The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-03-17
wendell Phillips asad the New Ratif.
I cal Departures Southern Million.
L aires must be shot at the Drum.

nobrietv. Possibly the insult offered and
The ncril brought to the Republican party
nv the removal Of Mr.. Sumner may have
this effect on the nation. we may see the
loyal men OF the North rally to the defence
of the Union. II not, then there Is but
one thing more tor Congress 10 40 IN order
TO sign the deaf h-warrant Of the Republic
can party. and possibly Of the Union. Let
Congress now adjourn without authorizing
martial law at the South to curb the XII
kluy. and they have assured the election Of
a Democrat to the Presidency. Indeed,
the mood Of Washington in regard to the
anarchy of the South ia such that we con-
slider the matter about settled. The thirty
three Republicans who last week removed
Mir. Sumner from his most elected Demo
cratic President for 1872. Whether Grant
will consent to run on = Democratic ticket
is Of course uncertain. Probably he does
not himself know vet. But evidently But
lcr's bill on the kukluN is not likely to be-
come law. The same subServicncy that
ate dirt in the Sumner matter stands ready
to defeat that. Any substitute that sends
Southern assasSins to he tried by q Jury of
fellow assassins is a mockcry. Nothing
short Of shooting half a dozen Southern
| nni'tond'reS at the drum head tc'H ace the
| kuklur into submission.
There seems no likelihood of such vigor
either in Congress or ut the White House.
The st. Domingo collar on Senatorial nccks
shows that they belong to IL man who has
entered on the course where Andrew john
son persisted How far he intends to adj
vance on that pathway he does not himself
now know. But the descent is fatally easy.
We did not expect much from General
| Grant. But when he So unexpectedly rose
| to the level Of craftsmanship in the matter
of the fifteenth amendment and of the In
dians. we Smothercd all our doubts and
| gave him large confidence. The last few
months, capped by this inSolent interior
ence Of Congress, reveals the man. We
persisted in believing that Mr.. Motley was
| removed for adequate cause until Mr..
Secretary FiSh'S clumsy letter dispeled the
illusion. That act, seen in the light Of this
attack on MIR. Sumner, was evidently die
tated simply and solely by spite toward the
great Massachusetts Senator. James the
| First said, when he came to London to
mount his throne and found only blunder-
ing officials, "Thcy have given ME secre-
tary who cannot write and speaker who
cannot speak"
Grant is understood to be in tho same
atfliction. And the Massachusetts rene
gade, who helped Mr.. Fish to his boyish
rhetoric, did his work so poorly that he
betrayed the secret. and let the world see
| that, after six months incubation, the De-
| partmcnt could not hatch decent excuse.
Just as that discreditabe act was floating
away into oblivion, comes this usurpation,
which puts the present Executive into the
company of JackSon's bank intrigues and
JohnSon'S attack on Stanton. The revela-
ton it makes OF the servility of the Senate
is diSheartening to all lovers Of free gov
eminent. Every man kn0,cS that each Sen
loft arb tpI r.. lp,.'c 01D \
did so solely because the President had let
him understand that only on that condition
could he hope to hare any influence at the
Departments an securing office for his
Efraemis. We tell only what is an open Sc
Ecret at Washington.
Politicians there. attitudinlzing on the
floors of Congress, use words in Pickwick-
ian sense, and varniSh base acts with comely
phrases. But it is fit the people should know
the plain truth. The President has bought
tQf his opponents by refusing all winter to
llIStcn, in the matter of appointments, to
the recommendations OF any member OF
IConeress who voted with Mr. Sumner. The
tonlv excuse individual Congressman make
for changing their votes is, that to be ig-
lnored at the Departments when taking
offices for their supporters is death to their
political hopes. If st. Domingo is annexed,
Grant secures it by threats and brihes. The
poorest memory will need but little effort
TO recall the very embassy that bought Il
keystone vote, the judgc>hip which won !,
| Wolverine, and the herring post that made
Ianothcr Senator put on the Domingo collar.
OF course when party becomes merely
4 "rmg" to divide the spoils il touches its
downfall. 1t is sad to think that the power
of great party should have fallen into the
hands Of such low, mercenary selfshness.
| 1t is said that we can oppose to outlaw as
saSSinS 1T the South, banded together, mer-
cileSsly and at every sacrifice, for ut least a
| great object ecession-that we can oppose
TO them only Il gang Of Swiss shameessly
| exhibiting themselves for sale to the high.
est bidder.
| And so, cheated of half our gains, be-
trayed in the house of our friends, we must
rally for another such fight as that which
crushed Davis and banked Johnson. TO
| prevent the choice of Democratic Presi-
dent may be impossible. But our effort
must 90 deeper than that. We must begin
to educate the people into the determine
ton that, if encouraged by rebel Presi-
dent. secession ever lifts its head again at
the South, the North will sweep rebeldom
With the Bosom OF utter destruction and
leave it no ruler but the sword until every
now living white man is III his grave.
| WENDELL PHILLIPS.