The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-01-09
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Saturday announced this chahge. ,,...'
State Journal is dismissed, ana Mr' nv
puppvs,s Custom-house organ is appomteo
NV Mr.. McpHERsoS, Of the House OF ne,
r,ssentatives. AZ the publisher OF ohlcai
advertisements. 90.
The Journal people, who had been hsn'.
ing the battles Of Radicalis'n WIN s,eas
zeal, thought they deserved a share Oh 'hoss ,
Federal offices which had so much preau
and butter, and so large an amount OF eoM
missary stores generally in them, ana chs e.
neered to get that share to the best ., ,so
ability. First they tried the Custom nouss'
as the public knows, but HuAfEhsis -
"with his fail" reinforced ny nis auiiiea
pigs white and black, ana a'oen W 'n J.
indomitable PORTER, gained vletors' anu
tho ro,,r,ol pcople were beaten back 10
their ratification Of bankrupt notices. we
have no doubt that other sorties, IN q
smaller way, were made from the Maiakoil
Of the Journal, but they were not success
full. The latest attempt was an appear o.
the Journal from the Government TO the
people. The Journal attempted to get the
nomination for Congress In THIS a'stfi''
over PORTER, the indomitable. ana in
that, too, the Journal was defeated.
It may be readily discovered that tnese
successive efforts naturally resulted i'll COM
bining the elements which the journal
sought to dslodge against that paper. ana
what is more potent in the progress oil TINS
unique history, these elements were IN al
fjnitv with the genius and morale OF 'he
White House; therefore it was not dlthcult
to foresee that the Journal was doomed.
Humphreys with his fail, and PORTER ana
DOROTHY DRAGGLETAIL were IN the sun
light and the gaslight, and in the mirrors
and upon the carpets of the grand edihce
Of the Presidential mansion all the world
to the nothing Of the Journal and Its de-
feated columns. So none who have con-
templated the war from calm point Of OBJ
seryatton could fail to anticipate the result.
HUMPHREYS and PORTER victorious! HUM
pHREys waving his National Vir9tmadm IN
the wind, with his foot on the neck OF the
Journal!
But this is not all. The Journat-in the
long run as unjust and hypocritical as any
Red Radical could have desired-has occa-
sionally been vastly more eenteel than was
pleasant to HUMPHREYS or PORTER, or even
General GRANT, and for this deviation into
decency it had to be punished, and sud-
denly-we suppose to its utter amaZcment-
it is brought to the bow-string.
Yet we may be admonished not to devote
much pity to the Journal 1t sustained the
iron-clad, rallied to the support Of PORTER
after having denounced him and been de-
nounced by him, and impudently declared
that the decision against CHAHooN was
merely political persecution (than which u
greater lie was never uttcreU; and we do
not see that any reverse it may meet should
excite pity in anybody's breast. 1t has well
fulfilled its appointment by Government 10
offend and libel this people, and has rioted
through its day of governmental sunshine.
It has been more selfish than just, and we
do not see that its fate is out Of the ord'-
nary process of providcntial rctribntionS.
But what shall we say OF the Government
and the - National Tirginian?" [" ltr-
would as appropriately style his paper
d" V,rqman"] 1t is paper without SUD-
scribers. 1t is altogether unknown u
the public. Advertisements might rs wei
be published in st. Domingo as in lts
columns. The selection of such sheet
as the Government official advertiser is
direct appropriation out of the Treasury II:
gift to the man who publishes it, and thai
man we believe is HUMPHREYS. In oil
times complaints were made that u"GoV-
ernment advertised in .a!i'ers not having
very large subscription lists. Yet they had
very respectable circulation but it has
been left to these times and to the Eadl
cal party to appropriate money ostensi-
Div to advertise, but really to bolster up
the most vulgar and ignorant partisans
who have not even press, much less sub
scribers. The National Ttrgiaian has been
thus far published in Washington! This is
downright rascality-disgraceful i'll the last
degree to the Government. The act thirty
years since would have been the subject OF
congressional Investigation, and would
have brought ignominy and contempt upon
all concerned in it.
And yet it Is an act only in conformity
with the spirit of the law Of Congress,
which directed the Clerk OF the House to
designate the papers which were 10 pub
lish the laws and official notices Of the Gov
eminent in the States "lately in rebellion. p
A law intended to advance the plan TO
revo.utionize the South. To change Its
politics, its morals, its independent
spirit, its virtues, into Radical politics,
morals, and vices. Everywhere presses
were started by miserable rascals-
birds of prey--adventurers without charac-
ter and without honor-who were to alarm
and intimidate the southern whites, and
teach them the devious and ignominious
ways to Government favor by acknowledg'
ing themselves traitors, knaveS, and vii.
lains. 1t was through this sort Of self
abasement that Radicalism sought perma-
nently to entrench itself III the South, and
the press to be established through the ipsi
dixit of MIR. Mop HERsoN, Clerk of the House
of Representatives, was to be an important
AGENT in its consummation. Delusive
scheme, What trust could be reposed in
men who would thus for temporal advan-
tages forswear themselves, and cover them.
selves with disgrace as man is covered
with continent smallpox T~.
This Infamous scheme has but recoiled
upon its inventors. How much wiser
would they have been had they been just
and honest, and addressed themselves to
the good sense and grateful feelings of the