The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-20
condition of barbarism, but the early resto-
ration of the Republican party to power.


DIFFERENCES.
Horace Greeley made speech out West,
in which, says the Wing, 'he undertook
to designate the fundamental differences
between the Republican party and the
Democratic or anti-Radical party"
One of the curosities of Democratic |
newspapers, is their entire want of concur
renee in argument, while there is such
unanimity Of purpose. The Dispatch says,
"Greely is fanatic" the Wing, of same
date, says Of his speech: "Mr. Greeley is
not far wrong, if at ALL" &c. This, per-
haps, is not too Aatterng when we consider
how much Mr.. Greeley has contributed of
standing and startling matter for the col
umns of the Wing.
1t was not, however, to settle the differ
cnce between the Dispatch and Whg--in
relation to their opinion of gentleman who
has but one plank in his personal platform
opposition to President Grant-as these
papers have but one plank in their political
platform to Radcalsm-that
we allude to this article. ga fellow feel
ing makes us wonderous kind,' and the
Dispatch should retract its epithet-
fanatic" and substitute guide, philosopher
or friend. We quote as 70 lows:
Too much government has been the curse of
all nations in all ages Our experiment was de-
signed to dispense with this excess of authority.
| 1t was thought the government was best, which
was felt the least that the protection Of person
/ md 1s
the ioidest possible ltitttde Of personal freedom
scaS best calculated to promote the general hdppi-
ness The experiment prospered Tor time. and
sanguine people INDUCED the hope that it was an
assured and permanent success. We had light
taxes, honest officials, and really free people.
greed and malevolence of the Yankees
could not endure it, it supplied too few
| opportunities for personal plumber, 10 teft the
people too free and too hdfly and 1T was stand
ing reproach to their intermeddling propensity
and tyrannZing dogmas. Drawing their conclu-
sons from their own experience, they held that
men were totally depraved, aud no good govern
ment was possible without laws to regulate
every action ofevery individual. They organised
nonopolies for their oicn aggrdndizenent and
preached isms to restrain all personal liberty
This is their idea Of government.
A more complete confession was never
penned tlian the above. Democracy and its
works must have other and more un-
scrupulous advocates, or it is lost.
Republicans concur fully that 'the gov
eminent is best which is felt the least"
"that the protection of person and pro-
perty" is its legitimate function, and that
personal freedom is best calculated to pro-
mote the general happiness and thus the
Wing comedies the justice and propriety of
all that the Republican party and admin
istration has done to protect person and
property, and enlarge personal freedom in
this and other Southern States and this
legitimate obligation to the people, perform
ed SO that none felt the ercess Of authority,
and only wrong doers-Ku-Klux ct ais
felt its proper exercise of power.
'The experiment prospered," comedies
the Wig, and it will prosper in the future,
for the organized monopolies for their own
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and enforcement of isn,s to
restrain all personal liberty, which was the
idea Of government''-peryading and gov
erning the theory and practice of the de-
funct Confederacy, have been shattered and
scattered, and while Republicanism is on
guard can never be repaired or consolidated.
In conclusion, will the Wing inform us
how, in the aate-beltum days Of which il
speaks, we "had really free people''-a
people too free and too hqppy'-in the
face of facts developed by census returns,
other official documents and personal OBJ.
servation of living witnesses, that some
{ 100000 of human beings, -living and
breathing people, in this and other South
: ern States, were held in the most abiect
degrading bondage to a few hundreds of
slaye-owners; and still greater number OF
: men, nominally enjoying personal freedom
were actually the slaves of the same mas
tiers.
The Whig has clearly seen the light, bu
has lived in owlish darkness so long, thai
its vision is uncertain. We shall yet be {
| really free people, but other guides thar
; the Wing must lead the way for the pre-
r sent.