The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-02-01

should be to endeavor to become as much
like that people as possible.
The very object in leaving old commu-
pites and casting their fortunes in others,
with a great number Of people, is to get
rid of their old associations, and form new
ones, and this they cannot doif they bring
the old along with them. The old society
is not unfrequcntly the very thing they
fee from. 1t is so, at least, with the rest
less and adventurous and sensation-seeking
American. Put him in Mexico, and he
soon becomes a better Mexican than the
Mexicans themselves; in France, and he is
more French than the Parisians in Vlr-
ginia, and he will soon begin to boast d.
rect descent from Pocahontas herself. No,
let them come as they may choose, singly
or in battalions, but don't fence them OIL
into narrow colonies, and make them mar
row In their IDEAS
The Dispatch has two leading articles
on the public debt of Virginia, which
would have been discharged in full
long since If newspaper articles could have
paid it off. Our neighbor talks, too, about
the "cryiug act Of injustice in partitionlng
our State without the consent OF our
people,"--as if bitterly wailing over that
bucket of split milk will mend the mat
ter any more than talking about it will pay
the debt.
1t is too much like broken merchant
bewailing the loss of his property, and
blaming his creditors instead of his own
bad management, extravaganza and inca
pacity for his misfortunes. 1t is old Mrs
indigo again, bemoaning the failure OF Mr.
/. in that unfortunate indigo trade. 1t
gave her the blues for the remainder of her
days. The Dispatch never will get over
that unfortunate investment 10 indigo
blue it made in 1861.
In closing an article on what it calls the
proscriptive policy Of Radicalism, and
which, it says, the New York Tribune de-
nounces, while it sustains President Grant,
who favors extreme measures-the Dis-
patch asks
How are we to understand these things? Is
the Tribune TO 90 on denouncing Gen. Grants
policy as one which will destroy the Republic
can party and supporting General Grant at
the same time. The two attitudes are as ire.
conciabe as is Gen. Grants policy with sound
sense or craftsmanship
Believing, with the Tribune, that the prose-
cuIlOn OF tPe llllUeral pOllcy Will ueouoy tno
Radical party and bring into power party Of
liberality and wisdom--one whose policy will
hasten the restoration of harmony in the
Union-we would prefer that General Grant
and his blind and vindictive followers should
carry out their proscriptive views. 1t will
make the deliverance of the nation all the more
certain and speedy.
Obi what misfortune was it for the nation |
that Rawlins died and Schofield left the Cabi- |
net! Had they been spared to give counsel to |
General Grant we should now have very diff |
ferent order of things from that which still re- |
tards the restoration of harmony and pros
perity to the nation.
The Dispatch will make nothing in its
assaults upon the President 1t knows
very well that he is liberal in his policy |
towards the South, and that his sole desire |
is to zee peace and good will established |
the land. If you would aid
him little in this good work, instead of
throwing all the obstacles you can in his
way, the country would be moro your |
debtor.