The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-06-10
8irltmond 9ispattEr.
SATURDAY. Y............. JUNE 10, 1871
THE CIRCULATION OF THE DISPATCH
rs LARGER THAN THE COMBINED CIR.
cuLaTION OF ALL THE OTHER DAILY
NEWSPAPERS OF THE CITY,
The Difference.
(From the st. Louis Republican, May ao7

The Difference.
lFrom the st. Louis Republican, May 2o.1
=, The all but unanimous proclamation bv
the Democracy of its 'acquicscence in the
amendments is fact which at first took
hauiSais ny surprise. They were not pre-
pMLeu iof sueh an event. They confidently
"useuiated ,,l,' That the Democracy would do
via. they desired it to do, aud what they
dently calculated that by 50 DOING tho
Democracy would invite Inevitable Gefant
IN 1872. The fact that the Democracy did
JUST the reverse startled them from their
conndent dream Of victory, based on the
lolly OF their opponents; and they are now
ehucaVorlng to irritate the Democracy into
an aDanqonment of its commanding nosi-
tion Dy mtimating that that position is
similar to the one which Radicals occunv,
Ihey tauntingly assert that the yanouished
democracy has at last relinquished its prin-
cip!es, and now fights for nothing but Offices
ana spollS that the Democracy has taken
all the spirit and life out OF the next Presf-
dental struggle by accepting the Radical
platform. A few ultra southern naners
take the same view, and despairinclv init.
mate that it will not be worth While to
fight if there is nothing to fight for.
And yet the differences between Democ
racy and Radicalsm are as irreconciable
rs ever. There is no sympathy between
the two. They differ in philosophy, in
policy. in spirit, and In practice. The fact
that both agree in accepting the same
amendments is no more proof of harmony
between them than is the fact that both
agree in recognizing the same constitution.
RadicaliSm has again and again violated the
Constitution but it would not dare to 90
into the canvass Of 1872 for the overthrow
of that Constitution. The Democracy,
while some of the amendments were pend
ing, opposed them; but it does not logi-
cally follow that, therefore, it should con-
tinue to oppose them after they have be-
come established political facts.
The Punishment of the amendments from
struggle just where Radcilism does not
want it-on Grants administration land the
Democracy, embracing it on that ground,
gains an advantage which its opponents
clearly recognize. There is scarcely a Soli-
tary measure that the Grant administration
has effected, whose wisdom the Democracy
does not dispute-unless it be the sub>tam-
TALLY reproduced Johnson-Carcndon treaty
which Radicalism rejected in one form to
adopt it in another. The oppressive mo-
nopoly tariff which Radicalsm imposed
under Lincoln, and continues under
Grant; the harsh system of internal taxa
tion which Boutwell, Insists on keeping
up, in order that he may pay a hundred
millions per aunum on. the public debt ;
the economical policy that has DESTROYED
American shipping, and caused us to con-
sume less sugar, coffee, and cotton goods,
in 1870 than we consumed in 1859; the
squandcrings of the public lands on cor
porations instead of reservins them for
actual settlers the degradation Of our Gi-
plomatic service by appointments which Il
distinguished Senator declared were ".not
| fit to be made - the startling usurpation
Of the Executive in endeayoring to force
the offensive Santo Domingo treaty through
| the Senate, and in deposing the chairman
of IL Senate committee TO facilitate the
scheme; the social and political ostraclsm of
distinguished members of Congress for dar-
| lug to differ from the Executive the inde-
cent prostitution of Federal patronage to in
| fluence elections in the States; the eXtorton
of party decisions from the packed benches
of the Supreme Court-these are the issues
on which the canvass OF 1872 must he
| fought. Onc-half the schedule would be
sufficient to give unusual animation and
! interest to the struggle; ; nay, we might
properly appeal to the people tor the over
throw OF the Radical administration on the
tariff alone, for that tariff in its naked
meaning is nothing less than an imperial
eXaltaton of favored classes at the expense
OF the masses. But even the issues we
have mentioned do not complete the con-
troyersy. There is great constitutional
question that rises above them all, and that
cannot he debarred from its true place in
the campaign. 1t is applied in the eXtor-
ton of the contradictory legal-tender dec-
sion from the Supreme Court, and in the
force bill, giving the Executive discretion
to proclaim constructive "reGellions and
suspend the writ Of personal liberty at his
pleasure. These two measures are an at-
1irlnation by the Administration that Con-
gress and the President may set the Consti-
tuition aside whenever it stands in their
way; that they may make up their own
decisions on constitutional questions and
compel 4 degraded judiciary ~ utter them;
that they may violate the very organic law
which they seek to amend; that the State
may be reduced to humbled provinces and
the liberties Of the citizen placed at the feet
of that party that chances TO be In control
at Washington.
On all these issues there must be con-
flict. The administration of Grant cannot
be ignored. 1t will lead the Radical party
i'm Il reatlirmution of lis policy, its mea-
party to defend its blunders and its crimes,
and the party will have no choice but to
obey its master. Grants administration Is
TO be the centre Of the struggle. The Dem
oaracy will aSsall it, and Eadicalism will
be compelled to shield it-if it can. Scna-
tor Morton thought TO place the Demo-
cracy on the defensive by accusing it of the
uupatriotic design to undo the settlements
OF the war, but the Democracy spiked that
battery, and gave Senator Morton clearly
to understand that it will attack, and he
must defend.
1t matters not that intelligent and patri-
otic Republicans do not indorsc the Admin
istration, and would prefer to fight on other
questions than those which its evil meas
ures presents; the Grant party will not
permit such L shifting Of the ground, even
If the Democracy were willing. The Pres-
dent peremptorilY demands an indorse-
ment, and it must have an Endorsement, or
the opposite. The personal element in af-
fairs at Washington grows larger and
stronger every hour, and Intelligent men
already discern that in the canvass Of 1872
the Administration Is to be the Republican
party, and the Republican, party is to be
the Administration and even with the ac-
ceptcd amendments dismissed completely
from discussion, the differences between
the contending parties will be deep and
wide enough to furnish the most important
controversy we have had since the Radical
party came into power.
The AIRLINE RA1LRoAD.-We are IN
formed that the Pennsylvania Central Rail-
uyav ComDany have bought out the interest