which would have been
thrown back upon the waters that vomited
them on our shores iF.a H., .,,o fo,,,, a.,
=. VA 80 s,iu nave taken the form OF
repelling wave.
We tell our Northern friends that the
same sense of attachment to our own reo-
ple--tbe same confidence in their fidelity
the same trust in their Judgment which is
cherished in the Northern public mind
exists here. Cur Northern fellow citizens
should despise us if it did not. We should
despise them if we saw that the Otiscouring
of our section could he elevated by them
to places of honor and trust to the cxclu-
sion OF their own native-born and long
tried citizens; and we say that the Federal
Government and the present dominan,
party in the nation not only do nothing to-
wards restoring harmony TO the nation by
favoring carpet-baggers in the South, but
that they absolutely widen the sectional
breach by their schemes to advance such
men to power and place. They outrage
the public sense of the Southern States,
and fire anew the resentments of Il .ener-
Gus and loyal people loyal to all their pub
lie obligations, state and national.
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